Variety: The Decemberists’ Colin Meloy interview - Morrissey mentioned (June 14, 2024)

"The Decemberists’ Colin Meloy Is Fine With the Long Wait for the Group’s New Album, but Isn’t So Sure His Dream Is Still to Write With Morrissey"

Relevant part:

Who do you dream of collaborating with at this point in your career?

I’ve always harbored a dream of writing a song for Morrissey, but I don’t know if that’s going to happen in my lifetime. For one thing, I don’t know how often he does that or how he would do that now. It would not [be great] culturally to work with him now for the damage that he’s done to his own reputation. And, maybe I shouldn’t want to, I think maybe he would be an unpleasant person to work with. So I’m of two minds about it.

The Decemberists’ Colin Meloy Is Fine With the Long Wait for the Group’s New Album, but Isn’t So Sure His Dream Is Still to Write With Morrissey

The Decemberists' Colin Meloy gets deep about the group's new album, and says he's not so sure his dream is still to work with Morrissey.

variety.com

Colin ensuring his dream never happens.
Regards,
FWD.

 

[gordyboy9]

M politely turned down the chance to work with damon albarn who is a much more well known person than this fruitcake,if this guy is such a big fan he would know that M only sings his own songs on his albums,sometimes co-written with band members.

 

[Anonymous]

It’s never going to happen now is it you prick. Moz see you in Vegas x

 

[Mayfly]

What is the evidence of Morrissey being an unpleasant person to work with in the recording studio? My recollection is that Joe C enjoyed working with Morrissey. I also think most of his musical collaborators were happy to work with him in the studio (even Johnny Marr).

Anyway, it is Morrissey who invites musicians to write songs for him, it never happens the other way around.

 

[Ashley_TakeABow]

Colin ensuring his dream never happens.

You've got that right.

I don't get why he even had to voice the last couple of points he made. It's like he didn't think before he said that.. at ALL.

 

[Loosie]

The gist of it, "Look at me!!! I don't like Morrissey too!!! Now listen to my music!!!" Extremely pathetic! Go back under the rock from which you came Colin!

 

[Johnnie Ray]

As if Morrissey is remotely interested
in working with you? His sister however does write some excellent short stories!

Yes because he only works with first class stars like...Jesse Tobias.

 

[Ryan]

Can the next news post please be about BOT.

 

[Johnnie Ray]

I doubt Morrissey would be interested in collaborating, he tends to prefer songs to be melodic.

Like those Jesse Tobias specials!

 

[Gregor Samsa]

M politely turned down the chance to work with damon albarn who is a much more well known person than this fruitcake,if this guy is such a big fan he would know that M only sings his own songs on his albums,sometimes co-written with band members.

Sometimes?!

 

[Anonymous]

I don't know who this guy is, but whatever he came up with can't be worse than 'Notre Dame' or that other new song about Jack Kerouac's butt-crack.

 

[Redacted]

Can the next news post please be about BOT.

booyah

 

[hand in glove]

So boring and predictable.
I’ve never heard one song by this band…and now I don’t want to.

 

[Thewlis]

He released an entire EP of him singing Morrissey-songs

 

[Ryan]

booyah

 

[SuedeMoz]

He released an entire EP of him singing Morrissey-songs

Uh, how is this just coming up now!?!?! Good one @Thewlis... maybe this slightly changes the discussion.

 

[gordyboy9]

we should have a televised contest of who wants to be morrissey the most.
in the red corner we have 80s buffoon rickshaw astley.
and in the blue corner decemberists frontman with a face like a testicle colin meloy.

 

[DagenhamDan]

You've got that right.

I don't get why he even had to voice the last couple of points he made. It's like he didn't think before he said that.. at ALL.

They have to cover themselves from having any independent thoughts on the subject Ashley, in case they themselves become the cancelled.

 

[Surface]

Never heard of his band until now, they seem to be popular in the US.

 

[HangtheDJ16]

Meanwhile…..

Molly Rankin of Alvvays: ‘I still love The Smiths. No one will take them away from me’

Molly Rankin of Alvvays: ‘I still love The Smiths. No one will take them away from me’

The frontwoman of the indie-pop gems on a rare appearance in Ireland, for Beyond the Pale, and music’s broken economy

www.irishtimes.com

There is a question Molly Rankin is asked in every interview, and it has to do with a middle-aged man with tall hair and some strange views. “Every time I talk about this, I feel like I get some people [jumping in]. It’s a very volatile question,” the Canadian musician says as her band, Alvvays, prepare to cross the Atlantic for their first Irish show in more than a decade, at the Beyond the Pale festival. “I still listen to The Smiths, and I still love them.”

A great many former fans have abandoned The Smiths since Morrissey, the one-time singer of the long-defunct band, began to express bizarre opinions about politics, meat-eaters, the British royals and The Simpsons. But Rankin makes no apologies for steadfastly adoring the songs he wrote with Johnny Marr – an audible influence on Alvvays’ gorgeously bruised and winningly vulnerable alternative pop.

“Two people colliding at a time in their lives when they were bursting with creativity,” is how Rankin describes Morrissey-Marr from her apartment in Toronto. “And, for whatever reason, [it] just working out and then making the albums that they did. I believe in the beauty of collaboration and how fruitful that can be. I hear those songs and no one will take them away from me.”

 

[Johnnie Ray]

I don't know who this guy is, but whatever he came up with can't be worse than 'Notre Dame' or that other new song about Jack Kerouac's butt-crack

However, Allen Ginsberg's Hairy Taint is an underrated classic.