Well, there has always been a cross over From Cure and Smiths/Morrissey fans-
That's because a lot of Morrissey/Smiths fans are SO obsessed with them, they act like the only music that exists was written by Morrissey...and it's only OK to like music Morrissey approves of.
I always find goths being into Morrissey hilarious,
Like The Cure ONLY has Goth fans?! Are you even aware the band existed for many years and albums before Robert Smith ever adopted that hair and eyeliner? They were popular LONG before he went "Goth".
yes they are allowed to be into him I just feel they miss the point.
Yeah, because there is a point to Morrissey that only you understand...not being a "Goth" and all.
I like a few Cure songs BUT I can't take a man who looks and sounds like Robert Smith seriously.
Like a guy who walks around with coke bottle glasses, foot tall hair, a hearing aid, flowers sticking out of his back pocket, and has a penchant for singing like a woman and yodeling is EASY to take seriously...
Morrissey and Ian Curtis of Joy Division have NEVER been goths.
No, they've just decided to associate themselves with Nazi imagery...
They are gothic in the old English sense but they are NOT goths..yet the goths try to claim them.
I've heard you whine more about "Goths" than The Cure. Do you even know ANYTHING about The Cure other than Robert Smith wearing make up? Probably not...
The Cure, have, always been bigger in America than in the UK
That is nonsense. A simple trip to Wikipedia to look up their UK vs US album sales and chart positions ought to shut you up...then again.
thats because Americans fall for that Alice Cooper/M Manson fantasy stuff more than the British- thats not to say there aren't swaths of middle class kids dressed like a cross between the Matrix and sonic the hedgehog. The British are more concerned with reality and realism.
Is that why you all like Jedward so much?
To write all of Morrisseys solo work off is silly in the extreme...
Who did that? No one I'm aware of...
Morrissey is a pop artist first and foremost..
And he fails at that massively.
the Cure are more rock based.
And thank God for that.
They speak a different language.
Maybe you need to have your ears checked?
If someone wants to compare the two fair enough- I'll make the tea for Morrissey, you can do Roberts trainers up.
Be sure you set aside only white food for Morrissey, though.
One has to look at the massive influence Smiths/Morrissey have had on culture to see Morrissey wins hands down. He has affected culture and moved on...
Has he now? Other than being cited by a couple shit bands and Oasis (who is now a shit band), what exactly has he changed about the culture? If a lot of members of this forum are any indication, his sole contribution to culture has evidently been transforming a lot of people into brainless-namby pamby-vegetarian-depressives who turn to him when they need to make a choice in their life...it's a bit like 'Quatermass and the Pit'.
the Cure still look and sound like they did in 1985 (which is all anyone wants)...
I'm sure 98% of Morrissey fans wish they could say the same thing.
Morrissey may not be on the journey you want him to be on BUT its his journey.
Would you say the same about your child if they were a drug addict?
I saw Robert near my home in London and at 50 he still walks around like an awful state
What does that have to do with the music of The Cure?
Morrissey has become lazy (this we all know)
I had to wait THIS long into your post for you to say something correct and rational? Hmm.
but he is still making great songs.
Some yes, most no.
As for Morrsisseys whole solo career being a below good is simply SILLY.
Once again, I have no idea where you're getting this from...
Just play Suedehead at ANY event and watch the dance floor fill....
You are SO out of touch with reality.
The following are just SOME of his classics
Like I need YOU to tell ME what is good.
November Spawned a Monster
Yeah, those 40 seconds of mongoloid noises really make the song.
Boring.
You are aware this rips off 'Boys Don't Cry' aren't you? In case you didn't know, that is a song by The Cure.
Last Night on Maudlin Street
We let you know
It would help if you actually got the song titles right...
These are just the ones the come to mind...
Thank you for sparing me a longer list.
people are harsh and unfair to Moz on here, at times.
You get what you give. You can't release songs like 'Children In Pieces' and 'I Just Want To See The Boy Happy' and expect to be praised for it...at least, not if you're sane.
Thank Heavens. Toodles.
