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Posted: 19 Jun 2006, 22:13
by Penk!
Mike Boom wrote:Randy Newman really hates short people.


What a bastard! Let's get him! :x :x :x

Posted: 19 Jun 2006, 22:15
by nathan
So Morrissey was a homosexual that didn't engage in sexual activity? That must have been very hard on his emotional well-being. The poor misunderstood soul.

Posted: 19 Jun 2006, 22:17
by Mr Maps
Penk wrote:
Mike Boom wrote:Randy Newman really hates short people.


What a bastard! Let's get him! :x :x :x


He didn't really. It was an allegory for how much he hated black people.

nathan wrote:So Morrissey was a homosexual that didn't engage in sexual activity? That must have been very hard on his emotional well-being. The poor misunderstood soul.


I'll say

Posted: 19 Jun 2006, 22:18
by Penk!
Mr. Maps wrote:
Penk wrote:
Mike Boom wrote:Randy Newman really hates short people.


What a bastard! Let's get him! :x :x :x


He didn't really. It was an allegory for how much he hated black people.


Fucking hypocrite :x :x :x

Posted: 19 Jun 2006, 22:18
by Matt Wilson
nathan wrote:So Morrissey was a homosexual that didn't engage in sexual activity? That must have been very hard on his emotional well-being. The poor misunderstood soul.


It's OK.
He got his emotions on paper by writing in the persona of a girl, apparantly.

Posted: 19 Jun 2006, 22:21
by nathan
Mr. Maps wrote:
nathan wrote:So Morrissey was a homosexual that didn't engage in sexual activity? That must have been very hard on his emotional well-being. The poor misunderstood soul.


I'll say

Well I always assumed I Started Something I Couldn't Finish was about his masturbation exploits so clearly he was releasing during this period. (And of course he finished... the grunts gave that away)

Posted: 19 Jun 2006, 22:25
by Mike Boom
He got his emotions on paper by writing in the persona of a girl, apparantly.

Sometimes , yes ...

Girl afraid
Where do his intentions lay ?

Or does he even have any ?

She says
He never really looks at me
I give him every opportunity
In the room downstairs
He sat and stared
In the room downstairs
He sat and stared
Ill never make that mistake again !

Ill never make that mistake again
Ill never make that mistake again

Boy afraid
Prudence never pays

And everything she wants costs money


But she doesnt even like me !
And I know because she said so
In the room downstairs
She sat and stared
In the room downstairs
She sat and stared
Ill never make that mistake again !

Posted: 19 Jun 2006, 22:25
by Oscar
Matt Wilson wrote:
nathan wrote:So Morrissey was a homosexual that didn't engage in sexual activity? That must have been very hard on his emotional well-being. The poor misunderstood soul.


It's OK.
He got his emotions on paper by writing in the persona of a girl, apparantly.


And a boy.

"Girlfriend in a coma"

"Oh, let me get my hands
On your mammary gland"

Posted: 19 Jun 2006, 22:38
by Bungo the Mungo
Mike Boom wrote:
He got his emotions on paper by writing in the persona of a girl, apparantly.

Sometimes , yes ...

Girl afraid
Where do his intentions lay ?

Or does he even have any ?

She says
He never really looks at me
I give him every opportunity
In the room downstairs
He sat and stared
In the room downstairs
He sat and stared
Ill never make that mistake again !

Ill never make that mistake again
Ill never make that mistake again

Boy afraid
Prudence never pays

And everything she wants costs money


But she doesnt even like me !
And I know because she said so
In the room downstairs
She sat and stared
In the room downstairs
She sat and stared
Ill never make that mistake again !


Their best song.

Posted: 19 Jun 2006, 22:47
by Mr Maps
the name is Coan wrote:
Mike Boom wrote:Girl afraid


Their best song.


I'll say, These Things Take Time

Re: BCB 100 - The Smiths

Posted: 20 May 2010, 21:29
by Count Machuki

Re:

Posted: 18 Dec 2012, 14:55
by Slugger
Dances With Difficulty wrote:
geoffcowgill wrote:Sounds like maybe I should go ahead and get their first album, huh?


That would be a wise purchase...

No need. Just get hatful and that's the first year covered.

Re: BCB 100 - The Smiths

Posted: 07 Feb 2018, 13:23
by naughty boy
RcL wrote:
geoffcowgill wrote: I was quite disappointed that THE GREATEST ALBUM OF THE 1980s was not, frankly, all that great.


It's not, and I'm a fan. The problem is that The Smiths didn't do things conventionally - all the studio albums are patchy. I think Strangeways is just one big patch, but others like it, I know. TQID and MIM are just so hit and miss - stuff like Cemetry Gates and Nowhere Fast are pleasant enough, but nowhere near what they could do, which was all too often found on B sides - hence many people rating LTB and HOH as their essential records. The first album doesn't have a less than brilliant song (though Miserable Lie can catch the wrong mood at times), but is famously produced in an ill-fitting manner.

Album: The Smiths (but I prefer the two comps)

Song: Wonderful Woman


Spot on.

I miss Roddy.

Re: BCB 100 - The Smiths

Posted: 07 Feb 2018, 23:43
by echolalia
OCT wrote:Spot on.

I miss Roddy.

Roddy’s doing OK. I’ll be seeing him in the next few weeks hopefully. He was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize but didn’t win it. His collection, So Glad I’m Me, is full of references to pop music and every BCBer should have it. I remember seeing an early pamphlet where one of his poems was pubished alongside an Ian Curtis lyric – he was really happy about that and there’s no other poet in the anglosphere that has his knowledge or appreciation of music. Maybe there’s a Dylan-Nobel backlash going on. He told me Buying Shoes for Alex Chilton was inspired by me! Not that I can see it.

And that first Smiths album - still fantastic - I never tire of it.