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Word #23 (Jan 2005) transcription

posted by davidt on Monday February 14 2005, @10:00AM

sleeper writes:

I've transcribed the WORD #23 (Jan 2005) interview, as well as scanned in some photographs from the magazine. Some great quotes from the ever witty Morrissey, including my favorite quote from the interview:

"Yes, the profile has been a little higher than of late but I shudder when I hear the word 'come back'. I don't like to think that I'm back. I've always been here. It implies something about revisiting the past. There's nothing in the past I'd go back for. No reason ever to. As far as I'm aware only Doctor Who can go back in time."

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WORD #23 (Jan 2005)
Transcribed by Vu
www.wordmagazine.co.uk

"Prodigal Son or Conquering Hero?" (6 pgs)
writer: Stuart Maconie
photo: Norman Jean Roy

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"There's nothing in the past I'd go back for." (Score:1)

"No reason ever to."

I think this comment, puts the nail in the coffin, the stake in the heart, of any and all rumors and talk of a Smiths reuninion.
The discussion of such should never be raised again.

someraincoatedlovers -- Monday February 14 2005, @10:22AM (#150945)
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I've read a lot of Morrissey articles in my day (Score:1, Funny)

and that was by far the most unreadable. Was it translated from Ukrainian?

Anonymous -- Monday February 14 2005, @11:52AM (#150973)

Re:I've read a lot of Morrissey articles in my day by Nine Times Fine (Score:1) Monday February 14 2005, @01:58PM
1 reply beneath your current threshold.

some good parts... (Score:2, Interesting)

but overall an underwhelming read, due mostly to the journalist. the part where he cited "Boxers" and "Our Frank" as being the last singles we'd heard from him before "Irish Blood, English Heart" was especially cringeworthy.

chrisarclark <clarkinatorclark@hotmail.com> -- Monday February 14 2005, @12:55PM (#150999)
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"I'm just passing through here on my way to somewhere civilized and maybe I'll even arrive, maybe I'll even arrive..."

Another great interview (Score:1)

... the man is so clever!

Thanx for transcribing all of that for us! Must have takne quite a long time!

Jay

Mud <{jaytando} {at} {hotmail.com}> -- Monday February 14 2005, @01:08PM (#151002)
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I'm really just Some Totally Random Moz Fan

"But I shudder when I hear the word 'come back.'" (Score:1)

As a fellow fan and friend pointed out so deftly, if the associations of a "comeback" plague him, why then the visual reference to the neon sign Elvis used on his 1968 NBC TV special?

And, yes, I'm versed in Elvis history and am well aware that the "Comeback Special" was an unofficial title coined by fans and the press as the years passed. Be that as it may, the use of a similar sign seems to be a too obvious symbol of career resuscitation. If it was not truly a "come back" per se, why not a new clutch of interesting and provocative backdrops? Sadly, it seems yet another symptom of the "dumbing down" Morrissey has had to do to bring the "just browsing" crowd back.

Cheers,

Jamie

Jamie <northpaw22@netzero.net> -- Monday February 14 2005, @02:08PM (#151017)
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yes, gee, where do people get these crazy ideas by suzanne (Score:1) Wednesday February 16 2005, @08:41AM
- Re:yes, gee, where do people get these crazy ideas by Anonymous (Score:0) Wednesday February 16 2005, @09:41AM
  - Re:yes, gee, where do people get these crazy ideas by suzanne (Score:1) Wednesday February 16 2005, @10:02AM
    - Re:yes, gee, where do people get these crazy ideas by Anonymous (Score:0) Wednesday February 16 2005, @10:07AM

i am feeling sick (Score:1)

it's predictably nauseating to read stuart maconie proclaiming the importance of moz's 'comeback', since he was (as he declares) among the NME imbeciles who tried so hard to bring him down in the '90s. i find his description of the 'infamous Madstock NME' decidedly revisionist:

he says NME's response to moz's union flag toting was
'anguished yet gleeful' and 'cod-outraged but secretly delighted'.

so they weren't really outraged, they were 'secretly delighted' - what about? moz's potential downfall, or was it the flag-waving that got them off? judging by the same journalists' adoption of oasis a couple of years later, it was the latter.

i think maconie's trying to belittle his defamation of the singer (who kept him in work for the best part of ten years). or perhaps, back then, he was only obeying orders...

NME's 'outrage' was a joke, not to be taken seriously. coming from a man who's spent his 30s taking a few pounds to offer his insight into anything you want on cheap 'what-we-did-in-1991' tv, he's probably right.

thanks for transcribing the interview - but fuck off maconie. and what's morrissey doing talking to him? last year moz said he could now talk to NME because the types who worked on the 'smelly old' NME had now departed.

i guess they all kept each other's numbers, just in case...

methadone -- Monday February 14 2005, @05:52PM (#151055)
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Re:i am feeling sick by Anonymous (Score:1) Tuesday February 15 2005, @02:12AM

Re:i am feeling sick by methadone (Score:1) Tuesday February 15 2005, @04:11AM

Re:i am feeling sick by Anonymous (Score:0) Tuesday February 15 2005, @04:17AM
Re:i am feeling sick by Anonymous (Score:1) Tuesday February 15 2005, @05:54AM

Guilt by association by naomi (Score:1) Tuesday February 15 2005, @09:31AM

Re:Guilt by association by Jamie (Score:1) Tuesday February 15 2005, @10:59AM

Re:Guilt by association by Anonymous (Score:0) Tuesday February 15 2005, @11:20AM

And, lest we forget... by naomi (Score:1) Tuesday February 15 2005, @11:29AM

ok ok by methadone (Score:1) Tuesday February 15 2005, @03:42PM

What does Steve Sutherland do these days? (Score:2, Insightful)

Drive a minicab? Stack shelves at Tesco's? Check-out copies of Quarry at HMV?

The purge you mention did actually happen, methadone, when the weekly music press upped and died. Certain careers did not recover.

And yes, I do know that a periodical calling itself the NME does still exist, but it's not at all the same proposition. Today's glossy (and stapled, dammit - that's where the rot set it) version is really just an ad rag.

In the old days, the editorial line used to be determined by venom (very occasionally enthusiasm, but mainly venom). Now payola is the only thing that counts. The current editorial staff couldn't pull off a 'Flying the Flag...' stunt even if they wanted to - they don't have that sort of power.

Whether you think this is something to be regretted or not is really up to you. I have my own opinion, of course... but, well, forget it. You have to understand that I used to live for Wednesday mornings.

Dagenham Dave: Well, you've just made me go back and listen to it. I did laugh, and that kiss-off line is engagingly hopeless, but you're not gonna convince me that it's a major addition to the canon. And besides, I was pilloried mercilessly at school for defending its merits and these things leave their scars.

BTW, you were not to know but please don't 'rightly christian' me. I'm a good Jewish girl and proud of it. x

naomi -- Tuesday February 15 2005, @07:13PM (#151222)
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Fine purveyors of drivel since 1980...

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Re:What does Steve Sutherland do these days? by methadone (Score:1) Wednesday February 16 2005, @03:52AM
Re:What does Steve Sutherland do these days? by naomi (Score:1) Wednesday February 16 2005, @06:36AM

NME are whores! by seb71 (Score:1) Tuesday February 15 2005, @11:29AM
- NME is the "Indie" version of The Heat Magazine by seb71 (Score:1) Tuesday February 15 2005, @11:38AM
- Re:NME are whores! by Anonymous (Score:0) Tuesday February 15 2005, @12:41PM
  - Re:NME are whores! by Anonymous (Score:0) Tuesday February 15 2005, @12:53PM
    - Re:NME are whores! by Anonymous (Score:0) Tuesday February 15 2005, @01:22PM
      - Re:NME are whores! by Anonymous (Score:0) Tuesday February 15 2005, @01:26PM
Moz and Maconie have always been mates by Anonymous (Score:0) Tuesday February 15 2005, @03:25PM

Doctor Who! (Score:1)

Yes, my two worlds collide, now If I can Morrissey to use daleks as his back up band and go on tour my life will be complete.

MasterOfWho -- Tuesday February 15 2005, @04:18AM (#151114)
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Is there room in your heart for a Tennant who carries a Rose? http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/

hm (Score:1)

Nice to see another interview. But if Morrissey thinks anyone believes he never wanted to be famous, well....

I don't mean that as an attack. He's obviously making records for the right reasons, unlike almost everybody else out there nowadays.

LoafingOaf <franticflintstoneNO@SPAMgmail.com> -- Tuesday February 15 2005, @11:52AM (#151176)
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Fuck it, Dude. Let's go bowling.

Re:hm by Anonymous (Score:0) Tuesday February 15 2005, @12:55PM

The WORD mag (Score:1)

I buy the Word Mag every now-and-then and I quite like it. I think it's the only non-biased music mag at the moment - not like the NME who just JUMPS into any new band wagon. NME is becoming like "Just 17" mag. I'm sure there will be a Busted special next week. Or maybe they want to be the indie version of The Heat Magazine - which I think they already are!

seb71 -- Tuesday February 15 2005, @11:53AM (#151177)
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Re:The WORD mag by LoafingOaf (Score:1) Tuesday February 15 2005, @12:05PM