The Smiths & Morrissey thread

[Didsbury Dave]

Sad that someone who I idolised as a kid, and whose music I still love (well, The Smiths and his earlier solo stuff at least) has become such an odious prick.

I was talking about this with my wife recently. I was a massive Smiths fan and saw them live. We still put them on late at night sometimes.

Morrissey is not only a racist, he's a coward. He's gay, of course, which is now an open secret. In reality it was obvious back in the Smiths heyday that he was. At the time when the Smiths broke, and in lots of ways created and defined the "indie" scene, pretty much the only "out" musicans were the flamboyant, camp pop artists like Boy George, Jimmy Somerville, Mark Almond and Holly Johnson. Rock musicians stayed in the closet. He became a figurehead for disaffected, sensitive youth and I bet absolutely legions of Smiths fans were gay. He could have come out back then and made the lives of a lot of young people a bit easier. But he didn't. He was scared and that's why he'll always be a coward to me.

 

[PinkFinal]

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

For 35 years he has been the main man..... He shoukd have been a music icon for decades to come....but sadly his musical legacy will be tarnished....

 

[urban genie]

For 35 years he has been the main man..... He shoukd have been a music icon for decades to come....but sadly his musical legacy will be tarnished....

35 years is a bit of a stretch, he has spemt the last 15 talking shite, making wank LPs and cancelling many gigs.

Became a shadow of his former self once the millenium kicked in.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

35 years is a bit of a stretch, he has spemt the last 15 talking shite, making wank LPs and cancelling many gigs.

Became a shadow of his former self once the millenium kicked in.

He was cancelling gigs in rhe Smiths!

 

[Ban-jani]

For 35 years he has been the main man..... He shoukd have been a music icon for decades to come....but sadly his musical legacy will be tarnished....

It won’t, certainly it shouldn’t.

He wasn’t so odious back then when he made it and despite obviously being a nonce, wacko’s music is still popular.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

It won’t, certainly it shouldn’t.

He wasn’t so odious back then when he made it and despite obviously being a nonce, wacko’s music is still popular.

The thing is in The Smiths it was all very left wing so the music media lapped it up..... Now he is leaning to the right, all of a sudden he is being told to shut up.
Farage gets put on question time again and again yet Morrissey is told to be quiet.

 

[Ban-jani]

The thing is in The Smiths it was all very left wing so the music media lapped it up..... Now he is leaning to the right, all of a sudden he is being told to shut up.
Farage gets put on question time again and again yet Morrissey is told to be quiet.

Morrissey is supporting For Britain, who UKIP say are too right wing and basically Nazis, UKIP who Farage says are too right wing now.

He’s completely lost the plot.

 

[jimharri]

For 35 years he has been the main man..... He shoukd have been a music icon for decades to come....but sadly his musical legacy will be tarnished....

 

[urban genie]

The thing is in The Smiths it was all very left wing so the music media lapped it up..... Now he is leaning to the right, all of a sudden he is being told to shut up.
Farage gets put on question time again and again yet Morrissey is told to be quiet.

He isn't being told to shut up, long standing fans of the music of the smiths and him look at what he has become, a bloated self opinionated parody of himself and also a bit fucking nuts and think, turn it in mozza you sound a knob.

What the music press do is their business, but I know a few devotees of him that never missed a gig when he was in town just not arsed if he ever toured in the north west again.

The comparrison with farage is skewed because the music press and the beeb are different but farage is like mozza in that most people think farage is cockend too.