Is This True? - Smiths Question

docinwestchester

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You can't believe everything you read on the internets. Pretty funny.

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=3223

The shrill voice in the background of this song is Morrissey's tuned to a higher pitch. This caused a great deal of hilarity at the time of recording. "He could hear himself sounding like one of The Chipmunks or Pinky and Perky and he was rolling on the floor laughing," bassist, Andy Rourke, recalled to NME. "Maybe in the end they just took a sample of him singing 'Bigmouth…' normally and tuned it up because he was laughing so much he couldn't pull it together." The sleeve notes credit the backing vocals to "Ann Coates," which is a pun on Ancoats, a district in Manchester, England.
 
You can't believe everything you read on the internets. Pretty funny.

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=3223

The shrill voice in the background of this song is Morrissey's tuned to a higher pitch. This caused a great deal of hilarity at the time of recording. "He could hear himself sounding like one of The Chipmunks or Pinky and Perky and he was rolling on the floor laughing," bassist, Andy Rourke, recalled to NME. "Maybe in the end they just took a sample of him singing 'Bigmouth…' normally and tuned it up because he was laughing so much he couldn't pull it together." The sleeve notes credit the backing vocals to "Ann Coates," which is a pun on Ancoats, a district in Manchester, England.


ALL of this is absolutely accurate, well known, and documented. Seriously. So not everything on the interwebz is a foolhardy lie.

Just almost everything!
 
He's not a robot, he has a sense of humor. I could totally see him laughing hysterically at that.
 
When is the last time he sang this live?


"The British rock band, Placebo, did a cover version of this song, in which Joan of Arc's "Walkman" was replaced with a "Discman." Nowadays, when Morrissey performs this song live, he changes it to an "iPod."
 
i liked the placebo version which was on the singles release not long ago. theyre new album was really really good.
 
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