Morrissey Central "REPULSION !" (September 26, 2024)

September 26, 2024

"Oscar Wilde was physically a work of art. The new statue 'of' him in Chelsea (by Eduardo Paolozzi) is even more grotesque than the ridiculous statue in Merrion Square in Dublin by Danny Osborne. Both statues are too repulsive to be shown here - or anywhere. As Oscar Wilde said, 'All art is quite useless'."
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[Gregor Samsa]

They like re-releasing his albums with them and show intrest. The reissued ‘Beethoven Was Deaf’ for example.

Yes, but reissuing old material is not the same as releasing new material and signing him proper.

 

[gashonthenail]

One word. Vile.

 

[sparacus]

OK, so you're thinking 20 years later, a 2004-style comeback is still in the cards for Morrissey complete with a major label deal? If so, what does he need to do to make it happen?

I’m not sure that he needs a major label and a good indie label could work if they are offering . However I think a return to Parlophone would be the best bet. If I was running Parlophone I’d sign him and prepare a media offensive: get him on The One Show, Graham Norton and US equivalents. Both ‘Bonfire of Teenagers’ and ‘Without Music the World Dies’ would be released simultaneously on the same day, garnering more publicity. Then a massive open air comeback concert would be staged ‘Mozfest’ , with some cutting edge younger bands as support acts. Following this there’s would be the release of some very special box sets including :
- ‘The Complete Viva Hate Sessions’, with unreleased outtakes and demos.
- ‘The Songs That Saved Your Life’ - a comprehensive box set of unreleased and rare songs from his solo career.

 

[Surface]

I’m not sure that he needs a major label and a good indie label could work if they are offering . However I think a return to Parlophone would be the best bet. If I was running Parlophone I’d sign him and prepare a media offensive: get him on The One Show, Graham Norton and US equivalents. Both ‘Bonfire of Teenagers’ and ‘Without Music the World Dies’ would be released simultaneously on the same day, garnering more publicity. Then a massive open air comeback concert would be staged ‘Mozfest’ , with some cutting edge younger bands as support acts. Following this there’s would be the release of some very special box sets including :
- ‘The Complete Viva Hate Sessions’, with unreleased outtakes and demos.
- ‘The Songs That Saved Your Life’ - a comprehensive box set of unreleased and rare songs from his solo career.

Nice idea but if any of what you say was a possibility, record companies would be banging his door down to sign him.

 

[SteveWS]

'How steep the stairs within kings' houses are...'

(Wilde, Salome)

 

[Juan Dulces]

If he wants to have a conversaton about bad art, nothing is more repulsive than Morrissey's List of the Lost. I'm sure Oscar would agree.

The color, the cover, and the Penguin.

 

[Cornflakes]

The color, the cover, and the Penguin.

A less known volume of the Narnia series.

 

[Geoffrey Ingram]

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Ridiculous indeed

Looks more.like Steven Fry

 

[Redacted]

Looks more.like Steven Fry

Didn't he play Oscar Wilde in a film?

 

[The Alchemist]

I wouldn’t have bothered to take the time to type out all of that or to share my thought process and to explain what my own perspective is based on, if I didn’t think it was a subject worth discussing.

If you disagree, you should preferably still always feel free to ruminate out loud. I thought ruminating out loud is why we’re all sitting around on a discussion board.

Keats reminds us that we are most likely to gain new insights if we can stop assuming that we know everything we need to know about people by neatly shoehorning them into preconceived boxes.

Negative capability also testifies to the importance of humility, which Keats described as a "capability of submission".

As Socrates indicates in Plato’s "Apology", the people least likely to learn anything new are the ones who think they already know it all. By contrast, those who are willing to question their own assumptions and adopt new perspectives are in the best position to arrive at new insights.

Keats believed that the world could never be fully understood, let alone controlled. In his view, pride and arrogance must be avoided at all costs....