What a stupid topic. How about this - Does Morrissey like hairy ass or not?

thanks for bringing them up!

I remember playing "There Is A Light..." for my mom, and she described the lyrics as "morbid". My dad could never understand why I had so many pictures of this british dude on my walls. Ah, back to the old house...
*easymeat

My Dad thought he was ugly.
My Mum thought he was "a poof".
Mind you, my Dad also thought he was the lead singer of The Doors(?!?).

Actually, my Mum warmed to him slightly after seeing The Southbank Show Smiths Special. I think she found his love of old 60s chanteuses like Cilla Black, Sandie Shaw and Timi Yuro rather endearing.
She used to express interest in his earliest solo records, and I remember she asked me to explain what 'Interesting Drug' was about, and to explain the symbolism of the video for that particular song. Try explaining school-boys in high-heels to your mother when you're 16 years old!

all the music I listened to. She was always interested. She used to let me play my Smiths cassettes in the car whenever we went somewhere in the mid 80's when I was in Jr. high. I miss those days!

She still asks me how the concert went whenever I go see Morrissey live,she knew his music was very important to me and now my kids ask me about him too, I listen to him in the car with them now all the time.

fuckwit!

My parents are both still alive ! As a teenager in the 80's my endearing memory is of my dad always singing " I was looking for a job and then i found a job " whenever the subject of the smiths came up . Now 23 years later ...i had ringleader on when i took them shopping and my mother asked me to do a copy for her !!. They both realise that he is an intelligent and articulate person and have a begrudging respect for him ( I think ) They do not understand why i would travel europe to see him though (This is from a father who has a frank sinatra calender on the wall in his bedroom though - so he can talk)

Morrissey and my mother is Sandie Shaw One night while performing they instead of "Hand in Glove" they performed "Cock in Snatch" I popped out 9 months later Please don't make fun of my daddy's voice God Bless Steven Patrick Morrissey, Jr.

"Whats that sound coming from your bedroom? It sounds like someone having their leg sawn off." (Moz... or words to that effect)

Think my folks didn't mind although I think my mother thinks I should have grown out of it by now!

They liked First Of The Gang or, more pertinently, that one about Hector.

My whole family feel I need to grow up. I am in my late 40's and love Morrissey still. I even have a poster of him on the wall in my bedroom. I wake up every morning with a Morrissey song playing in my head. Is there any hope for me? None of my family are into Morrissey.... I feel so alone sometimes, thats why I love you guys.

My dad and my sister do impressions of his voice, yet they end up sounding more like Jimmy Saville; I just have to smile ruefully, after all, blood is thicker than the honour of your favourite artist. However, I did get an acknowledgement from my dad that Morrissey has good taste (i.e. Betjeman and films) and that his lyrics are okay. Also, in a moment of unprecedented weakness, my sister admitted that 'There Is A Light' is a good song.
It's my mum and my brother that I can't place with regards to Moz. I once caught my mum looking at my posters in an admiring way (I think she finds him rather attractive) and my brother (aside from saying "but he's old" - anything over 20 is old from a pre-teen perspective) does seem to like the music.
So, overall there may be hope for my family yet; it's just that my parents seem to think that Morrissey makes me nihilistic ... that couldn't be further from the truth.

Ah yes, when I mentioned to my mother that I was going to a Morrissey concert recently, she thought I meant Neil Morrissey from Men Behaving Badly.....Nuff Said.

No wonder we have such societal problems!! I'm betting that category doesn't just apply to Moz music.

Take a breath and relax a little. If you don't like the poll, ignore it.

Well at least she does by defult. She's heard his music for the last 16yrs. She would like to see him live. Thinks some of the songs are too depressing but likes enough of it.

My dad really likes The Loop and my mom likes some of his songs, but she says he's way too depressing for her to listen to. She likes to watch him in concert. She laughs the most when he performs "Moon River" because of the howling woman in the background..."Oh GOD, put her out of her misery!" she says.

my mother says that moz is a beautiful man.... she likes his music but she sometimes thinks I'm crazy.
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My mother likes some songs, but is worried by the way I react to them. My father likes to insult him in an attempt to make me say something back.

Back when I used to hammer Viva Hate 24/7 my mum used to comment on liking Mozzer's voice.

Then I left my Bona Drag cassette at my dad's by accident and he remarked on Morrissey's unique lyrics, Interesting Drug in particular.

He even BOUGHT Live at Earl's Court!

God Bless 'im.

My mother is more into Frank Sinatra, which is really fine to me, since Morrissey seems to have a great deal of respect for his charm, charisma and glamour, to the point he incorporates Sinatra into the fine alchemy that is his persona. My dad on the other hand is more "rockish" than my mom, and curiously so after the mid or late ninteties, when he began enjoying groups like Nirvana, Garbage, etc. When one day, as I was visiting him, and we were accidently listening to Robert Smith on the radio, I mentioned that people called Morrissey a whiner, while I thought it was actually Robert Smith's whinning I couldn't stand, my fater agreed, saying that Morrissey's lyrics were far more intelligent and Morrissey's singing more irreverent and uplifting, and his work offered more variety. I was surprised, although I tried to act like his statement was the most natural thing in the world coming from him. He usually likes the nasty, heavy-duty bands. Well, Moz is one man fits all, I guess. At least when I play him here at home, nobody grins or complains, and my father says he really loved IBEH when they played them on a (mainstream!) radio here, and he "respects the man's noticable talent". I am discreet about my fanaticism, but no one seems to mind it when it shows through... ;)

Well I recall my brother playing The Queen Is Dead when that came out in 1986 and even I teased him for liking it. I think my Mom liked it okay. I became a massive fan late 1989 and ever since then my Mom always askes me "What's the latest with Morrissey?" I am not sure if she really likes the music or not but she sure knows I do. My Dad watched a few videos from my Morrissey-signed "Oye Esteban" DVD with me and my then-girlfriend Jeniffer (also a fanatic) and he kind of shook his head and didn't really get it. He is a big Elvis fan and even met the Beatles when he was stationed as a American G.I. in Hamburg,Germany in the early 60's before they got hugely famous. He later met them again in Seattle backstage (he's a retired Policemen/Detective and helped with security) and they all remebered him from the Hamburg days- except for John Lennon- who was too drunk/stoned at the time to remember his own name.

Cheers,

Jay

my mom occasionally asks what he's doing. i think she does it because she hopes i'll answer "i don't know and i don't give a shit."

sorry to say it, but they probably correlate such an answer with chances that i'll bring home a man for them to meet.

One day whilst I was out at college many moons ago my dad collected all my tapes, vinyls, posters off the wall and anything Moz related from my bedroom and deposited them in the big bin in the kitchen.
He said it was sending me 'weird'.
I retrieved said goods and repositioned them in my room and then some 8 years later I murdered him until he be dead in his bed a la Father Who Must Be Killed.
Not really, the first part was true but I made the murderous revenge part up as is my wont.
He actually takes quite an interest in him now and can often be found calling me on the telephone to pass on news of tours, releases and other news that he has garnered from the Manchester Evening News.
I think that now I have a mortgage, two kids and a wife he can breathe easier knowing I didn't turn out too 'weird' aka 'gay' after all.

my mom always thought morrissey sounded like the moody blues. made carpooling that much easier!

My mother like him, and she know very well my passion for him. I told my boss that she has breast cancer, so I had the whole week to travel to see Morrissey in the Mexico shows!
My father seems to don't care about it, but one day I caught him dancing the Billy bud song (he he).

are cure fans....

What sort of moron comes up with a Poll like this ... pathetic!

"What? No one ever bought him a present ever? Why not? Oh, maybe because he's so annoying and whiny!"

"I was looking for a job, and I got one and now I want to die. I was walking down the street and now I want to die. I was eating a piece of cake and now I want to die." (this is heaven knows I'm miserable now, according to my mom, anyway!)

Everytime he's playing i hear from them, "is he suffering again?" Was good the first few times but...that Joke isn't funny anymore. ;)

my dad thinks i'm gay because of my morrissey fetish.

My parents actually think Morrissey and The Smiths are not too shabby. haha They both get excited for me when I go to see him live. My dad was flippin through the channels on the telly back in November and Who Put the M in Manchester was on. He was impressed by the musicianship of the band and the quality of the performance. My dad is a musician. hehe

my mom never really got it until she walked into my room and saw the shoplifters single with elvis on the cover. then she was hooked. my daughter has more morrissey / smiths music than i do which is quite an accomplishment at 11. last week i was in the kitchen while her and her friend were in the front room watching television.... her friend said: "we should totally go see hillary duff this summer" to which my daughter replied: "you are absolutely vile." i almost cried. =)

MY folks are immense fans of Morrissey. They just LovE him and think he's GGGGRRRreat! They even made me type these words on this here website to let others know how much they love him. (I still get him mixed up with Van Morrisson)

my dad has been a fan all his life and he got me into the smiths and morrissey i was brought up with the music and i used t hat ei tbu trecently have seen the light and have since been at two concerts and im loving it

Ain't a damn thing wrong with this poll...My father is a hopelessly vile, souless person...so I never bothered to even attempt MOZ on him...
but my mum is maad cool...old skool grateful dead style...
she sees the energy and luv that comes from MOZ's artistry (similar to the connection to Jerry Garcia)....however she falls into the similar..."It's good, but so morbid and depressing"
But she respects his genius...which in my book is a lot cooler than the reaction of most lame-ass non-fans..hehe

I've never really exposed Moz to my dad. He doesn't really like music anyway, so I doubt he'd like this very much.

My mother has gone from really disliking his voice ("He sounds like a drunk Kermit the Frog!" she used to say) to being indifferent to actually really enjoying Some Girls are Bigger Than Others and The More You Ignore Me.

.. that neither my parents, my wife, my lover, my friends or my children have any interest, whatsoever in Morrissey. Surely that's the whole point! If everyone rated him and he in turn, courted some sort of celebrity, it would be time to call it a day. Keep it different Moz and stay handsome. See you all at the Star & Garter 2nd March..

Mom thought he was gay in the 80s. Then she thought he was hot in the 90s. Dad still doesn't know who he is.