Mal ,'Heart Of Gold'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
But they react to those stimuli in very different ways. Morrissey is introspective, while Eminem lashes out at others. Suicidal vs. homicidal, if you will.
Morrissey's lyrics have more than a few lashings of violence. "Sweetness, I was only joking when I said / that by rights you should be bludgeoned in the head..."
Hell, Eminem practically wrote that song to his wife.
Marc Almond was involved in a serious motorcycle accident over the weekend. There are conflicting reports as to his condition: CNN says that he is "fighting for his life," whereas the BBC merely lists him as stable.
They're both nostalgic for a time and place they hated
This is brilliant and I think the thing that makes them get so deeply under the skin. It's a hard feeling to explain, yet there it is, powerful as daylight.
Hell, Eminem practically wrote that song to his wife.
Also this is a great point and I am gonna steal it on the radio HA HA.
I also think they get a lot of their sexiness from their pain and their ambiguity. Also they both like playing with sexual signifiers -- Morrissey from doing that whole asexuality dance with the press, Eminem from joking about being gay even while being horribly homophobic in his lyrics.
sad about Marc Almond
OH ALSO. I think it's really interesting that Latino kids are, apparently, really into Morrissey. It makes sense -- he's so dramatic and romantic and angsty, and he sings clearly enough that you can get the words even if you're just learning English.
OH ALSO. I think it's really interesting that Latino kids are, apparently, really into Morrissey. It makes sense -- he's so dramatic and romantic and angsty, and he sings clearly enough that you can get the words even if you're just learning English.
Yeah, I read an article about that in Spin - so strange, yet it fits.
sad about Marc Almond
Me too. I know most people don't know him much beyond "Tainted Love" but he did some very beautiful (he's a fine singer), lush, smart, dark albums later. I particularly like Mother Fist.
I know most people don't know him much beyond "Tainted Love"
I had a friend who was obsessed with his Jacques Brel tribute album. Whenever I went over there, that was the only thing on the stereo, for weeks. So I'm familiar with that album, but none of his others.
I had a friend who was obsessed with his Jacques Brel tribute album. Whenever I went over there, that was the only thing on the stereo, for weeks. So I'm familiar with that album, but none of his others.
Well, his later stuff was very Jacques Brel influenced, so you've got a sense of it.
I had a friend who was obsessed with his Jacques Brel tribute album. Whenever I went over there, that was the only thing on the stereo, for weeks. So I'm familiar with that album, but none of his others.
Jacques Brel's widow said that, if she had her way, Marc Almond would be the only person allowed to do her husband's songs.