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Final Fantasy’s Owen Pallett says Morrissey should have side projects

posted by davidt on Friday April 22 2005, @10:00AM
someraincoatedlovers writes:

from: ChartAttack - Your Canadian Music Source

The full article here.

The relevant part:

Final Fantasy’s Pallett Says Morrissey Should Have Side Projects
Thursday April 21, 2005 @ 01:30 PM
By: ChartAttack.com Staff

After working on records by The Hidden Cameras, Jim Guthrie, Picastro, The Arcade Fire and Les Mouches in the last two years, you’d think Owen Pallett would be ready to soak up some glory on his own. But the way he talks about Final Fantasy, it doesn’t sound like he’ll be in the spotlight for long.

“It's a side project,” the singer and violinist says of his one-man band. “But then again I've come to realize it's a good idea to treat everything like a side project. I was just reading about Morrissey and how after every Smiths single came out he'd be going on about how they would all be entered into the great pantheon of music.

“And the Smiths are one of my favourite bands, but they're so overrated. I mean, they have like, 10 or 12 great songs and hearing Morrissey natter on about how great a song ‘Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want’ is, I mean, if Morrissey had some side projects, he'd feel better about his work.”
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  • The man is a fool:

    This Charming Man
    Still Ill
    Reel Around The Fountain
    Suffer Little Children
    William, It Was Really Nothing
    This Night Has Opened My Eyes
    Accept Yourself
    Handsome Devil
    How Soon Is Now?
    Back To The Old House
    Girl Afraid
    The Headmaster Ritual
    Rusholme Ruffians
    That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
    Well I Wonder
    Nowhere Fast
    The Queen Is Dead
    I Know It's Over
    The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
    Bigmouth Strikes Again
    There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
    Panic
    Sheila, Take A Bow
    Half A Person
    Asleep
    I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
    Girlfriend In A Coma
    Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
    Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
    I Won't Share You

    .....and that's just a list of their MOST BRILLIANT songs - if we were to list all the others, all except maybe four would still count as "great".
    Anonymous -- Friday April 22 2005, @10:32AM (#159022)
    • nowhere fast by Anonymous (Score:0) Friday April 22 2005, @11:53AM
    • Maths by JASX (Score:1) Friday April 22 2005, @01:07PM
  • Never heard of any of these bands. Or any songs by them. Should I have? Do they matter? If Owen Pallett makes a record in the woods, does anyone care?
    GarethKeenan -- Friday April 22 2005, @10:41AM (#159025)
    (User #11791 Info)
  • If they are so Over rated, why does he listen to them? He's an idiot.....
    Anonymous -- Friday April 22 2005, @11:03AM (#159031)
  • He was involved with the Arcade Fire and he's calling Morrissey overrated?! Suuuuuuuuuure!
    ProtestSinger -- Friday April 22 2005, @11:44AM (#159039)
    (User #7285 Info)
    .*.* I can smile about it now but at the time it was terrible *.*.
    • Re:haha! by NewGypsy (Score:1) Sunday April 24 2005, @11:41PM
  • Who is this no mark? Who are final fantasy? I thought it was a video game and one i did not enjoy at that...
    You just have to read the list of songs at the top of the page to find fault with this morons' comment.
    L'Estrange -- Friday April 22 2005, @11:58AM (#159045)
    (User #1939 Info | http://www.morrissey-solo.com/)
    L'Estrange
  • The Smiths great songs- most bar Work Is A Four Letter Word, Unhappy Birthday and a few others...
    Total count: A LOT!

    Final Fantasy's great songs...nope can't think of any.
    Total count: 0

    Before having cheap digs, he should be aware of his own work...and his own solo work cause nobody else is that bothered so it can't be great.

    Overrated, I think The Smiths are perhaps accussed as being overrated because those that don't get their work can't understand those that don't.
    DanielGaunt -- Friday April 22 2005, @12:46PM (#159055)
    (User #6736 Info)
  • Please Please isn't a great song?

    If so, the man's an idiot.
    Anonymous -- Friday April 22 2005, @01:14PM (#159061)
  • This is the "indie" mindframe par excellence. "Morrissey and The Smiths suck because they put out only 10-12 great songs-- but had the nerve to say they put out many more! Meanwhile, me and my projects have never had any great songs at all. As such, I am far more consistent and therefore superior." Unrated > overrated. Yep.
    Anonymous -- Friday April 22 2005, @01:30PM (#159064)
  • "Final Fantasy" = "One More Delusion To Go Before I'm Forced To Take That Job At Kinko's"
    Anonymous -- Friday April 22 2005, @02:04PM (#159071)

  • Question (Score:1, Funny)

    Is that shite he's sitting on in the picture on the website?
    Anonymous -- Friday April 22 2005, @02:13PM (#159074)
  • has clearly succeeded in sounding like an idiot. and i think this time around its not just b/c obsessed morrissey fans didn't like or agree with what he had to say.

    i knew there was a reason why i didn't like the arcade fire.
    jp.5.22 -- Friday April 22 2005, @02:48PM (#159080)
    (User #12669 Info)
  • This guy odviously own only one Smiths CD "the very best of The Smiths"
    tenderliz -- Friday April 22 2005, @11:33PM (#159117)
    (User #11301 Info)
    • Re:overrated? by Anonymous (Score:0) Sunday April 24 2005, @02:51AM
  • Sounds like Morrissey feels fine about his work. Although I do quite like the idea of him ditching th' Lads in favour of side projects. Meaning, at this point I'd rather hear Morrissey overtop of Eurotrance, Van Halen, or traditional Bavarian cheese whistle music than their rote dad-rock.

    And if I counted a band who only had ten or twelve songs I liked among my all-time favourites, I'd feel like a pretty big dunce.
    Diasco -- Saturday April 23 2005, @01:08AM (#159118)
    (User #9532 Info)
    I will take you from this sickness, dinner parties and champagne. I'll hold your body and make it sing again.
  • The man has an opinion, just like everyne else. I may disagree with him but he doesn't sound anymore idiotic than anyone else here.
    Anonymous -- Saturday April 23 2005, @11:40AM (#159159)
  • Calling things overrated is over-done.

    And the Smiths had way more than 10 great songs.

    I'm sure he knows that. It's one of his favorite bands.

    No one's ever heard of this dude. He's irrelevant to my existance.
    LoafingOaf <reversethis-{moc ... otstnilfcitnarf}> -- Saturday April 23 2005, @11:26PM (#159211)
    (User #778 Info)
    Fuck it, Dude. Let's go bowling.
  • Dear Jim,

    We completely disagree with this guy, Final Fantasy needs to get a reality check.

    signed,

    The Legend of Zelda, MegaMan, and Super Mario
    Jim Rome -- Sunday April 24 2005, @01:14AM (#159213)
    (User #720 Info | http://www.jimrome.com/)
    ...and how?
  • well, has anybody commented yet on what morrissey said? "the great pantheon of music," who is he trying to kid? if i was in the band with him at that time, i would have just laughed at him.

    i mean...the smiths are wonderful, one of my favorite bands, but that kind of behavior doesn't seem befitting of the morrissey i had envisioned. i am beginning to see that maybe i overrated him. maybe i'm just too into the "indie" mindset, and i like the arcade fire and jim guthrie, and i think that mr. final fantasy is very talented.

    and maybe people are just ridiculous, sometimes.
    Anonymous -- Monday April 25 2005, @01:50AM (#159306)
    • Re:hmm by Anonymous (Score:0) Monday April 25 2005, @02:41AM
      • Gawd help us by Anonymous (Score:0) Monday April 25 2005, @04:44AM
    • Re:hmm by mynameissam (Score:0) Monday April 25 2005, @04:54AM
    • Exactly! by Anonymous (Score:1) Monday April 25 2005, @07:50AM
  • What a fucking idiot.
    DavidBeauy <[email protected]> -- Monday April 25 2005, @04:20PM (#159402)
    (User #6009 Info | http://beaurock.net/)
    "When thirteen years old Who dyed his hair gold ? Oh, I know very well, I don't need to be told"
  • Hi Fellows!

    This is Owen.

    I never called the Smiths "overrated". Chart Magazine misquoted me.

    Thanks for your comments though.
    Anonymous -- Monday April 25 2005, @11:43PM (#159433)

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