August's issue of Mojo ( White Stripes cover) mentions Morrissey twice.
Firstly, in a feature length bio of British group Madness:
Telling of their decline the article states that post dissolution in 1988, Madness member Cathal Smyth:
"would work in A n& R at Go! discs, hanging (sic) out with Morrissey ( "He wanted me to manage him but I didn't fancy ironing his socks").
Secondly, in the Q and A section reader Brian Strong writes in to ask:
I was listening to the Smiths song Rubber Ring and was struck by the female voice at the end saying, " You are sleeping . You do not want to believe". Where did this uncommon example of sampling in the Morrissey and Marr oeuvre come from?"
Writer Fred Dellar answers:
The voice is off a 1971 record-and- book combo entitled Breakthrough: An Amazing Experiment In Electronic Communication with the Dead. This record purportedly contains recordings of the dead talking: the bit The Smiths used is a translation of a voice saying an enigmatic phrase in a broken mixture of Swedish and German. This peculiar recording- presumably a hopt biscuit on the young Morrissey's turntable- was reissued in the US by the Bubble Core label in 2003.
This article accompanied by a small picture of a Smiths era Morrissey holding a banjo lying on a mock-up of his own grave, the epitaph reading: Morrissey
1959- 1986
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Raudive (Score:1, Interesting)
There was also a channel 4 documentary a few years back on the phenomenon.
Basically, a tape recorder is left in recording mode in a room with people present and the "silent" recordings are then closely listened to and scrutinized for phantom voices which can be heard on the tape. These usually refer to something of relevance to the people present and even famous people "come through" sometimes.
I was shit-scared, but also fascinated by the book, and especially the disc, back in the seventies.
The name of the author and pioneer of this phenomenon was Konstantin Raudive, a Latvian gentleman, I think.
Breakthrough: An Amazing Experiment In... (Score:1, Insightful)
This newer re-released version is available at both Amazon and Amazon-UK and is entitled “Voices of The Dead.”
http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:Voices%20Of%20The%20D
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wait a minute.... (Score:1, Offtopic)
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Day of the Dead (Score:4, Interesting)
And, if all his heroes are dead, I wonder has Moz got out his Ouija board or tape recorder to go trans-galactic, rather than only transatlantic, in his search for collaborators, maybe Klaus Nomi, John Lennon..?!
I came across this by an unknown poet about the Mexican ‘Day of the Dead’ which seems somehow related:
“We only come to dream, we only come to sleep;
It is not true, it is not true
That we have come to live on Earth.
Where are we to go from here?
We came here only to be born,
As our home is beyond,
Where all the fleshless abide.
Perchance, does anyone really live on Earth?
The Earth is not forever, but just to remain a short while.”
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The wonders of the Electronet (Score:2, Insightful)
I think you'll like:
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oasis using this clip (Score:2, Interesting)
at the end of their set and before the encore they used this exact clip 'you are sleeping, you do not want to believe' repeated again and again whilst liam indulged himself pouting to the crowd. it was the one point which made me sit up and listen.
im not a fan, but i dont have contemptuous feelings for them.
i was babysitting and there was little else on, but i was really unimpressed by a) you can rarely distinguish any lyrics and b) there was no communication with the crowd whatsoever! i dont know whether tv left this out, but its seemed very impersonal and lacking any trace of intimacy. unlike moz gigs of course!