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Morrissey A-Z: "We'll Let You Know"
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Watson
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40 seconds? What's your secret? MyYes
I cannot add anything to the above - it is a remarkable piece of music which made me stop my car the first time I heard it. A truly moving and heartfelt lyric matched by evocative and beautiful music. Perfection.
That's Enough For Me
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There are two angles to approach this one.
To attack - Millionaires singing about hooliganism and the mindset of the socially unheard is just exploitation in order to have a subject to sing about. Morrissey would never in reality be anywhere near people like this because he hates conflict in real life.
To praise - I walked in these crowds and with these characters. I know them personally and he does a great job of summing them up. Maybe because he was a target of them at one point?
To attack - Millionaires singing about hooliganism and the mindset of the socially unheard is just exploitation in order to have a subject to sing about. Morrissey would never in reality be anywhere near people like this because he hates conflict in real life.
To praise - I walked in these crowds and with these characters. I know them personally and he does a great job of summing them up. Maybe because he was a target of them at one point?
Phranc & Open
Golden Years 88-97
He was so quintessential british than. Now he is a California Son and sings about hot kisses in mammy's backyard and High Schools. Don't tell me it's the same. It isn't and I am not even British, like Benny f.e.
Bonaparte Shandy
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Oh, my dear. I'll explain again: we're a couple - Mr Shandy and myself, Mr Shandy.
SuedeMoz
The sanest days are mad
In interviews (remember those?) Morrissey would mention this among his favorites from his work. It's easy to see why. While I've always liked it, I've come to appreciate it far more over the years. I could wax nostalgic about this song representing a Morrissey that's long gone. I suppose that was inevitable, but maybe with Alain back in the fold, we'll get some new gems? I also agree that it worked surprisingly well in Mid-90s. 10/10.
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brilliant Moz Masterpiece
YA is certainly the album with the highest number of songs dedicated to the last truly British ppeople you will ever know.
Who would have thought at that time that Morrissey would one day turn his back on good old England?
But Alain has also lived in LA for many years now, so he’s also been subjected to Californication.
SuedeMoz
The sanest days are mad
For sure, I really just meant maybe we'll get a new song of that caliber (doubtful but one can hope).
Phranc & Open
Golden Years 88-97
Maybe the Madstock disaster of 92 was the first bigger bruise he had to take from flirting with the Union Jack and being refused by a quintessential british crowd. His friends Suggs n Cash Smash couldn't protect him either.
ZOOM FROM GLOOM
LASCIATE OGNI SPERANZA!
Can anyone really turn their back on something that’s so interiorized?
Isn’t Morrissey’s ‘good old England’ or his idea of what Britain is or was, and to think of its ‘passing’ as a loss, (sure many wouldn’t) did it ever really exist out side of his mind ? I mean, his romanticized view of it? My take is, he’ll take England or his idea of it wherever he hangs his hat.
Stephen Hofmann
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Mods and Rockers don't mix. Never have.
Stephen Hofmann
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Yes, it existed.....upto about the 80's in most places outside of the big cities.
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LASCIATE OGNI SPERANZA!
Can you describe what ‘it’ was in contrast to ‘it’ no longer existing?
And do you consider it’s passing a loss, and why is that?
Phranc & Open
Golden Years 88-97
That's the DNA of a Madness crowd???
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Phranc & Open
Golden Years 88-97
Difficult terrain. Orginally Red Skins appeared on 2 tone concerts but then again, the described incident sounds like a Combat 84 happening. In 92 there were still Skins in the audience, as far as I am informed. A toxic wotking class crowd with Reggae supporters (Jimmy Cliff's "The harder they come" was the single release from that concert), 2 Toners and Mods. Not everyone was ready for Morrissey at that point.
Stephen Hofmann
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Mods and skinheads
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