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The NME 100: How Rock Shook Up The World
Posted on Sat, Oct 23 1999 at 10:37 a.m. PDT
by David T. <david@Morrissey-solo.com>
NME is apparently making a new 100 Ways Rock Shook Up The World list. From Eric Wang, #14 from "the first batch":

#14 CORNERSHOP BURNING IMAGES OF MORRISSEY

October, 1992. The revolution, of a kind, started here. The seeds were planted a couple of months earlier when Morrissey, for so long the sacred cow of right-on indie, danced with a Union Jack onstage in Finsbury Park. Then Cornershop, a bunch of situationist chancers from Preston, turned up on the steps of Parlophone to burn posters of him. It looked at the time like a stunt to draw attention to a bunch of clever, albeit barely competent, riot grrrl affiliates who'd never released a record. But then Morrissey drifted off into bitter semi-obscurity, and the scathing, potent, proudly Anglo-Asian voice of Tjinder Singh became one of the decade's cultural touchstones. And how many Number Ones has Moz had since? Eh?

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Comments / Notes



Don't waste your time like I did visiting this link

Abrahan Garza <palare@yahoo.com>
Houston, TX - Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 11:15:20 (PDT) | #1




Tjinder Singh sucks goat, but who didn't already know that?

Shut the f up
- Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 12:30:53 (PDT) | #2




Cornerwho? Tjinder what?

sunny jim

sunny jim
- Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 13:06:22 (PDT) | #3




I like bands that burn things and get hysterical. That's entertainment. I like Cornershop. Or I did until I heard 'Brimful' for the five-millionth time. Have you heard the Norman Cook remix of that song? Boring stuff.

weirdo <stopstaring@me.com>
- Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 13:52:08 (PDT) | #4




I liked cornershop...grrrr

Corey Wittig <cwittig@hotmail.com>
PA, USA - Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 14:07:26 (PDT) | #5




Just the upteenth example of losers trying to make a name off Mozzer's back . . . they don't have an original idea among the lot of them and only wish to have his talent, success and fame.

Nick Seriously
- Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 14:14:58 (PDT) | #6




Why just burn pictures of Moz when we can find him and burn him alive in real life?

OOOOOOUUUUUUTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!

Warren
Chespaw - Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 21:54:31 (PDT) | #7




I really don't see anything that would make you hate Morrissey. Maybe people would not like him for some minor reasons, but burning pictures of him is a bit ludicrous. That goes for cornershop, the editor and mostly the whole staff of nme, and countless others that have dug deep enough to find something they didn't like about him..hmmm.

Corey Wittig <cwittig@hotmail.com>
PA, USA - Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 06:33:21 (PDT) | #8




Does NME ever have anything nice to say? Bleh...F@*k them.

The Girl Racer <thegirlracer59@hotmail.com>
Chicago - Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 08:52:01 (PDT) | #9




Sadly enough, this is probably the most press Cornershop will ever receive. As for NME, I have come to expect very little from them anyways, so why be surprised?

Jack The Ripper
- Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 00:09:45 (PDT) | #10




I just burned my Cornershop CD and sent it to their record company. It was boring crap anyway, I only listened to it twice and that was 2 too many times.

Jase <JasoLitt@dk-uk.com>
- Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 05:34:43 (PDT) | #11




Warren you are a scream!!!!!

Simon Le Bon
- Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 10:03:45 (PDT) | #12




i wouldn't piss on cornershop if they were on fire!!!

little <t183@truman.edu>
- Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 10:38:19 (PDT) | #13




Isn't Cornershop that group with the most Witty lyrics, example one: "Everybody needs a Busom for a pillow..." What a bunch of crap!

Anna Serrano aka Ginger <geriskaspice69@yahoo.com>
El Paso, Texas aka El Hell Hole - Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 17:46:07 (PDT) | #14




Anna,
For your info that is a great lyric (mainly because it is true) Or does your "Girl Power" handbook that you paid $16.95 for tell you to think otherwise? Girl power this.............
OUTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!

W
C - Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 09:40:38 (PDT) | #15




W,

Oh gee that is the sorriest song I have ever heard in my life! Wow I feel like using some chick's boob as my pillow! Icky thats gross I think that is a horrible song! Oh yeah where can I get this GIRL POWER handbook anyways? LOL Geez If you want to talk trash to me E-mail me cos this forum is to good for fighting ok!

Thank You Drive Safely!
GIRL POWER and Morrissey POWER!

Anna Serrano aka Ginger <geriskaspice69@yahoo.com>
El Paso, Texas aka El Hell Hole - Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 16:25:20 (PDT) | #16




cornershop...ahahahahahaha i remember them.
so good they had to get fat boy slim ball to (ahem) re-do one of their songs before it even approached a hit...and it still sucked...
by the way do they think a name change to clinton is somehow going to rectify the situation?

OrangeJellybaby
east of the moon and west of the sun - Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 02:49:11 (PDT) | #17




Can anyone explain to me why the British flag is supposed to be racist? And why is it OK for Cornershop (interesting name) to be racist, but nobody else? Tjinder, mate: A - racism offends all of us; B - your only hit was a remix, done by a skinhead. Confused?

Andy
Huddersfield - Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 12:06:43 (PST) | #18






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