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Top Tory David Cameron love The Smiths

posted by davidt on Monday October 04 2004, @09:00AM
The Moose writes:

Sure to make Morrissey shudder, Top Tory and policy co-ordinator David Cameron admitted "Depressing music" to be "Strangly Uplifting"

Source BBC, Link: Tories say what rocks their world

Excerpt:

But perhaps the most surprising revelation was David Cameron's penchant for "miserable" music by Radiohead, Pulp and The Smiths - all well-known critics of the Conservatives. Smiths singer Morrissey once recorded a song about Margaret Thatcher called "Margaret on the Guillotine".

Mr Cameron said he found music by these bands "strangely uplifting".

"The more depressing the better," he added, describing his music tastes.
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  • Michael for the Guillotine would be a good song title as well.
    Anonymous -- Monday October 04 2004, @09:48AM (#128147)

  • David Cameron (Score:2, Insightful)

    Yet another dickhead who just does not get it.
    People who actually bother to listen to The Smiths properly don't hear 'depression'.
    It's probably another shallow throw away comment in keeping with our shallow throw away Polititians. With the truly depressing job he has, everything else he does must be uplifting.
    mick ransommich -- Monday October 04 2004, @10:00AM (#128151)
    (User #8642 Info)
    'Two roads diverged in a wood and I, I took the one less travelled by. And that has made all the difference'.
  • I often find that if certain people say something often enough, even if it isn't accurate, people will believe it anyway.

    Morrissey is as much a miserablist as I am the Queen of Sheeba.

    Which, in case you are wondering, I am not.
    mozmic_dancer -- Monday October 04 2004, @11:42AM (#128187)
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    "I am the fun and the fair, on a Mozsite for the criminally insane..."
  • Oh my, someone whose views I disagree with is a fan of my idol!

    I must quickly insult this person, lest my own idolisation be discredited!
    Anonymous -- Monday October 04 2004, @01:19PM (#128233)
  • There was something slightly surreal and with a whiff of 'trendy vicar' about leading Tory politicians saying they liked The Smiths and the Scissor Sister et al. Clearly they had asked their researchers what they should be saying!

    I refuse to believe Nicholas 'fatty' Soames listens to anything post 1850 let alone Dido (no matter how dull and dreary she may be).
    Sonny Jim -- Wednesday October 06 2004, @01:27PM (#129052)
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  • Since when have Pulp been miserable? Disco 2000, Common People, Babies, Razamatazz - all very chipper!
    Anonymous -- Thursday October 07 2004, @01:48AM (#129181)
  • To dismiss all Tories as evil is simply silly - Moz only wanted Margaret on the guillotine. If anyone can show me how David Blunkett is any less "evil" than, say Ken Clarke, then I would be intrigued.

    It seems to me that some people just want to give the tory a kicking. On reading the article again, it doesn't even seem to be him that has described Moz (or Pulp) as miserable but the interviewer or just unattributed people. Anyone who has ever been interviewed will recognise the process.
    Anonymous -- Thursday October 07 2004, @11:29AM (#129324)

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