The Smiths’ 30 best songs

Happy birthday, Johnny Marr!

To celebrate, here's The Smiths’ 30 best songs, as chosen by the band and famous fans.

You can read the article here:

http://www.uncut.co.uk/features/the-smiths-30-greatest-songs-as-chosen-by-the-band-and-their-famous-fans-6849

The saddest photograph of all....

„We are a doomed race, chained to a sinking ship, as the whole thing is a bad joke”.... ― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

Photo credit: Dana Oleinic

Morrissey - Autobiography

Tonight reading...
:)

Van Der Graaf Generator - Aloft - new video

Song from the album „Do Not Disturb” (2016).
Enjoy!

Syd Barrett - Bob Dylan Blues (Lyrics)

Lyrics:

Got the Bob Dylan blues
And the Bob Dylan shoes
And my clothes and my hair's in a mess
But you know I just couldn't care less
Gonna write me a song 'bout what's right and what's wrong
Got God and my girl and all that
Quiet while I make like a cat

Cause I'm a poet, doncha know it
And the wind you can blow it
Cause I'm Mr. Dylan the king
And I'm free as a bird on the wing

Roam from town to town, get to get people down
But I don't care too much about that
Cause my gut and my wallet are fat
Make a whole lot of dough but I deserve it though
I got soul and a good heart of gold
So I'll sing about war and the cold

Cause I'm a poet, doncha know it
And the wind you can blow it
Cause I'm Mr. Dylan the king
And I'm free as a bird on the wing

Well I sings about dreams and I rhymes it with seams
Cause it seems that my dream always means
That I can prophesy all kinds of things
Well the guy that digs me
Should try hard to see
That he buys all my discs in a hat.
And when I'm in town go see that.

Cause I'm a poet, doncha know it
And the wind you can blow it
Cause I'm Mr. Dylan the king
And I'm free as a bird on the wing

One man's meat is another man's poison: Dylan vs Morrissey in the press

So... Dylan won the Nobel Prize For Literature. The decision is understandable. It's getting harder and harder to read books, so why not turn to music?!
But this post is not about Dylan. It is about the way journalists react to such news.

FLASHBACK. October 2013. The journalists were outraged because Morrissey's „Autobiography” was published by Penguin Modern Classics. They were trully upset about Penguin Books’ choice to release it as a Penguin Classic. That’s the imprint reserved for classic classics, such as Tolstoy or Voltaire or Virginia Woolf or Albert Camus. But not for Morrissey! No way! I remember an article published by Boyd Tonkin of The Independent, with the headline “Morrissey gets what he wants, and Penguin Classics sinks in the Ship Canal”. Tonkin says the publisher has chucked “67 years of editorial rigour and learning out of the corporate window” just to “kowtow to the whims of a petulant pop icon”. Then, Brendan O’Neil of The Telegraph said that Penguin has “destroyed its own reputation”. And these are just a few examples.

BACK IN OCTOBER 2016.  Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize For Literature. Though 3 years ago almost all the journalists agreed that Morrissey is not fit to be a „classic”, today the same journalists see Dylan fit for the Nobel Prize. So, it is ok for Dylan to be in the same „boat” with George Bernard Shaw, Jean-Paul Sartre, Rudyard Kipling and William Butler Yeats, but it is the end of the world if Morrissey is published by Penguin Modern Classics.
I think the right word for all this is: hypocrisy.
If anyone can explain to me how does the brain of the journalist work, I'd be grateful! Thank you!



Related articles:

Books to read in 2016: Morrissey - „List Of The Lost”

http://thisleftfeelsrightablogaboutmusic.blogspot.ro/2016/01/books-to-read-in-2016-morrissey-list-of.html

My first Morrissey concert: Bucharest (14.10.2015)

http://thisleftfeelsrightablogaboutmusic.blogspot.ro/2015/11/my-first-morrissey-concert-bucharest.html