Song Review
Today’s tune comes from the Canadian indie-pop/rock group Stars, and is a new take on the classic Smiths song This Charming Man. Written by Johnny Marr (Currently with Modest Mouse) and Morrissey, This Charming Man would hit #1 on the UK Indie Chart. Stars took a run at the track on their first album Nightsongs released in 2001.
Punctured bicycle
On a hillside desolate
Will nature make a man of me yet?
When in this charming car
This charming man
Why pamper life’s complexity
When the leather runs smooth
On the passenger seat?
I would go out tonight
But I haven’t got a stitch to wear
This man said: it’s gruesome
That someone so handsome should care
Ah! A jumped-up pantry boy
Who never knew his place
He said, return the ring
He knows so much about these things
He knows so much about these things
And I would go out tonight
But I haven’t got a stitch to wear
This man said: it’s gruesome
That someone so handsome should care
