The Smiths: Revisited

I’ve often mentioned my wish to have an app or something similar that can erase your favourite song from your mind so you can hear it again for the first time. A couple of Sundays ago in a local garden centre café I came about as close as is possible to experiencing this. Suddenly with no warning over the music system came that jangly ear worm of an intro from This Charming Man. Completely out of context, completely unexpected and completely wonderful. By the time Morrissey sang “punctured bicycle” I’d put my knife and fork down and left my eggs to go cold until the last drop of the song had passed. Bugger me if it wasn’t followed by What Difference Does It Make another unexpected smash between the ears. Since then I’ve found the time to listen to their four studio albums and A Hatful Of Hollow again.

My history with The Smiths is mixed. As a young man in 1984 I was between friend groups, old college friends and new nightclubbing mates but when The Smiths crashed into my world via Top Of The Pops I couldn’t ignore them. I was lucky enough to see them live. I … Continue reading The Smiths: Revisited