The moment you fell under his spell

[GlasgowChivas]

April 2006. Doing the garden. Listening to my cousins Ipod.

First Of The Gang To Die was on it as part of the NOW compilation album for that year.

Until then I was not even aware of Moz/The Smiths except for the video for HSIN which I remembered as the one with the chimneys.

As the afternoon went on I kept repeating the track over and over.

Next day I had bought You Are The Quarry. One week later I had Ringleader.

27th April 06 - bought a ticket of a tout for £40 for Morrissey at Glasgow's Carling Academy

Since then....well, you can guess the rest.

How and when did you fall under his spell and what exactly is it about him that we ALL find so facinating?

[the judge]

I heard First Of The Gang to die in 2005 (?) on the radio and I found out it the singer was this Morrissey guy.
Then I discovered he was in a band in the eighties, downloaded a couple of tracks, fell in love with This Charming Man. One year after I downloaded Meat Is Murder (December 2006) and I became a Fan.

[Morrissey the 23rd]

April 2006. Doing the garden. Listening to my cousins Ipod.

First Of The Gang To Die was on it as part of the NOW compilation album for that year.

Until then I was not even aware of Moz/The Smiths except for the video for HSIN which I remembered as the one with the chimneys.

As the afternoon went on I kept repeating the track over and over.

Next day I had bought You Are The Quarry. One week later I had Ringleader.

27th April 06 - bought a ticket of a tout for £40 for Morrissey at Glasgow's Carling Academy

Since then....well, you can guess the rest.

How and when did you fall under his spell and what exactly is it about him that we ALL find so facinating?

Welcome to the world of Moz.

[Slum_Mum]

hey there 23rd. I think we spoke in chat on Saturday night. Do you still want to meet up? Think we could have something special going on here, kind of like Marc and Cerys in the Jungle.

[Chartres]

Spring 2004 -> Alsatian Cousin -> We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful -> Meat Is Murder -> Viva Hate -> You Are The Quarry -> and the story goes on...

[Morrissey the 23rd]

hey there 23rd. I think we spoke in chat on Saturday night. Do you still want to meet up? Think we could have something special going on here, kind of like Marc and Cerys in the Jungle.

Do you really think so?

I have banned myself from the chat. There is only so much vile one can take.

PS Read a book.

[morrisseychic]

The first time i saw the "suedehead" video in 1988. Right after that i bought all The Smiths Albums. It's been almost 20 wonderful years! :)

[PregnantForTheLastTime]

In a theatre green room in January, 1988. He wasn't there. Someone else sang his words, and I said, "Who wrote that?"

Which means it's almost my Moziversary. Gag. Do I get a medal?

[nugz]

october, 2002. had blue hair. worked at hot topic. heard "how soon is now" in the store. knew of the song, but didnt know who sang it. I asked my manager and she told me "the smiths." when i went back to my dorm that night i got online and downloaded a buttload of smiths songs. thought "omg this is awesomez!" found a lyrics page and read through all of the lyrics to all the songs. thought it was the greatest music i've ever heard and couldnt believe I hadnt started listening earlier. immediately fell in the love.

[Cassius]

My friend gave me "The Queen is Dead" for Hannukah. The rest is history.

[Not Right in the Head]

Checked out Viva Hate from the town library in spring 1989, and was so put-off by the lyrics that I returned it without listening to it. A couple months later, a friend insisted that I buy Strangeways, and that was that.

(Viva Hate has since become my favorite solo album.)

[esheh195]

My freshman year of high school, 1992. Big Moz fan, quiff and all, was going out with my friend's older sister. The Mozbug rubbed off on her long enough to influence her younger brother a bit.
I think I was filling out one of those offers from Columbia House where you order 20 CD's for like a penny a piece and then have to buy like 20 more at like a bazillion dollars within 2 years and ran out of CD's to get cuz their selection sucked. My friend suggested I pick up the Smiths Best Volume 1, Bona Drag and Your Arsenal.
I think the first thing I put on was the Smiths Volume 1 and was like, "WTF is this $hit?" :confused: LOL But "What Difference Does It Make" kinda stuck out in my head, thought it was a pretty cool song and decided I'd give Bona Drag a shot before I called these discs a waste of my 3 cents. I pressed play and on came "Piccadilly Palare". That song sealed the deal for me...I loved it from the opening notes. And I think I played that and "Such A Little Thing..." like a hundred times in the next few days.
Within 2 months I had all the Smiths and Moz's solo albums, the videos, any poster I could find was tacked on the wall...(which definitely frightened my family...my walls went from the Claudia Schiffer calendar to a 6 foot "Beethoven was Deaf" promo poster. :o:D) and basically listened to only Moz/Smiths for like the next 6 months. HAHA

[swiss]

Watching The Smiths on the Old Grey Whistle Test in about 83 at Derby Assembly rooms. Footage of this is on Youtube now. I was 14.

[AnnaNoir]

my then boyfriend sent me "some girls are bigger than others" as a cruel joke, but haha jokes on him 'cause from that moment i was in love with someone else ^^

this was in 2003 i was 13 :)

[Cassius]

my then boyfriend sent me "some girls are bigger than others" as a cruel joke, but haha jokes on him 'cause from that moment i was in love with someone else ^^

this was in 2003 i was 13 :)

I'm glad he is a "then boyfriend"! :)

[essential]

Such a long time ago - I was watching Top of the Pops that I'd videoed the night before and saw a band that I had never seen. The lead singer was swinging a handful of weeds around his head and they were dropping all over the stage.

Fast forward to the next year - I was absolutely smitten. The Smiths were appearing at the Palace Theatre in Manchester and I had no-one to go to the gig with. My friend promised me that she would go with me if I went to see Culture Club with her! I went with her and she came with me. Unfortunately that friendship burnt out but my love for Morrissey and The Smiths never died.

There are moments when I hear the music and I feel 16 again. Aahhh....

[AnnaNoir]

haha, me too (especially because he just had an unsuccelsfull circumcision, but that is extremely off topic...)

He still got me into morrissey though, can't really blame the guy for having a poor sense og humour :D

[Not Right in the Head]

haha, me too (especially because he just had an unsuccelsfull circumcision, but that is extremely off topic...)

:eek::eek::eek::eek:

But now you have to tell more. "Unsuccessful" is one word that should never be used to describe a circumcision!

I bristle at the thought of this.

[nugz]

haha, me too (especially because he just had an unsuccelsfull circumcision, but that is extremely off topic...)



HAHA. oh dear. :eek::p

[AnnaNoir]

uhm.. i feel really mean bringing this up :D (..especially now when he wont be bringing much up anymore haha) well, he's not gonna read this - i feel safe to share a some gossip: he had an infection and it swelled to twice the normal size (but in a bad way..) and they reoperated it. and apparently this whole thing leaved him with one nasty looking dick. and now he's getting cosmetic surgery. (feel free to be amused, he's quite vile - this was truly well-deserved nemesis)

[esheh195]

uhm.. i feel really mean bringing this up :D (..especially now when he wont be bringing much up anymore haha)

I just LOL in my office reading that! :eek::p:D

[Not Right in the Head]

he had an infection and it swelled to twice the normal size (but in a bad way..) and they reoperated it. and apparently this whole thing leaved him with one nasty looking dick. and now he's getting cosmetic surgery.

BRB--I'm gonna be sick.

[nugz]

uhm.. i feel really mean bringing this up :D (..especially now when he wont be bringing much up anymore haha) well, he's not gonna read this - i feel safe to share a some gossip: he had an infection and it swelled to twice the normal size (but in a bad way..) and they reoperated it. and apparently this whole thing leaved him with one nasty looking dick. and now he's getting cosmetic surgery. (feel free to be amused, he's quite vile - this was truly well-deserved nemesis)

BAHAHAHAHA.

[AnnaNoir]

I just LOL in my office reading that! :eek::p:D

haha, i aim to amuse


BRB--I'm gonna be sick.

I'm sorry ^___^

[MsChievous]

Been listening to the Smiths since 1985ish?? How Soon Is Now was one of my favorite songs from that era. I was in college busy with my studies, socializing and trying to get my career underway so I had started slacking off on music. My younger brother took over and I'd borrow his The Smiths cassettes and albums occasionally. As a matter of fact, we listened to them the entire drive up when I was relocating to the DC area in 1989. HOWEVER, I became obsessed when I finally saw him live this summer at Wolftrap (July 2nd).

[rachem]

My good friend put This Charming Man on a mix CD for me in high school. in my first year I downloaded The Very Best (shame!) because I knew that one song.

There is a Light was basically the beginning of everything.

[billy_liar]

One day there was a strange noise coming from my sister’s bedroom... it happened so fast.

September 1998, my sister had just bought Meat is Murder after being converted into a vegetarian - but that was the only thing she shared with Morrissey. I was more then happy to take this 'weird' record off her hands and almost ten years later I can’t remember ever not being a fan. I bought record after record and he’s yet to let me down.

[Viva Tom]

Around January 2006. One of my friends had really started getting into The Smiths through his parents. I decided to hunt down a few tracks. 'There is a light' and 'This Charming Man' were the first ones to get put on my play list.
I beleive it was when I heard the line 'I never never want to go home, because I haven't got one' I was hooked.

[Amy]

Watching TOTP2....

Dad: *turns up volume*

Mum: Turn that miserable poof off.

Dad: *turns volume up louder*

Moz: I was haaaappy in the haaaaze of a drunken houuur, but heaven knoooows, I'm miserable noooow-

Mum: TURN IT OFF!!!!!!!

Me = :D who is that bloke?

[thatshowpeoplegrowup]

i think it was september of this year.. i found his music on myspace i heard about him but i didt know his music so i googled him lol, and i clicked his myspace and i heard i just want to see the boy happy and i was hooked.

[TheNightingale]

Spring of 2006 my uncle died. I inherited his ipod. It was chock full of '80s music including the B-52s, The Clash, etc. Well one of the bands I didn't know was one called The Smiths (Singles album). I really liked them, but didn't know a thing about them.

After a few months of enjoyment my curiosity got the better of me and I looked them up. I knew my life would never be the same. Morrissey was the most interesting person I had ever come across. A celibate rock star! I was impressed.

I started tracking down all the music of his that I could, both Smiths and solo. Every song seemed to be a personal letter. In fact it seemed like he was not only exposing his own soul, but mine as well (in frightening detail). I love his humor and wit, the way he stands for his beliefs (whether anyone agrees with him or not.

I'll say it: Morrissey is a genius.

[9 x Fined]

I had Heaven Knows on a mix tape in 1984 at the ripe old age of 10. Hated it pretty much. Too whiney for me.

Fast forward a few years later and Stop Me (played 3-4 times a day on MTV) caught my interest.

Soon after borrowed Strangeways from someone and it was all bad news for my wallet from there.

[Walkers Crisp]

1988..Suedehead.

[Corrissey]

1988..Suedehead.

Same here

[CrystalGeezer]

1989 Panic on the walkman of the 1st chair clarinetist, Wendy. When I heard that voice I was transported. She told me the band had broken up, that she thought maybe he was singing without them. I immediately went out and purchased Viva Hate and the rest is history.

[meat_is_murder19]

I was in a charity shop in manchester and i saw meat is murder cd i thought the cover looked cool so i bought it for 50p.i got home and haven`t stop listening to it since

[Theo]

Sometimes I think I'm falling out of his spell. But "I Have Forgiven Jesus" and "Work of Art" came up on my IPod tonight and, well...I see the world, it makes me puke, but then I hear these songs and...I have forgiven you, Mozza.

[ordinaryboy]

Spring of this year, my mate (also an absolutely massive Smiths fan) played me 'How Soon Is Now?' on his iPod. I'd heard it before but only vaguely remembered it and didn't know the artist. I bought 'Meat Is Murder' within the month, and so began a long story....

[SonicFungus]

the day i fall under his spell is the day i stab myself in the fucking eye.

now, as for when i fell under the spell of the Smiths.. it was sometime in late 1995, around October or November. i was 14 and really getting into a lot of the alternative 80s and redicovering a lot of stuff i'd grown up around.. not that my parents or whatever were into 80's or any of that stuff... kinda just got into all that on my own, but i remember always loving "How soon is now" and thinking it was one of the most mindblowing songs id ever heard, in all aspects. the guitar and the squealing echoes were unlike anything id ever heard and it was like i was being sucked into a vortex. id of course heard the song before.. but it was then that i really took notice and it hit me.. having it blasting on the radio, on some 80s radio show. then i started looking into their other stuff and really liked a lot of it as well but it still wasnt really something i'd be going nuts about. well, i was nuts about "this charming man" and "Bigmouth strikes again", but it wasnt until later that i really grasped it and really started to enjoy the other back catalogue. i was more into electronica/dance/house music/rock-rock thing. always thought johnny kicked ass, though. hah.

[spike]

I'm with swiss on this one, watching Derby assembly rooms on BBC2(old english tv station) about 83/84ish. Had me hooked from that day to this. A friend, well mate, mmm not even mate really but someone i knew had played me TCM a week or so before and i was like " yeah its ok i guess" but after seeing them on TV that was it.
As i said i'm now as hooked as ever.

[lovemorrissey]

1989 - " Last of the Famous International Playboys" on Now thats what I call Music 14, totally fell in love with the voice, now im in love with the guy!!

[Kevaxe2k2]

Around Christmas '93 my buddy and our girlfriends (mine is now my wife of 10 years) spent the night at his older brother's house near the colllege he attended. He was out of town. My buddy said his bro was a big Morrissey fan. He said Morrissey sucked, but has one awesome song. He puts on Bona Drag "Last of the Famous International Playboys". I agree it was pretty cool. Then, Ouija Board comes on--and I flip out! A local community college station used to play that all the time--I had taped it and had NO clue who it was. So, the following week we were having out work X-mas party (all 4 of us worked together) and I asked the person who had me in the gift x-change to get me Bona Drag. From there, it was on! I had previously known Morrissey as the guy I saw on Carson, SNL, etc. who looked pretty cool and had a good voice. But I didn't listen to that sort of music at the time. This was WELL before the internet took of, so thank God I got to enjoy the experience of Moz/The Smiths little by little. Every payday by and large I bought a Smiths or Morrissey CD if i could afford it--I was a poor 19 year old, lol. I listened to virtually nothing but Moz up until the the time I complete the catalog...then the new stuff started to come out! The Vauxull's, Boxers, Southpaw, World of Morrissey, etc. It was a damn exciting time!

[sweet and tender hooligan]

It was 3 or 4 years ago. My dad had the smiths greatest hits on and was dancing around the kitchen to "Heaven know i'm miserable now".I heard the line :"In my life
Why do I give valuable time
To people who don't care if I live or die ?"
I then stole his cd and taped all the songs i could and then listened to "what difference doe sit make?" on repeat all day for about a month. And thats how i have grown to love Morrissey:D

[PregnantForTheLastTime]

All of you who are reporting that you heard of the Smiths and Morrissey from your parents are making me sad. But, also very happy.

I listened to my parents' Beatles albums when I was a teenager. But I also listened to my grandparents' old Big Band albums... I'm just happy that Morrissey has the same appeal.

[bored]

It was Rubber Ring. I was just floored by the lyrics.

I was in a very bad place and that song spoke to me.

[PregnantForTheLastTime]

It was Rubber Ring. I was just floored by the lyrics.

I was in a very bad place and that song spoke to me.

Rubber Ring relaunched my obsession after a long dormant period. I remember hearing it when I was a teenager and thinking that M thought he was so clever, writing a song that predicted how we'd feel about him later. And I was so very sure I'd never be an ordinary clever swine.

Then I was transferring all my CDs to my computer and heard it again, nearly twenty years later. I pretty much lost it. All the years crashed down on me. I'm not even sure that's a good thing, in fact I'm pretty sure it's not. But we'll see... I'm waiting to see what he comes up with next. He always surprises me.

[Morrissey the 23rd]

my then boyfriend sent me "some girls are bigger than others" as a cruel joke, but haha jokes on him 'cause from that moment i was in love with someone else ^^

this was in 2003 i was 13 :)

Nice!

[Morrissey the 23rd]

uhm.. i feel really mean bringing this up :D (..especially now when he wont be bringing much up anymore haha) well, he's not gonna read this - i feel safe to share a some gossip: he had an infection and it swelled to twice the normal size (but in a bad way..) and they reoperated it. and apparently this whole thing leaved him with one nasty looking dick. and now he's getting cosmetic surgery. (feel free to be amused, he's quite vile - this was truly well-deserved nemesis)

'it swelled to twice the normal size (but in a bad way..)' LOL

[sweet and tender hooligan]

All of you who are reporting that you heard of the Smiths and Morrissey from your parents are making me sad. But, also very happy.

I listened to my parents' Beatles albums when I was a teenager. But I also listened to my grandparents' old Big Band albums... I'm just happy that Morrissey has the same appeal.

Why does it make you sad?

[EPbabe]

April 2006. Doing the garden. Listening to my cousins Ipod.

First Of The Gang To Die was on it as part of the NOW compilation album for that year.

Until then I was not even aware of Moz/The Smiths except for the video for HSIN which I remembered as the one with the chimneys.

As the afternoon went on I kept repeating the track over and over.

Next day I had bought You Are The Quarry. One week later I had Ringleader.

27th April 06 - bought a ticket of a tout for £40 for Morrissey at Glasgow's Carling Academy

Since then....well, you can guess the rest.

How and when did you fall under his spell and what exactly is it about him that we ALL find so facinating?

My hubby told me that, as a teenager, he had liked Morrissey and he had a few albums on tape. So I decided to buy two cds for him for Christmas (The World of Morrissey and My Early Burglary Years). We listened to them only in January this year when we came back to Belgium after Christmas. It was a Saturday afternoon, and I remember doing the dishes after lunch (how romantic is that ;)), my hubby was sitting on the couch (so typical) listening to the cds and reading the lyrics. And like every minute he said "gosh, this is fucking good!". And I told him "this is a nice background music". But after a few hours it just grew upon me. The next album I bought was Ringleader, then I bought You Are the Quarry, Viva Hate, Suedehead and when I bought up everything I could find in Belgium and France, I started ordering cds from Amazon. And in the meantime I started searching for pics on the internet, reading stuff about him, lyrics, interviews, everything I could find, and I was amazed, mesmerised, lost forever - and I couldn't understand how I had been able to live without him. So: Moz, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE, THANK YOU FOR BEING YOU! :rolleyes:

[lottie]

My hubby told me that, as a teenager, he had liked Morrissey and he had a few albums on tape. So I decided to buy two cds for him for Christmas (The World of Morrissey and My Early Burglary Years). We listened to them only in January this year when we came back to Belgium after Christmas. It was a Saturday afternoon, and I remember doing the dishes after lunch (how romantic is that ;)), my hubby was sitting on the couch (so typical) listening to the cds and reading the lyrics. And like every minute he said "gosh, this is fucking good!". And I told him "this is a nice background music". But after a few hours it just grew upon me. The next album I bought was Ringleader, then I bought You Are the Quarry, Viva Hate, Suedehead and when I bought up everything I could find in Belgium and France, I started ordering cds from Amazon. And in the meantime I started searching for pics on the internet, reading stuff about him, lyrics, interviews, everything I could find, and I was amazed, mesmerised, lost forever - and I couldn't understand how I had been able to live without him. So: Moz, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE, THANK YOU FOR BEING YOU! :rolleyes:


aww bless, i bet your hubby wishes he had kept quiet now? lol

and for all those whos parents love of Moz inspired them, your parents rock.
:D

[Depeche609]

My aunt's boyfriend gave me the Your Arsenal tape for Christmas in 1993 or 1994. I was like, "What the hell is this shit?"...and it was love ever since I played it in my walkman.:)

[PregnantForTheLastTime]

Why does it make you sad?

Because it means I'm old.

[Musings]

I wrote this a couple of years ago, but it still holds true today.
I'm not as publicly mushy now, but I still feel the same.
Get your puke ragbags out!

(yes, it's long-winded. feel free to skip around... :D)


----
So, here goes...

My Morrissey Story starts in 1992. I was in my parents' home (I was 14 years old) and was in the kitchen, waiting for my then-favorite video to come on, "Joyride," by Roxette. (I know, I know...) Well, all of a sudden, for the first time in my young life, I heard... The Voice. I stopped what I was doing, fascinated, and walked into the living room. The "Tomorrow" video was on. It is not an understatement whatsoever to say that I was completely... transfixed. I stood there, transfixed, and watched what was going on. His voice, his way, his... everything, just spoke to me. The meaning behind the song... wow. Just the idea that there was someone out there who understood that things aren't as perfect, happy-go-lucky as most (if not all) pop songs seemed to pronounce. I was hooked; well, as hooked as a 14-year-old without much life experience can be.

Time went by. I had some of the albums, yes, but I moved on and did other things. I can't really explain what happened or why, but I guess it would suffice to say that I hadn't 'been through' enough yet to truly appreciate Morrissey. I'd see him from time-to-time on television, or hear or read mention of him somewhere, and get that warm, "Oh, it's Morrissey, I wonder what's happened to him?" feeling, but I didn't keep up.

Fast-forward to 2004. I was going through some rough times that summer when Quarry came out (weren't we all?), and was feeling very numb, if that makes any sense.

Through some crazy coincidences, I went out and bought Quarry. Wow. I can't explain what began to happen next. That album, from the moment I first heard it, was on 'heavy rotation' at my house, in my car -- hell, wherever I was. It was literally as though some unseen force was pushing me toward him and the music -- I felt compelled to spend every spare waking moment (and some not so spare) listening to him, contemplating what he was saying, reading things about him, and just generally 'soaking it all in.'

The best way I can explain it is this -- I felt as though, for the first time in years, that I was actually FEELING something. I felt as though I'd been awakened from a deep, life-long sleep. Morrissey was speaking to something in me. I felt as though, "Wow, there IS someone else on this planet who feels the way that I feel. I WASN'T dropped off here by alien life forms!" Morrissey was, and still is, the first person I've come across in my existence whom I truly feel 'gets it.' Gets everything.

I had never been 'slavish' about any pop star in the past, not even close, but Morrissey was different. So different. I felt as though I had to go see him, go and give something back for all he'd given me. If I could just give him 1/1000th of the happiness and good feelings he'd given me, that would be something, really something, in and of itself, because he'd given me so much. He'd saved me, awoken me from that sleepwalk through life I'd been trapped in, not-so-blissfully unaware, my entire adult life.

I went to the Chicago House of Blues gig, and I tell you, it was absolutely the most emotionally-charged, freeing night of my entire life. Every emotion that you could go through, I went through that night. I've never experienced anything before or after it that could even come close to comparing to it.

I began to follow the tour around, wherever it was humanly possible. (I even somehow made it into the Kilborn gig! Strange, but true.)
I began to see things more clearly in my life as well. The tour ended in Dublin, and what an incredible ending it was. Ah...

Some people say I'm not a 'typical fan.' Well, I don't think there is such a thing. Everything we all feel and do for Morrissey is equally relevant.

He's the first person that everything I learn about him or her makes me like him or her MORE, not less... I read everything I could get my hands on about him, started a website, and began to truly study the man, and, most importantly, what he was trying to say and do through his music.

I felt, and continue to feel, a connection with him that is unparalleled by anything I've ever experienced in my entire life. I empathize with everything he says: in interviews, in his music -- hell, even onstage. I really do no longer feel at times, when life has been particularly cruel or savage, that I need to go to the nearest hill and wait for the mother-ship to zap me up. (Well, at the very least, Moz would be getting zapped-up, too!) Morrissey knows. He really and truly does.

How could anybody possibly know how I feel? Well, Moz does. I like to think that I know how he feels, too. (But don't we all feel that way? We all relate to him and feel something from his music. That's one of the many things that's so incredibly beautiful. That's why we love him so impossibly much, I think. One of the many reasons...)

Someone said to me once that Morrissey replaces something we are missing in our own lives. Well, I don't believe that is true at all. He enriches my life, gives me hope, and lets me know that there's someone out there, somewhere, who truly understands.

I am completely convinced that someone, somewhere, sent Morrissey here to help all of us. I know it, like I know my name. No, Moz isn't a saint or anything like that. Morrissey is REAL, just as real as the rest of us, but he has a gift of insight, depth of emotion, and, yes, purity of heart, and that is truly a rare thing -- I see it as the rarest of all things, as grandiose as that sounds.

Thank you, Morrissey, for everything. It is my true wish (hell, I hope to God or whatever being is out there) that he is truly happy and fulfilled one day. He deserves that much, and so much more, for all he's given us.

Thank you, Morrissey. Thank you.

[Not Right in the Head]

I wrote this a couple of years ago, but it still holds true today.
I don't act as mushy now, but I still feel the same.
Get your puke ragbags out!

(yes, it's long-winded. feel free to skip around... :D)


----
So, here goes...

*sigh* I'm going to have to drag out my tired Executive Summary joke again for this one, aren't I?

[sloanesquarehairltd]

this charming man on top of the pops came on , on a music channel quite spontaneously one day . and i knew that i was vaguaely aware of whpo the group were. i can just remember feeling a lot of admiration for morrissey on first glance , swingin flowers and singing weith his hgead back - i just thought what charisma. after that i watched william it was really nothing video and when he ripped open his shirt to reveal marry me - i was absolutely hooked. i can remember after that nlittle video stint i downloaded about 10 songs. these included boy wqith thorn in his side, please pleASe, please , queen is dead, hand in glove. these songs made me fall in love woth the smiths and basically listened no nothing alse for BOUT A MONTH THAN THESE 10 SONGS. the love of morrissey developed prior to this aloing with watching a few early interviews. the man had me hooked and obsessing .

[AnnaNoir]

'it swelled to twice the normal size (but in a bad way..)' LOL

it's no shame to rejoice in others misfortune :]

[PregnantForTheLastTime]

it's no shame to rejoice in others misfortune :]

Not sure about that... there are men who deserve to have their most precious bits damaged and/or removed. But I'm sure there are women who deserve the same fate. Sometimes there is poetic justice, sometimes. I've been subject to it myself.

[Musings]

*sigh* I'm going to have to drag out my tired Executive Summary joke again for this one, aren't I?

Heh heh. :D Go on.

But I want YOU to do the Executive Summary, NRITH! (As the Brits say, I can't be arsed to read through all of it right now, heh heh heh.)

[Not Right in the Head]

But I want YOU to do the Executive Summary, NRITH!

How patient are you?

[Musings]

How patient are you?

I've got some time. :D

Oh, all right! Harumph - before my next birthday, perhaps? Or, wait, how about before I leave work today? :D

[AnnaNoir]

Not sure about that... there are men who deserve to have their most precious bits damaged and/or removed. But I'm sure there are women who deserve the same fate. Sometimes there is poetic justice, sometimes. I've been subject to it myself.

your quite right, but as mentioned above this truly was nemesis ^^,

[theboyracer]

My cupcake was introduced to the wonderful world of Morrissey when she was a baby, due to her wonderful parents.

For me, I was 14 (2000) and on a trip on Labor Day weekend, my older greaser cousin played Everyday Is Like Sunday for me.. I was doomed from the start :)

[Not Right in the Head]

Oh, all right! Harumph - before my next birthday, perhaps? Or, wait, how about before I leave work today? :D

Before you leave work today? Then you, like my boss, are in for a big disappointment.

[Dow Jones]

I fall in love with music by my nature of being a lifeless nerd.
I've heard of everything and slowly begin to acquire every album. Ever.

Sooo I got to that point with The Smiths and did something not normal- fell head over heels, same with Moz.
I think it was spurred by this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPYOf-P4Hlo
Saw that somewhere, I dunno where, television I'd assume, but honestly you can't NOT go out in a mad rush to buy things after that. It's not possible.

[Corrissey]

Because it means I'm old.

I hear ya, Pregs. And in my case, I'm getting older faster than you :)

[Not Right in the Head]

I hear ya, Pregs. And in my case, I'm getting older faster than you :)

You can't age faster than someone else--didn't Galileo prove 500 years ago that objects fall at a constant rate, regardless of mass?

Oh, whoa, wait, bad analogy. Continue. :D

[Musings]

You can't age faster than someone else--didn't Galileo prove 500 years ago that objects fall at a constant rate, regardless of mass?

Oh, whoa, wait, bad analogy. Continue. :D

hahaha great. :D (galileo DID prove that, but will i still believe in its truth in 15-20 yrs?)

I think time does speed up as you get older... too many people have shared that little gem of insight with me. must be some truth to it, eh?

(and where's my Summary?! harumph. :D)

[PregnantForTheLastTime]

Executive Summary:

Morrissey is special. He displays an apparent understanding of how Musings feels. Musings loves Morrissey for this reason.

(I get the impression Musings doesn't go to the Frink thread much. His love is purer than that.)

[Voodoo Doll]

Back in 89 my boyfriend at the time wrote out the lyrics to Rubber Ring in a letter to me after we had broken up. I got back with him as I thought he was a fucking genius. He later told me it was a song by The Smiths... We broke up (permanently) but I just seem to get more besotted with Moz as time goes on. Definitely not a teenage phase.

[PregnantForTheLastTime]

Back in 89 my boyfriend at the time wrote out the lyrics to Rubber Ring in a letter to me after we had broken up. I got back with him as I thought he was a fucking genius. He later told me it was a song by The Smiths... We broke up (permanently) but I just seem to get more besotted with Moz as time goes on. Definitely not a teenage phase.

So he was not a fucking genius, he was a plagiarizer. Morrissey is a fucking genius.

[Not Right in the Head]

I think time does speed up as you get older... too many people have shared that little gem of insight with me. must be some truth to it, eh?

Oh, that was you asking about that last week?


Executive Summary:

Morrissey is special. He displays an apparent understanding of how Musings feels. Musings loves Morrissey for this reason.

Excellent summary. But that could summarize what all of us here feel, more or less.


(I get the impression Musings doesn't go to the Frink thread much. His love is purer than that.)

Musings, are you a guy?

[Musings]

Executive Summary:

Morrissey is special. He displays an apparent understanding of how Musings feels. Musings loves Morrissey for this reason.

(I get the impression Musings doesn't go to the Frink thread much. His love is purer than that.)

oooooh, touche' my dear!

hehehehe cute. I love your summary. Even if it is inaccurate. :D

See, he knows how we ALL feel! Especially Pregnant For the Last Time especially! :p :D

[PregnantForTheLastTime]

Oh, that was you asking about that last week?



Excellent summary. But that could summarize what all of us here feel, more or less.



Musings, are you a guy?

Musings may not be, I don't know. But, what difference does it make? ;)

Sorry, Musings. Her love is purer than that. And who knows, maybe you're base like everyone else. He is hot. Few can deny that.

[Practising Troublemaker]

Though it was not the first song I heard, it was the finest moment, and the second I knew I was under his spell. All it took was 'The Boy With The Thorn In His Side' which at the time was so perfectly suited for me and to an extent still is.

Sorry to be a little boredom promoter but I took the time to write about this moment:

The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
2001, The generation of crushed gladioli and Manchester ballrooms seem to glare down on the belligerent youth of the 21st Century. What do we know about music? they seem to think and then conjure from nowhere in particular their own answer 'NOTHING!' Surely we should be shut in the drug fused haze of some city centre night club and dancing away drowned by over flamboyant checked shirts; WKD in one hand and some old tart in the other. It is obvious to these 'higher people' that all my peers are frozen in the same black spot, listening to The Kooks and Razorlight. With our iPods and mobile phones we stroll brightly light and hostile city streets testing the strength of our companion after we put window after window through.

But, tonight I am different, and, I suppose I always have felt different and a stray soul from the crowd. Tonight, I am isoltaed from the putrid filththat are my so-called friends and aquitances. After missing the last bus home I wander in the dim, orange haze of Leeds backstreets. At this point my brother's iPod shuffle, which I borrowed this one lonely night, plucks a gem just as a magician tears a rabbit from his hat. A genuine 1986 classic, 'The Boy With The Thorn In His Side'. As I turn Morrissey's words over in my head I feel as though I want to cry; for finally somebody understands me and my ways, somebody tells me I am not alone; most importantly somebody tells me "I Know".

...If you took the time to read that thank you, I hope other people felt much the same when hearing his voice and hearing his music at times of importance.

Always in heart, always in mind, always in soul, Morrissey.

Love PTxx.

(*by the way the first Smiths track I heard was 'Unhappy Birthday'*)

[Musings]

Oh, that was you asking about that last week?

'Twas, my friend. But I don't think I got a response. :o


Excellent summary. But that could summarize what all of us here feel, more or less.

Exactly. :)


Musings, are you a guy?

Before I answer, which I will, why do you ask? Which do you think?
:D
[EDIT: I see now why you asked. Still, answer the second question though, heheh...]

[Musings]

Musings may not be, I don't know. But, what difference does it make? ;)

Sorry, Musings. Her love is purer than that. And who knows, maybe you're base like everyone else. He is hot. Few can deny that.

Wha??? I'm lost. I nevah said he wasn't hot. ;)
(And deffo not base. :D)

[Not Right in the Head]

'Twas, my friend. But I don't think I got a response. :o

I'm pretty sure I responded to say that you were nuts, but now I can't find that thread. Anybody know how to quickly look up an older thread?


Before I answer, which I will, why do you ask? Which do you think?

As Pregs said, it really doesn't matter. I was just pointing out her use of "his," 'cause, well, I couldn't help myself.

[Musings]

I'm pretty sure I responded to say that you were nuts, but now I can't find that thread. Anybody know how to quickly look up an older thread?


Hmm, I think you can go back through your old posts to see what you've responded to... I've done that before.


As Pregs said, it really doesn't matter. I was just pointing out her use of "his," 'cause, well, I couldn't help myself.

Haha, nice, gotcha. Yeah, I edited my earlier post to point out that I caught why you questioned it... well? :D

[Musings]

So he was not a fucking genius, he was a plagiarizer. Morrissey is a fucking genius.

But we all must pronounce "plagiarize" as Morrissey does. It's a rule. My English teacher in college used to pronounce it that way, and I used to get such a big kick out of it every time! :D

[Not Right in the Head]

Hmm, I think you can go back through your old posts to see what you've responded to... I've done that before.

To paraphrase Einstein (http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26184.html), I can assure you that my difficulties in going through my older posts are far greater than yours. :D


Haha, nice, gotcha. Yeah, I edited my earlier post to point out that I caught why you questioned it... well? :D

Well what?

[Musings]

To paraphrase Einstein (http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26184.html), I can assure you that my difficulties in going through my older posts are far greater than yours. :D

Ha ha, I guess so, but I didn't think a few days would be that difficult. :D
(I loved the quote btw!)


Well what?

just in general.
no, really, I was just curious as to which gender I came across as being... (not that you've put that much thought into it, but still :p )

[Not Right in the Head]

Back in 89 my boyfriend at the time wrote out the lyrics to Rubber Ring in a letter to me after we had broken up. I got back with him as I thought he was a fucking genius. He later told me it was a song by The Smiths...

Heh, I used to do the same thing in notes to my targets of infatuation, but instead of thinking that I was a genius, they all but issued restraining orders against me. I guess that "Pretty Girls Make Graves" and "I Don't Owe You Anything" were poor choices to plagiarize.

[PregnantForTheLastTime]

I haven't been to the Frink thread in... days. I think. Ok, maybe I popped in yesterday. It's just a little shameful to ogle a man so pure of heart.

Ok, who am I kidding. I'm not sorry. He's really damn hot. And brilliant. Imperfect perfection.

No, NRITH, I have not been drinking this time. It's way too early for that.

[Not Right in the Head]

No, NRITH, I have not been drinking this time. It's way too early for that.

The thought hadn't even crossed my mind! :eek:

[Musings]

I haven't been to the Frink thread in... days. I think. Ok, maybe I popped in yesterday. It's just a little shameful to ogle a man so pure of heart.

Ok, who am I kidding. I'm not sorry. He's really damn hot. And brilliant. Imperfect perfection.



Ok miss thang, I get your gentle ribbing loud and clear... keep in mind that i wrote that a couple of years ago AND I knew that lil' comment would get noticed. :D
(Also, when I said he was pure of heart, I didn't mean he wasn't, you know... 'a grown up person' ;). I meant something on a totally different level, m'dear... )

[Dothatagain?]

Though it was not the first song I heard, it was the finest moment, and the second I knew I was under his spell. All it took was 'The Boy With The Thorn In His Side' which at the time was so perfectly suited for me and to an extent still is.


That song did it for me, too. I have vague memories of hearing "William" over a car radio when I was a kid (and I really don't know why I remember that - something about the vocal melody in the chorus), but I don't think I actually truly listened to a Smiths or Morrissey song until 2005, when I got around to watching the BBC drama Blackpool.

There's a scene where David Tennant's police officer arrests a young boy for drug dealing, all the while singing and dancing to the song. I remember watching it and being stunned, because I'd never heard anything quite like it before. I'd never heard guitar like that, I'd never heard someone sing like that. I ran out and got The Very Best of the Smiths, and quickly bought all the other albums.

But "Boy With The Thorn" has remained one of my favourites, all the way through. There's something truly beautiful about it. It's upbeat and sad and witty, and sums up the band. And as someone at the stage in my life where I have to choose a career and try to get somewhere, the last few words of the song have offered a great deal of comfort through the confusion.

[PregnantForTheLastTime]

That song did it for me, too. I have vague memories of hearing "William" over a car radio when I was a kid (and I really don't know why I remember that - something about the vocal melody in the chorus), but I don't think I actually truly listened to a Smiths or Morrissey song until 2005, when I got around to watching the BBC drama Blackpool.

There's a scene where David Tennant's police officer arrests a young boy for drug dealing, all the while singing and dancing to the song. I remember watching it and being stunned, because I'd never heard anything quite like it before. I'd never heard guitar like that, I'd never heard someone sing like that. I ran out and got The Very Best of the Smiths, and quickly bought all the other albums.

But "Boy With The Thorn" has remained one of my favourites, all the way through. There's something truly beautiful about it. It's upbeat and sad and witty, and sums up the band. And as someone at the stage in my life where I have to choose a career and try to get somewhere, the last few words of the song have offered a great deal of comfort through the confusion.

I LOVED Blackpool (It was shown as Viva Blackpool here.) I wish I could watch it again... it's not available on DVD in the US.

Somebody else mentioned Unhappy Birthday... for me it was a few bars of Girlfriend in a Coma anda few of Unhappy Birthday. He showed me the cassette box and I gaped some more at the yellow photo- then pretty much dropped everything to run out and buy the tape.

[PregnantForTheLastTime]

Ok miss thang, I get your gentle ribbing loud and clear... keep in mind that i wrote that a couple of years ago AND I knew that lil' comment would get noticed. :D
(Also, when I said he was pure of heart, I didn't mean he wasn't, you know... 'a grown up person' ;). I meant something on a totally different level, m'dear... )

There are so many things about him to love...

[Not Right in the Head]

There are so many things about him to love...

*ahem* This is turning into the Frink thread, but thankfully, it's pic-free.

We should start a thread (or morph this one into) one about which song got you hooked. For me, it was "This Charming Man" and "Hand in Glove," which, 18 years on, are provably still my top 2. Weird, now that I think about it.

[PregnantForTheLastTime]

Yeah, Kewpie should be popping up momentarily to give us the link to that thread. I'm pretty sure it was active a couple of months ago. I just dont' have the link URL memorized, sorry.

[Not Right in the Head]

Yeah, Kewpie should be popping up momentarily to give us the link to that thread. I'm pretty sure it was active a couple of months ago. I just dont' have the link URL memorized, sorry.

Damn, I don't remember that thread. But, coincidentally, it reminds me of another Einstein anecdote (http://anecdotage.com/index.php?aid=12510). Why should we search for old threads (or memorize them) when we have someone else to do it for us? Kewpie isn't teaching us to fish.

[PregnantForTheLastTime]

Half the time when I'm trying to search for a thread, too many of my keywords are three characters and the search won't accept them.

Sometimes I have to go back and scroll through all my old posts to find things. Or I could just holler for Kewpie...

[Not Right in the Head]

Half the time when I'm trying to search for a thread, too many of my keywords are three characters and the search won't accept them.

Yes, the search feature here is pretty useless. I'm convinced that Kewpie has some super-mod search feature that we plebes can't access. She'll say that it's just the similar threads that are listed at the bottom of each thread page, but we all know that it can't be as simple as that.


Sometimes I have to go back and scroll through all my old posts to find things. Or I could just holler for Kewpie...

Old posts only go back 500 posts. For me, that's like last week.

[nogodsnomasters85]

It was less love at first sight and more of a seduction. People had told me he was fantastic, yada yada, I liked "Every Day Is Like Sunday", so I bought his best of, started listening to it more and more, then I saw the videos for Irish Blood and First of the Gang taken from who put the M, and that was it. He changed my life, I am forever grateful.

[Chad]

My friend started sending me Moz and Smiths tracks, one by one over instant messenger. I was enjoying the music, loving his voice, identifying with the lyrics, thought Morrissey was a very handsome man, etc, but was not in love with him yet. On the third or so day, she sent me a song and told me we should listen to it together when the transfer completed.

She wanted to listen to "Dear God Please Help Me" together and was so excited about it because, well, it's pretty damn hot, and she, unlike anyone I knew outside of the internet, knew I liked men.

I started shaking when Moz sung about the hand on his knee, and around the "there is no room to move" I started bawling uncontrollably. I listened to it a few more times, all the while crying my eyes out, and then called my sister and told her I'm gay.

I came out to my friends and I listened to Dear God over 100 times that week. A couple weeks later I came out to my parents.

Morrissey, and to a lesser extent, The Smiths, have absolutely dominated my listening habits ever since, and this September I had a ticket to his show in San Francisco, got there eight hours early only to miss his hand the first time around, but during "In The Future When All's Well", with my arm stretched out as far as possible, he grabbed onto my hand and held it and I closed my eyes and I've run out of words...

[EPbabe]

aww bless, i bet your hubby wishes he had kept quiet now? lol



You bet he does! ;)

[Bona Drag]

1990-1991. A friend gave me a tape with The Cure's "Standing on a beach" and after this record he put some songs there to fill the space in the tape. Two songs from Bauhaus and two songs from The Smiths (Unhappy Birthday and Girlfriend in a Coma).... I forgot to listen to The Cure and Bauhaus and I would only listen to those two songs. I was amazed!!

A week later he made another tape for me with The Queen is Dead. I felt in love.

A couple of days later we were shopping for records and I came across Bona Drag, by that time I wouldn't even know who Morrissey was and my friend told me "Oh, that's the guy who used to sing in The Smiths, that band that you liked so much!!". Bona Drag changed my life forever and still omy favorite songs collection.

[Not Right in the Head]

My friend started sending me Moz and Smiths tracks, one by one over instant messenger. I was enjoying the music, loving his voice, identifying with the lyrics, thought Morrissey was a very handsome man, etc, but was not in love with him yet. On the third or so day, she sent me a song and told me we should listen to it together when the transfer completed...

That was a very moving answer. Thanks.

[Chad]

That was a very moving answer. Thanks.

Sure. :)

[Essex's Shelagh Delaney]

2004, at The Reading Festival, I was 18. It was cold, it was wet, it was miserable, I had never heard of The Smiths or Morrissey.

On the Saturday I got very stoned and very drunk, just to ease the pain and stop myself freezing to death. Somewhere along the line, one of my party suggested we go to the main arena, at around 8.30pm. I lost my friend in the crowd, but, high as a kite decided to try and get as near to the front of the stage as possible. I didn't even know who was on next. There were words coming up on a big screen, as it got dark, and then a Mancunian voice saying different words, some of which seemed to be quite odd. I swear the voice boomed "Myra Hindley" at one point. The sky was so dark blue as to almost be purple.

Then the first strains of 'How Soon is Now' happened. I looked around. I was having a religious experience. I swigged the Vodka I had smuggled in in my Evian bottle. Morrissey appeared. He was about 20feet away from me. The crowd went wild. I went wild. I was one of the crowd. The crowd was me. I was really stoned. He sang "I am the son, and the heir. Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar." I thought "Oooh. Funny." I'm not really shy, and I figured that the bequiffed man on stage wasn't really either (there were about 20,000 of us there) but the lyrics were good. Particularly to a young woman who despaired of the lyrics to most songs. It was the summer of 2004, Three of a Kind were at Number 1 with 'Babycakes'. "I am the son and heir of nothing in particular." That was when it hit me like a ton of bricks: this man was God. Possibly the second incarnation of Christ. I too am the son (well daughter) and heir of..... nothing in particular.

I was hooked. He followed up How Soon is Now with November Spawned a Monster (which I thought was hilarious), First of the Gang to Die (which I had heard on the radio, I suddenly realised), and many others. Jack the Ripper was the second from last song, and it made me cry (I was really off my face).

Leaving the arena two hours later, I phoned my then boyfriend, a strapping fellow 14years my senior. I told him what had happened.
"Oh yes," he said in his northern drawl, "he was with The Smiths in the '80's. They were terrible." (this was a man who had seen Def Leppard in concert something like 800 times, and Marillion over a billion. He really had no right to critisise anything). "I've got a copy of Hatful of Hollow somewhere. You can have it."

I awoke the next morning with a terrible headache, and feeling very sick, but I knew that something fantastic had happened. The next week at work (I, at this time in my life, worked for a pornographic publication as an erotic writer. My colleagues were misfits and northerners. It was a brilliant job) I mentioned my experience. There was a general consensus that no one really knew his work, being too young or too old, apart from 40 year old Mancunian Conner, who just didn't say anything. The next day I came in to find a stack of 12 various The Smiths and Morrissey CD's on my desk, but no note. I was puzzled, but the pieces of the puzzle all fitted together as I sat in the stockroom listening to The Queen is Dead later that afternoon, and Conner came in.
"Thems are my CDs" he said, "Copy 'em. You'll never hear nowt else like it." and then he showed me his tattoo, in gothic script on his wrist it read: "I am the son and heir of nothing in particular." Legend!

I've never looked back.

[jeniphir]

The first Smiths song I ever heard was "How Soon is Now?" when it first came out (I was in high school). I haven't been the same since.

--jeniphir

[PregnantForTheLastTime]

"Thems are my CDs" he said, "Copy 'em. You'll never hear nowt else like it." and then he showed me his tattoo, in gothic script on his wrist it read: "I am the son and heir of nothing in particular." Legend!

I've never looked back.

"You'll never hear nowt else like it." I love this. Great story, thank you.

[Tibby]

I bought the Pretty In Pink soundtrack and first heard Please,Please,Please let me get what I want.I thought the song was so beautiful.I was 12 years old.Then in my twenties and going through some really bad depresssion heard his songs on this great alternative station we used to have here.I Had never heard words that so greatly described how I felt .I was in love.And I`m still in love and will always love Morrissey.

[nugz]

2004, at The Reading Festival, I was 18. It was cold, it was wet, it was miserable, I had never heard of The Smiths or Morrissey.

On the Saturday I got very stoned and very drunk, just to ease the pain and stop myself freezing to death. Somewhere along the line, one of my party suggested we go to the main arena, at around 8.30pm. I lost my friend in the crowd, but, high as a kite decided to try and get as near to the front of the stage as possible. I didn't even know who was on next. There were words coming up on a big screen, as it got dark, and then a Mancunian voice saying different words, some of which seemed to be quite odd. I swear the voice boomed "Myra Hindley" at one point. The sky was so dark blue as to almost be purple.

Then the first strains of 'How Soon is Now' happened. I looked around. I was having a religious experience. I swigged the Vodka I had smuggled in in my Evian bottle. Morrissey appeared. He was about 20feet away from me. The crowd went wild. I went wild. I was one of the crowd. The crowd was me. I was really stoned. He sang "I am the son, and the heir. Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar." I thought "Oooh. Funny." I'm not really shy, and I figured that the bequiffed man on stage wasn't really either (there were about 20,000 of us there) but the lyrics were good. Particularly to a young woman who despaired of the lyrics to most songs. It was the summer of 2004, Three of a Kind were at Number 1 with 'Babycakes'. "I am the son and heir of nothing in particular." That was when it hit me like a ton of bricks: this man was God. Possibly the second incarnation of Christ. I too am the son (well daughter) and heir of..... nothing in particular.

I was hooked. He followed up How Soon is Now with November Spawned a Monster (which I thought was hilarious), First of the Gang to Die (which I had heard on the radio, I suddenly realised), and many others. Jack the Ripper was the second from last song, and it made me cry (I was really off my face).

Leaving the arena two hours later, I phoned my then boyfriend, a strapping fellow 14years my senior. I told him what had happened.
"Oh yes," he said in his northern drawl, "he was with The Smiths in the '80's. They were terrible." (this was a man who had seen Def Leppard in concert something like 800 times, and Marillion over a billion. He really had no right to critisise anything). "I've got a copy of Hatful of Hollow somewhere. You can have it."

I awoke the next morning with a terrible headache, and feeling very sick, but I knew that something fantastic had happened. The next week at work (I, at this time in my life, worked for a pornographic publication as an erotic writer. My colleagues were misfits and northerners. It was a brilliant job) I mentioned my experience. There was a general consensus that no one really knew his work, being too young or too old, apart from 40 year old Mancunian Conner, who just didn't say anything. The next day I came in to find a stack of 12 various The Smiths and Morrissey CD's on my desk, but no note. I was puzzled, but the pieces of the puzzle all fitted together as I sat in the stockroom listening to The Queen is Dead later that afternoon, and Conner came in.
"Thems are my CDs" he said, "Copy 'em. You'll never hear nowt else like it." and then he showed me his tattoo, in gothic script on his wrist it read: "I am the son and heir of nothing in particular." Legend!

I've never looked back.

I liked that story, good stuff! :)

[Essex's Shelagh Delaney]

Lol, thank you. Just proves you should never mess with drugs, kids. But if you're going to, I think there are worse people to get into than Moz.

[Essex's Shelagh Delaney]

"You'll never hear nowt else like it." I love this. Great story, thank you.

If I had the guts to get a tattoo, that's the one I'd get!

[Voodoo Doll]

Heh, I used to do the same thing in notes to my targets of infatuation, but instead of thinking that I was a genius, they all but issued restraining orders against me. I guess that "Pretty Girls Make Graves" and "I Don't Owe You Anything" were poor choices to plagiarize.

You're right there! He definitely nailed it with lines such as 'when you're dancing and laughing and finally living, hear my voice in your head and think of me kindly'. That broke my heart and I had to take him back. Until i realised he had nicked it. He also changed smother me mother to smother me inserts his own name
Um, pretty girls make graves... what were you thinking LOL! Moz doesnt really do the love song does he? :) There is a light is also a potentially scary one if she's not REALLY into you. If she is though, you'll nail her forever!

[Not Right in the Head]

You're right there! He definitely nailed it with lines such as 'when you're dancing and laughing and finally living, hear my voice in your head and think of me kindly'. That broke my heart and I had to take him back. Until i realised he had nicked it. He also changed smother me mother to smother me inserts his own name
Um, pretty girls make graves... what were you thinking LOL! Moz doesnt really do the love song does he? :) There is a light is also a potentially scary one if she's not REALLY into you. If she is though, you'll nail her forever!

God willing...

[modrevolve]

[QUOTE=jeniphir;709945]The first Smiths song I ever heard was "How Soon is Now?" when it first came out (I was in high school). I haven't been the same since.

The first time I heard a Smiths song was when I was 10 and went to see Ferris Buller's Day Off which featured the Dream Academy's instrumental cover of Please Please Please...I was mesmorized by those guitar lines but it was quite a few years later before I discovered who the orignal authors were..

[PregnantForTheLastTime]

[quote=jeniphir;709945]The first Smiths song I ever heard was "How Soon is Now?" when it first came out (I was in high school). I haven't been the same since.

The first time I heard a Smiths song was when I was 10 and went to see Ferris Buller's Day Off which featured the Dream Academy's instrumental cover of Please Please Please...I was mesmorized by those guitar lines but it was quite a few years later before I discovered who the orignal authors were..

I can't even drive past the Art Institute without hearing the song in my head...

[snapyou]

My friend started sending me Moz and Smiths tracks, one by one over instant messenger. I was enjoying the music, loving his voice, identifying with the lyrics, thought Morrissey was a very handsome man, etc, but was not in love with him yet. On the third or so day, she sent me a song and told me we should listen to it together when the transfer completed.

She wanted to listen to "Dear God Please Help Me" together and was so excited about it because, well, it's pretty damn hot, and she, unlike anyone I knew outside of the internet, knew I liked men.

I started shaking when Moz sung about the hand on his knee, and around the "there is no room to move" I started bawling uncontrollably. I listened to it a few more times, all the while crying my eyes out, and then called my sister and told her I'm gay.

I came out to my friends and I listened to Dear God over 100 times that week. A couple weeks later I came out to my parents.

Morrissey, and to a lesser extent, The Smiths, have absolutely dominated my listening habits ever since, and this September I had a ticket to his show in San Francisco, got there eight hours early only to miss his hand the first time around, but during "In The Future When All's Well", with my arm stretched out as far as possible, he grabbed onto my hand and held it and I closed my eyes and I've run out of words...

Aww,that's such a great story.Thanks for sharing it :)

[Jane]

When I first saw him live my appreciation turned into a kind of obsession.

[JoyDiv007]

I first heard The Smiths in 87 on college radio, the song was What Difference Does it Make, didn't know then who the band was but loved that song and my life hasn't been the same since.

[Girl Unafraid]

When I was fourteen, I really loved the Libertines, and read somewhere Pete Doherty talking about hearing The Boy With The Thorn in His Side on a mixtape for the first time, so hence my first knowledge of The Smiths' Then I accidentally taped This Charming Man off the radio and just fell in love with it. I spent about two months listening to that one Smiths song over and over and singing the wrong lyrics '..by the pool' instead of 'punctured bicycle'. Eventually I bought an album and that's how it all began! I wish it was more significant/romantic...:o

[half a person]

I was 12 (2 years ago)... twas a friday night... I was in the car driving back from tesco, they played 'There is a Light...' on the radio, my dad was laughing at the lyrics, I went home and downloaded as many smiths songs as I could fit on my MP3. I remember having started a new school and listening to Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now (I was looking for a school, and then I found a school, and Heaven knows I'm Miserable Now :p:). And I've never looked back...

[EPbabe]

I was 12 (2 years ago)... twas a friday night... I was in the car driving back from tesco, they played 'There is a Light...' on the radio, my dad was laughing at the lyrics, I went home and downloaded as many smiths songs as I could fit on my MP3. I remember having started a new school and listening to Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now (I was looking for a school, and then I found a school, and Heaven knows I'm Miserable Now :p. And I've never looked back...


Lovely! :) Is it possible that you're his youngest fan on this forum? :eek:;)

[Not Right in the Head]

Lovely! :) Is it possible that you're his youngest fan on this forum? :eek:;)

I noticed that, too. I'm worried that I'll have to tone down the risqué jokes in order to keep from getting thrown in jail. Maybe we need an age-verification system on these boards.

[Samiy]

i remeber about five years ago i was like erghhh mum whats this shit at thstage where i was so up my own arse i thought i knew everything about music and disregarded her tastes with a passion

that all changed when i saw him at Leeds festival and since then ive been raving mad with passion haha

shit spelling because i decided to cook sundaydinner for me family

[billybud71]

1987.....friend popped in the meat is murder cassette tape. the high i felt that day was to die for. 20 years later nothing has changed. well, a bit less hair to quiff, but i'm still feeling high anytime i listen to his voice.

[EPbabe]

Lovely! Is it possible that you're his youngest fan on this forum? :eek:;)


I noticed that, too. I'm worried that I'll have to tone down the risqué jokes in order to keep from getting thrown in jail. Maybe we need an age-verification system on these boards.

:D Lol,
"it's time the tale were told, of how you took a child, and you made him old...." ;)

[the_kaz]

What I’m more interested in knowing is, were you a fan of him from the very beginning?

As embarrassing as it is for me to admit this, I hadn’t even heard of Morrissey or The Smiths until I heard the t.A.T.u. cover of “How Soon is Now?” in 2002. I was a big fan of the song and I thought that it sounded lovely and had very intelligent lyrics. It wasn’t until I saw The Smiths version on the Q channel a few months later that I discovered the origins of the song, and it suddenly made sense how t.A.T.u. could have such an intelligent song in the midst of the usual pop fluff that compromised the rest of their album. Shortly afterwards (and completely coincidently), a colleague added a small amount of well known Smiths songs to the work play list. I quite liked The Smiths songs that I heard, but I was still a long way from being a “fan”.

In 2005, I ventured away from home and took up a temporary residence in Bradford (in a move that still baffles me to this very day). In Bradford I became good friends with a woman who was a huge fan of The Smiths and Morrissey. She would talk about Morrissey constantly, and it was a regular occurrence for me to find her in the library scouring the internet for new Morrissey related information. I didn’t understand her passion for Morrissey at all, and I was extremely surprised to discover that he had such a huge cult following. But, being on the lookout for new music (as I always am), I agreed to borrow from her the two disc Smiths “Best” collections, as well as Morrissey’s newest album at the time “You Are the Quarry”. I liked the albums from the very beginning, but I immediately loved “You Are the Quarry” due to its catchy music, clever lyrics and immediate accessibility (as opposed to “Best I” and “Best II” which, like most music from before my time when I was that age, took a while to grow on me). I soon went out and purchased “Suedehead: The Best of Morrissey”, but I didn’t like that very much at the time, and my newfound passion for Morrissey brought on by my love of “Quarry” died almost as quickly as it started.

Over the next year or so, I only really listened to The Smiths and Morrissey when the songs would play randomly on “shuffle” mode on iTunes. I don’t remember what I was doing, or which song I happened to be listening to at the time, but during one such instance of a Morrissey/Smiths song playing on shuffle something in me clicked. The lyrics, the voice, the background music…I suddenly realised how perfect it all was. It’s like a void in my heart had finally been filled at that very moment and I immediately became a true Morrissey fan (much to the dismay of my immediate family, most of my friends, and all of my work colleagues!). Since then, I’ve bought every Morrissey and The Smiths album, most of the singles, seen him live twice, and have become completely addicted.

[echobay]

I saw one song from Who put the M in Manchester when it was screened on channel 4, can't remember if that was 2004 or 2005. I didn't pay to much attention to it or who it was, but it stuck in my head. Came across, a Morrissey video on you tube at the beginning of 2007 and since then I have become hooked, bordering on obessed :confused:

I first bought You are the Quarry, then Ringleader, Viva Hate, Live at Earls Court, and the recent greatest hits. His lyrics have allowed be to understand myself, and to realise who I am. No other music now compares. Can't wait for the day to see him live in concert.



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[Kieran]

In happened in March of 2004 but then again it didn't.
I was rummaging through a bunch of old cassettes at one of my local thrift stores. The title "Meat Is Murder" caught my eye. I had been a vegetarian a little over a year by then. I snatched it immediately. I thought with a title like that, the music can't be wrong. My sister was obsessed with the book "The Perks Of Being A Wallflower" at the time and she was with me and was reminded of the part of the book where Charlie receives a mixed CD with the song "Asleep" by The Smiths. Strangely, Louder Than Bombs was also among them, as well as The Queen Is Dead but I decided to leave that one behind. So I had two Smiths albums. That isn't the best part.
It was only a short month later. I'm pretty sure it was the weekend because I was still in school in those days and I was watching television in the morning. I had a certain regime where I'd sit down at the television with a pen and paper and see if I could find new bands or artists. A few years ago MTV had a channel called Subterranean, maybe they still do, and I'd sit through the show to see if anything sparked my interest. It wasn't on the show that I first saw Morrissey but a commerical for his single "Irish Blood, English Heart". I was so completely, utterly, and foolishly mezmerised that I didn't even get a chance to write his name down or ANYTHING. I think I was paralyzed. I actually sat down infront of the television all day until that commerical came on again so I could quickly jot it down. No joke.
And as you could obviously tell, I had NO IDEA Morrissey was in The Smiths when I bought those tapes. I hadn't even listened to those tapes. I only did so after I realized Morrissey was the singer. So technically I became a Morrissey fan before The Smiths but only by a hair.

[starless]

There Is A Light That Never Goes Out played by Ricky Gervais on his XFM show and then looking up the video from Manchester 2004 on youtube.

[CrystalGeezer]

Autumn 1989. Marching Band practice. A girl named Wendy handed me her walkman and said "Listen to this." It was Panic. It was sort of a mystical moment for me. That voice. I couldn't get it out of my head. I was hooked within 2 bars of hearing the song and the rest is history.

[dicartwright]

[QUOTE=the_kaz;827039] What I’m more interested in knowing is, were you a fan of him from the very beginning? QUOTE]

He scared me. His eyes and eyebrows scared me and fascinated me. I couldn't stop looking at him, and I only had one photo. But when I "understood" the lyrics for Girlfriend in a coma I knew he was right for me. And of course, started to look at him in a very different way.

[Kewpie]

bump (I'm very tempted to merge this with Scarlet's thread). :p

[Corrissey]

bump (I'm very tempted to merge this with Scarlet's thread). :p

fine by me. I don't have to 'splain myself again :p

[nugz]

fine by me. I don't have to 'splain myself again :p

yeah i was gonna post my story again, but i know ive told my "i first heard the Smiths while working in Hot Topic" story a million times. that being said, I first heard the Smiths while working in Hot Topic. was hooked from that day forward. :) bout 6 years and counting.

[Corrissey]

yeah i was gonna post my story again, but i know ive told my "i first heard the Smiths while working in Hot Topic" story a million times. that being said, I first heard the Smiths while working in Hot Topic. was hooked from that day forward. :) bout 6 years and counting.

Oh, not that story again. :rolleyes: :p

And duly noted that you don’t mind Kewpie merging a thread. This time. ;)

[nugz]

Oh, not that story again. :rolleyes: :p

And duly noted that you don’t mind Kewpie merging a thread. This time. ;)

haha. smartass. :p

no, this time it would acceptable. :D

[Corrissey]

haha. smartass. :p

That sounds like pillow fightin' words! :mad: :D

[nugz]

That sounds like pillow fightin' words! :mad: :D

muahaha. oh its on! im in my pjs. are YOU? :p

[I am a Ghost]

Think this type thread was seen before....;)
Me:1984, dull Dublin, Top of the Pops, Heaven Knows etc etc...

[Kewpie]

Think this type thread was seen before....;)
Me:1984, dull Dublin, Top of the Pops, Heaven Knows etc etc...

:confused:

But you didn't bother to see Morrissey's gigs until sometime in 90s?

[Corrissey]

muahaha. oh its on! im in my pjs. are YOU? :p

nah -at work. I'm headed to the gym soon for kickboxing. I am so ready for you & your pillow, nugz :D

[nugz]

nah -at work. I'm headed to the gym soon for kickboxing. I am so ready for you & your pillow, nugz :D

i'll be waiting. :cool::D

[I am a Ghost]

:confused:

But you didn't bother to see Morrissey's gigs until sometime in 90s?

Curiously enough, there does appear to be a world outside Morrissey and/or The Smiths.

So I'm told anyway.......

[Mars_Rover]

uhm.. i feel really mean bringing this up :D (..especially now when he wont be bringing much up anymore haha) well, he's not gonna read this - i feel safe to share a some gossip: he had an infection and it swelled to twice the normal size (but in a bad way..) and they reoperated it. and apparently this whole thing leaved him with one nasty looking dick. and now he's getting cosmetic surgery. (feel free to be amused, he's quite vile - this was truly well-deserved nemesis)

Maybe there is such a thing as karma then :cool:

[Chileiceman]

I only really became a fan when my German teacher handed me a CD with totally random Morrissey/Smiths songs. Some of them rare like You've Had Her, Trash, Lost, but also some well known ones like Suedehead and How Soon Is Now.

We had been talking (she liked me, because I was one of the few tha was taking that class seriously) and we happened to have similar taste in music. We both liked The Cure, Radiohead and Depeche Mode. She asked me if I liked Morrissey and I said from the little I've heard of him I liked him. And then that CD, led to me buying "The Very Best of The Smiths", and now I have most of his albums.

[mauve21]

Was the late eighties when I heard This Charming Man - The Smiths
on the radio. Must have been not long after that I saw the Queen is Dead film
clip on the television with the topless girl with short hair spray painting
and the references to breaking into the palace etc which caused
me to fall about laughing........
Oh but then of course I could never forget the first image of Steven dancing about with flowers in his pocket (Charming Man video clip), but really
wasn't until years later when I saw and heard November Spawned a Monster
that I really knew that I was under his spell.
And well and truly. But you know I don't think there is any other man
who comes anywhere near close to being quite so enigmatic as our Mr. Morrissey.......