Moz did write the vocal melodies, far as I know. Marr and various producers have talked about how they would work up a backing track with the band and then send a tape to Morrissey, and he would come in and sing on it. They wouldn't know what he was going to do, and he would often sing a chorus where they'd intended…

Bet you're gay

I feel like with your rigid/fluid dichotomy you're actually just saying the same thing as those "other viewers". Characters becoming divorced from human motivation and becoming emotionless joke machines is the rigidity you refer to, whereas a fully drawn character with proper motivation results in the sense of…

I don't really get Album, all the songs are too long. FFF starts great but you can hear it losing steam after 3 minutes, and you don't need 6 minutes of Rise or any of the others.

I thought it was a bit crap, I got it out of curiosity. He seemed a bit overcooked in it

Yes. He can't be in financial jeopardy, but he can be rich and unemployed

Funnily enough, by pure coincidence Black Lace (of awful novelty smash-hit "Agadoo" fame) recorded their own dance version of Cotton Eye Joe around the same time, and were gazumped to becoming a two-hit wonder by the release of the Rednex version.

Do you not find the verses a bit dull? 2 standard chords, make a standard sort of riff out of them, sing mostly one note?

It's the makings of a beautiful song, but its crying out for another part. You have the verse then chorus - fine and lovely - but then instead of a bridge or something you get the chorus again only loud. By the end its too much bloody chorus, gets tedious.

I've never understood that. If I were in such a position it'd be under a deal made with myself that if such an order came down I'd obviously disobey it. Once there's nukes flying around it no longer matters where the survivors are, you just hope there are some, which you could help make happen by not firing the ones…

Don't bother. I read it and it was shiiiiit

…but you can see implicitly in this passage that Lydon was well in the minority here, among the punx

It is well known that Ozzy wrote the vocal melodies. And (discounting the times when he admittedly just sang the riff) that's no small part of a song

Nah Erik, your 21 year old self had it right. 8 Days a Week and A Hard Day's Night both suffer from Beatlemania syndrome (songs that get by on energy alone and have sod all to offer in the way of depth, beauty or even ROCK), Paperback Writer is a great riff but a dull song (a la Day Tripper), Eleanor Rigby is of…

Seriously though, Marilyn gets that *all the time*, so just try and be a little cool about it, y'know?

Anyone else spot the joke in the credits to the 'wife swap' bit - they're all 'Michael Palin and Mrs Cleese', then it gets to 'Graham Chapman and Mr Sherlock' - David Sherlock was Chapman's partner. Chapman wasn't publicly out yet. Little bit of foreshadowing for the great British public there

Is the reviewer being sarcastic about the line "the glue that hold the gears of our society together" being sincere? Surely the point is that gears being held together by glue is bad for the usual expected functioning of gears (i.e. motion), and is therefore another 'Homer is dumb' joke rather than a statement about…

How can you skip over 'prejudice' so blithely? One of my favourite bits of Python, Palin is so amazing at playing mis-placed relish, the laughing way he say 'Miserable Fat Belgian Bastards!' is just joyous.

The reviewer is just saying that the song doesn't live up to the title

nice one! what a bunch of divs those lot were