![]() ![]() Reel Around the Fountain – a song about the loss of innocence, and one tabloid papers suggested was condoning child abuse – was stately and mournful, but never let its melancholy topple over into self pity. Yet on this version, you’re hardly aware of chords: Marr’s guitar seems to shimmer and hover, flitting across the rhythm section, Morrissey gliding atop it all (if never the most supple of singers, his vocal here is perfectly judged). Marr discovered the melody during an attempt to play the R&B song Handyman by Jimmy Jones, when “this string of strange chord changes fell from my fingers”. Reel Around the Fountain was recorded for the group’s first Peel session, in May 1983, a few days after the release of Hand in Glove, in a take that makes the version on their debut album sound like a bad cover. The best of the sessions, and many of the remarkable number of great non-album singles and B-sides they recorded, ended up on the compilations – Hatful of Hollow and The World Won’t Listen and on their US equivalent, Louder Than Bombs. Throughout their career, but especially at its start, the Smiths would debut new songs on John Peel’s BBC Radio 1 show, unveiling four songs at a time. Reel Around the Fountain (Peel session version) Hand in Glove sounded like a teenager’s heart rendered in song – a staggering initial outburst.Ģ. Marr, meanwhile, raced out of the traps with that soaring, triumphant opening harmonica riff, the dramatic stop-start in the verses and the umistakable air of a man who knew his rock history and was determined to plunder it without ever repeating it. ![]() Consider the line “And everything depends upon how near you stand to me”, (actually an adaptation of a lyric from Leonard Cohen’s Take This Longing). ![]() And it displayed his gift, despite having long left his teens, for understanding the desperate, romantic solipsism of the teenager (something that would become more of a problem as he got older and as his lyrics increasingly suggested he was not so much empathetic as desperately solipsistic himself). It showed his gift for unexpected vulgarity (“Hand in glove/ The sun shines out of our behinds”). Morrissey’s was one of difference: “No it’s not like any other love/ This one is different because it’s us!” and “We may be hidden by rags/ But we’ve something they’ll never have”. But how do the newest batch of shows hold up? The venerable Star Trek universe is really the only major pop culture property that can be claimed as certifiably leftist.The Smiths’ first single was everything one might want a debut to be: an extraordinary statement of musical and lyrical intent, in which Morrissey and Johnny Marr laid down a manifesto. In a special crossover episode, Lyta Gold of Art for the End Times teams up with a lively panel of fellow podcasters and Trekkies- David Banks and Britney Gil ( Iron Weeds), Leslie Lee III ( Struggle Session), and Aaron Thorpe ( Trillbilly Workers Party, Struggle Session, and Everybody Loves Communism)-to discuss the most recent Star Trek show to hit the airwaves, Strange New Worlds. Please support the show by subscribing at and Struggle Session brought to you by Blue Wire Network Pre-Production/Studio/Post-Production: Dwayne Gladden #Struggle session theme song seriesĭrawing on decades of collective Trekkie experience, they debate Paramount’s increasingly cynical approach to making Trek, and how the whole series succeeds (or fails) in imagining fully automated luxury space communism while still being created by capitalists. On today’s Struggle Session Jack and Leslie are joined by Matt Binder of DOOMED, Scam Economy, and Majority Report to discuss the life and crimes of the former WWE CEO Vince McMahon. WWE Board Probes Secret $3 Million Hush Pact by CEO Vince McMahon, Sources Say.Intro: Vince McMahon and Murray Hodgson on Donahue - Ma: Heads up, the latter half of this episode is as dark as it gets. Support the show and subscribe at or n or Listen to CULTURE on the Callin app and at HTTP://1900CULTURE.COM Tell us what you think of the show with a voicemail at Brickhouse Brown On Allegations Against Pat Patterson.Rita Chatterton does not want to be forgotten. We also played a ton of demos for upcoming indie games that are worth checking out: On today's episode Jack and Leslie talk about the announcements and trailers of Summer Games Fest including The Callisto Protocol, Final Fantasy XVI, Scorn, and Dragon's Dogma 2. Our track of the week is "Order" by Pet Wife from their latest EP Plastic Set. ![]()
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