My song of the day is “I Won’t Share You” by The Smiths. It’s off the 1987 album “Strangeways, Here We Come.”
It’s very sparely produced: Just Morrissey’s famously plaintive voice and the autoharp. It’s a stringed instrument whose chimey sound is reminiscent of a harpsichord. It lends this tune a timeless feeling.
This is no symphony, however. Just a lovelorn vocalist and a plucking of strings, both the unconventional instrument and of the listeners heartstrings. the result is a duet as intimate as a journal and quiet as a music box.
What a charming, echoing, intricate Fabergé egg of a song!It should be better known.
–Sarah Torribio
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