Johnny Marr The Messenger Sire/Ada Johnny Marr is receiving over-the-top accolades these days – he did his best work half a lifetime ago (half his lifetime, to be precise) and it’s not helping anyone to have Marr win an award for “Godlike Genius” – that’s simply something he cannot live up to, it’s simply something [...]
The Smiths, Strangeways Here We Come (1987) This is my favourite album by The Smiths. I think it is their best collection of songs – in the sense that they stand alone and work together, in sequence, as (very much) an album. But, before you suggest that I should be picking other albums instead – [...]