"The First Time I Heard The Smiths" ebook edited by Scott Heim released (Aug. 7, 2012)

Re: "The First Time I Heard The Smiths" Ebook

Potentially interesting, but it's a pity that much like Smiths tribute albums in general, the participants list is filled almost completely with total non-entities. Surely it ought to have been possible to at least find a few more writers.
 
Saw this link posted by @MicrofilmMusic / Twitter, apologies if it's been posted before. Seems to be Kindle only at the moment.

The First Time I Heard The Smiths - Amazon.com

Just got it for the Kindle, and flicked through. Good stuff. People mostly involved in the music industry tell us about the first time they heard The Smiths. Some less well known, some more so, such as Miki Berenyi and Joan Wasser.

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Description at Amazon:

Publication Date: August 7, 2012

The First Time I Heard The Smiths is Part IV in an ongoing series where musicians and writers tell their stories of first hearing the music of an iconic artist or band. In this second volume (following the first three installments, which covered Joy Division/New Order, Cocteau Twins, and David Bowie), thirty-seven different musicians and writers remember their initial experiences with hearing the legendary Smiths, the influential 1980s alternative-rock band from Manchester, UK that featured vocalist Morrissey, guitarist Johnny Marr, bassist Andy Rourke and drummer Mike Joyce.

Contributors to this edition on The Smiths include musicians such as Craig Wedren (Shudder To Think), Miki Berenyi (Lush), Andrew Kenny (The American Analog Set), Lou Rhodes (Lamb), Simon Scott (Slowdive), Joan Wasser (Joan As Police Woman), Mark Wright (Hood), Matt Keppel (Microfilm), Ben Pleng (Yeti Lane, Cyann & Ben), Sam Rosenthal (Black Tape for a Blue Girl), Billie Lindahl (Promise and the Monster), Simon Dunford (The Bardots), Anna-Lynne Williams (Trespassers William, Ormonde), Meredith Meyer, Steven Dora (Geneva), Ben Daniels (A Sunny Day In Glasgow), Jennifer Baron (The Ladybug Transistor, The Garment District), Finn Vine (White Rose Transmission, Genuflex), Gary Deveney (My Latest Novel), Patrick Boutwell (The Brother Kite), Adam Forkner (Yume Bitsu, White Rainbow), Tim Arndt (Near the Parenthesis), Matt Baum (Desaparecidos, Bright Eyes), Christopher Moll (The Postmarks), Rebecca Coseboom (Halou, Stripmall Architecture); Sam Valenti (founder of record label Ghostly International); and writers like Caroline Leavitt, Vestal McIntyre, Jeffery Conway, Libby Cudmore, R. Zamora Linmark, Douglas Ferguson, Jason Schneiderman, Matthew Hittinger, Sheri Joseph, Douglas A. Martin, and Alistair McCartney.

The "First Time I Heard" book series is edited by Scott Heim, a novelist (Mysterious Skin, We Disappear) who is also a longtime music fan. Other installments in the series (or those forthcoming soon) include books on Joy Division / New Order, David Bowie, Cocteau Twins, Kate Bush, R.E.M., Kraftwerk, My Bloody Valentine, Abba, Roxy Music, The Pixies, and others.
 
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Re: Article: "The First Time I Heard The Smiths" ebook edited by Scott Heim released

Follow up is "The last time I heard Morrissey and his thunderbird puppet band!!!!!!! Awful!!!!!!"
 
The last time I heard Morrissey was Manchester arena!!!!!!!!!NEVER NEVER NEVER AGAIN!!!!!!!!!
I never got my name on "The list" also missed the beginning because he and the session guys started the gig early.
The set was bobbins as was the sound and the tight arse never hired video screens THE END thankyou.
 
"The First Time I Heard The Smiths" book of essays

Just published: this book about The Smiths, now on Amazon / iTunes worldwide, featuring essays about "first hearing" the band by musicians from other bands like Shudder To Think, Lush, Joan As Police Woman, Lamb, A Sunny Day In Glasgow, Slowdive, American Analog Set, and many others.

(on amazon)

http://www.amazon.com/First-Time-He...=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1344498680&sr=1-9

(on itunes)

http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/first-time-i-heard-smiths/id551965025?mt=11
 
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