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Public Enemy Number 72 welcomes you to a night to forget
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2 CDs - my first in a while and guess what? It's a Smiths mix! Because I've never done that before...This is for my friend who has recently been transplanted from Kansas to Glasgow, and said that she'd like to know more about The Smiths / Morrissey - this meant I could also do a Morrissey solo mix, something which I actually haven't done before. For that purpose, I also have to thank Laura very much indeed for the help with some of the B-sides I used.I really hope she enjoys it, and the best part is that the package she'll get will even have a Manchester postmark on it!The title is from a couple of Morrissey quotes. "Welcome to a night to forget" was how the audience was greeted at the Royal Albert Hall in 2002. Meanwhile, the other quote is from 1995: "The police recorded a conversation for an hour and searched the house for a guillotine. Curiously, they found one. They thought I was Public Enemy Number 72. And at the end of the grilling they asked me to sign various things for ailing nieces, which I thought was a bit perverted".
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Lovely. It's hard to go wrong with this material...
As a natural born Manc myself I must speak frankly and though I applaud your selections on the whole I do feel compelled to take issue with Rush And A Push getting the chop. Are you quite sure? Mind you I feel an awful lot better having got that off my chest.
Ah yes, sorry, should have mentioned the ones that got the chop -it was a really difficult one, and in the end I figured that since I already had "Unhappy Birthday", "Last Night..." and "I Won't Share You" from Strangeways..., I didn't want the balance to shift too much in that direction. But it was honestly one of the last cut, along with "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" (that was painful), "Ask" and "The Headmaster Ritual". Maybe I'll do a volume 2. Bet she'd love me for that!
Really can't go wrong with the Smith (IMO)...some real nice, and savvy selections, on Disc Two.
Finally after 22 years I'm able to listen to the Smiths again. Being constantly bombarded with em by an old housemate really turned me off em. Pleased to say I can now listen to them again without wanting to hurl the hifi out of the window.
Hard to beat.
Bet you've been gagging to do this for a while...top stuff!
Hey Siobhan, the she is a he, I just chose alma as a nom de boom. And I didn't intend to criticise, heaven forbid - my haughty pedantry was absolutely tongue in chick. Like the good people say, you can't go wrong with Uncle Stephen. Looking forward to Volume 2.
Amen to that! Don't worry, I didn't take it as criticism at all - the "she" was referring to the person I made it for, so apologies if there was confusion there!
Girlfriend is still in a coma. Good collection is this.