What does everyone here think of Mozzers taste in music?

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Our Frank

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• Sep 22, 1999

• #1

How many people here have bought an album simply because the Moz liked it? If you did, did you like it or did you think it was crap?
I bought a New York Dolls album and I thought it was atrocious.

 

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Fabricio

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• Sep 22, 1999

• #2

> How many people here have bought an album simply because the Moz
> liked it? If you did, did you like it or did you think it was
> crap?

i bought a cd from nico - chelsea girl - and i didn't like it too much. i know some songs are beautiful but it's very difficult to hear.

> I bought a New York Dolls album and I thought it was atrocious.

hehehe. by chance i had a friend who recorded a cassette from them, so i didn't spend money to hear such a horrible group.

i know morrissey likes ramones and the cramps as me. perhaps he doesn't like black sabbath, and i love it.

 

O

Our Frank

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• Sep 22, 1999

• #3

> i bought a cd from nico - chelsea girl - and i didn't like it
> too much. i know some songs are beautiful but it's very
> difficult to hear.

I was going to check her out but after that New York Dolls album I had second thoughts.

> i know morrissey likes ramones and the cramps as me. perhaps he
> doesn't like black sabbath, and i love it.

I like the Ramones also. Never heard anything by Black Sabbath though. Which I'm sure seems remarkable to everyone! I really have to expand my taste in music.

 

Y

yes

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• Sep 22, 1999

• #4

After noticing Morrissey's many allusions to them, I bought the first New York Dolls LP under a multi-cd discount offer, wary of the results of such an investment. And I thought it was absolutely beautiful -- it is truly a proto-punk landmark of the 70's, influencing many glam rock and future punk outfits. the monstrous turbulence of "Frankenstein" the tenderness of "Lonely Planet Boy" are pristine. I was a fan of the Cramps before finding out about Mozzer's admiration for them, there is a unique Vincent Price/Elvis-fusion rockabill about them --very much worth a try. Try to find "Gravest Hits" or "Songs the Lord Taught Us".
The Velvet Underground and Nico album is classic, produced by Andy Warhol. The song "Femme Fatale" is tastefully sour, "All Tomorrow's Parties" attempts to blend medieval balladry with 60's psychedelic rock.


alight

 

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Fabricio

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• Sep 22, 1999

• #5

> I was going to check her out but after that New York Dolls album
> I had second thoughts.

> I like the Ramones also. Never heard anything by Black Sabbath
> though. Which I'm sure seems remarkable to everyone! I really
> have to expand my taste in music.

well, the black sabbath everyone tells about is principally the first six cds, from black sabbath to sabotage, with ozzy osbourne. the rest i don't even know. but these ones with ozzy are incredible good: it's hard and slow at the same time (a great part of the grunge is based on black sabbath). there will be some people here that will say that here is not the place to talk about black sabbath, but i prefer it than new order or cure or echo for example.

 

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Fabricio

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• Sep 22, 1999

• #6

> The Velvet Underground and Nico album is classic, produced by
> Andy Warhol. The song "Femme Fatale" is tastefully
> sour, "All Tomorrow's Parties" attempts to blend
> medieval balladry with 60's psychedelic rock.

yes, i said i didn't like very much chelsea girl, but velvet and nico is probably one of the five best cds i've ever heard. just in remembering the song venus in furs for example i tremble.

 

K

key slapper

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• Sep 22, 1999

• #7

I haven't heard a lot of Mozzer's favourite stuff. I've always hated David Bowie, probably because I'm a child of the eighties and I was only exposed to his worst material. Just recently I've heard some of his old stuff and I liked it, plus I really admire his new single. I always enjoy listening to rockabilly, which Moz seems to like. I like a lot of music that Morrissey probably HATES, like weird jazz and drumnbass and reggae and gospel and blues and disco and country and anything that isn't death metal. He is a bit too narrow-minded that way.


This is Paul Cook of the Sex Pistols!

 

I

In-between state lines.

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• Sep 22, 1999

• #8

T.Rex and Sandie Shaw and The Promise Ring

> How many people here have bought an album simply because the Moz
> liked it? If you did, did you like it or did you think it was
> crap?

I must admit that I got "The Greatest Hits of Sandie Shaw" and a Best of T.Rex CD solely because of Moz.

Sandie Shaw is excellent in a very campy sort of way.

I had to finally hear "Metal Guru". When the single was released, did the Smiths take much heat for totally copying it for "Panic"?
I really enjoy T.Rex and just purchased "The Slider".

I really haven't been listening to it much tho... I've spent every waking moment absorbing "Very Emergency", the new CD by the Promise Ring, the most amazing American band since the Pixies and Smoking Popes. I've been listening to it for 3 weeks now and I'm still excited to hear it. The best CD of '99... along with "She Haunts my Dreams" by Spain

 

N

New Kids on the Block had a lot of Hits, Chinese F

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• Sep 22, 1999

• #9

> How many people here have bought an album simply because the Moz
> liked it? If you did, did you like it or did you think it was
> crap?
> I bought a New York Dolls album and I thought it was atrocious.

most of mozzer's fave bands I can't listen to, but he has introduced me to some very cool songs (like Curved Air "Back Street Luv" and The Toys "Attack") although he likes some awfully cheesey songs too ("Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets" and The Crystals "What a Nice Way to Turn 17") Nico grew on me, but I can only listen to her when I'm cold and miserable. Moz covering the NYD is more interesting than listening to their records. I'm quite sure Moz doesn't like the other bands I like or my music for that matter. Oh well, at least he has good taste in his OWN music.

 

R

R.A. Gonzalez Jr.

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• Sep 22, 1999

• #10

Aside from The Jam, I don't like much if not all of the groups/artists that Morrissey has mentioned liking.

 

O

Our Frank

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• Sep 22, 1999

• #11

> Aside from The Jam, I don't like much if not all of the
> groups/artists that Morrissey has mentioned liking.

I agree The Jam were brilliant! You know I was thinking it would be funny to actually check out what Morrissey's cd collection looks like.
PS - Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who has replied to my post so far!

 

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JG

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• Sep 22, 1999

• #12

New York Dolls

> I bought a New York Dolls album and I thought it was atrocious.

I've always been quite fond of "I'm a Human Being." I suppose though the Dolls are an acquired taste. It may help to look at the band in the context of their time. There is such a legend and/or myth surrounding this band. The New York Dolls created punk rock before there was a term for it and their look onstage fueled an entire generation of hair bands and the like.

 

O

Our Frank

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• Sep 22, 1999

• #13

Re: New York Dolls

> I've always been quite fond of "I'm a Human Being." I
> suppose though the Dolls are an acquired taste. It may help to
> look at the band in the context of their time. There is such a
> legend and/or myth surrounding this band. The New York Dolls
> created punk rock before there was a term for it.

Well, I disagree with that. The Stooges were the birth of Punk Rock with their debut album in 1969. MC5 also came before the NY Dolls.

> * influential.

Yes, I suppose, I don't know why though.

 

S

satan's cheerleader

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• Sep 22, 1999

• #14

morrissey is tasteless

morrissey generally pretty mediocre taste, and always has.
occasionally, he'll pay a compliment to an artist who is actually good, but then he either slags off their actual records. also, he has championed a band, and then turned on them soon after.

let's see...the primitives, the woodentops, suede, james, echobelly...

 

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noam

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• Sep 22, 1999

• #15

punk, g`n`r and morrissey

anyone who likes both punk and guns and roses should get "the spaghetti incident?". it has covers of t.rex, pop and the stooges, ny dolls (human being) danzig and others. i think that if you lived on the 70`s, and needed to here something innovative, you had to like punk. sad though that moz doesnt really like anything the began after the smiths (and continue to like it!). i hope that when we`ll be 30 or 40 we`ll still like new music.
abour g`n`r, i think they were one of the only powers in american rock in the eighties, except maybe rem or the pixies, all of different genres.
really, think about it. since blondie and the pretenders until the seattle sound of nirvana and pearl jam, what was there?

 

O

Our Frank

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• Sep 22, 1999

• #16

Re: morrissey is tasteless

> morrissey generally pretty mediocre taste, and always has.
> occasionally, he'll pay a compliment to an artist who is
> actually good, but then he either slags off their actual
> records. also, he has championed a band, and then turned on them
> soon after.

Yeah that is so true.

 

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shelley

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• Sep 22, 1999

• #17

Nirvana ruined music in the '90s

> really, think about it. since blondie and the pretenders until
> the seattle sound of nirvana and pearl jam, what was there?

Nirvana set music down a horrible, terrible path of crap in the early 90s, one from which we are just recently recovering. The "Seattle sound" was a popular music travesty and we can only be glad that bands such as Pearl Jam and Stone Temple Pilots are merely laughable now.

 

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shelley

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• Sep 22, 1999

• #18

morrissey tastes like chicken

Or so I imagine. Of course, I can't really remember what chicken tastes like.
Actually, I'm sure he's a bit sour and very much overdone.

 

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JG

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• Sep 23, 1999

• #19

Re: g`n`r

> abour g`n`r, i think they were one of the only powers in
> american rock in the eighties, except maybe rem or the pixies,
> all of different genres
> really, think about it. since blondie and the pretenders until
> the seattle sound of nirvana and pearl jam, what was there?

Before I fell for Morrissey I was a closet g'n'r fan. They are quite an exciting rock n' roll band in the traditional sense of the term (read: everything in excess and loud). It's kind of ironic that when Appetite for Detsruction was released it turned American rock upside down in the late eighties. As Axl and the g'n'r prepare to finally release a new album I wonder if they can do it again?

I can't see myself buying the new album though. All the early cuts I've heard from the album, Axl is still as pissed off as he ever was - time to grow up no?

JG

 

J

JG

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• Sep 23, 1999

• #20

Nirvana ruined music?

> Nirvana set music down a horrible, terrible path of crap in the
> early 90s, one from which we are just recently recovering. The
> "Seattle sound" was a popular music travesty and we
> can only be glad that bands such as Pearl Jam and Stone Temple
> Pilots are merely laughable now.

I can't disagree more with your opinion on Nirvana. "In Utero" is an intensely visceral album which is just about as dark as they come. You can't fault Nirvana that every label clamoured to sign their own "grunge" group after "Nevermind" hit big. As for Pearl Jam and STP I think they are now what they've always been: stadium filling rock bands playing to teenagers - you can love'm or hate'm whatever...

JG