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Morrissey unplugged? Hatful of Hollow's 'Back to the Old House' has a power and beauty far beyond the full band version. Should Morrissey do more acoustic numbers? (suggested by Ken Barlow)
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Absolutely.   62% 1538 / 62%
Definitely not.   8% 199 / 8%
Not too bothered but it would be interesting.   25% 633 / 25%
Don't know.   2% 72 / 2%
2442 total votes.

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Yes, why not. (Score:0)
Of course. Anything is better than nothing at all, Besides I always thought the B-sides are and were Morrisseys and The Smiths best work.
MORRISSEY023 <MORRISSEY023@HOTMAIL.COM> -- Friday May 27 2005, @08:25AM (#163411)
(User #4584 Info)
 On a government scheme designed to kill your dream' Once poor, always poor "ENOUGH is TOO MUCH!" can you blame me?
    Morrissey plays no instrument... (Score:2, Funny)

    Morrissey Unplugged would be nice but there seems to be a reason to why it has never happened.

    The Smiths Unplugged Reunion would be awesome...
    palare -- Friday May 27 2005, @08:39AM (#163412)
    (User #152 Info | http://worldofabrahan.com/ )
     where the world's ugliest boy became what you see...
      I don't usually moan about these polls (Score:0)
      but Jesus, is this anorak central or what?
      Anonymous -- Friday May 27 2005, @08:41AM (#163413)
      depends on the choice of songs... (Score:0)
      I guarantee you Dagenham Dave and Roy Keane would sound just as blinking awful on an acoustic guitar!
      J
      Anonymous -- Friday May 27 2005, @08:53AM (#163416)
      Morrissey Unplugged.......Awesome!!! (Score:0)
      With some very careful tune selection this would be an incredible show. I'll wait to see the inevitable track lists from the likes of Chris Aren't Clark and (Very) Broken before I post my own definitive list.

      -The Treading Lemming

      "them were some bad old days"
      Anonymous -- Friday May 27 2005, @09:02AM (#163417)
      Yes (Score:0)
      Unplugged would be fantastic, but not every song by Moz could be apart of a good unplugged set list. Here are some that come to mind as good choices;

      Boxers
      The more you ignore me...
      Spring Heel Jim
      Used to be a sweet boy
      Lost
      The edges are...
      Alma Matters
      We'll let you know
      Bigmouth...
      Ask
      Last night...
      Interesting Drug
      November...
      Suedehead
      Southpaw
      Wide to recieve
      Roy's Keen
      Swallow on my neck
      Mexico

      Anyone agree? I know there are more that would be great.
      Anonymous -- Friday May 27 2005, @09:06AM (#163418)
      • Re:Yes by Anonymous (Score:0) Wednesday June 01 2005, @10:11AM
        Perhaps... (Score:0)
        I think the semi-acoustic version of Now My Heart Is Full on the Oye Esteban! tour worked marvellously, but personally I just dont think of Morrissey as the kind of artist who befits the "stripped down" treatment. I think he's at his best when augmented by big, big arrangements, a la "Last Night I dreamt" and "Come Back To Camden"...

        Jilted John
        Anonymous -- Friday May 27 2005, @09:11AM (#163421)
        • Re:Perhaps... by KenBarlow (Score:1) Friday May 27 2005, @09:36AM
          • Re:Perhaps... by Anonymous (Score:0) Friday May 27 2005, @01:44PM
          It's rubbish! (Score:2, Funny)
          An accoustic album may well happen one day and may I be the first on Morrissey Solo to point out that it contains the wrong songs, suffers from a bad choice of producer and has terrible cover art. Oh, and he should have selected a different song as the single too.

          Stan * <stanleymchale@mac.com> -- Friday May 27 2005, @09:47AM (#163427)
          (User #9752 Info | http://www.stanleymchale.merseyblogs.co.uk/ )
            no thanks (Score:2, Funny)
            "Hatful of Hollow's 'Back to the Old House' has a power and beauty far beyond the full band version"

            yeah, a power to put me to sleep
            mr. superinvisible -- Friday May 27 2005, @09:55AM (#163429)
            (User #6367 Info)
              moz should throw all his energies into... (Score:2, Interesting)
              that autobiography. he's done everything musically he needs to do.
              thirsty fists <thirsty_fists@yahoo.com> -- Friday May 27 2005, @10:16AM (#163432)
              (User #149 Info)
               "world's ugliest boy"
              augh (Score:0)
              unplugged is so 1995

              Anonymous -- Friday May 27 2005, @10:33AM (#163434)
              Ugh (Score:2, Insightful)
              the thought sickens me. Unplugged is so self-indulgent.
              veradicere -- Friday May 27 2005, @10:56AM (#163442)
              (User #8315 Info)
              • Re:Ugh by Anonymous (Score:0) Monday May 30 2005, @08:37AM
                what a bunch of complete nutters!!!! (Score:1)
                okay maybe not, you know how there is one singer who's voice is just perfect to your ears no matter what? well that is Moz to me. he could be backed by a buzz saw and i would still love it. the sound of his voice is literally and metaphorically music to my ears, no matter what kind of mood i'm in, listening to that velvet voice always makes me smile!
                the write one <wildefleur@comcast.net> -- Friday May 27 2005, @02:52PM (#163551)
                (User #10056 Info | http://www.myspace.com/mozzapheliac )
                 "it's my life to ruin my own way"
                  Analogue: Hazard (Score:0)
                  You know, for a while, some of Boz's musical arrangements have been as good for a single keyboard, or for a single guitar, than they have been for the full band. Because the quality of Boz's musical arrangement means any of those songs sound great with a single instrument. Of course, we have all been here before, with the talk of a 2nd CD on the next album and so on.

                  For me, KITT, STAY AS YOU ARE, SAFE WARM.. would all be truly wonderful as acoustic songs, just as BOXERS was absolutely amazing with a guitar, as was Vini Reilly playing along in the 90s (?) to OH WELL I'LL NEVER LEARN *well did ya?*

                  Let's see - that's the beauty of the music world and the spectacular talents held by Boz.

                  Hazard

                  Ps - I've not heard BELFAST, but that would be cool for me from a totally selfish point of view. It could so easily be Sheffield Steel.

                  PPs - This belongs in a frame.
                  Anonymous -- Friday May 27 2005, @03:12PM (#163563)
                  yes (Score:1)
                  I want an all acoustic, gentle album.
                  LoafingOaf * <franticflintstoneNO@SPAMgmail.com> -- Friday May 27 2005, @09:22PM (#163607)
                  (User #778 Info)
                   Fuck it, Dude. Let's go bowling.
                    Well, yes, but (Score:1)
                    the reason why those versions of "Back to the Old House" and "Oh Well, I'll Never Learn" were so intensely beautiful were the men who were playing those guitars. Boz & the boys seemed to have some fire in their bellies ten years ago (nothing to equal Marr or Reilly even then), but now? Nothin'.
                    ed is dead -- Saturday May 28 2005, @10:31PM (#163906)
                    (User #8319 Info | http://www.mnartists.org/Ed_Moorman )
                     "In my Kosmis there will be no feeva of dischord; all my immotions will function in hominy and kind feelings" - Krazy Ka
                    Used to think 'Unplugged' would be a good idea... (Score:2, Insightful)
                    ...but like others on here, I don't think the musicians Moz plays with could pull it off. The transformation of Smiths songs like "There Is A Light...." into lumpen pub rock shows this.
                    Stitchell -- Monday May 30 2005, @05:16AM (#164120)
                    (User #11719 Info)
                    • Bless Boz.. by Hello Indie (Score:1) Monday May 30 2005, @08:32AM
                      Would be a mistake. (Score:0)
                      Nah. Morrissey needs to do something speedy and tough again - not more dour Dido ballads and crooning.
                      Anonymous -- Monday May 30 2005, @11:47AM (#164177)
                      depends on the player (Score:1)
                      i want alain and boz at the guitar..
                      and gaz at the bass..
                      and also cobrin
                      which playing moz accoustic song..
                      trully, they are the best musketeers of morrissey ever!
                      MozPhig -- Tuesday May 31 2005, @07:56AM (#164331)
                      (User #14220 Info)
                      Late Night (Score:1, Insightful)
                      Well, ever since the Kill Uncle tour I've been hankering after a live acoustic Late Night, Maudlin Street. Now, wouldn't that be beautiful?
                      Rico -- Wednesday June 01 2005, @10:23AM (#164604)
                      (User #3487 Info | http://profiles.myspace.com/users/5347553 )
                       Karma equals minus infinity, but I stand up for the truth
                        Theres some dumb people around (Score:0, Redundant)
                        The reason he hasnt is because It doesnt sound good. It steals alot from his voice...The sound makes the listener focus a bit more on the guitars than the Charming Man who's singing....
                        Delhidemonz714 -- Wednesday June 01 2005, @09:32PM (#164730)
                        (User #13736 Info)
                        Why Just A Guitar? (Score:1, Interesting)
                        What about piano, ukelele, squeeze box, spoons, washboard etc. Elitist muso scum!
                        Anonymous -- Thursday June 02 2005, @07:11AM (#164803)
                          Re:Why Just A Guitar? (Score:2, Funny)
                          Morrissey and a kazoo- how long would you last?
                          KenBarlow * -- Friday June 03 2005, @06:35AM (#165021)
                          (User #13803 Info)
                           There is no such thing in life as Norman
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                          • Re:Why Just A Guitar? by EEP (Score:1) Sunday June 05 2005, @06:12AM
                            It would be so beautiful (Score:2, Insightful)
                            Back to the old house is such an incredibly beautiful song.It would be wonderful if Morrissey did more acoustic versions of his songs.
                            tibby -- Thursday June 02 2005, @04:23PM (#164934)
                            (User #2713 Info)
                             ~I am a poor freezingly cold soul so far from where I intended to go ~I love Morrissey
                              Back to the Old house=amazing (Score:1)
                              back to the old house is an amazing song. I have tried to learn it on the guitar but have never quite managed it. I'm not sure about Moz doing unplugged however, it seems to be mostly very boring, serious artists who do it. Also does Boz have the sensitivity to do nice gentle acoustic numbers?
                              oranges * -- Friday June 03 2005, @08:43AM (#165043)
                              (User #9328 Info)
                                I would really enjoy hearing.... (Score:0)
                                "I've Changed My Plea to Guilty" & "There is A Place in Hell Reserved For Me And My Freinds".
                                It would be cool to hear them sound like they do on the recordings.
                                Anonymous -- Friday June 03 2005, @08:54AM (#165044)
                                  setlist (Score:0)
                                  1 I've Changed My Plea - Morrissey with a piano only (and a little of that irish chit chat looped in towards the end)
                                  2 Late Night Maudlin Street - with acoustic and hand drum backing.
                                  3 Let Me Kiss You - with finger-picked acoustic guitar music
                                  4 Angel - Just Morrissey, an acoustic and a violin
                                  5 Come Back To Camden - Morrissey and a piano only
                                  6 Little Man, What Now - spanish guitar
                                  7 Back to the Old House - a la hatful
                                  8 This Charming Man - just like the version Morrissey and Marr did on TV back in '83 with just an acoustic guitar

                                  Now sort it out MTV - this would be a fantastic thing

                                  broken
                                  Anonymous -- Sunday June 05 2005, @08:06AM (#165436)

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