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The added calendar line I always heard in that song was "as obvious as snow/as if we didn't know"...that's what he sings on the Brixton '86 performance as issued as a b-side back in the Best 1&2 days...I always thought he kept that lyric addition for the later solo versions too. I wasn't aware of the "it's pointing up at you" change, which I admit sounds odd...was that a one-off?
I'm gonna go play some clips from the Refusal tour and listen. Maybe he changed it again.
I'd like to add to the list the fact he doesn't sing the word "international" in 'The Last Of The Famous International Playboys'
What bothers me more than him leaving out lines is when he makes up new lyrics that ALWAYS sucks.
"On the shop floor there's a calander and it's pointing up at you - something you always knew"
Wait...WTF does that even mean?
That's a very good point; and I agree. But then later, solo, he re-added it.
He did? Oh, I wasn't aware of this -- all the solo versions I've heard of it he left it out. I must have missed that.
He always had Boz sing that in live versions, didn't he? I assumed that it was because it's a pretty high note and he didn't want to throw his voice out so early on it, as it has most often been the first song or at the very least quite early in sets.
Unless this is obvious (as snow), I always took it as meaning one of those topless girls calendars, which would make sense for Morrissey comparing the size of girls' chesticles, in keeping with the theme of the song. I still don't think it was a very well-thought-out addition, but yeah.
Interesting. The debut performance in Kansas City has him still singing the snow line.
But yeah, you're right, the others are different.
I like the snow line.
There are at least two versions while solo that I'm aware of that he sang it on...isn't Earl's Court one of them?
Ah, you're right! It's been so long since I've listened to that CD that I'd completely forgotten. That IS odd..
Don't even get me started on How Ruined Is Now.
One of my favourite lyric changes was to Suedehead during the Tormentors tour: "You had to sneak into my room just to play Your Arsenal / It was just to see, just to see all the songs you knew I'd written about you..."
I think there was a show in '07 where he sang the international part of Playboys. It was on the American leg; can't remember the venue.
Helpful, I know.
He played Suedehead on Tour of the Tormentors? Huh. I don't recall that; I thought it had been cut since '02, but thinking about it now I think I'm wrong.
I'll have to check Passions.
At any rate yeah, that is a funny line change.
Well he did on Jools Holland in 2009. It's in the last refrain that he pulls the whole phrase.That I'd like to hear...
Well I have to go to work so I don't have oodles of time but basically it isn't a profound complaint; he's simply killed the song. I think the guys actually play it very well and it is maybe the one song that I think his backing band trumps The Smiths on as far as live performances go.
But the vocal delivery, not to mention some of the lyrics themselves, now resembles a botched abortion. I'm sure I don't have to list examples and it's really a redundant gripe as I know many people have commented on this before me. It still bothers me, though, because it's such a powerful song.
That I'd like to hear...