[Closed] Morrisey

Yeah, particularly The Smiths, never tire of those albums after all those years...

The Smiths were amazing! That combination of Johnny Marr's guitar, and Morrissey's lyrics and voice was second to none.

I don’t wish to sound negative, but I can’t stand him nor The Smiths.

Sadly for me he seems a permanent fixture on Radio X’s 12 track playlist.

Loathsome person. Shit music as well.

You Are The Quarry was his best album since his first solo effort… that's a fair gap between two fantastic albums.

[i](Not someone you'd want to know personally… that's not unusual when it comes to artists who make a mark though.)[/i]

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Love the Smiths, totally unique. Even people who do not like them or understand them regularly quote their song 'There Is a Light That Never Goes Out' as among their favourites.

Do you mean Morrissey?
The Smiths were good in their time. No interest in Morrissey's solo stuff at all.

Yess i forgot a s in his name my spelling mistake, just wondering why he's so bad in some folks eyes, well i canny stand much u2 stuff and as for their new tune thats getting played it's dire

The best thing to come from The Smiths was Johnny Marr playing on a Modest Mouse album.

Yup him and the smiths are top 🙂

Irish Blood, English Heart.

Spanish address?
🙂

Great band, The Smiths, hence the user name.
He is a bit of a knob these days though.

Made me smile.

Loved the Smiths in the 80s, but I was a moody teenager.

On the plus side, he's kept his quiff far better than me.
On the down side, well he's just a bit of an irrelevant knob these days, surely?

redmex - Member

anyone else like him ?

I love some of the music, but not even his mum [i]likes[/i] him

The Smiths were fantastic. Morrissey's solo stuff less so; he hasn't managed a falsetto in years, the poetry has decayed into opinion, the light might not have gone out . . . but it's guttering.

@rusty spanner - nice! 🙂

Enduring songs, very clever lyrics, seems to pin down the awkwardness and disappointments of many a human.
He's a numpty sometimes but meh....aren't we all?...

Put me on the like side please.

Last week when I had Radio X on, they decided to play the new single twice in a row, ended up changing channel.

This week, it's the record of the week, result is again the same, ill change the channel when it comes on.

[i]just wondering why he's so bad in some folks eyes[/i]

Cos he's different and an original. Most people like mediocrity (surprised his solo stuff isn't more popular actually! 🙂 )

Smiths where part of my Uni days, outstanding band. As a Solo artist I don’t really care for him. Unlike Costello who I have followed through his whole career

He is and can be a truly epic knob, but he is "our" truly epic knob. Electrifying live.

For all that I am a fan, I had no interest in Moz's autobiography. Johnny Marr's autobiography "Set the Boy Free", is a great read however.

I've always found him and the Smiffs dull and dreary

I preferred it when it was Safeway.

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[i]You Are The Quarry such a good album[/i]

Agreed on that one, not heard it in ages, remember a line about slate grey Victorian skies which living in Manchester always rings true. Another track on there where he bitches about accountants always made me chuckle.

How many members of the Smiths does it take to change a lightbulb?

None, there is a light that never goes out.

My bicycle punctured on a desolate hillside once. 😀

redmex - Member

I'm listening to You Are The Quarry such a good album, anyone else like him ?

I haven't listened to it for a while. You've inspired me to put it on right now.

What bob_summers said.

Morrissey was one of the finest lyricists of his generation, just a shame that over the last decades he seems to have such a desperate need for attention that's he's turning into a Donald Trump type figure.

Suedehead was easily as good as anything the Smiths did while together, but some of that's owed to Stephen Street.

Looking over the solo albums its a bit hit and miss, but you would make an epic 'greatest hits'.

Did some truly great stuff with marr in the smiths.
Then, unfortunately, he very slowly, but completely, disappeared up his own arse.

The trouble is that angry young men are much more interesting than grumpy old men.

seems he's doing the journalists' jobs for them now and interviewing himself.

what a charming man.

Waste of oxygen... seems like he lives in a different world to most

A new Morrissey thread and a bumped Morrisey one in the same week How bizarre.

Oh sorry, it was 2 bumped ones.

I did search, honest.

Smiths were fantastic, saw them on the Meat is Murder tour, easiest gig to get to the front 😂

solo stuff is curates egg for me, some blinding songs but a lot of meh as well IMO

on a personal level he isn’t anyone I would want to spend time with.

Constantly ill and seemingly depressed vegan preaching to others how veganisim is great.

Pillock.

In the complete absence of any half decent modern music I'm going back to previous decades to discover bands that passed me by first time around. I hated the Smiths in the '80's and struggle with them today. The odd half decent track, but just can't stomach most of their stuff.

As for Morrissey, fair enough he's different (though  he's not really) but hate the way he tries to shove his beliefs down the throat of others and if they refuse to agree with him he gets all mardy and aggressive. So a pretty unpleasant character really and not in any way the genius some of his fans seem to say he is. Not a genius at all really. But it's all down to personal tastes at the end of the day.

As much as I quite like some of the smiths songs, morrissey is a massive ****ing prick. He's managed to do the great magic trick, of disappearing completely, up his own arse.

His comments about Hitler are truly amazing 😕

It took me a long time to really appreciate The Smiths, which is a bit of a shame because it meant I missed seeing them play in my home town! But I also missed King Crimson play the same venue, when Discipline came out, and I didn’t appreciate that album at the time either. Moz is a colossal knob, but he still has his moments tune-wise.

Constantly ill and seemingly depressed vegan preaching to others how veganisim is great.

To be fair, that seems to be one of his lesser crimes.  He recently came out in an interview that "halal slaughter requires certification that can only be given by supporters of ISIS, and he's a supporter of For Britain which is essentially a right-wing version of UKIP.

(And then of course there's his records...)

Loved the Smiths, my teenage years soundtrack. Johnny Marr possibly the nicest man in rock. Morrissey seemingly very clever, no doubt he is but he is so very self important, and overly so. Probably a nice guy but does his best to antagonise. He's laughing at us right now whilst sitting out on his LA verandah having his feet massaged by a young Mexican male.

Either I was too young for The Smiths or they completely passed me by for some reason. They've never done much for me when I have heard them, except for that guitar noise on (I think) How Soon Is Now?

Morrissey appears to be a knob, or playing an epic troll on his fanbase to see just how much they'll put up with. Which would make him a knob too.

I loved the smiths and even the early solo stuff was good but you are the quarry was easily his best.

Was lucky enough to see them live doing the first album, then meat is murder and also the queen is dead.

The smiths shaped me and my hair through my teenage years

He has become a massive dong mind

How to live up to being a middle-aged cliché.

Lesson 1:

In the complete absence of any half decent modern music

He's an ultra****. Nobody is enough of a genius to make it worth putting up with it.

The guy is a fanny.