Paul Morley say...

am i not a member of the art of noise?
when you prick me, do i not bleed. . .

 

Paul Morley on...

Trevor Horn "As an architect of sound, Horn was unashamedly an exhibitionist, an utter show off."

Joy Division "Weird wit, thwarted passion . . . born out of deep, craven trouble"

The Raincoats "They will not remind you of anything."

John Cooper Clarke "This is crap, not just because solo Cooper Clarke is too dry in repeated and large doses but because the music on this album is FUNNY!"

David Bowie's Serious Moonlighting Tour "...this kind of rock event lacks that vital thing, sense of purpose..."

XTC "...making multilayered music of wit and elegance ... music that demands new adjectives."

Throbbing Gristle "It would be wrong to regard their attitude as wholly pesimistic. They yearned to make existence authentic, fully lived, by putting us face to face with the harsh realities of the human condition."

New Order "Rhythm times and technological agility and punk disco and computer mistakes and dynamic sensations and noise-filled suspension and beside themselves and many meanderings and shy purpose and the question is motionless..."

Morrissey Interview, 1988

Stingchronicity - the Police Interview, 1980

 

 

Others on Paul Morley...

Green of Scritti Pollitti "... Paul is clearly playing with things he doesn't fully understand ... but his vanity is losing a sense of proportion."

Robert Forster of the Go-Betweens "...Paul Morley is just trying to drum up something around himself ... a journalist who wants to attach himself to a generation..."

Holly Johnson (from his autobiography 'A Bone in My Flute') "...unmusical and given false writing credits as payment."

Andrew Poppy "...Paul Morley and Trevor Horn were not taken serious anymore, everything they did was considered as pretentious..."

Momus "Writers like ...Paul Morley ... attempted to widen the scope of pop writing by peppering their prose with ideas from writers like Paul Virilio, Roland Barthes, Georges Bataille and Theodor Adorno, even while they discussed groups as mainstream as The Human League and Haircut 100."

Frankie Say Anything Paul Morley Tells Them to Say - parody FGTH record sleeve in the ZTT style

the Cure (in their song Desparate Journalist)

It's all clever stuff
All this charming childish fiddling about aims for the anti-image
But it naturally creates the perfectly malleable image

 

 

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