Who knew Morrissey was an idiot? By Steven Wells

[Morrissey the 23rd]

By Steven Wells (swells@philadelphiaweekly.com) in the Philadelphia Weekly:
http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/articles/16003

Swells also wrote the artilce, The FA should look to Morrissey, not Mourinho
as I told you ahead of the main page (again):
http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=81380

[withmyheadonthebar]

"I've never liked Morrissey". No shit, Swells?

And as for the FA article - what was actually the point of it???

My faith in the Guardian has gone down since they don't appear to copy-edit their blogs (four articles on Moz, and in none of which they bother to spell his name right - who, pray, is 'Stephen Patrick Morrissey'?)

Grrrrrrr....:mad:

[Jones]

I think Wells is getting a bit scary now. Three articles on Morrissey on the same subject?

The scariest thing is he hates Morrissey but knows he is friends with Kevin Gallen and loads of other things only really hardcore fans know. Why is he following Morrissey's career so closely? There's only one word for that. Stalker.

[lightupvirginmary]

Is 'We'll Let You Know' about football hooligans? I've never heard of that before.

[Augustus]

Swell's (he used to call himself "Seething Wells" if you recall - I mean, need one say more?) insane ramblings were the beginning of the end for the NME back when it first started to unravel fifteen odd years ago. He was an unreadable dickhead then and I'm not surprised to see the passage of time hasn't changed him one iota.

I seem to recall Wells last great musical love was Daphne & Celeste - a very short lived pair of pre-pubescent no marks he attempted to propel to stardom in the early 90s. ****ing idiot. There is no truth in the rumour that after Swell's intervention D & C were last seen gigging for £60 for half an hour, £100 for the hour.

Wells, Heaton, Bragg. Is there no end to the right-on, passed-by and now forgotten who wish to hitch their falling star to Morrissey for a last chance to be listened to? It says much for Wells that to be a "good bloke" in his book all you have to do is hate America and Americans.

[Brel]

Wells will be making the most of all this. He absolutely hates Morrissey and always has done. Anyone who has ever seen/heard him talk about Morrissey will know this. The man will be writing about this for the next 6 months, at least.

He is an ugly, horrible and vile man.

[Jones]

Is 'We'll Let You Know' about football hooligans? I've never heard of that before.

Yes, it is, but it's a critique of football fans. Wells won't let the facts get in the way of an anti-Morrissey rant though.

[AndrewGMooney]

Steven Wells writes:
'I’ve never liked Morrissey.'
What was that song called: 'If You Don't Like Me-Don't Look At Me'? I can remember the tune, but not the singer. My memory's not what it was.....
So, why is he so morbidly obsessed with Morrissey all these years later? Hasn't he got anything better to do?

Morrissey is the ultimate cultural ‘agent-provocateur‘. He says what he says -with Foresight, understanding, in advance, that Hindsight will probably show him, once again: How difficult and career-endangering it is to express genuine 'freedom of expression' in Human Culture.
Or maybe he really is capable of such dazzling Machiavellianism, in deliberately re-launching cruise missiles specifically and intentionally to, once again, relish seeing The NME: ‘hoist by their own retards/petards’… …to semi-quote the other Bard of Mercia.

I couldn’t possibly comment………

There’s the usual re-hash of supposedly ‘inflammatory’ lyrics which reveal how limited Mr Well’s intellectual capacities (still) are. Does he actually earn a living from this stuff? Sounds like money for old rope to me.
Had to Google Joey Vento:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geno's_Steaks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geno%27s_Steaks)

What's the connection? Casually relating Morrissey’s 'reported' comments in NME to a complex story of Police Murder, possible Miscarriage of Justice, and the difficulties of ‘ordering lunch in inner-city multi-cultural, multi-language areas‘ seems.....a bit of a stretch. If not overtly confusional and/or delusional.
Why and how is Morrissey 'Joey-Vento-esque’?
If I was paying my lawyers £350 per hour: I’d have them scrutinising this article with a nit-comb. Just to ‘clarify matters’.
Mr Wells actually says: “There was more, and it was all Joey Vento-esque, illogical and ignorant bullshit. “………

So! Jonze IS back from his Thai-Therapeutic-’Retreat’: And Mr Wells has heard the tape, ‘all‘ of it, in its’ full, unexpurgated glory! Have Morrissey and Merck and their ‘legal eagles’ also put the MP3 on their I-Pods? Do we, ‘the great unwashed’ get to hear this fascinating development in full?
Maybe, right now, Conor and Jonze are walking up and down Oxford Street with a large placard pleading with frightened tourists with foreign accents/languages to ‘please listen to the truth’, handing out tapes that conclusively prove ‘The Thought and Speech Crimes of The Renegade Outlaw Morrissey’.
Or maybe not. Maybe this can be done under Queensbury Rules and it’s all just been a ‘misunderstanding’.

In which case, everyone can kiss and make up! And be ‘mates’ and ‘be ‘avin a few beers, innit’! Phew! What’s yours, Moz - a pint of Landlords’?
http://www.timothy-taylor.co.uk/lordmain.htm
Or are you still in ‘full-on-Brit-hangover-binge-drinking recovery mode‘, you bozo mate-of-mine: In which case is it a Lurisia’n’Lime’ again, yeah?
http://www.lurisia.it/
Yeah, let’s all be Mock-er-ney Mates whilst we stand in this fetid bar awaiting the latest Nth-rate remake of ‘Brit alt-music in the 1980s’, which you, my ‘mate’ Moz, in your silly younger days ‘almost wrecked’!
But you’re back ‘onside’ now, ain’t ya ‘mate’! Part of the NME’s ‘last -gasp-sub-Clash-Last-Gang-In-Town’. You’re a ‘good bloke’! Just like that Billy Bragg-Art.
Sorry, William: But you’re asking for it…..tread carefully….or else!

As for the following statement:
‘His legions of fans pleaded that we give him the benefit of the doubt. And so we did’

Who the FC-UK is this ‘we’? Is it the communal ‘Borg-Hive-Mind’ of the NME, or is Mr Wells suffering from MPD, just like me?
As for ‘legions of fans’. Morrissey does not have ‘legions of fans’ (derivative of ‘fanatic’) although he did, rather cheekily, claim he was overwhelmed by ‘disciples’ in the early days of His Ministry as Lead Preacher/Singer with The Smiths.
He has an ‘audience’ which he regularly invites to his rather extraordinary Shaman-istic Soirees, where he is not only ‘The Singer’, but also ‘The M.C on the Mike‘, for ya’ll trendy, funky Guardian Readers. Providing an entirely intoxicating ‘Great British Good Night Out’.
Just, as I’m sure, Sue Pollard will this Friday night when I take the kids to the Panto at Malvern Theatres. No: Not Vicky Pollard! Sue, as in ‘Hi-Di-Hi’?
(American readers: Don’t bother following that one, it’s too silly, end-of-pier, ‘parochially’ British)

The Great Cultural Leader Mr Steven Wells then goes on to say:
‘And for a while it looked like Morrissey might be okay after all’……Ah, yes….So for many, many years Morrissey cowered, terrified and ashamed in his Hollyweird abode, waiting to be exonerated by The NM-’We’ collectivist conscience?
I don’t think so, Mr Wells.

Unlike Morrissey, who is a bona-fide ‘Legend In His Own Life-Time’: It is you, you fool, who are the ‘legend in your own mind’. Or ‘steak-sandwich-lunch-time’.
Our American friends have a wonderful expression:
‘Opinions are like assholes: Everyone’s got one’
Yes, Mr Wells: But yours, I.M.Not.S.H.O, seems to be expressed in a remarkably flatulent and runny way….

Sincerely and ‘bat-shit crazily’ yours
AndrewGMooney
Text copyright: AndrewGMooney 11.9.1960.
Authorised to Morrissey-Solo.com only.

[Bluebirds]

Steven Wells prides himself on an article that was printed in 1992, in the NME, about how Bez from the Happy Mondays was/is a homophobe.

Cos Swells, the doyenne of upright investigative journalism, managed to get a fucked-up addled junkie ('92 was the release of Yes Please, the LP recorded in the Carribean on crack) to say "I hate poofs."

[Jones]

Strange, because reading most of Wells pieces I'd have twigged him as a homophobe. He seems to be obsessed with hating anything he considers a bit fey or feminine.

[Bluebirds]

Strange, because reading most of Wells pieces I'd have twigged him as a homophobe. He seems to be obsessed with hating anything he considers a bit fey or feminine.

Really? I always thought he liked batting for the other side? A bit like the Henry Rollins of the press.

Fuck the is Morrissey a gay racist debate, is Steven Wells a poof? Lets ask Bez :D

[Worm]

Another rancid article. I stopped keeping track of the errors after the first few sentences for fear I'd never finish reading. This one was at least comical in that it's always interesting to watch a nitwit newspaper columnist strain the boundaries of professionalism so he can fling shit like a captive monkey.

The one thing I found ominous was the "Hybridity is the new authenticity" line. Given the rest of the article I'd be more than ready to attribute the parroting of that ludicrous idea to Swells' ramshackle intellect but in fact it has a lot of traction among many music critics, notably Simon Reynolds and Sasha Frere-Jones. "Hybridity" as a standard of judgment is insulting and vacuous but it looks like it's here to stay, at least for the near future.

Not that it matters. But articles and reviews like this one will be the norm for awhile.

[Morrissey the 23rd]

He used to call himself Susan Williams and sometimes wore a dress.

He castigated NME readers for being racist (as NME sales tended to fall when a black singer was put on the front cover) and for being composed of lonely male 'wankers'. He is an avid reader himself and has been for many years.

He currently is a sports columnist for The Guardian, FourFourTwo, 90 Minutes and in the loosest term of the word, writes for the PlayLouder music website and the Philadelphia Weekly.

He lives in Philadelphia.

Want to know what he looks like in case you ever see him in the street and want to tell him what you think of him:
http://www.youtube.com/user/JessF33

[2-J]

What a load of shite. Crap article:mad:

[snapyou]

He's always been such a bad writer.I can't believe he's still churning out the same old rubbish.

[lightupvirginmary]

Yes, it is, but it's a critique of football fans. Wells won't let the facts get in the way of an anti-Morrissey rant though.

thanks- I'm oblivious as usual, although I am reading Morrissey: the Albums but I've only got up to Viva Hate.

[vicarinatutugal]

Steven Wells writes:
'I’ve never liked Morrissey.'
What was that song called: 'If You Don't Like Me-Don't Look At Me'? I can remember the tune, but not the singer. My memory's not what it was.....


hmmm never liked Morrissey but he knows the name of a little known b side.. interesting, I think this chap is a tad obsessed. :sick:

[Kewpie]

hmmm never liked Morrissey but he knows the name of a little known b side.. interesting, I think this chap is a tad obsessed. :sick:


I suspect Wells actually likes Morrissey, but doesn't want to admit it. :eek:

[Paul Sturrock]

Mr. Wells needs to fall on a spike. As soon as possible.

[Grim O'Grady]

he's a journo, so it helps to be scum in that industry. It obviously pays more to write shit than truth about people, so rather than us doing the scumbags work for them I think we should have a sticky thread called "Journalists Who Lie". In there we can just add the names of scumbags to avoid (& the publications they work for that we are now all boycotting).

love

Grim

[Morrissey the 23rd]

Great idea but there are many things that should be sticky. Perhaps a sticky board should be introduced? Otherwise the only way to keep it on page 1 would be to post on it continually and as you've said on another thread on the same subject (Below), that isn't what the thread should be for.

It's a great idea and not one I think should be ignored because of the difficulty of implementing and maintain it. Suggestions to http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=82241 please.

[M-in-Oz]

What an awful article! I don't think there was any real point to it other than hatred.

And "English have always been good at hybridity" - what does that mean? I'm sure there are some who would disagree (maybe indigenous Australians) and didn't M.I.A get all sniffy when she didn't win some prize (I think the Mercury music prize?) & thought it was a 'racist' decision? It seems like the author is just using statements to suit his dislike of Morrissey.

[vivabob]

Is 'We'll Let You Know' about football hooligans? I've never heard of that before.

it was supposed to be about that but it wasnt made in a song about football hooligans way, it was more about the passion and the feelings of belonging


We're all smiles
Then, honest I swear it's the turnstiles
That make us hostile

[CrashingBore]

"Like me, Morrissey benefited from such wonderfully non-English cultural invaders as rock ’n’ roll, decent food and sexual liberation."


i somehow find this very amusing

[Please]

Yes, it is, but it's a critique of football fans. Wells won't let the facts get in the way of an anti-Morrissey rant though.


I would say more of an observation,without trying to sound too picky.

[Morrissey the 23rd]

http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/articles/16161

http://www.cinemablend.com/music/When-Pop-Stars-Attack-8184.html

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/01/musical_hack_attacks.html

I would provide more details but I will seek legal advice first.

[Grim O'Grady]

http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/articles/16161

http://www.cinemablend.com/music/When-Pop-Stars-Attack-8184.html

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/01/musical_hack_attacks.html

I would provide more details but I will seek legal advice first.

stop making money for them scumbags, have no dealings with them, they'll only use you & make up their stories to suit themselves, what's that quote "why let the truth get in the way of a good story!".

If only there was a sticky thread on Journalists who lie?

love

Grim