The Woodentops Giant came out on the same day as The Queen Is Dead. Alternative Histories for you, The Woodentops caight fire upon its release and had any number of Top Five smashes with breathily whispered rhythmic instant seven inch classics over the following years which even had Simon Bates toes tapping,
The Smiths meanwhile crashed and burned when Morrissey gave an NME interview just after The Queen is Dead''s release telling the nation what he actually thought about everything. Nobody wanted to know that apparently ! It led distraught fans to otganise mass record burning parties of the kind not seen since John Lennon dropped that clanger about Jesus to the lady from the Evening Standard sending perfectly amiable types in the deep south rushing immediately to their wardrobes for their Klu Klux Klan outfits..Anyway Mozza had to sign on again and we were all spared all that agony thirty years later,.
I'll save the 'what if Lawrence from Felt became Bono instead of Bono in 1983' for another day, Giant is a great reccord. Slightly surly but relentlessly positive underneath. Coming from a different place from most other bands of the time and still good enough forty years later to encourage unwise hip manoeveres and unexpected flirtations with your nearest and dearest on a Sunday everning. It's no wonder that The Queen is Dead is still more fundamental to Canon Gazers mind
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