check nme.com!!

> check nme.com!!

here's what it says......
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A brand new ‘lost’ song by THE SMITHS has been unearthed, coinciding with the band topping the poll of NME’s most influential bands of all time in our recent 50th anniversary issue.

The Morrissey/Marr composition ‘A Matter Of Opinion’ was discovered during research for a new book analysing the career of the legendary Manchester quartet.

Author Simon Goddard, who also writes for NME's sister magazine Uncut, was searching through the tape archives of Smiths drummer Mike Joyce when he made his discovery.

He told NME.COM: "As part of my research I was the first journalist ever to be granted access to drummer Mike Joyce’s personal tape archive of rehearsals, soundchecks and outtakes. It was like a Smiths 'Ark of the Covenant' - lost instrumentals, some very exciting alternate versions but easily the most mindblowing was the discovery of a never-before-mentioned Morrissey/Marr song from 1982 called 'A Matter Of Opinion'".

For more, see this week's NME, which is out now.

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_593129.html?menu=news.latestheadlines

it's here, too

> here's what it says......
> -----------------------------------------
> A brand new ‘lost’ song by THE SMITHS has been unearthed, coinciding with
> the band topping the poll of NME’s most influential bands of all time in
> our recent 50th anniversary issue.

> The Morrissey/Marr composition ‘A Matter Of Opinion’ was discovered during
> research for a new book analysing the career of the legendary Manchester
> quartet.

> Author Simon Goddard, who also writes for NME's sister magazine Uncut, was
> searching through the tape archives of Smiths drummer Mike Joyce when he
> made his discovery.

> He told NME.COM: "As part of my research I was the first journalist
> ever to be granted access to drummer Mike Joyce’s personal tape archive of
> rehearsals, soundchecks and outtakes. It was like a Smiths 'Ark of the
> Covenant' - lost instrumentals, some very exciting alternate versions but
> easily the most mindblowing was the discovery of a never-before-mentioned
> Morrissey/Marr song from 1982 called 'A Matter Of Opinion'".

> For more, see this week's NME, which is out now.

see ya be going to mikejoyce.com. I go there and ask him stupid questions and he thinks they are real. But what do you expect from someone who some old judge said was too stupid to read a contract.

do you think Moz planned this? Bit funny this news breaking on his birthday. Maybe he should release this box set as a birthday gift to us!!!

it has been on mike joyce's website for months!!
that journalist didn't "discover" it!!

MJ mentioned it in his site but he never gave details of lyrics or what it sounded like so this is still important news. Whoever 'discovered' it at least we know it's there and not a rumour and it took this journo to bring it to NME's attention in the first place. If it adds to pressure to get this anthology released then thats gotta be good news, it doesnt sound like glory grabbing, more like a campaign to get this stuff heard.