Mike Joyce's Facebook comments on this: "So I'm at The Last Shadow Puppets gig tonight and Johnny Marr walks on and they play, 'Last Night I Dreamt...' The guy next to me says, "See the guy on the right with black hair? That's Johnny Marr, the guitarist from The Smiths and this is a Smiths song they're playing". I didn't say owt, I just couldn't."
Johnny Marr: “It was a nice moment and went off okay but when we played it again at Alexandra Palace, and opened the show with it, confetti was raining down on everybody from the ceiling and it was a really poignant moment for me. There’s a good recording of it on RU-vid, it was just another one of those weird things that happens in life sometimes.
Don't understand why there's so many negative comments. This is one of my absolute favourite Smiths songs and Morrissey does it so brilliantly but I think Alex has done a really great job here and pulled it off well! He's not a dick either, people mistake his on stage attitude and persona for arrogance/drug taking too much, give the man some credit, he really knows how to put on a show and entertain everyone!
Although they've got a slightly over-the-top semi-ironic image going on obscuring their talent slightly - those pretending here that Miles and Alex don't have at least some worthy songwriting chops themselves should listen to 'The Meeting Place' - the emotions and complexity of the song and arrangement etc.(courtesy of Owen Pallett) not unlike LNIDSLM. Morrissey also dealt heavily in irony of a different kind - namely melodramatic self-mocking self-pity - and their ironic humour isn't so far removed if you listen closely to their lyrics though by no means as ingeniously consistent as The Smiths. I doubt they're Johnny's favourite band by any means but unless he had some respect for them and what they do I'd very much doubt he would appear. Alex can croon better for sure and isn't showing it here. I've no doubt that with Alex a decade in the music industry, touring and recording has hardened him and this persona is probably not a bad way of getting through and it's not necessarily coke-induced or totally preconceived, - I think if the wheels should ever fall off completely some more interesting art may just come of it though I wouldn't wish that on anybody...
Alex's persona sure has changed a whole lot since the early Monkey days. He had a fresh, spunky, punkish, almost naive energy in his late teens/ early 20's. Now he seems gloomier / moodier and more suited to music of this type and TLSP and TBH+C. Even the "fast" Monkeys songs aren't played with the same ferocious tempo they were years ago. I don't necessarily think Alex is coked up. He seems to have become quite the ham over the years and very comfortable with being onstage. This is quite something when you find out that in the earliest years of the Monkeys (before they toured at all) that he was reluctant to share his lyrics with the rest of the band and he wanted someone else to be the lead singer because he was so shy.
😳 I can't even believe what I'm witnessing right now... never knew they covered this masterpiece! oh my little black shriveled heart... ohh Alex... ::le swoon::
Last night I dreamt That somebody loved me No hope, no harm Just another false alarm Last night I felt Real arms around me No hope, no harm Just another false alarm So, tell me how long Before the last one? And tell me how long Before the right one? The story is old - I know But it goes on The story is old - I know But it goes on Oh, goes on And on Oh, goes on And on
I hope both johnny and mike can really see how much excitement there is with the fans whenever its something "smiths" related. Especially since Mike was there in the crowd through it all.. I would love to have the 4 of them reunite. I know moz wouldn't be lead singer obviously, but still its something and I'd give an arm and leg to see the people I greatly admire with so much love!
+Pinkity Pink "as replaceable as lawn mower parts" I'm just kidding, they are great, all 4 of them. In a perfect world they would have put out more albums, toured when I was able to purchase a show ticket... maybe one day.
Wow Johnny marr and the puppets just perfect 😊. Although Alex's voice is brilliant, he can't touch morrissey especially with last night I dreamt. But he's still fantastic.
I’ve not heard the original but this version is breathtaking. So melancholic, touching… love Alex’s voice here. The vibrato, the nerve. Need to listen to something else now tho to wash the sad feeling away
SergioIsrael14 i kinda agree just in the fact that Morrissey does this song perfectly but I still think Alex did great it’s just when you compare him to the original
That's like saying fuck it let's make a car with no engine,morrissey was the smiths,granted marr and Andy in paticular were very good musicians but morrissey would have made it with or without the others let's be honest that kind of genius can only be contained for so long
+Charlie Cullis .The video blew,if anything alls this is gonna do is make the hipster douche bags who listen to the Arctic monkeys start listening to morrissey and I just can't bear standing next to some fanboys who have only heard his hits at my next moz gig,morrissey is very personal for all his fans and with him your either 110% committed of not at all in my option he's just one of those artists
+McLesnar GOAT how am I a hipster pussy, I don't even listen or like the arctic monkeys, all their songs sound the same, I just really like Alex Turner and my music taste is ace, I'm listening to The Smiths at 13. You can't tell someone how good or bad their music taste is as everyone has a different taste in music you fucking goon.
I love Alex Turner and everything, but he gives Johnny Marr zero justice or honor with his crap vocal version . . . . Morrissey still blows them all away with the vocals. Only Morrissey and Marr can do this song like its supposed to go . . . The real true star here is Johnny Marr . . .
Forgot your roots Alex? Become this rich rock star wannabe when to most people you were more of a rock star in 2008, when you still wrote and played ace tunes, instead of crooning over some boring souless love songs. Spend less time buying suits, and more time playing guitar.
