Well in all fairness Morrissey was a teenager when he wrote that review. I didn't appreciate a lot of good music when I was that age.
Well in all fairness Morrissey was a teenager when he wrote that review. I didn't appreciate a lot of good music when I was that age.
"You don't go back on your word." Well, Markey's wrong about that. People go back and change their mind about art all the time. If you can't change and adapt you limit yourself. If you can't admit you made a mistake and be forgiven you might as well give-up and shut up.
"You don't go back on your word." Well, Markey's wrong about that. People go back and change their mind about art all the time. If you can't change and adapt you limit yourself. If you can't admit you made a
mistake and be forgiven you might as well give-up and shut up.
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Forgiven? By who? The Style Police? The Hipster Cool Council? Most sensible people build their lives and friendships on something of slightly more importance than whether or not they approve of other's choices of records or bands. Morrissey was clearly a ludicrous snob in his youth. Many of his choices were ignored by the mainstream NME consensus and it was fun to see Morrissey champion them whilst being elevated to be the NME consensus himself. Now, NME and Morrissey have little power to wield and everybody else feels free to mix and match with whatever amuses them at the time.
Of course, Morrissey's failed attempt to turn the pop song into some sort of secular religious substitute doesn't sit well with this Spotify world of playlists. Nobody is going to give him the credentials he had when he was the latest mouth-piece for NME and the record companies insisting that their were 'genius stars' and the rest was rubbish. Morrissey insists that nearly every other band is rubbish, unless he likes them. He now lives in a world where everyone else can dismiss him as rubbish if they don't like him. And guess what? On Social Media, he's no God like he was when NME controlled the musical landscape. He's an interesting legacy Boomer singer who is good for occassional lulz when he wigs out and makes controversial statements about his pet peeves.
The real story in all this is not The Ramones of The Smiths, it's how Google, Apple and Spotify exposed the truth, that music is just another 'lifstyle condiment' that people use to buffer their social media profiles or soundtrack their dinner parties. Nobody now believes it has revolutionary political or aesthetic potential other than old loons like Morrissey. Everybody was looking for the next Beatles, but it turns out Technology Destroyed The Pop Music Industry. Including it's self-appointed saviour, Morrissey.
A refreshing blast of common sense from Marky which soundly debunks Morrissey's endless revisionism. Thank God that cover of the naked sailors was nixed by The Ramones and/or Rhino. It's a real mistake letting Morrissey try to re-write the history of The Ramones as part of his own attempts to re-write his epicFAIL! episode of dissing them as a teenager. And if Marky was a real punk he'd have nothing to do with 40 year retrospectives either. It's just a job, always was. And the 'rebel yell' was always fake. Now it's all embalmed on Spotify like a museum of nonsense, including, of course, The Smiths and Morrissey, including WPINOYB once Morrissey finds another circus tent to sell his snake-oil.
I'm suddenly bored of all this. I think I'll leave it at that. It's been fun. Until the next time...if there is one.
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right, if there is one band that you can get the first time around, its the ramones. every single song was the same thing, but i guess moz had to go with the fashionistas when later the ramones became chic.
Forgiven? By who? .......
I'm suddenly bored of all this. I think I'll leave it at that. It's been fun. Until the next time...if there is one.
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I've always hated them. That will never change. Like REM, all their songs sound alike. The only different sounding thing was the rap record he did with Dee Dee.
I feel bad for Morrissey if he's having one of those f*** Morrissey-solo tshirt moments this morning. No fun. Still to forgive is divine and this guy isn't divine. Judy would agree.
The Ramones debuted in 1974 and the Sex Pistols in 1975. I wonder if there were any cross currents between the two like the Beetles and the Stones. I was never into The Ramones, but I loved Never Mind the Bollocks. Problems and Bodies my favorites.
John Lydon mentions The Ramones in his book. He didn't seem too arsed about them one way or the other but said they seemed to have heavy backing where as the Pistols had none. I guess the inference was that the Pistols really did do it all themselves where as the Ramones were part of the machine.