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Volume Two, Issue 10
The Strangeways mailing list will now be run by Michael Piasecki.
Please send all requests and posts to
[email protected].
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From:
[email protected]
Subject: Strangeways future
Since I only have a few more months of internet access, I've decided
to move the mailing list to another site. This way, Strangeways service
won't be interrupted :-).
FTP archives, as far as I know, will remain at quartz.rutgers.edu.
BTW, does anyone know how to convert a WordPerfect document into a
Postscript file? I have the lyrics and discography in a WordPerfect
file using a Postscript printer, but I'd like to be able to upload
a Postscript file for everyone to have. (Not everyone in the world
uses Word Perfect :-) ).
All future correspondences to Strangeways should be addressed to Michael
Pi at the aforementioned address. I will still forward stuff to him if
for some reason you can't get through.
=K=
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From: Tim Meehan <
[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 92 14:58:33 EST
Subject: This Charming Man NY Mix
If anyone out there has a copy of this, I would really appreciate getting
one. The copy I have now has some DJ talking over it, and is a 3rd generation
copy to boot! Postal costs guaranteed. Let me know if you have this one, or
if you can get the vinyl for a reasonable price (yeahright...) :)
Thanks.
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From: Particle Man <
[email protected]>
Subject: Something that mentions Strangeways
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 92 21:37:12 CST
I just read a post that somebody is seeking chords to Smiths/Morrissey
songs. I've posted a jillion chords to the REM list and I can offer
some to this newsgroup as well (not REM, Smiths/Morrissey Chords). Really,
All I need are the lyrics sent to me and I'll edit the chords/tab over them.
Here's what I know:
This Charming Man (rhythm part)
How Soon Is Now?
Bigmouth
I Know It's Over
There Is A Light ...
Cemetery Gates
Is It Really So Strange
Half A person
Half A Person
Ask
Draize Train
A Rush And A Push...
I Started S
Stop Me..
Girlfriend in a Coma
Unhappy Birthday
Death Of A Disco Dancer
Suedehead
Everyday Is Like Sunday
I can put these out at a rate of 3 a week. I am not even comparable to
Marr, but I try. All of my arrangements are for acoustic guitar (since
that's all I have). My text editor is fried today, so I will quit.
Oh, yeah, I read in an interview regarding the Smiths demise that Johnny
Marr was "already turning MONEY CHANGES EVERYTHING into THE RIGHT STUFF
for Bryan Ferry" I have all the Smiths U.S. releases + Hatful of Hollow
but I am not aware of a song "Money Changes Everything". Where does this
gem exist? (This may be a dumb question, but I'm new to the list.)
Later People,
Matt
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Date: Wed, 5 Feb 92 16:17:34 -0800
From: Elizabeth Medel <
[email protected]>
Subject: Strangeways
> Bob Gajarsky <
[email protected]> writes...
> a couple questions...
> 1) what groups originally did "work is a four letter word" and "golden
> lights"?
I'm not sure about "work is a four letter word," but "golden lights" was
originally done by someone called 'Twinkle' in Britan sometime in the early
60's. I'd be interested to find out more. Anyone?
At the Morrissey concert in Berkeley last year, there was music playing while
they were setting up. All early British pop. I got to hear Twinkle sing 'golden
lights.' Very reminescent of early Lulu (although I'm sure Twinkle came first.)
Elizabeth.
[email protected]
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From: Edward Baichtal <
[email protected]>
Subject: Strangeways
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 92 20:14:23 PST
Sometime back now, I saw a list of Morrissey records available and I found
one called "Education in Reverse" from Austrlia. Does anyone know what this
is and what it has on it?
Also, a friend of mine bought a reel tape of Morrissey doing accoustic songs.
He bought this in San Diego and it's very strange, because I don't recognize
any of them.... just thought I'd mention it though.
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From: Simon Hughes <
[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 92 10:47:51 GMT
Subject: Re: Strangeways
Christine writes
>it's called "Higher Education." Morrissey's back up is
>listed as the "Stray Kittens"...is that what they were
>called? It's made in Italy and I ordered it from a place called
This is a pun on the group name Stray Cats who were the best known of
the late 70s, early 80s British rockabilly groups. Baz Boorer used to
play in another of those groups - The Polecats.
Bob writes
>1) what groups originally did "work is a four letter word" and "golden
>lights"?
Cilla Black and (I think) Twinkle. CB was a 60s solo singing star and
she now presents Britain's version of Blind Date!
Simon
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Date: Fri, 14 Feb 92 17:44:08 -0500
From: Pi <
[email protected]>
Subject: Strangeways Is Murder
While researching our invalid friend at the library, I came across an interes-
ting old record review I thought I'd share will you:
from "Rolling Stone" June 21, 1984
The Smiths
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When Tom Robinson sang "Glad To Be Gay" back in 1978, he did it as a dirge-
the irony, while bracing, was entirely obvious. Six years later, the singer and
lyricist of the Smiths - a man called Morrissey - has little use for the ironic
mode: His memories of heterosexual rejection and homosexual isolation seem too
persistently painful to be dealt with obliquely. Morrissey's songs probe the
daily ache of life in a gay-baiting world, but the bitterness and bewilderment
he's felt will be familiar to anyone who's ever sought social connection without
personal compromise. Whether recalling the confusion of early heterosexual en-
counters ("I'm not the man you think I am") or the sometimes heartless reality
of the gay scene, Morrissey lays out his life like a shoebox full of old snap-
shots.
Given Morrissey's rather somber poetic stance, "The Smiths" is surprisingly
warm and entertaining. Though Morrissey's voice - a sometimes toneless drone
that can squeal off without warning into an eerie falsetto - takes some getting
used to, it soon comes to seem quite charming, set as it is amid the delicately
chiming guitars of cocomposer Johnny Marr. And the eleven songs here are so
rhythmically insinuating that the persistent listener is likely to find himself
won over almost without warning. From "What Difference Does It Make?," a clever
reprise of a venerable garage-punk riff, to the striking opener "Reel Around The
Fountain," and the UK hits "Hand In Glove" and "This Charming Man," this record
repays close listening.
Kurt Loder
A few questions/requests:
1. Does anyone have any idea how to get ahold of either of Morrissey's two books,
I am insanely curious as to what they are like.
2. Does anyone who was lucky enough to catch Morrissey's second U.S. tour have
an extra copy of the the second tour program, if not just a zerox is fine.
3. Does anyone have access to anyone knowing Morrissey's Manchester adress, since
a good friend of mine is going to Manchester either this spring or summer and
would like to go take pictures, which I could make available over Strangeways.
My listing of Morrissey/Smiths bootlegs is now available, just email me and I'll
send it to you.
Goodnight, and thankyou!
Pi
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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 92 12:22:40 -0500
From: Pi <
[email protected]>
Subject: StrangeVideos
After hearing from Tower Records that Morrissey was slated to release some sort
of home video during 1992, a spokesperson for the video department of Reprise
Records in California said that they decided not to release the Dallas concert
video. I found it odd that Morrissey chose that concert as the one to release
since it was stopped halfway through the ninth song "Everyday Is Like Sunday"
due to too many fans mauling our hero. Maybe Tower Records is expecting an
import version of Japan EMI's "Sing Your Life" video which includes promos of
"Sing Your Life", the previously unseen "Our Frank", and "Sister I'm A Poet"
from "Hulmerist."
Another video tidbit, the Morrissey concert broadcast on KROQ radio in LA of
his Hammersmith Odeion show which was available through 'Strangeways' audio
is now out on video. Morrissey had his camera crew film the entire show for
Japan television, on which it aired in January of this year proving that
Morrissey is still alive! The video is excellent quality since it is not
a fan with a camcorder like the two versions of the Madison Square Garden
videos out now, so I highly reccommend it. I can give the address of the
vendor selling it, it is $33 ppd with a beautiful case with two Mozzer pics(oh
now I sound like a salesman!), but it will make it onto my video bootleg
list in a few weeks!
Love, peace, and harmony!
Pi
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