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Boy Least Likely To discuss name and Morrissey

posted by davidt on Wednesday November 23 2005, @09:00AM

moho writes:

There is a great band from somewhere in England called the Boy Least Likely To. In the following interview they discuss Morrissey and their name's association with "The Girl Least Likely To"

Check it out

Interview: The Boy Least Likely To - Pitchfork, June 20, 2005

Excerpt:

Pitchfork: A lot of people suspect the band name is a play on "The Girl Least Likely To" by Morrissey. Did you go through a Morrissey phase?

Jof: The name was just a phrase that I thought suited us. No one really expected us to be anything. Especially me. I hadn't heard the Morrissey song until someone sent me a copy of the CD single, because it wasn't one of the B-sides from that period that made it onto the Bona Drag compilation. But it wasn't taken from that. I don't really mind it as a reference point though. I was always a big fan of the Smiths growing up, and I still am. Especially of the first album. There are other bands from that time that probably mean more to me now, like the Go-Betweens and Dexy's Midnight Runners, but definitely when I was 12 years old the Smiths meant the world to me.

Pitchfork: What else inspired you while you were growing up?

Jof: It's something that I was quite conscious of when we were writing and recording the Boy Least Likely To songs. Getting back to those records that were important to me when I was growing up, when I first became obsessed with pop music. I think that was something that Morrissey always did, too. Referencing his teenage influences lyrically and musically. Often the music that you listen to when you're young, when you first get into music, is the music that comes most naturally to you when you're doing your own stuff. I was into a lot of different things when I was growing up.
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(sigh!) (Score:1)

I heard already of god knows how many groups that "admit" to have liked the Smiths "when they were 12 or 13". Good way of these groups being conniving with the "dinosaur" (Morrissey)their youth so generously and piously embraces, I guess...It's like admitting "yes, I once had chickenpox, but so did everybody else that healed from it and...what can you do about these petulant scares? All I can say is that they are, obviously, the marks of an otherwise (sic) normal childhood..." Strange that I don't hear anytime anyone of these groups declaring they love the living Morrissey (a name they curiously seem to prefer to encapsulate under a more vague and remote entity,"The Smiths") as he is today... Bof!

Mrs. Woolf -- Thursday November 24 2005, @06:19AM (#186539)
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They should be shot... (Score:1)

"There are other bands from that time that probably mean more to me now, like the Go-Betweens and Dexy's Midnight Runners, but definitely when I was 12 years old the Smiths meant the world to me."

Dexy's Midnight Runners. Ha ha ha. What a bunch of wankers.

Eric Hartman -- Saturday November 26 2005, @09:11AM (#186682)
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