Morrissey has been
more than clear regarding his feelings about the Ramones post-1976. Is it really THAT shocking and distressing that he momentarily didn't like a band when he was 17, then came to love them three days later? It's now 38 years later—maybe it's time to let go.
Billboard: A music blog recently uncovered an article you wrote in 1976 with the headline 'Ramones Are Rubbish.' Do you still believe the Ramones should have been "rightly filed and forgotten?"
Morrissey: "I came clean about this many years ago. When I bought the Ramones first album on import, I was enraged with jealousy because I felt they had booted the Dolls off the map.
I was 100% wrong. Three days after writing that Ramones piece, I realized that my love for the Ramones would out-live time itself. And it shall. Well, it virtually has already. If the Ramones were alive today, they'd be the biggest band in the world. It takes the world 30 years to catch on, doesn't it? I mean, look at poor Nico. Every modern teenager now seems to love Nico, yet while she was alive she couldn't afford a decent mattress."
http://www.billboard.com/articles/n...amones-and-living-in-the-shadow-of-the-smiths