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  1. David

    The Moz/Smiths Top 100, Part 254: HAPPY LOVERS UNITED

    Just heard this one for the first few times. I agree that this one hadn't seen the light of day for a reason. The vocal melody has real potential but this is pretty obviously an outtake. He's not as crisp as usual, his voice is just off somehow, and the lyrics are mostly throwaway. (For the...
  2. David

    How do you feel about Kill Uncle?

    By far his worst album. An absolute abomination indeed.
  3. David

    Marr "I have a problem with a 50 year old singing adolescent pop music"

    I have a real problem with the way Marr reacts to Smiths questions, as if he's surprised that the interviewer will ask him about them. Update: nobody would be interviewing you if you hadn't been in the Smiths. Not that there's anything wrong with that. He's just so contemptuous of questions...
  4. David

    Do you listen to music Morrissey likes?

    I think Morrissey's opinions on contemporary music are idiosyncratic. Most of the bands he champions are eccentric, weird, and generally not great. Just my opinion. Then he goes and says all music today is crap. I don't think he's aware of the truly excellent stuff out there. However, he has...
  5. David

    Years Of Refusal is a classic

    He knew instantly! Obviously the man is a musicologist.
  6. David

    Years Of Refusal is a classic

    :thumb:
  7. David

    Years Of Refusal is a classic

    And where is this precipitous fall in Morrissey's output you're talking about? The record received better critical reviews than ROTT, and seems to have gotten a better reception on this website than ROTT.
  8. David

    Years Of Refusal is a classic

    Are you that narrowminded? Is a different opinion that incredible to you? The gradation between ROTT and Years is not nearly so great that it's impossible to prefer one to the other; I have the openness of mind to appreciate that some like ROTT more. But to suggest it's "asinine" to prefer one...
  9. David

    Years Of Refusal is a classic

    Come on, Vauxhall95. Plenty of people on here don't like Years. Some of us do, quite a lot. And we've provided reasons why. Nothing blind about that. One would think that blindly supporting an artist would mean loving everything they have produced; disliking ROTT is by definition the opposite of...
  10. David

    Years Of Refusal is a classic

    I think it easily ranks among his best work. It's not as good as Vauxhall but I think it's unimpeachably better than Quarry, which has a couple songs of filler. The last two tracks on Years aren't quite up to snuff, but at least they set an aesthetic; I don't think "All the Lazy Dykes" or...
  11. David

    Swords Cover Art?

    Ten pages of 'em right here. ;-) I'm just saying that the cover is really of little consequence; I'm not overly fond of it but I don't think it's truly awful, and I just don't think it matters that much. I especially disagree with the idea that this is somehow representative of Morrissey's...
  12. David

    Swords Cover Art?

    Nobody else in the world will give as much thought to the cover of Swords as the people in this thread have. Literally. Your worries do not extend to reality outside these pages. And anyway the truly worst are much, much worse.
  13. David

    clip of Morrissey presenting award to the"very sexy U2"(1998)

    That is so weird. Remember Moz berating Bono recently when Bono won a lyrics contest in which Moz came in second? Wonder if he remembered this clip at the time he made those comments. :P
  14. David

    What has happened to Swords?

    Good question.
  15. David

    "First of the Gang to Die" in Pitchfork Top 200 Tracks of the Decade

    181. Morrissey "First of the Gang to Die" Morrissey's doomed romantic persona is the perfect vehicle for this update of American gangster mythology, which moves the action from the fedoras, Tommy guns, and speakeasies of 1930s Chicago and New York to the modern mean streets of L.A. His snuffed...
  16. David

    What would have been young Steven's favorite Morrissey solo album?

    This. I voted for YOR because his contemporary work's tendency towards loudness, physicality, and bluntness is pretty much in accordance with young Morrissey's taste in music. It would have appealed to him most, I think.
  17. David

    Morrissey Instore signing in Paris for Southpaw

    That girl from Boston is Julia? She seemed like a dick and I didn't even know it was her. It was really sweet to watch him hugging the fans, though.
  18. David

    How come not many teens listen to the Smiths/Morrissey?

    I'm 19, been a fan since 14. I've seen him live four times and I have every album, b-side, rarity. I'm dedicated. I know a fair amount of people who "appreciate" the Smiths/Morrissey as influential artists in the indie canon, but nobody my age who loves him as much as I do.
  19. David

    What is your favorite Morrissey photograph?

  20. David

    Fantastic Bird + You Should Have Been Nice To Me

    "You Should Have Been Nice to Me" I love this song. The title sounds so banal but the lyrics are lovely and the music serene. Easily the best of the previously unreleased stuff from Southpaw. I'm surprised we hadn't heard it before!
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