I think Call The Comet is quite good. It's miles better than The Messenger, that was so boring that I never even bothered with Playland. But this has enough echoes of the eighties Big Music (Echo & The Bunnymen, Simple Minds, Psychedelic Furs) to make it all rather grandiose and interesting to me. As a lyricist and a singer Marr will never be more than decent at best, but for me this is a solid 7/10 after two listens.
Johnny Marr, 'Hi Hello' - the worst lyrics and song title in musical history?
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True. But if Morrissey had as good music as his lyrics once were....it'd be called "Vauxhall and I".
sea salt
Always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe
I don’t know why this is even a thing. Marr isn’t one of the most well-regarded lyricists in popular music, nor has he ever claimed to be / wanted to be / got a reputation to live up to.
Taste in music is subjective, personally this touches me a lot more than any of Morrissey’s lyrics, music or interviews have in a long time. It’s a great tune, the story about his daughter is lovely; it’s a song for people who have love in their lives, something the majority of solow wouldn't understand.
Taste in music is subjective, personally this touches me a lot more than any of Morrissey’s lyrics, music or interviews have in a long time. It’s a great tune, the story about his daughter is lovely; it’s a song for people who have love in their lives, something the majority of solow wouldn't understand.
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"New Dominions" is the most boring song I've heard in a very long time.
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Who was able to translate?
Perhaps it was better when we couldnt make out the lyrics...
resembles one of g23 silly new age-y posts
Dingoatemybabby
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I've just realized that Hi Hello isn't even the most gorgeous song on "Call the Comet", it's the stunning album closer "A Different Gun".
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I was waiting for it to start and then it finished. Perhaps it will be a grower.
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Spot on. There should be a whole book written about The Smiths/Morrissey/Marr from this perspective.
Marr will never be able to write songs as great as The Smiths, or Morrissey at his best, for the above reasons. He simply doesn't have the vocal skills or the lyrical talent that Morrissey has. Morrissey has demonstrated, again and again, that because of the particular skills he has, he can take a quite rudimentary and/or bland piece of music and craft a great song from it - he doesn't need great music to make a great song. Marr, on the other hand, even when working with his own promising material, is only ever going to be able to overlay a vocal that relies on cliched lyrics and conventional, derivative phrasing. Although, furthermore, there's also the fact, which I rarely ever see mentioned, that even his music has never approached the subtlety, complexity and melodic richness of early Smiths stuff - and I don't know why that is exactly: lack of inspiration perhaps, or maybe the input that John Porter and Andy Rourke had, and also the fact that a lot of his musical harmonies were laid down after Morrissey's idiosyncratic vocal melodies had gone on the track. But certainly when you see him playing live in the Smiths gigs, there's no doubting his musical genius. I suppose these days he doesn't even want to play stuff that complex, as he has to sing at the same time.
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It's funny that some people who watched Hi Hello on Youtube really think this song is a message to Morrissey, and they even find some "сlues" in it, for example, "It's never soon enough" ))
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