Please please just reunite--the anticipation (and unlikelhood) of such an event would eclipse a Van Halen reunion.

Please, we need you to dismantle the refuse that has been strewn all over the musical landscape since boy bands poisoned the airwaves by kissing clear channel's ass.

AsianBomb777 said:

Damn, I wish...

Only happen in our dreams though.

Did you by chance pick up a book called How Soon Is Never?

CarrieMpls said:

I've seen that book in the store. Is it worthwhile? I nearly bought it--it looked interesting.

CarrieMpls said:

Nope. But thanks to a certain kittie, I've got it.

AsianBomb777 said:

It might yet happen. Morrissey is getting rid of his current band at the end of the year, Marr's Healers haven't exactly set the world on fire ... How good it would all be is another matter though. When was the last time you heard a decent Marr tune? The first Electronic album?

Walking Down Madison by the late Kirsty Mac Coll and the terrific Get The Message on the first Electronic album ( the only one I know)
Yeah I want to see Marr & Morrissey working seriously together again and Nelson & Melvoin ( + Coleman) too

Shapeshifter said:

the second Electronic album.....but don't dismiss Bernard Sumner's (New Order) input.....

I swear, my life would be complete if this happened

Case said:

It's worth it, if only for perfectly describing growing up in the 80's in American suburbia as a "freak". The nostalgia for the music is also very entertaining.

endorphin74 said:

abierman said:

Wouldn't dream of it. Barney's the man. Thought the second and third Electronic albums sucked though. Do you know Barney wrote his share of the songs while on prozac? He didn't say which songs he wrote, but judging from the way the album meandered off in a directionless haze, I'd guess it was a fair bit. Remember: this is the duo who gave us the sublime "Getting Way With It", "Get The Message", "Patience of A Saint" ... "Electronic 1".

http://www.morrissey-solo...kuptibles/
bad news

You are going to bring the New York Dolls together again. Would like to play one day with The Smiths again?

All the meetings I’m supposed to have with Johnny Marr, I learn it from the press or rumours. The worst is that people get angry when the rumours are not confirmed. Johnny and me, in a room, writing songs: this memory is further and further away. I never received any offer in that way. Moreover, the trial between us makes any project impossible.

When you were young, were you the kind of guy to stay near the dance floor, making cruel jokes about the dancers, but secretly wishing to be like them?

Yes, it was me, I was dying of jealousy. I desperately wanted to dance, to be like the others. But I could not free myself, I was too conscious of my awkwardness. I was looking at myself dancing. I should have drunk to forget about all this. But I would be fat today.

You grew up with vinyl: how do you feel about the dematerialization of music?

I’ve never downloaded any song from the Internet. I was offered an iPod, I didn’t even succeed in opening the box… I find it sad: music deserves efforts. How can you love a record that arrives so easily? When I was a child, accessing to the music I loved was difficult: it was not on radio nor TV… Even if music was my only love, it was a permanent fight to get it into my arms. Without records and their mysteries, I would never have become what I am now. They shaped me, every single I possess is linked to a special feeling. I was touching them for hours, looking at the diamond landing on the record with fascination… I was going downtown by bus, and on my way back, I was reading the covers, I was learning them… I spent afternoons in records shops to look at the credits of each album… All is too easy now: listening to music, creating music, becoming a star… Every 12 year old kid with a computer can make a record - technically at least.
Shows like « Pop Idol » have just one goal: to humiliate music, show it as a frivolous, inept, inoffensive thing.