...because at the symposium earlier this year, he was full of praise for the Smiths & Moz. Makes for attention-grabbing copy I suppose.

are pathetic really, what a waste of time, people don't want to read that crap, he hasn't even released one single yet. I hope more than ever that the album is fantastic just so that morons like Q can eat their words.

It tries very hard to find something negative to say, but fails because they haven't too much to go on.

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I think you have to face the fact that some people in the media find Morrissey very annoying so there is bound to be a bigger backlash this time round. The thing is to make up your own mind.

He will never learn will he. I'm surprised no-one has chinned the gimp after the last time.

Five months early? Poor guy's obsessed and he doesn't know it.

Journalists who hate Morrissey don't bother me -- it's the lazy way they fall back on tired namecalling and "hoary cliches" that I can't stand. Write an articulate essay on what you loathe about the Man and you might get some more respect.

Who will remember this critic when he is dead? Ironic really as he seems to think he is as important as the artists he writes about.

How is this person worthy of attacking Morrissey? It is like Jade Goody critisizing Stephen Fry.

so i take it he means he wants all music to sound the same, that which is currently 'in'. what a loser. desperate.

i used to buy q religeously every month,i even subscribed.
Last year when they slated "you are the quarry"- i thought about my reasons for buying the magazine...why did i want to read about the wet dreams they were having over radiohead, coldplay and U2?
This is a magazine that did not even feature the Smiths in the bands lifetime... so really they've never got it right..ever.

Q is easily the worst magazine when it comes to having a go at Morrissey. YATQ didn't even make their top 50 albums of the year. There are obviously people who work for that publication who have a deep-seated hatred of Morrissey and aren't capable of writing anything remotely positive about him.

Q used to be good but now is all they do is fill the magazine with pointless 'best of' polls and even more pointless interviews with any popstars that are over 60 years old. Or Coldplay. The editor of the magazine should be working for Smash Hits rather than turning a once decent magazine into a barrage of mindless drivel.

remember that. true, they don't have a love-hate relationship as sordid as NME's relationship with Morrissey. but that doesn't mean they won't start shooting arrows.

and remember, Q is the same magazine that championed Keane and put them on the cover of their greatest artists' issue last year.

most of their readers are mainstream music buyers who either don't listen to Morrissey or only "like" Morrissey b/c he's hip now. I'd take any comments about an album - especially a good 4 months before it's even supposed to be released - with a heavy grain of salt.

From TV's site:

"I am told that the band has been recording under stressful circumstances for three weeks and the call is mine whether to start from scratch or continue with what's been recorded."

Upon hearing what the band had done (with Jeff Saltzman?) TV goes on to say that he thinks he can work with the backing tracks the band has already recorded.

As a Producer, wouldn’t you want to start from scratch? Will it lose Visconti's personal touch if uses the previously recorded tracks? Can any musicians explain this decision / process to me?

He seems to provoke really extreme reactions in people. I'm talking about people who've actually met him here, not fans who create their own image of him.

A lot of journalists seem to be so angry at him. The most angry ones are his contemporaries. Sometimes they act like spurned lovers. Is it really that upsetting to them that he didn't want to be their best mate all those years ago?

It's the same with people that have worked with him. As far as I know the music business is essentially a business of freelancers, yet there seem to be quite a few musicians still whining years later because Morrissey didn't give them a job for life.

It's baffling. Does he just attract really needy people?

Posted today:

According to Tony Visconti, Moz & band have recorded versions of Bolan's "One Inch Rock" & "King of the Mountain Cometh".

The 'upcoming albums' section was feeble and pointlessly unpleasant - as Q Magazine often is these days - but there is very interesting picture of Nick Cave with an unaccustomed moustache.

Q Magazine? C'mon. Who really gives a shit about Q Magazine? In fact, who really gives a shit about the music press at all? They all stabbed Moz in the back and then left him in the dark nearly a decade ago. I remember, you remember. Fuck them. Why do we give these no-talent wankers with Microsoft Word our time? Why should they dictate what any of us think? Let them influence the sheep who read crap like Q and Spin. You know how these writers were trained--by reading Q and Spin Magazines, that's how. It's like the deaf teaching the deaf how to hear. God, critics make me sick.

His reviews typically read like slightly snobby sixth form school paper reviews.

His opinions are half-formed and rarely anything more than utterly shallow.

He's a gimp, too. That hair is awful, and his voice is like fingernails down a chalkboard.

If only there were reviews of album reviews.

"My royalties bring me luxuries"

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