This poll is so crap, it doesn't warrant any comments.

Can we expect every poll about Morrissey from now on to only have positive options included?

I think the poll is quite good. And as user #121 I must say, I am a Living Sign.

Without a doubt, this website is the very reason Morrissey fans have been able to stay up-to-date and informed on all things Morrissey-related. Throughout label changes, line-up changes, feast or famine of Morrissey news, it has been the most reliable source for anything we want to know about our hero. If Morrissey sneezes, it's reported here. Morrissey-solo.com is an example of a perfect artist/band website. Congratulations on 10 years of your dedication and hard work. We Morrissey fans appreciate it. Great job, David.

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I sometimes try to imagine what would I tell Morrissey if he'd personally meet with me, among the "inhabitants" of Morrissey-solo. I wish then I would manage to convince him that this site is not populated with pigs trying to mess up his image, but with people who genuinely love him, and to whom he works as a gatherer. Actually, is it him the gathering force, or the site? It's hard to separate. This site wouldn't exist without him, and maybe he wouldn't be what he is without this site. Why say it's an exaggeration to say that? Without this website, people all over the world wouldn't know how to gather and go wherever he is.

Another interesting thing that he says is that the end of the record stores and the easiness of downloading songs from the web is a thing he sees as a cataclysm in the pop music world. But it is this very website that keeps so many people going to his shows, and probably one of the very strong reasons why he has the strong fanbase he has!

I don't blame him from being so pissed off about some of the degrating comments that from time to time pop up here. I don't blame him at all, and if I were him, I'd probably have the same reaction. It's a natural defense mechanism. But I see this site as somewhat what the real world is like: there are nice, cultivated people, not nice "cultivated" people, people that like him or dislike him just like in the real world. Did he retreat from the real world or dismiss it as a place to stay in? No. He stayed in it, despite those that hate him, because of the people that love him. The same should have gone for this website...

Solo allows folks to tell silly little stories like this:

My husband and I recently moved to a very small city where we did not know a single person. We had no familiarity with the place, either - completely on our own. What drew us here was the stunning architecture - grand Victorians that have been falling into disrepair for decades. "Respectable," conservative types don't move here because it has a bad reputation. This means that it is affordable, and it attracts a certain kind of person - aesthetes and creative types who long to live in beauty, but can't afford it elsewhere. We figured we'd find some sort of community here.

We got to talking with the neighbor directly across the street, who we liked instantly. At dinner, we were all getting aquainted, discussing adult things like mortgages, historic preservation and so forth. Talk turned to another town like ours - beautiful but crumbling, down by the shore. Our new neighbor says "now there's a seaside town that they forgot to shut down." Well, the inevitable conversation followed, and he ends up slamming his hand on the table and yelling "last time Morrissey played here (2004), I was in the front row, and Morrissey was singing JUST TO ME!!!

Morrissey is still a "living sign" for something, a common denominator that like-minded folks share - even in America, even in this blighted day and age.

     

"The 'living sign' of the continuity of Morrissey's popularity throughout the years" ? it's more than that, beyond our wild imagination, i believe even one day Moz leaving this earth , this site will be the greatest 'maoseleum" in the worldwideweb..i'm sure it will

Yes, but can you really not see why he said that?

The terribly designed 'True to you' website is run by his friend, Julia. Morrissey-solo is the first and probably very often only port of call for many Morrissey fans and has been established for ten years, as opposed to the two years of 'True to you'.

Morrissey is simply trying to turn people off Morrissey-solo and on to his friend's website, which, considering Solo was there right through the seven year absence of Morrissey, shows a side of Morrissey that anyone outside of the blindly biased, must dislike.

To be honest, for the reason Morrissey called this site 'so-low', I never visit 'True to you'.

I love Morrissey, but sometimes he lets himself down with arrogance towards the people who appreciate him most. I will not even go into set lists here.

As he sang himself, 'Hold on to your friends', if only he followed his own advice.

Fucking hell man. ****despairs****