Literally no advancement past the lyrics on Boomslang a decade ago. I get what he's trying to do with the whole "retrospective" theme about growing up in Manchester - forgivable only for the music it inspires him to write.
I find it hard to believe that he hasn't learned something about lyric writing from all these bands he's been in - granted, I've never listened to a one of them for more than ten seconds. I'm not saying I want him to write like Morrissey, but
Ooooooh, I feel it comin' round. I hear it - sounds like the good life, I know ??
Literally no advancement past the lyrics on Boomslang a decade ago. I get what he's trying to do with the whole "retrospective" theme about growing up in Manchester - forgivable only for the music it inspires him to write. But Christ. Does it really take that much thought to write some words with a little more imagination and subtlety?
I really hated the "overground" lyric, until I discovered that Overground is actually a thing in Britain.
Marr will never be Morrissey lyrically, he has led a different life, has a different personality.
I still love T.Rex, Brian Wilson, and Bowie, and the majority of their lyrics are bosh; because they write catchy fun pop tunes, and that's all Upstarts is.
Wanting Johnny to be deep and literate is the same as wanting Morrissey to write his own music using major 9ths and beautiful arpeggios, its never going to happen, so stop trying to compare them that way.
I don't think anyone is expecting lyrics that are deep and literate, that's not Johnny's style, but nonsense like "The underground is overground, the overground will pull you down" is just meaningless. The couplets rhyme in a way that suggests he's just sat down in the studio 10 minutes before recording and thought, "Right... 'down, ground, round, pound, goes, knows, shows, , er... what rhymes with "way"?
It's by far the worst song that has surfaced so far. Quite rightly it's got nothing but horrible reviews so far, worse than Moz has ever had to endure.
A shame really, cause the other ones I've heard are quite promising.
Why didn't he stick with The Messenger as first single? That's a decent song.
Now the album won't stand a chance.
Yeah. For sheer entertainment value, I'd hoped he would try to get abstract on these songs.
It's by far the worst song that has surfaced so far. Quite rightly it's got nothing but horrible reviews so far, worse than Moz has ever had to endure.
A shame really, cause the other ones I've heard are quite promising.
Why didn't he stick with The Messenger as first single? That's a decent song.
Now the album won't stand a chance.
It's by far the worst song that has surfaced so far. Quite rightly it's got nothing but horrible reviews so far, worse than Moz has ever had to endure.
A shame really, cause the other ones I've heard are quite promising.
Why didn't he stick with The Messenger as first single? That's a decent song.
Now the album won't stand a chance.
On 17 January BBC 6 Music Steve Lamacq show's regular feature Round Table reviewed this single.
Andrew Harrison, Gabriel Evans and Alex from Everything Everything gave 7 each, listeners gave 6.
These three people said really nice things about the song, pity you missed a chance listening to them.
Have we had any proper reviews of this song/album yet? Anyone?