I've been vegetarian for 34 years now but it wasn't due to this song.
I find it a pretty dreary and sanctimonious. It's also something of a figure of fun: my wife teases me sometimes by saying IT'S MURDER in her best Morrissey voice.
Hello! I stumbled across a piece of software called Demucs, which does a surprisingly good job of separating isolated stems from MP3s. I fed it The Queen Is Dead and thought I'd share the results with anyone interested. You can find them here. Here's a sample.
Not sure why Johnny's guitar gets...
Record Collector Magazine has done a special on The Smiths.
I was expecting it just to be a feature so it's nice to see that it's got some kind of special edition. I haven't seen the issue myself yet but in my experience, they do some good research so it's likely worth a look. I contributed to...
I tend to think of Smiths recordings as sacrosanct but I really like this. Great job. Kept the original spirit of the song while still being quite adventurous.
Your mother's letter arrived today. She has a good hand.
Thank you, Silas. Lovely job. I've uploaded it to the archive in Miscellaneous / Post-Smiths. The folder there could use a tidy up, which I'll get to at some point.
Eight years ago I made this comparison with Hulmerist, in case anyone is...
I hadn't heard that before.
I know that he did some recordings that didn't see the light of day, such as the Derby gig, but this is the first time that I've heard he recorded the Strangeways session.
I don't know much about Morrissey's solo recordings so someone will likely know better than me.
Obviously it was recorded by Tim Broad and Sister I'm a Poet was included on Hulmerist. A version of that video, with a timecode, was released via Smithstorrents a while ago as an MP4. PJLM has more...
As such collections go, this is a good one. If I had a bit more time or energy I'd carefully check for recordings that I don't have.
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