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Johnny Marr’s MOJO Mix!
9:30 AM GMT 28/01/2009
IN THIS MONTH’S MOJO magazine, Johnny Marr provides Lois Wilson with a late Christmas present: a cracking mix of music that inspired, and continues to sustain him. Enter the Marr musical mind, by marshalling your MP3s into the prescribed order, then downloading the guitar godhead’s self-designed artwork. Then play and play until you too know what it’s like to have been in a band with Morrissey... only, you know, happier.
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1. Del Shannon
Keep Searchin’ (We’ll Follow The Sun)
(Stateside B-side, 1964)
Johnny Marr: “The influence of [A-side] The Answer To Everything on me when writing Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want is well documented so I picked its sister record, this time. It was the sound of the house when I was little.”
2. The Rolling Stones
Get Off Of My Cloud
(Decca single, 1965)
Johnny Marr: “The main thing I took from Keith Richards was his musical ideology; that there is a nobility in playing rhythm guitar and being the engine room and steering the ship, all these very valorous concepts which he threw in the face of guitar culture in the early ’70s.”
3. T.Rex
Metal Guru
(T-Rex Wax Co. single, 1972)
Johnny Marr: “It’s so beautiful and commercial but slightly weird and I could not believe what I was hearing because it was so all-encompassing. It connected with something beyond my regular senses.”
4. The Isley Brothers
Behind A Painted Smile
(Tamla Motown B-side, 1969)
Johnny Marr: “Motown provided a fantastic alternative to the rock music my mates were getting into. I ventured into this place called Rare Records on John Dalton Street in Manchester, I went into the basement and I remember to this day it was like a sea of future happiness.”
5. Iggy And The Stooges
Gimme Danger
(Raw Power LP track, CBS 1973)
Johnny Marr: “I remember getting on the bus and just staring at the front cover in disbelief all the way home. I wasn’t disappointed when I played it because it sounded like I thought it would. It was mysterious, sexy, druggy, riffy and to-the-point.”
6. The Crystals
There’s No Other Like My Baby
(Philles single, 1961)
Johnny Marr: “There is an unpretentiousness to it, and compared to what was passing itself off as weird in rockland with prog music at the time this just sounded weirder to me, and it seemed to come from an odder dimension.”
7. Blondie
Hanging On The Telephone
(Chrysalis single, 1978)
Johnny Marr: “It reminds me of going to parties and really complaining that I didn’t want to hear Peaches by The Stranglers for the eleventh time and going through record collections with all that ELO shit in them and pulling out *Parallel Lines and going, ‘Alright then, let’s listen to this very, very loud!’”
8. Bob And Marcia Young
Gifted And Black
(Harry J single, 1970)
Johnny Marr: “It was one of the records that both Morrissey and myself liked in the same way. It reminded us both of being youthful fanatics and being outside of the norm… Then, amazingly, when [New Order’s] Bernard Sumner and I started to get close we both discovered that we liked that record in the same way.”
9. The Equals
Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys
(President single, 1970)
Johnny Marr: “Some records you wear down and you wear out but this one… I remember it from being out from when I was a kid but unlike some of the other tracks I play, I don’t listen to it for that reason, I like it because it reminds me of something shared between me and my mate.”
10. The Cribs
Hey Scenesters
(Wichita single, 2005)
Johnny Marr: “A fantastic working class street rock’n’roll 45 that could only have come from a band in this country. It’s like, Move over, this is the new generation. The Jarmans are as hip as street musicians get from any generation.”
Bonus Tracks:
Paul Davidson – Midnight Rider (Tropical single, 1976)
Alternative TV – Action Time Vision (Deptford Fun City single, 1978)
Built To Spill – In Your Mind (Ancient Melodies Of The Future LP track, WEA, 2001)
The Drifters – I Count The Tears (Atlantic, 1960)
Hamilton Bohannon – Disco Stomp (Dakar/Brunswick, 1975)
TV On The Radio – Wolf Like Me (4AD single, 2006)
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Check out Lois Wilson’s full Johnny Marr interview in the latest MOJO magazine.
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 9:30 AM GMT 28/01/2009
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Great feature - hope there are more to come.
Posted by Alistair at 10:44 AM GMT 28/01/2009 Report Abuse
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This was a fucking bad idea,can we have he's favorite fucking recipies next month?I mean really when was this cunt ever relevant?Fucking session musician,and a cunt.
Posted by Sweary Stan at 11:22 PM GMT 03/02/2009 Report Abuse
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RE: Sweary Stan wots it like to be a philestine ?
Posted by Anonymous at 11:32 PM GMT 03/02/2009 Report Abuse
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RE: Sweary Stan
Ha, haahhhaha ahaahah, Made me lol till i fell on the floor.
Posted by Anonymous at 5:41 PM GMT 06/02/2009 Report Abuse
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RE: Sweary Stan
Hahahaha, and extra haha. U made lol til i fell on the floor. fucking hilarious.....
Posted by Gingerbread at 5:51 PM GMT 06/02/2009 Report Abuse
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RE: Sweary Stan
Stan the idiot!
Ask any guitarist from the mid 80s onwards who was their biggest inspiration?
This guy influenced a whole generation.
In your informed opinion who do you think is relevant?
Posted by Anonymous at 1:23 PM GMT 11/02/2009 Report Abuse
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RE: Sweary Stan
just because you're ill-informed about who someone is is no reason to get angry.
Posted by charlotte at 5:07 PM GMT 11/02/2009 Report Abuse
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Smiths fans as I predicted a bunch of pissy cunts with no taste or friends,fuck off back to the sixth form common room you fucks.
Posted by Sweary Stan at 6:47 PM GMT 14/02/2009 Report Abuse
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Alternative TV – Action Time Vision.
Surely it should have sneaked into the top 10? Knocking Blondie onto the subs bench?
Posted by pastcaring at 7:11 PM GMT 15/02/2009 Report Abuse
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why do YOU think your ignorance revealing comment is relevant? go to sleep with sid vicious.
Posted by Tomas at 12:53 AM GMT 19/02/2009 Report Abuse
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RE: Sweary Stan
Not relevant? You sell some 10 million records worldwide with 7 different bands then come back and open your shite hole about how Johnny's not relevant. What's your life's work added up to? ....Right then. Back to work at Wimpy's now. I'm starving.
Posted by FatRobbie73 at 8:17 PM GMT 05/03/2009 Report Abuse
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RE: FatRobbie73
Shut up you moaning little cocked cunt,never sold 10 million in his life you stupid cunt.
Posted by Sweary Stan at 12:54 PM GMT 06/03/2009 Report Abuse
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A really good list of songs. Excellent taste.
The only problem here is Johnny's statement about the Cribs:
"A fantastic working class street rock'n'roll 45 that could only have come from a band in this country" (the UK).
Johnny, are you referring to this moment in time? If so, then perhaps yes, but the Strokes beat them by several years over in NYC. The real difference on "Hey Scenesters" is in the lack of Reed-like speak-sing crooning in the vocals. The vocals are generally more boisterous on this one, not so croon-y.
Posted by der shmiffs at 4:35 AM GMT 20/03/2009 Report Abuse
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Johnny Marr dyes his hair,the vain northern cunt
Posted by foureyes at 10:44 AM GMT 26/04/2009 Report Abuse
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RE: foureyes
Oi, mind your fucking language you foul mouthed little dick gobbler.
Posted by Sweary Stan at 3:55 PM GMT 26/04/2009 Report Abuse
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RE: Sweary Stan
fuck you,you fuck
Posted by foureyes at 6:33 PM GMT 26/04/2009 Report Abuse
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Why do you feel the need to use such disgusting language on this MUSIC site?Do you let your children say those words?DO YOU?You are a nasty dirty person who should be banned from this site,you foul mouthed motherfucker.
Posted by Jessica the Slag at 11:42 PM GMT 26/04/2009 Report Abuse
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go and wash your cuntflaps out with soap you filthy piece of shit
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RE: Sweary Stan
you are a fine one to talk of foul language.
only the lord can save you now.
REPENT REPENT
Your Lord,Erastus Theobald Piggott.
Posted by Erastus at 2:22 PM GMT 27/04/2009 Report Abuse
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RE: Erastus
Alright you old sex pervert, when did they let you out you dirty fucker?
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Ah Stan you blaspheming fiend did you not realise that I like the good lord am omnipresent?
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