Glamorous Glue was the next song to be issued as a single having been given the digital remaster treatment. Once again, I shied away from buying this on issue back in February 2011 but went back a few weeks ago and tracked down the 2 x 7″ singles – one of which is a picture disc – so that I can feature them in this new version of the Morrissey singles series.
The reason I was prepared to do this but not for Everyday Is Like Sunday (see Part 39) is that Glamorous Glue hadn’t previously been issued as a single plus the fact that two otherwise unavailable tracks, recorded in demo form, were being issued:-
mp3 : Morrissey – Glamorous Glue
mp3 : Morrissey – Safe, Warm Lancashire Home
mp3 : Morrissey – Treat Me Like A Human Being
Neither b-side, both of which give a co-writing credit to Stephen Street, is all that special (although after a couple of listens I am warming a bit to ‘Lancashire’ which could, if developed further, have become more than decent) but I have always been and still am very fond of the pounding glam-rock tribute of the a-side.
Oh and it should be noted that this single peaked at #69 in the UK charts, thus taking away the fact that Hold on to Your Friends when it had stalled at #47 back in 1994 had previously been the great man’s lowest charting single. But Glamorous Glue wouldn’t hold that ‘title’ for long.
THE NEW VINYL VILLAIN 