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"Home is a Question mark" registered to Morrissey / Whyte

posted by davidt on Thursday May 12 2005, @11:00AM
Fence writes:
I don't want to speculate as to whether Alain is coming back or not, but I found an interesting fact on the ASCAP website (the organization that monitors song rights, etc.): It turns out that a track called "Home is a Question Mark" was registered by one Steven Morrissey and Alain Gordon Whyte. The title code is 381055974 and based on this, it would seem that it was, at least, registered around the same time as some of the Quarry tracks. However, no "performer" was stipulated.
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  • yeah... (Score:2, Interesting)

    this was one of the songs rumoured to hav been recorded during the original '...Quarry' sessions and potential for the album or at least as a b-side [first reported by whosherfaces fanzine]. nothing's known of it besides the title but im pretty sure its always been intended to be a Morrissey song as opposed to any other possible performer. hopefully it will someday see the light.
    chrisarclark <[email protected]> -- Thursday May 12 2005, @12:35PM (#161397)
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    "I'm just passing through here on my way to somewhere civilized and maybe I'll even arrive, maybe I'll even arrive..."
  • Funny shaped home if you ask me.
    Maladjustedduck
    Anonymous -- Friday May 13 2005, @05:13AM (#161507)
    • Re:hmm. by Wilde is on my side (Score:1) Friday May 13 2005, @07:40AM

  • source of title (Score:2, Interesting)

    (no doubt everyone already knows this but) 'home is a question mark' was moz's answer to janice long asking where he considered home, in her bbc radio2 interview 2 years ago around the albert hall shows.

    as the most quotable man alive, does morrissey (a) deliberately drop future titles into conversation to lodge in our minds before we hear the songs, or (b) listen back to his interviews, trawling for poetry

    or do others - in this case alain - gather the nuggets falling from his mouth and suggest them as titles?
    methadone -- Friday May 13 2005, @09:55AM (#161547)
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    • This is just another example of Morrissey "cribbing" from his vast body of influences. James Dean declared that "Home is a question mark" in an interview. Whilst Morrissey is eminently quotable, he's not the innovator of this comment.

      Cheers,

      Jamie
      Jamie <[email protected]> -- Friday May 13 2005, @10:36AM (#161553)
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      • Re:The source (Score:2, Insightful)

        It's probably not an unusual feeling anymore though when rapid mobility and constant separations have become the norm for a lot of people? It may also deal with inner experience, and what home means in that sense. Or just a little non-commital fleeting contemplation...
        goinghome -- Friday May 13 2005, @12:54PM (#161575)
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