Man, it's a tough day when someone paints you even uglier than Joey Ramone.
Man, it's a tough day when someone paints you even uglier than Joey Ramone.
Moz beside Robert Smith. Priceless. I could never understand Moz and Bob's mutual hatred and hopefully it was exaggerated. Liking The Smiths/Moz/The Cure shouldn't be mutually exclusive.
Robert was portrayed faithfully, anyway, I like it.
Robert Smith? Jeez, I need to get my eyes tested. Again. I thought it was Siouxsie.
My memories are still quite vivid - at school, you were not allowed to like both at the same time. If you listened to Peel it was for Moz. Robert was verboten!Moz beside Robert Smith. Priceless. I could never understand Moz and Bob's mutual hatred and hopefully it was exaggerated. Liking The Smiths/Moz/The Cure shouldn't be mutually exclusive.
My memories are still quite vivid - at school, you were not allowed to like both at the same time. If you listened to Peel it was for Moz. Robert was verboten!
That kind of rivalry is, of course, utterly daft and I enjoy both now.
Moz at the time:
"Robert Smith is a whingebag. It's rather curious that he began wearing beads at the emergence of The Smiths and (eyes narrowing) has been photographed with flowers. I expect he's quite supportive of what we do, but I've never liked The Cure... not even "The Caterpillar"."
Regards,
FWD
Similar vivid memories. Blood amongst the lippy.
It is utterly daft, and yet...i kind of miss that kind of tribalism. i don't think 'kids' have that now, where 'your' music meant the entire world to you and defined your entire self. And there were tribes ~ goth kids, metal kids, indie kids, pop kids, etc. Tribes and sides - you had to pick a side, a very binary age. it was black and white. it was the 80s, we could all fry tomorrow.
Nowadays music is just one tiny pixel in a background 'wall-art' of entertainment. you watch 'kids' (by this of course i mean 33 year olds) play music on their telephones, flicking from taylor swift to nirvana to kanye west, and this heart sinks just a little.
Christ, i feel old.