Just played Strangeways for the first time in three years and was struck by the fact that Paint a Vulgar Picture always moves me to tears.
Anyone else feel like this?
Just played Strangeways for the first time in three years and was struck by the fact that Paint a Vulgar Picture always moves me to tears.
Anyone else feel like this?
Divine, could you expand on this a little? why does this song, in particular, move you emotinally? Is it the lyrics, the music or the combination of both?
i love the music but find the lyrics sometimes now make me focus on Morrissey's re-packaging of his own solo albums, with varying degrees of success, IM-not-so-HO
regards
exactly its like a whole self-fulfilling prophecyIt's amusing that Morrissey is often heavily criticised for having the unusual prescience to predict what would eventually come to pass. Basically, he was right.
I find myself moved to tears by Steven's repackaging and reissuing of his own back catalogue. Ever wonder why he and his performing monkeys no longer include Paint a Vulgar Picture in their live set list? Wonder no more.
I think lots of people make the mistake that this song is about artists re-packaging their own work, when actually it is about how the record companies use the deaths of their artists to maximise profits and put out cheap compilations boasting unreleased material that is patchy at best, but it doesn't matter, because the masses swallow it up because the singer is now dead and when a singer dies they all of a sudden become so relevant and important to the music industry.
I find myself moved to tears by Steven's repackaging and reissuing of his own back catalogue. Ever wonder why he and his performing monkeys no longer include Paint a Vulgar Picture in their live set list? Wonder no more.
Yes, I can just picture Moz saying "best leave that song out tonight lads. I've just put another best of out and I'm scared some Internet geeks will start using the lyrics against me and I'd feel silly."
I don't get the problem people have with all the best of albums. Don't like the idea, don't buy them. Simple no? Quoting 'Paint a Vulgar Picture" every single time doesn't prove anything. Remember that song was written over twenty years ago. I used to say I wanted to be Batman as a kid. Times change.
Mmm true, but surely that comes down to the record companies too, they like to milk their artists to the very limit, as in the song.
I find the song musically and lyrically very sad. I think this was Marr's best period of songwriting and lyrically very true is many ways, especially for Morrissey's fans who, to say the least, can be obsessive. I can relate to someone having a sad life and thinking that being with their hero could be the answer to their problems, but obviously that's not reality. I am now a lot older and a lot less influenced by others.
It's amusing that Morrissey is often heavily criticised for having the unusual prescience to predict what would eventually come to pass. Basically, he was right.
I'd like to have Paint A Vulgar Picture expunged from historical record.
He wasn't a "kid" when he wrote or recorded the lyric to "Paint a Vulgar Picture". The "problem people have with all the best of albums" is that they make him a corporate whore, just like other pop stars. It isn't complicated.
No but he was younger, no? We all say and do things we maybe go back on later in life.
Anyway, my original point is still valid I feel. Why the hell do so many people care? I couldn't care less if Morrissey made another ten best of albums and became the world's biggest ''corporate whore'', I really couldn't. Nobody is forcing me to buy it, the only way I have to know the album is there is to go and look for it so who cares? I don't put a Morrissey record on and think ''urgh I wish this didn't earn him so much money'' I play it for the music. End of.
He was almost thirty years old and had certainly reached intellectual maturity (and he was still performing it live at least ten years later).
It sounds as though you don't put on a Morrissey record and think about anything. People care because he railed against the music industry before going on to demonstrate that he was an integral part of it. He was, and still is, a hypocrite.
Difficult to call Morrissey a sell-out when he refuses to compromise himself to secure a lucrative record deal and continues to spit at the idea of a Smiths reunion, no?