The performance of this song that started it all for me. 'Whose this guy Morrissey on Jools Holland...?' *looks up Morrissey on google* 'oh,,,,he was in a band called the Smiths..sounds familiar' *looks through cassette tapes of mum and dads colllection...finds strangeways here we come...and over several years proceeds to slowly digest everything The Smiths / Morrissey has done and seen Marr / Mozza live. R.I.P Andy Rourke. There Is a Light that Never Goes Out.
The trouble is, he's mixed with Irish therefore he hates Cromwell... but nearly every Englishman would agree that Cromwell freed us from royal tyranny.. so Morrissey is kinda biased.... lol
@pandaproducts because your ancestors created the place. Your ancestors died fighting nazism. Because the UK at one stage dominated the world from a tiny island. When you are born British you have won the lottery of life... and you have to be British to understand that unfortunately.
I was shocked he don't write nor co-write his own music, just sings lyrics and melodies over music already out together. I respect him for that matter but I always assumed he had higher level involvement in his solo music.
He actually does have a lot more influence on the music than he's given credit for. Members of his solo band have attested to the fact that he often gives them directions as to what he would like the music to sound like, and sometimes these directions are quite specific. Additionally, Johnny Marr (and many of his other collaborators besides) has stated that Morrissey never did what was expected with the backing tracks and this has a dramatic effect on the song overall. For example, Morrissey would often leave a long intro and start singing in what was supposed to be the chorus, which of course would have a dramatic effect on the structure of the song. This is very evident when you listen to the instrumental versions of songs both from The Smiths and his solo work. And lastly, in my book Morrissey is one of the finest writers of vocal melodies ever- very often elevating even the sparsest of backing tracks to something very beautiful.
He is such a good live performer up until the last word ('foreverrr") he coulld almost be lip syncing to the studio recording. Amazing singer, and this song had so much energy.
No creo que Morrissey haya estado vivo en la época de los piratas, o tendría unos 300 años. Además de que siempre fue crítico de la corona y ha hablado pestes de la Thatcher incluso después de muerta.
Unfortunate this song was shunned and Morrissey was attacked by news media outlets when it was getting invaded by a bunch of migrants. It's crazy considering people are getting beaten today by none native people for being proud of who they are.
Do you have any idea of the tyranny Cromwell brought on England? The dude literally tried to ban Christmas, he was a b*stard to our Irish brothers too.
Morissey writes interesting lyrics but without Johnny Marr's jangly brights guitar tones to contrast his depressing lyrics the music is very very dull!
You're crazy. If you're comparing his solo stuff to the Smiths, you've lost. They're a separate recipe. That's like saying, "these triple chocolate chip cookies were so good, these sugar cookies are so dull" well, they're two different cookies, but they both have flour in them. Err... Yeah. Morrissey is a legend, and I did just compare him to flour, yes. Flour is amazing and essential, like him.
