Yummmmmy!

of the sales should go towards promoting vegetarianism, or towards relieving the plight of animals.

Then, I would think Morrissey and his fans could share in this joke...

l death only then they'll knoe what animal have to suffer .scumbags.

i hope they both rot in hell

not funny and just not very clever
shame on you both

how many more tedious veggies do I have to hear saying 'ohh ,I really miss bacon sandwiches'? jesus christ do you REALLY all have to be so cliche ridden?

the least talented members of the smiths make fun of his mozness
HOW DARE THEY
IT'S WAR
IT'S WAR
WAR
WAR
WAR

That´s a very cruel and offensive joke from those ex-smiths to Moz, it shows how the people can do anything (even betray the ideals that they supported in other time)for publicity or money(it´s not a surprise from Joyce)

shame on them

Absolutely pathetic. And yet and yet and yet.. I'm sure if Morrissey and Johnny lost their minds completely and decided to reform the Smiths, they'd be overjoyed. Hypocrites.

Have Rourke or Joyce come up with one single creative thing in the last 15 years ?

What do they do all day ?
Don't give me Rourke's DJing, any fool can spin a record.

Some half baked excuse for a comedian comes along and says "play on my comedy record" and they jump at the chance to ply their ever rusting wares.

Oh and it's so ironic cos he's a veggie himself.
That's so funny. What will it be next ?
Happy holocaust or I love a lynching ?

Didn't bloody Weirld Al Jankovic scrape the bottom of this barrel dry years ago.

They must have sod all else to do.
There are retraining schemes. Why don't they become plumbers.

The Smiths are thankfully long dead.

These two journeymen continue to taint the legacy.

They have no shame.

So much complaining about Moz's vindictiveness, but Rourke and Joyce just outdid the master.

Morrissey's name is writ in stone, theirs in water - and they know it.

   

he won't be too pleased to hear about this. then again, he's way better than them so it probably won't effect him too much. it seems like they're determined to get at morrissey as much as possible. it's like two little kids winding someone up. quite pathetic, really.

Katie

The man comes across as having no sense of humour at all. A real tryhard.

I see nothing wrong with taking the piss out of Meat is Murder, but "Meat is Tasty"?

How long did he take to come up with that piece of scintillating wit?

I became a vegetarian in 1984 - deciding what went in my mouth was the only thing in my life over which I had any control at the time. When "Meat Is Murder" was released a year later I felt partially vindicated.

I really don't believe that a vegetarian would hanker after a bacon sandwich. The thought is utterly revolting. Heated up rotting pig's flesh with hormones and anti-biotics. And the suffering involved is awful.

We really need to stop killing things. When one considers what we do to animals, one can only reach the conclusion that we are the nazi race.

Foot and mouth.
Mad Cow Disease/Variant CJD.
Salmonella in eggs.
Bird flu.

We haven't yet learned that the mass production of cheap meat involves more than the suffering of billions of animals.

Nothing is immune from humour - but merely changing a song title from Meat is Murder to Meat Is Tasty involves no wit or creativity whatsoever and isn't funny. Chris Morris' Brass Eye episode on Animals is very funny indeed.

Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce. Oh dear. Intellectually and musically, they really weren't in the same league as Morrissey and Marr were they?

terrible terrible idea adrian and btw this joke really isn't that funny as four rourke and joyce shame on you both.

It's always a sad state of affairs when people have to sink to these depths to sell a few records.

I mean, okay he probably hasn't had a fan at one of his 'gigs' for years besides his aunty, but cashing in on Morrissey's lyrics just because he knows that people may well buy a copy out of pure curiosity?

It's alright though, he's a vegetarian, probably one of those that eat Chicken & Fish too. How i love them.

Not much to be said about Mike & Andy, not too surprising to be honest is it, bet they all sat around having a right old giggle about it. Hilarious.

...because I found it funny.

Does this mean that veggies have no sense of humour, or that I have a really bad one? Obviously I have a bad sense of humour then. (Well, it has been said before...)

And, I do not miss bacon at all. Just chicken. Yes, I find it revolting in a way, but I still miss the taste. This does not make me evil. So there.

Self righteous Morrisey fans.
What a surprise.
Not one of you has a mind of your own.
Bet you all had his shit haircut aswell.

sorry but i think Bernard Manning has already done this many many years ago.

losers

who teams up with me to create another "pop subversion" and record (euh) "Andy in a coma" and "Mike is a four-letter word" ?

P.S.
All moneys made will go to a charitable event (providing emotional and financial support to the rhythm section, and a training as car mechanic at the Vauxhall plant) chaired by Mark King.

"I'm a vegetarian myself! ... The song is like a little homage to how The Smiths ruined my life. Because of Morrissey, I became a vegetarian when I was 12."

You self-righteous retards whining like fucking suckybabies should just get over this, okay? It isn't as though Adrian Flanagan is advocating the eating of every living creature on Earth, he's just having a laugh at the aforementioned self-righteous retards. Just STFU and roll your eyes and MOVE ON.

This has to be a joke - right?
Why does he say it's agood job Mike Joyce saw the funny side?
Does that mean the joke was revealed only after they had recorded their parts??
Mike is a big time veggie.
I don't believe he'd do this!
Tongue in cheek - my arse - it's not even funny.
Meat makes you sick more like.
Full of chemicals!
Is this guy winding us up?
What an idiot!

Well now... From Joyce I expected this but Rourke has his fingers in this as well? I had a lot more respect for Rourke than this news tells me I should have. If this news is true I am saddened by the news. What would posses Rourke to do something in such direct parody of Moz and compassion for animals? Is he back to his old ways and hooked on the big H again?
Meat is not tasty. Meat is an animal corpse. Is it not?
Since I am in commentary mode; I do find it peculiar that we, the human species, spend billions searching the galaxy for life while we murder and ingest animals and push thousands of species a year into extinction right here on our own planet. Modern man is not a fully evolved man. And the road stretches before us...

fancifly fry I think I'll have it with Fries.
It's the well done taste of Burgers.
Oh Oh Oh It is a medium well Burger.
The suculent taste in your Mouth it
could only be In & Out.
Oh Oh Oh Meat is Burger

I feel sorry for these two losers. Their horrible careers have made them resort to this. They haven't even been able to achieve 1/10000th of Morrissey's career after The Smiths. They should just stop trying and go hide somewhere.

Here’s a technique to cleanse the memory of the honourable Smiths; it’s the attack of the mozbots! See http://www.flickr.com/photos/iamklaus/sets/153916/

(As usual, remove any stray spaces first)

David might highlight it more again as its pretty neat. Is there any possibility also that we’re jumping the gun with pre-judging the song, which might after all not be so juvenile and somehow rescue itself? If it doesn’t, then fair enough – Rourke and Joyce will be letting a lot of people down, none more than themselves.

Never mind the fact that Randy Ork and Mick Joyless have decided to piss away the minutae of credibility they may still have possessed for being 'one half' of The Smiths; the more pressing question is, who wrote this excuse for an article?
"cheeky and irreverent"
"in a staggering move of audacity"
Talk about superfluous circumlocution; Can I be a journalist now?

Anyways, I doubt Moz will answer this news with more than an arch of the old eyebrow, after all, who's going to hear the song? I think he'll be more disturbed by the idea that the people involved think it passes for humour.
Memo: Parodies are often known for being witty ... just think of the effort that went in to changing a word.

You lot should be ashamed!
None of this has been corroborated.
I am staggered that there are those amongst you who would wish a horrible death on these two individuals for allegedly making music.
Well let me tell you - if there were a grain of truth in this article I would know.
You have raced to respond to what can only be described as sloppy journalism.
You are spineless - hiding behind your keyboards and dodgy names.
I don't believe that any of you would dare make rash remarks like these within our earshot.
It's like watching hounds tearing into a fox - oops sorry you lot are all animal lovers here aren't you - I'm so sorry.
You can barely disguise your glee at having an easy target for your vitriol.
I cannot begin to surmise where this sickening behavior comes from!
Were you bullied at school?
Did mummy forget you cookies with your bedtime milk?.
Or we're you simply just too unloveable?
I think perhaps this is a new low for this site.

- Nova

oh, yes, the lesser side of the smiths. having those two on it doesn't 'smithify' it enough for me. are they really still burning about their terms with moz & marr? perhaps because while m&m go down in a prominent place of musical history, r&j toil in their inferiority.

No ones listening to you

http://www.andyrourke.info/board/viewtopic.php?p=8 37#837

Whaaaa! Whaaaaaa! Whaaaaaa!!!

(sniffle, sniffle)

Whaaaaaa! Whaaaa-Whaaaa-Whaaaaaaaa!!!!

From Interview Picture Disc with Morrissey on Australian Radio:

Interviewer: ‘The title of the album (Meat is Murder) your view or a group decision, did you all decide on that‘?

Morrissey: ‘I decided it, it was my decision but obviously behind the title is total unity, but it was initially my decision’

Just thought this was interesting. I wonder if there was total unity? I cannot recall reading otherwise over the years

It wasnt long ago johnny marr was caught eating a hamburger so he's a vegetarian when he admitted to liking stake & chips on his last tour? wears REAL leather jackets oh yeh to top it all off i saw craig gannon with vinny buying big macs at manchester airport, get over it morrissey is the ONLY vegetarian, & anyway he must of been relaxed about it since they split up in a chippy, people cant hack it.
& do i know how animals die? yes they get their fuckin throats slit by people in white wellies & die slowly & painfully maybe if morrissey fans were slaughtered meat would truly be murder, enjoy your hotdog at the next gig julia!
chao

aberdeen angus burgers 2 for price of 1 today!! not really
but this is official>>

Offical Statement from KINGS HAVE LONG ARMS.
Re: MEAT IS TASTY.
October 19th 2005.

The artist Adrian Flanagan AKA Kings Have Long Arms would like confirm
that
during the interview with the Manchester Evening News he "jokingly" said
the "working title" of one of the tracks(the flipside) recorded with
Legends ANDY ROURKE and MIKE JOYCE is called MEAT IS TASTY(call it
Northern sarcasm)"The song hadn't yet got a proper title,infact the
tracks are still being finished off(mixed)".
For some reason the journalist has made out or misunderstood that this
song is something of a parody or a cover version of the SMITHS classic
MEAT IS MURDER(having read the article i can see how some of you got the
wrong end of the stick),this is not the case,far from it infact.
The song is about "Vegetables and Blind devotion." It is an up beat
cheerful "Electronic" Sing-a-long-Pop ditty.. The A-a-side is called
STAY A LITTLE WHILE and is a very beautiful ballad sounding like an
electronic Phil Spector,both ANDY and MIKE are fantastic on this track.
ANDY ROURKE and MIKE JOYCE are both very nice fellows(despite what
Morrissey has led you to believe) and probably the Biggest SMITHS FANS i
know and they really don't deserve the comments placed upon them by the
90% hardcore Moz Apostles..You should be ashamed of yourselves.
I have every respect for anyone who has "their own" strong beliefs,i even like Morrisssey,he's a strong
and interesting bundle of personalitys,though im not very keen on
people who take on anothers personality and pass it off as their
own.Myself i dont eat meat cos i dont want too i never really liked it
in the first place,It's a matter of personal choice.
Some people say Meat is TASTY some people say Meat is Murder neither are
factual they are just opinions.
Well done to Whyte GRRRRL and Wilde is on my side for having a mind of
their own,im sure Morrissey would be proud of you..I thought being a
Smiths fan was a celebration of the individual,not the clone.

Best wishes sorry about the confussion.
XXXYOUR PAL
ADRIAN FLANAGAN
AKA BERNARD MANNING/MATHEWS aka kin

If you have no life, or have just come home from the pub pissed and open a bottle of larger you don’t really want and need some time to kill, hit the net and google ‘meat is tasty’. Peta is no 1, then you get all sorts including an article that meat eating killed the dinosaurs written I the 23rd century. Ignoring the capitalist sponsored links, Morrissey-solo was number 10 on my search!

Half a bottle to go, but a decade on I still dont fancy a bacon sandwich

Well how is this for tongue in cheek?

YOU STUPID GIT!!!

The Smiths ruined your life eh? How exactly? By making you decide to become a vegetarian and thus finding yourself, still after all this time, "hankering for a bacon sandwich".

Well thankfully something that Morrissey also did [ you see the Smiths didn't write the words ] was keep you from ruining the lives of all those defenceless animals whose suffering you are now making light of. Where cruelty meets stupidity are those Crossroads where you picked up those two miserable kunty hitchhikers for money and fame...going nowhere that drummer and the other talentless gobshite.

Animal Farm is expanding ...coming soon to a village near you.

but please, Don't Make Fun of Mommy's Choice. Many ethical vegetarians are sensitive for a reason, that is why we are vegetarians. For that matter, that is why we are Moz fans, Sheesh...

The fact is, he told the journalist that the title was Meat is tasty, and then is surprised that it gets reported as such.

It's this third rate comic's fault that Rourke and Joyce have got savaged on here.

He's the one that should get a life and apologize.

i just happened to be in the company of andy rourke last night in denton, tx. though it wasn't my first brush with andy, it was the longest. it was an absolute pleasure to spend some time in his presence. everybody always says that him and mike don't matter much, and nobody pays any attention to them or what they are doing, but it would seem to me that a whole lot of people have had a whole lot to say on this subject. we know we all care, even if it's just a little.

I did try to make the effort to read the entire article. But, not that I would rabbidly oppose its humourous side, which I felt somewhat stamped on the picture. I just think a take on "Meat is Murder", like "Meat is Tasty" is a little bit flat in humour, unless I hear it in the song and feel otherwise. It's funny to notice the several layers of "vegetarian behavior" (considering Mr. Flanagan actually has one) - which varies from Morrissey's inhability to see, in a take like that, a joke to Mr. Rourke's allegation that he was a radical vegetarian, BUT longed for a piece of bacon. BUT, in any case, who forced him to be a veggie anyway? I don't see how anyone can be forced to be a vegeterian, unless he or she is forcing him or herself to do it, just to belong or to appear ethic.

May the high-spirited folks excuse me, but I don't really see a joke in this take, as I don't see a purpose in it. To be funny, you have to be presenting something critical behind the joke, which is criticism in a light, fun way. And vegeterianism, if it's a target of criticism, because people see radicalism in it...well vegeterianism has to be a strong position, otherwise it isn't vegetarianism. There is no such thing as being moderately vegeterian, or partially veggie - not to my knowledge.

I think the only case in which, with this twist in the title, would probably laugh would be seeing a clip with someone eating a big fat burger and get digestive problems with it - or something with a little pesonnification of animals, like a group of talking chickens watching a hen roast in the oven, and think of it as a horror movie!

You people are slagging this off when your hero did a song called 'Roy's Keen'?

Now don't get me wrong, I love the song, but the pun?! It's just as bad as 'Meat is Tasty'.

Double standards, the lot of you!

joyce and rourke are paying people to come on here and insult moz fans