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Belle & Sebastian on Morrissey
posted by davidt on Monday March 25 2002, @08:30AM

 Jonathon Hyde writes:

Hey David,
I emailed Belle & Sebastian on their website to help out morrissey & this was the response. It's not really news, but kind of interesting none the less. I was kinda of whining and they put me in my place!
-Jonathon

P.S. The response is listed first, and my original question is listed below it.

At 10:14 AM 2/18/02 +0000, you wrote:
Why does everyone think we have our own label?
We don't you know.
As difficult as some people may find this to believe, many of B&S couldn't
care less about Morrissey. I bet you he's happy enough as he is.
Cheers,

Neil@B&S

----- Original Message -----
From: Jonathon Hyde
To:
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 8:44 PM
Subject: Morrissey

> Dear B&S,
> Your one of the only bands that matter today...the only other thing that
> has excited me is possibly The Strokes. Save Morrissey ....he is
> drifting...only B&S has the power...... C'mon...He is a THE poet of our
> time. You could make him matter again with a collaboration...a spot on
> your label...something! anything! Puhleeaze already!
> -Jonathon
>
>

> Jonathon Hyde

>
> JH283@CORNELL.EDU
>

 
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    I agree with B&S (Score:0)
    Who cares what Morrissey is doing ?
    Anonymous -- Monday March 25 2002, @11:10AM (#26731)
    Hrmph (Score:1)
    What a pitiful e-mail you wrote. You should be embarassed.
    Gen-Tree -- Monday March 25 2002, @01:34PM (#26744)
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    • Re:Hrmph by Anonymous (Score:0) Monday March 25 2002, @03:36PM
      "helping" Morrissey (Score:2, Informative)
      Nice sentiment. However .....

      a) Morrissey is way, way richer than anyone in B&S is ever likely to be. How many members of B&S live in mansions in the Hollywood Hills? Up until very recently most of them had day jobs as well.

      b) Morrissey doesn't need "helping". He needs to get off his arse, make an album with his own money and tout it to labels as a finished product, or else mmarket it independantly, rather than just sitting around in his mansion waiting for the phone to ring.

      c) Jeepster is an indie. I'm sure they could never pay Morrissey the sort of money he would want/expect. Morrissey wants the money/financial support of a major label. personally I'd quite like to see him on an indie, but I don't think it's going to happen.

      d) B&S have tried hard to shake the dreaded "new Smiths" tag. I'm sure this would backfire badly for them.

      e) To the best of my knowledge, only Stuart Murdoch and Isobel Campbell are Smiths fans. And I've never heard either of them mention his solo stuff.
      LawrenceM -- Monday March 25 2002, @04:37PM (#26756)
      (User #3228 Info | http://listen.to/orangejuice )
       "I wore my fringe like Roger McGuinn"
      for the last time (Score:0, Redundant)
      can you think about what you wrote? you are asking a tiny indie band to help out a guy with a career that spans 20 years, who lives in a mansion in Los Angeles, and who can fill stadiums on more than one continent.
      suzanne <{suzsch} {at} {sbcglobal.net}> -- Monday March 25 2002, @05:07PM (#26758)
      (User #36 Info | http://www.myspace.com/snootywriter )
       I scare dead people.
        contra (Score:1)
        Say, Gene own their own record company (named Contra Records), right? They owe Morrissey for being such an enormous influence on them.
        The Other Jesus -- Tuesday March 26 2002, @02:50AM (#26782)
        (User #3169 Info)
         "I don't have much in my life, but take it - it's yours"
          Pathetic (Score:0)
          You're pathetic!!!!! How could you waste your time writing to someone asking for a job to Morrissey?????!!!!! You're insane, you're nuts!!! All this whole thing came to a point beyond reason. Don't you have a life, because Morrissey has his own life, it's living well. I can almost bet if he is a kind of retired is because he can't dealed anymore with these kind of things (like this one). No one could leave with this...
          The B&S's response was almost delicate if we read the pathetic question first.
          Hell with you...
          Marco
          Anonymous -- Tuesday March 26 2002, @04:57AM (#26785)
            I Just Wanna say' (Score:1)
            Your an idiot for even going to a few nobodies to save a once was and someday will be again. DUH! I know it's gonna happen someday, so friggen calm down and wait. Keep the faith.

            Goodnight, and thank you.
            Mozkateer -- Wednesday March 27 2002, @08:32AM (#26842)
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              The strokes are retro gobshite (Score:0)
              read the above. chant it. write it over your chest with a compass. they are a pure cross of mink deville's melodies, the fake distortion of grunge, and the self-serving anally retentive posturing of the JSBX, watered down 1/10 music to 9/10 shite. mither, mither, mither, angst mither, vroom.
              Anonymous -- Tuesday April 02 2002, @08:42AM (#27225)

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