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Russell Brand on Morrissey appearing live; Brett Anderson on TQID
posted by davidt on Tuesday January 23 2007, @11:00AM

 Uncleskinny writes:
There's a thread in the forums mentioning the Russell Brand article in The Observer Music Monthly. naming one of the Royal Albert Hall Gigs as one of the 25 greatest (in reality, they just asked a load of celebs about their favourite gigs).

I went and bought the paper, and there were a couple of other interesting bits that I scanned and put in that thread, specifically here.
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Excerpt:

...I interviewed him years later and said I'd seen him perform. "I don't perform,' he said. 'What do you do? I asked, flustered. 'I appear live.'

'I saw you appear live,' I said. 'As opposed to dead,' he answered. I thought: 'I love you.' And I learnt that if you want to perform, you should wholly be yourself, as he is. Morrissey is his own archetype.
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Aso a mention by Brett Anderson of Suede:

The Soundtrack to my adolescence
The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths (1986)

The music and the words of the Smiths resonated powerfully for a 14-year-old kid and this is their best record, which coincided with thir peak as a phenomenon. It was life-changing because they were speaking about the things I was thinking about: emerging sexuality and the general embarrassment of life. Morrissey turned the pages of his diary into art and that is the requirement of great music: to speak from the heart. And while Morrissey was a very skill ful lyricist, he wasn't really anything without Johnny Marr. Nobody played guitar like that before and nobody has played like that since.

 
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The Observer Music Monthly (Score:0)
The OMM is always worth getting, it's a "thinking man's" newspaper and the journalism is usually pretty good!
Anonymous -- Tuesday January 23 2007, @11:21AM (#246904)
Brett Anderson (Score:0)
Brett Anderson will never forgive God for not making him Angie Bowie
Anonymous -- Tuesday January 23 2007, @11:49AM (#246905)
The Arousal Of Swallowneck (Score:0)
It's weird how these things tie up, but not only does Brand's broad use of penile imagery get Swallowneck all hot and bothered, but he also mentioned on this very forum that he first had naked gay sex to the first Suede album!!!
MarkFromScatter -- Tuesday January 23 2007, @01:05PM (#246912)
(User #16900 Info)
 If you don't like me, don't look at me...
Johnny Marr was fantastic... (Score:1)
but people hav to get off it and realize that its the other way round- Marr isnt really anything without Moz.

since the end of The Smiths, Morrissey has gone on to create some of the greatest albums of the past twenty years ('Viva Hate', 'Your Arsenal' and 'Vauxhall And I') as well some underrated classics ('Kill Uncle' and 'Southpaw Grammar') a tremendous recent outing (ROTT) and loads of great songs inbetween. Marr has done some interesting collaborations with other big names such as Bernard Sumner and Brian Ferry including a few pretty good tracks and has recently had a failed "solo" outing followed by his joining on with another sort of big name, Modest Mouse.

Marr is a great player- one of the greatest- but he's no songwriter, at least not in the league of Morrissey or the best of his other collaborators. Morrissey is a true stand alone legend whose genius is truly immeasurable. Moz is the icon, Marr is juste the musician.
chrisarclark <clarkinatorclark@hotmail.com> -- Tuesday January 23 2007, @01:20PM (#246918)
(User #9259 Info)
 "I'm just passing through here on my way to somewhere civilized and maybe I'll even arrive, maybe I'll even arrive..."
Morrissey the new Yarwood? (Score:1)
...at the Wembley show in Dec, when after introducing the band , Morrissey did a rare impersonation, whilst declaring '....and I am Russell Brand'
jehova's witless -- Tuesday January 23 2007, @01:43PM (#246922)
(User #13345 Info)
Suede... (Score:1)
...will always remind me of falling in love for the first time with a beautiful dark haired, green eyed girl that worked at a bookstore ten years ago... "Class A, class B- is that the only chemistry between us?"

Suede, Jeff B... such wonderful memories of another time long gone. Sigh.
Toaster <{mikehernandez550} {at} {gmail.com}> -- Tuesday January 23 2007, @01:50PM (#246923)
(User #11921 Info)
 Now the sun shines cold/and all the sky is grey/the stars are dimmed by clouds and tears/and all I wish has gone away...
    14? he wishes! (Score:0)
    Brett Anderson would have been 18/19 when The Queen Is Dead came out. Butler however was 14 when The Smiths first emerged.
    Anonymous -- Tuesday January 23 2007, @03:59PM (#246935)
    simple (Score:1)
    Brand looks like a twat..
    and talks like a twat
    therefore he is..
    and "the queen is dead" is NOT their finest work(how many fucking times!)..
    and as for naked gay sex..he's sraighter than a roman rule..
    a ruse,friends
    drilltime -- Tuesday January 23 2007, @05:49PM (#246939)
    (User #15269 Info)
      He's wrong you know... (Score:0)
      The best Smiths album is Strangeways, easily.
      Anonymous -- Tuesday January 23 2007, @06:15PM (#246940)
      Who is this Russel Brand... (Score:0)
      ..I'm from the U.S. so I don't get this guy, he went from just barely getting tickets to a Moz show in 02 then actually having a chance to interview him? The way he describes his concert going experience with the "This was towards the tail-end of my really dismal drug addiction and through my bleariness it was amazing to see someone possessed of such clarity". He just comes off sounding like an idiot. He kind of reminds me of an english version of Carson Daly....just a tool.
      Anonymous -- Tuesday January 23 2007, @10:00PM (#246945)
      Brand placement (Score:1)
      Exciting if anyfin'
      Ceiling_Shadow -- Wednesday January 24 2007, @02:44AM (#246952)
      (User #18138 Info)
        Good post (Score:1)
        "Nobody has played guitar like that before and nobody has played like that since." Agreed.

        Brands' meeting with Morrissey is so typical and made me smile
        Morrissey the 23rd <Morrisseythe23rd@aol.com> -- Wednesday January 24 2007, @03:52AM (#246955)
        (User #910 Info | http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Morrisseythe23rd )
        • Re:Good post by Anonymous (Score:0) Thursday January 25 2007, @10:57AM
          Brett Anderson (Score:1)
          The guy who said he was a bisexual who never actually had a homosexual experience... Yeah, sure... And he might as well claim to be a clean person who never actually washed himself. May Oblivion swallow the shallow 90's.
          Retired Whore <{marcelloproust} {at} {gmail.com}> -- Wednesday January 24 2007, @04:23AM (#246959)
          (User #3238 Info)
           Sweet F.A.
            Greatest album ... (Score:0)
            The Queen is Dead is not their greatest ... Stop saying that! The greatest Smiths album doesn't exist in reality - only in my head (and iPod): It's all of their singles, A's and B's, in chronological order.
            Anonymous -- Wednesday January 24 2007, @12:07PM (#247007)
              OMM Hmmmmmm (Score:1)
              I listened to Russell Brand interview Morrissey and enjoyed that. So I tried to listen to Brand's radio show, see his TV show, and listen to a comedy performance. Only the last impressed me, where he'd had time to consider what he was going to say before he said it. For the rest he's trying too hard to be funny and so ends up taking the piss out of people, which anyone can do.

              Smiths- Morrissey and Marr worked well as a team. They brought the best from each other and that kind of partnership is rare. The breakup of that must have been hard and maybe that's why neither has sought out, or been able to find, that kind of working relationship again.

              sinistra 21 -- Thursday January 25 2007, @02:26AM (#247026)
              (User #16758 Info)
                sick and tired (Score:0)
                of hearing that 'marr' crap
                20 yrs have passed
                name 1 marr song
                well ...............
                Anonymous -- Thursday January 25 2007, @07:54AM (#247036)
                Moz is his own archetype (Score:1)
                I agree, but how would you even try to classify it (if you dare)? Some kind of alchemical blend of a warrior/poet/magician, with his own truly idiosyncratic Mozziness for more than good measure?
                anonomuirgheasa -- Saturday January 27 2007, @05:31PM (#247221)
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                  Re:uncleskinny must die (Score:1)
                  The only red-faced c*nt around here will be you after I've landed one on your soppy face, you nasty little shite!
                  Charlie Endell Esq -- Wednesday January 24 2007, @09:10AM (#246986)
                  (User #18155 Info)
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                  Re:where are the yellow chink posts? (Score:1)
                  Keep spewing out yer racist filth and you'll be mysteriously vanishing without a trace, you evil wee shite!
                  Charlie Endell Esq -- Wednesday January 24 2007, @09:21AM (#246991)
                  (User #18155 Info)
                  [ Parent ]
                    stop this monster (Score:0)
                    http://www.dancingelf.ca/DancingElf.asp?id=27819
                    Anonymous -- Thursday January 25 2007, @12:14PM (#247051)
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