Johnny Marr’s MOJO Mix

Al número de març, la revista MOJO convida Johnny Marr a confeccionar un decàleg de la música que l'ha inspirat i que continua donant-li força. La compilació ell la titula "The Answer to Everything", que s'hauria d'il·lustrar amb aquesta portada autografiada i amb el tracklist següent:

1. Del Shannon, Keep Searchin’ (We’ll Follow The Sun) (Stateside B-side, 1964): "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): "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): "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): "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): "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): "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): "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): "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): "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): "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)