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www.7digital.com has individual songs available for 77p each, and I'm pretty sure they're available to customers outside of the UK.
Really? I'd love to participate!
www.7digital.com has individual songs available for 77p each, and I'm pretty sure they're available to customers outside of the UK.
Because Pigsty and National Front are running away with it we should start a discussion about which one is a better choice. Personally I'm leaning towards Pigsty because it is more recent (and so more of an "advertisement" for our current Moz) and The National Front Disco has an outside chance of justing causing a small bit of trouble. Not like all the papers will be saying "MORRISSEY IS RACIST!" again, but I think there will be at least some people who just find it in bad taste or will be like "sigh, here goes more controversy with that Morrissey again". Life is a Pigsty, however, is a musical statement without because of its length and uniqueness without jarring lyrics. It would be a lot of fun to see The National Front Disco chart 15 years after the controversy surrounding, and we don't want to have to "shy away" from songs that wouldn't be chosen by record companies as potential hit singles, but all in all I think Pigsty has more going for it than National Front.
Your thoughts?
Here is something that might have been answered...
Will the charts recognize a song that is downloaded even if it is not officially a single?
Pigsty is a good choice because:
A) It is considered cream of the crop from Ringleader, and while I disagree that it is the best track on there, it makes more sense to select this over anything pre-2000 since it reflects contemporary Moz.
B) Lyrically and musically it's a consummation of his years work as a solo artist; the lyrics oscillate between the quintessential, defined miserabilsim of the title and chorus, and the introspective and sensitive self reflection of the verse ("and you can shoot me, and you can throw me of a train, I still maintain..."). I think the song rings true to the idea of Moz stubbornly sticking it out in the light of complete and utter opposition, meaning it perfectly resonates with the intent of this exercise.
Pigsty is a good choice because:
A) It is considered cream of the crop from Ringleader, and while I disagree that it is the best track on there, it makes more sense to select this over anything pre-2000 since it reflects contemporary Moz.
B) Lyrically and musically it's a consummation of his years work as a solo artist; the lyrics oscillate between the quintessential, defined miserabilsim of the title and chorus, and the introspective and sensitive self reflection of the verse ("and you can shoot me, and you can throw me of a train, I still maintain..."). I think the song rings true to the idea of Moz stubbornly sticking it out in the light of complete and utter opposition, meaning it perfectly resonates with the intent of this exercise.
lol! .
Here is something that might have been answered...
Will the charts recognize a song that is downloaded even if it is not officially a single?
Lol!
I am buying the arguments for Life Is A Pigsty. If not only because it was criminal to release The Youngest Was The Most Loved and In The Future When All's Well ahead of that!
But it would still be the best day of my life (even better than today, when my last pay cheque from my Xmas job came, and my poor, dear boss had written it out for my net pay...before tax! ) to see Meat Is Murder in the charts. It would just put every vaucous media whore to so much shame.
National Front Disco is one of my favourite Morrissey songs...but something tells me it isn't the best idea for trying to get into the charts. I think he was only playing on Beethoven Was Deaf
I agree on all 3 points. I know I;ve said this already but we need more people to make this work e.g not just the Moz fans who come here. There arent enough of us, certainly not the 200+ who have voted here. That can only mean 1 thing. It has to be Meat is Murder. Vegetarians of the world unite and take over! I have sent emails to Peta and to Vegetarian society - they must have more members between them than the Moz fans on here in the UK?? And for those of you who aren't veggie, well you still get to see Moz in the charts and that's the point of this I think?
Good idea. I think also it would make Moz incredibly proud if it was Meat is Murder and make him think even less of Morrissey So-Low if another furore was unleashed with national front disco.Good point. I agree we need more people involved. I’ve contacted every Moz related site I can think of and it’s still not enough. It could work if we found a download site that fans outside the UK could use. Someone suggested www.7digital.com but I don’t know if it works.
I agree about ‘Meat is murder’ I think to have that in the charts would be amazing but it looks like it’s going to come third in the poll. I suppose when the polls finishes tomorrow we could make a new thread with the top three choices which will probably be ‘Pigsty’ ‘national front disco’ and ‘Meat is Murder’ and we could all have a discussion about which one would be the best option.
You could bring up this argument.