Friday's Find.

From the Best of Craigslist comes this, a Morrissey shrine:

My unemployment benefits ran out and I have to downsize, so I won't be able to take the shrine with me. No more reeling around the fountain, indeed. Comes from a home where smoking was previously allowed and 2 cats lived but they both died this summer. And I might as well tell you that I had to exchange all the stuff my ex-fiancee and I had at each other's places this morning, since he ended our relationship just as things were looking most grim for me, so I might be sobbing when you come by.

Morrissey Reveals His 13 Favorite Albums.

 

For Friday the 13th Morrissey scanned the sleeves of his 13 favorite albums and sent them in to The Quietus. The article, "Supreme 13: Morrissey Reveals His Favourite LPs Of All Time," features additional thoughts on what the connections are between the favorites and Morrissey's own work, and includes quotes from Morrissey himself. 

For the die-hard SPM enthusiasts, the article reminds that, "as well as being one of the most enigmatic figures in English music of the past three decades, Steven Patrick Morrissey is at heart a music fan like you and I." 

Morrissey's 13 favorite albums can be found here. 

Photo: The Quietus

Happy 25th Birthday Meat Is Murder.

 

Released in February 1985, the second album from The Smiths went to #1 in the UK and was the only Smiths album to do so during the band's existence from 1982-1987. Meat Is Murder did not chart well in the US (reaching #110) and the first single from the album, "That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore," reached only #49 in the UK. 

Track #6, the great "How Soon Is Now?," was originally released as the B-side to "William, It Was Really Nothing" in the UK and was added to the U.S. version of Meat Is Murder after its success on American alternative radio stations. The song was subsequently released as a UK single; charting at #24. 

Meat Is Murder was produced by Johnny Marr and Morrissey (credited as "The Smiths") and features a photograph from the 1968 documentary In the Year of the Pig where the soldier's helmet said "Make War Not Love." 

Johnny Marr, who recently won the Ivors Inspiration Lifetime Achievement award on May 20, had this to say of Meat Is Murder in 1992: 

"My favourite song on that LP now is 'That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore'. I think Morrissey is incredible on that, the end is brilliant. 'Well I Wonder' I really like as well. It's one of those things that a modern group could try and emulate but never get the spirit of. It's so simple. 'The Headmaster Ritual' was a favourite of mine for a long time just because I'm really pleased with the guitars on it and the strange tuning... For my part, 'The Headmaster Ritual' came together over the longest period of time I've ever spent on a song. I first played the riff to Morrissey when we were working on the demos for our first album with Troy Tate. I nailed the rest of it when we moved to Earls Court. That was around the time when we were being fabulous." 

Quote via: askmeaskmeaskme.com

Morrissey Tells Fans To Boycott Reissues.

Morrissey has requested that fans don't buy any of the forthcoming box set reissues from his back catalogue.

The former Smiths singer claimed in a statement issued to fan site true-to-you.net, which he often communicates through, that he wouldn't receive any money from the reissues, and that he was not asked for approval for their release.

The Morrissey reissues will see singles and B-sides re-packaged as new seven-inch vinyl releases.

"Morrissey would like it to be known that he has not been consulted by EMI/HMV/Parlophone with regards to two forthcoming boxed sets of Morrissey singles," the message read.

It continued: "Morrissey does not approve such releases and would ask people not to bother buying them. Morrissey receives no royalty payments from EMI for any back catalogue, and has not received a royalty from EMI since 1992."

The singer made a similar move in August 2008, asking fans not to buy a DVD of one of his live shows, Live At The Hollywood Bowl, describing the sleeve art as "appalling."

Material quoted directly from: nme.com

Steven Patrick Morrissey Turns 50.

Morrissey will be celebrating his 50th birthday this evening by playing a gig at the 3,500 capacity Apollo Theatre in his hometown of Manchester. The show sold out in 15 minutes.

A Manchester Evening News poll once revealed Morrissey to be The World's Greatest Living Mancunian, collecting seven times as many votes as his nearest rival, computer pioneer Alan Turing.

Morrissey, on growing old: "Age shouldn't affect you. You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age."

Well said.

Photo: Pieter M Van Hattem via nme.com

Happy Birthday Steven Patrick Morrissey.

There Is A Light That Never Goes Out...

 

If for all intents and purposes YOU introduced me to The Smiths sophomore year in high school because you used to bring your 12" Smiths records to class, AND last night YOU called me from the Morrissey show at The Universal Amphitheatre so that I could hear him sing "How Soon Is Now": 

1. It was hard to hear him singing over you 2. Why in the Hell was that the first song of the show? 3. That was awesome. And I didn't tell you that because you had had 17 beers 

Photo: The Waist High Collection

Morrissey. Meet Portland Oregon.

Information Leafblower will be so proud: For the week ending May 22, 2004 You Are The Quarry was the top seller at Portland's Everyday Music.