{"id":22,"date":"2006-09-09T10:59:54","date_gmt":"2006-09-09T09:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flunkmusic.com\/flunkschool\/?p=22"},"modified":"2009-09-12T13:11:29","modified_gmt":"2009-09-12T12:11:29","slug":"thieves-like-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flunkmusic.com\/flunkschool\/thieves-like-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Thieves Like Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I guess all artists work on inspiration from others, some do it all the time, some do it every now and then. Some know it, some people haven’t got a clue that they do it. Dylan<\/a> knows it, his career is more or less built on the inspiration of traditional, American (and Irish) folk tunes. I guess most do it.
\nMorrissey<\/a> of The Smiths<\/b> does it. Smiths tracks have loads of phrases nicked or re-written from movies and litterature. You can check out a lot of the references on this page<\/a>. Great reading! Morrissey has made an art of it, slightly more subtle than Andy Warhol<\/a>s pop art (Warhol quotes here<\/a>).
\nOne of Morrissey’s favourite places to go for great lines, was Shelagh Delaney<\/b>‘s play which turned into the 1961 UK movie classic A Taste Of Honey<\/a>. In fact, Morrissey’s nicked almost criminally many quotes from this movie. But as always, he nicks in beautiful ways.<\/p>\n

The play\/movie is the origin of one of the most beautiful lines in popular music – from The Smiths<\/b>‘ Reel Around The Fountain<\/a>. It goes: I dreamt about you last night, and I fell out of bed twice<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Flunk do some acts of thievery, too. It’s a really fun game to put in references to music, things or people we like. On For Sleepyheads Only<\/b> there are loads, not so much in the lyrics, as in musical referances.<\/p>\n

We Flunk people are, by the way, on our way to Istanbul<\/b> to play a festival there tomorrow, hopefully we’ll post some pictures later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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