Re: Gaslight Anthem Singer Brian Fallon's Advice To Morrissey: "You Need To Get Over
Influence is all well and good, and I don't seek to tarnish the sanctity of your jerk-off sessions in your dark bedrooms while Bona Drag played on repeat, but I'd like some definitive, factual evidence that Morrissey is "better" than Brian Fallon, that Moz, objectively, deserves complete dominance over anyone else, and that Brian has no right to speak his mind. If you can't muster anything besides your opinions up, stop being supercillious dicks about it and plug your f***ing mouths with a sword. You're treating Morrissey like a monarch. Last time I checked, he's not too fond of that institution.
I love Morrissey, he may in fact be my favorite musician in a while. But you guys make me ashamed to be counted in the same pool as you.
This is an apples an oranges debate. There is no "evidence" that either of them is greater than the other, nor any need for such a thing, and that's not what this is about anyway. Different strokes for different strokes. Ask Mr. Drummond.
Brian could never write anything as refined and esoteric as
Yes I Am Blind or
Will Never Marry, and Morrissey could never write anything as soulful as
Here Comes My Man or balls-out rocking as
45. They each do their thing and, to my ears anyway, they have done it amazingly. Brian is in his prime right now....when Morrissey was his age, so was he. This isn't a pissing contest.
The Smiths were the best band of their day and The Gaslight Anthem are the best of theirs. Morrissey's 90s solo output dwarfed almost ANYTHING that came out by any new bands that entire decade. As much as I rib Morrissey on here and, hell, as many legitimate gripes as I really do have with him, there is
no one to touch the bulk of his legacy.
But variety is the spice of life and I don't need other bands I enjoy to be just like Morrissey, or approved by Morrissey, in order for me to get great joy out of what they do.
In my opinion, both Fallon and Morrissey are phenomenal masters of their craft and scribes of their times and environments, and are able to sublimate the misery and joy of the human experience into poetic, anthemic rock music...but they do it in totally different ways. Both have brought me massive joy. If forced at gunpoint to decide between
Bona Drag and
The '59 Sound, well, I'd have to take that bullet.
Telling people to shove swords in their mouths...man, that's just f***ed up. Get a f***ing grip. This forum is
about opinions being "mustered up." Deal with it.
And by the way, if you're gonna use big words like 'supercilious', at least spell them correctly.