Morrissey - literary genius or total hack?

[VanGogh had the right idea]

"there are explosive kegs between my legs"
"he motions to me with his hand on my knee"
"I entered nothing and nothing entered me"
"yet I walk around somehow"
"there is no such thing in life as normal"
"I thank you, I thank you with all of my heart"
"Everyday I play a sad game called 'in the future when all's well'"
"Living longer than I had intended"
"you represent embarrassment and failure"
"and his might is his legal right"
"you just might find you're fighting for your life"
"it's the same old SOS"
"life is a pigsty"
"my love is under the ground"
"turn sickness into popular song"
"I wish I'd never even heard this song"
"I see the world it makes me puke"
"because soon I will be dead"
"let's face it soon I will be dead"
"before I die I have one final dream"
"for my own life I don't care anything"
"now I just sit back and yawn"
"blah blah blah blah"
"but now I don't actually care"
"and I did but I don't anymore"

- "but now I don't actually care". That's apparent all over this load of crap!

 

[Girl A]

Darling you are so boring. Soooo very boring.

Girl A

 

[VanGogh had the right idea]

> Darling you are so boring. Soooo very boring.

> Girl A

Yet you took the time to reply. How very sweet of you.

 

[over rated pop star]

> "there are explosive kegs between my legs"
> "he motions to me with his hand on my knee"

I do find that uncomfortable to be honest.

> "I entered nothing and nothing entered me"
> "yet I walk around somehow"

I'm not sure about that, not as bad as a man touching him up.

> "there is no such thing in life as normal"

That is excellent.

> "I thank you, I thank you with all of my heart"
> "Everyday I play a sad game called 'in the future when all's
> well'"

Nowt wrong with that either

> "Living longer than I had intended"

True to life. How old are you?
I thought I'd be well dead by now.

> "you represent embarrassment and failure"

My Dad says it to me all the time, not in such words of course.

> "and his might is his legal right"

Well that's all to do with incest isn't it?

> "you just might find you're fighting for your life"
> "it's the same old SOS"
> "life is a pigsty"
> "my love is under the ground"
> "turn sickness into popular song"
> "I wish I'd never even heard this song"
> "I see the world it makes me puke"
> "because soon I will be dead"
> "let's face it soon I will be dead"
> "before I die I have one final dream"
> "for my own life I don't care anything"
> "now I just sit back and yawn"
> "blah blah blah blah"
> "but now I don't actually care"
> "and I did but I don't anymore"

> - "but now I don't actually care". That's apparent all over this
> load of crap!

Thanks for that.

Maybe we should all care less as well then.

 

[pokey]

> "there are explosive kegs between my legs"
> "he motions to me with his hand on my knee"
> "I entered nothing and nothing entered me"
> "yet I walk around somehow"
> "there is no such thing in life as normal"
> "I thank you, I thank you with all of my heart"
> "Everyday I play a sad game called 'in the future when all's
> well'"
> "Living longer than I had intended"
> "you represent embarrassment and failure"
> "and his might is his legal right"
> "you just might find you're fighting for your life"
> "it's the same old SOS"
> "life is a pigsty"
> "my love is under the ground"
> "turn sickness into popular song"
> "I wish I'd never even heard this song"
> "I see the world it makes me puke"
> "because soon I will be dead"
> "let's face it soon I will be dead"
> "before I die I have one final dream"
> "for my own life I don't care anything"
> "now I just sit back and yawn"
> "blah blah blah blah"
> "but now I don't actually care"
> "and I did but I don't anymore"

> - "but now I don't actually care". That's apparent all over this
> load of crap!

If you don't like him anymore then why bother sticking around here? Go listen to the music you do like and post on the boards of music you like.

 

[Bernard Black]

I'd like to contribute a couple classic howlers from YATQ.

Before I begin, please note that this is the only time you will ever see me write classic and YATQ in the same sentence.

You've heard of an embarrassment of riches. Now it's time to get acquainted with a wealth of embarrassments. I'll limit myself to just one per song (excepting "IBEH").

"America Is Not The World": "America your head's too big, Because America, Your belly's too big/
And I love you, I just wish you'd stay where you is"

Let me just say this: the effect created by his use of assonance in the final syllables of these two verses is not great enough to justify his rape of the English grammar.

"I Have Forgiven Jesus": "Why did you give me so much desire, When there is nowhere I can go to offload this desire?"

Lazy.

"Come Back To Camden": "Here you'll find, my thoughts and I"

I love when Morrissey tries to sound smart and inadvertently belies his lack of education.

"I'm Not Sorry": "On returning, I can't believe this world is still turning, The pressure's on, Because the pleasure hasn't gone"

Rhyming "returning" with "turning"? Genius!

"The World Is Full Of Crashing Bores": "Lamenting policewomen policemen silly women taxmen, Uniformed whores, Educated criminals, Work within the law"

Someone's bitter.

"How Could Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel": "I've had my face dragged in , Fifteen miles of shit, And I do not, And I do not, And I do not like it"

Yeah.

"First Of The Gang To Die": "And he stole from the rich and the poor and not very rich and the very poor/ And he stole our hearts away"

Hurrah for prole violence!

"Let Me Kiss You": "Close your eyes, And think of someone, You physically admire,/ And let me kiss you, Let me kiss you/ But then you open your eyes, And you see someone, That you physically despise"

Clumsy.

"All The Lazy Dykes": "Touch me, Squeeze me, Hold me too tightly, And when you look at me you actually see me"

Truly profound.

"I Like You": "Magistrates who spend their lives, Hiding their mistakes
They look at you and I, and, Envy makes them cry, Envy makes them cry"

Way to ruin one of the album's only semi-decent songs with more lawyer/liar bullshit, Moz!

"You Know I Couldn't Last": "So don't let the good days, Of the gold discs, Creep up and mug you/ With evil legal eagles, You know I couldn't last, Accountants rampant, You know I couldn't last/ Every -ist and every -ism, Thrown my way to stay, And the northern leeches go on, Removing, removing, removing"

Aaaaarrrrrggggghhhhh! Make it stop! Also, the song's title is borderline ungrammatical. I like one thing about the song though: "Your royalties bring you luxuries, Oh but/ The squalor of the mind." You said it, Morrissey, I didn't.

 

[Rotten to the Core]

Re: I'd like to contribute a couple classic howlers from YATQ.

I disagree entirely with your comments, I thought Quarry was very good.
Admittedly, no one track can hold a candle to the classic Morrissey solo - Sunday, Suedehead, November etc; But very good nonetheless.
ROTT has some excellent tracks by the sound of things why are you so anti rott?

> Before I begin, please note that this is the only time you will ever see
> me write classic and YATQ in the same sentence.

> You've heard of an embarrassment of riches. Now it's time to get
> acquainted with a wealth of embarrassments. I'll limit myself to just one
> per song (excepting "IBEH").

> "America Is Not The World": "America your head's too big,
> Because America, Your belly's too big/
> And I love you, I just wish you'd stay where you is"

> Let me just say this: the effect created by his use of assonance in the
> final syllables of these two verses is not great enough to justify his
> rape of the English grammar.

> "I Have Forgiven Jesus": "Why did you give me so much
> desire, When there is nowhere I can go to offload this desire?"

> Lazy.

> "Come Back To Camden": "Here you'll find, my thoughts and
> I"

> I love when Morrissey tries to sound smart and inadvertently belies his
> lack of education.

> "I'm Not Sorry": "On returning, I can't believe this world
> is still turning, The pressure's on, Because the pleasure hasn't
> gone"

> Rhyming "returning" with "turning"? Genius!

> "The World Is Full Of Crashing Bores": "Lamenting
> policewomen policemen silly women taxmen, Uniformed whores, Educated
> criminals, Work within the law"

> Someone's bitter.

> "How Could Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel": "I've had my
> face dragged in , Fifteen miles of shit, And I do not, And I do not, And I
> do not like it"

> Yeah.

> "First Of The Gang To Die": "And he stole from the rich and
> the poor and not very rich and the very poor/ And he stole our hearts
> away"

> Hurrah for prole violence!

> "Let Me Kiss You": "Close your eyes, And think of someone,
> You physically admire,/ And let me kiss you, Let me kiss you/ But then you
> open your eyes, And you see someone, That you physically despise"

> Clumsy.

> "All The Lazy Dykes": "Touch me, Squeeze me, Hold me too
> tightly, And when you look at me you actually see me"

> Truly profound.

> "I Like You": "Magistrates who spend their lives, Hiding
> their mistakes
> They look at you and I, and, Envy makes them cry, Envy makes them
> cry"

> Way to ruin one of the album's only semi-decent songs with more
> lawyer/liar bullshit, Moz!

> "You Know I Couldn't Last": "So don't let the good days, Of
> the gold discs, Creep up and mug you/ With evil legal eagles, You know I
> couldn't last, Accountants rampant, You know I couldn't last/ Every -ist
> and every -ism, Thrown my way to stay, And the northern leeches go on,
> Removing, removing, removing"

> Aaaaarrrrrggggghhhhh! Make it stop! Also, the song's title is borderline
> ungrammatical. I like one thing about the song though: "Your
> royalties bring you luxuries, Oh but/ The squalor of the mind." You
> said it, Morrissey, I didn't.

 

[VanGogh had the right idea]

Re: I'd like to contribute a couple classic howlers from YATQ.

> I disagree entirely with your comments, I thought Quarry was very good.
> Admittedly, no one track can hold a candle to the classic Morrissey solo -
> Sunday, Suedehead, November etc; But very good nonetheless.
> ROTT has some excellent tracks by the sound of things why are you so anti
> rott?

No One Can Hold A Candle To You -

Now there's another flop. Can't write his own songs so he destroys those of others. That's pure genius.

 

[Bernard Black]

Re: I'd like to contribute a couple classic howlers from YATQ.

So you disagree even with my objective comments on Morrissey's poor grammar then? Good for you.

And I've not heard ROTT. I have, however, heard the "You Have Killed Me" and read most of the lyrics. Suffice it to say that I am not impressed.

 

[? It Makes Me Wonder]

Re: I'd like to contribute a couple classic howlers from YATQ.

> No One Can Hold A Candle To You -

> Now there's another flop. Can't write his own songs so he destroys those
> of others. That's pure genius.

I far preferred his rendition than the original, you really are clutching at straws now. For some reason or other you are so anti Morrissey.

Who are you REALLY?

 

[Bernard Black]

He's Mike Joyce, and I'm Andy Rourke. Isn't it obvious?

 

[No you are obviously Bernard Black don't be stupid]

Re: He's Mike Joyce, and I'm Andy Rourke. Isn't it obvious?

 

[Van Gogh had the right idea]

Re: I'd like to contribute a couple classic howlers from YATQ.

> I far preferred his rendition than the original, you really are clutching
> at straws now. For some reason or other you are so anti Morrissey.

> Who are you REALLY?

I'm just someone who's tired of fooling myself when it comes to Morrissey's music. The quality of it has suffered for years. I'm through with living in denial of that.

Don't get me wrong, The Smiths changed my life when I was young. Even some of his early solo stuff. But nowadays forget it. He says nothing to me about my life.

 

[William Shakespeare the Turd]

Re: I'd like to contribute a couple classic howlers from YATQ.

> So you disagree even with my objective comments on Morrissey's poor
> grammar then? Good for you.

> And I've not heard ROTT. I have, however, heard the "You Have Killed
> Me" and read most of the lyrics. Suffice it to say that I am not
> impressed.

Speaking of poor grammar Mr Black, I do believe it should read "suffice to say"
rather than "suffice IT to say"

As in "it is sufficient to say", not; "it is sufficient to say it."

Lyrics are written for the hard of hearing, they have to scan.
He's not writing a soddin novel, I'm sure then he would punctuate every tyre necessary.

Songs aren't grammatically correct...they are songs.

Songs have to rhyme with the reader, unlike a book. So unlike a book.

 

[You know this]

You know he's awesome. So cut it.

 

[Get Off The Stage]

Morrissey said it best when he said, "Now I Am A Was".

 

[Bernard Black]

Re: I'd like to contribute a couple classic howlers from YATQ.

> Speaking of poor grammar Mr Black, I do believe it should read
> "suffice to say"
> rather than "suffice IT to say"

> As in "it is sufficient to say", not; "it is sufficient to
> say it."

Wrong. The "it" in "suffice it to say" is the same "it" as in "it is sufficient to say" or "let it suffice to say." It (haha) has merely been displaced. That is not to say that "suffice to say" is incorrect -- it's not. Which one you use really depends on where you're from. A little bit of research can keep you from erroneously correcting people in the future. Try it!

> Lyrics are written for the hard of hearing, they have to scan.
> He's not writing a soddin novel, I'm sure then he would punctuate every
> tyre necessary.

> Songs aren't grammatically correct...they are songs.

> Songs have to rhyme with the reader, unlike a book. So unlike a book.

I didn't realize Morrissey was writing for the deaf. How stupid of me. The "unlistenability" of YATQ should have tipped me off. Thanks! This really does explain a lot.

 

[Plonker From Planet Plonk]

Re: I'd like to contribute a couple classic howlers from YATQ.

> I didn't realize Morrissey was writing for the deaf. How stupid of me. The
> "unlistenability" of YATQ should have tipped me off. Thanks!
> This really does explain a lot.

HA HA HA
You knew what I meant, but another admirable defence on your part Mr Bernard Black.

Hmmm...Black not White?

Aew you unsure of your motives in dissing this album?

 

[Orson Swells]

Re: I'd like to contribute a couple classic howlers from YATQ.

That says more to me about your life!

> But nowadays forget it. He says nothing to me about my life.