Nice. I love Morrissey. His last record Low in High-School is really good. Out of all my favorite musicians from the 80s and 90s he is the only one left who is still releasing new music and who is still playing shows regularly. Hope you enjoyed the concert.

When Prince died he released a nice statement about him and showed some respect for him.

I used to love Morrissey, up until this last year he was one of my big three...Prince at the head and Morrissey and Nick Cave vying for second position. But he's lost it. All this Brexit nonsense and defending the likes of Spacey and Weinstein. Getting rid of all my posters and t-shirts, and Cave is full of it these days. Still, new Janelle Monae looks kinda promising!!

mikeyaddict said:

I used to love Morrissey, up until this last year he was one of my big three...Prince at the head and Morrissey and Nick Cave vying for second position. But he's lost it. All this Brexit nonsense and defending the likes of Spacey and Weinstein. Getting rid of all my posters and t-shirts, and Cave is full of it these days. Still, new Janelle Monae looks kinda promising!!

Morrissey did not defend Spacey or Weinstein. He just tried to put a different perspective on these things but that could easily be misinterpreted as clickbait by some media outlets. In that interview with Der Spiegel he even said that he despises sexual situations that are forced on someone twice.

He never said he was pro brexit either. He just said he liked that the british public decided for themselves what they wanted despite british media to convice them otherwise.

You sometimes have to seperate the art from the artist. I did not like Prince shoving his Jehovas Witness nonsense down our thoats or his comments about Wendy and Lisas sexuality either and still did not throw away his records.

mikeyaddict said:

I used to love Morrissey, up until this last year he was one of my big three...Prince at the head and Morrissey and Nick Cave vying for second position. But he's lost it. All this Brexit nonsense and defending the likes of Spacey and Weinstein. Getting rid of all my posters and t-shirts, and Cave is full of it these days. Still, new Janelle Monae looks kinda promising!!

Morrissey's a legend and you're a bellend.

theplejades said:

Morrissey did not defend Spacey or Weinstein. He just tried to put a different perspective on these things

exactly.

"He never said he was pro brexit either."
And if he was, so what, it's not a crime but a personal choice.

I learned a long time ago to not follow artists as if they are philosophers or leaders of a religion. As long as what you don't agree with doesn't come through their lyrics, I don't see the problem in carrying on with their art.

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mikeyaddict said:

I used to love Morrissey, up until this last year he was one of my big three...Prince at the head and Morrissey and Nick Cave vying for second position. But he's lost it. All this Brexit nonsense and defending the likes of Spacey and Weinstein. Getting rid of all my posters and t-shirts, and Cave is full of it these days. Still, new Janelle Monae looks kinda promising!!

Good taste! For me it has always been Prince, Morrissey and Radiohead. But Nick Cave is in my top five

The least funky guy ever. lol

I'm really hard on Morrissey. Can't take the bastard at all.

The reason for my virtriol is that back in the early/mid-90s my friends and I used to admire him, and we all listened to The Smiths and his early solo records. Seemed like a cool, artsy-fartsy, ambiguously gay, guy. Loved him. Your Arsenal and Vauxhall And I were great records. There was some concern about his waving the Union Jack at concerts and singing "Bengali in Platforms", but we gave him the benefit of the doubt. (He also said, way back in 1986, that reggae was the most racist music in the entire world and was a "total glorification of black supremacy".)

Then, he started to go way downhill, flirting with the right-wing and making comments about how England was being overrun with immigrants (even though Morrissey's own parents were immigrants to England). Then, his records got worse. Then, he moved to L.A. and became a total drama-queen. Then, he tried to cheat Andy and (esp.) Mike from The Smiths out of their fair-earnings from the band (the UK Justice called him "devious and truculent" in court). Then, he told NME that "the floodgates to England" were open and anybody can have access to England and join in; consequently, he said "England is a memory now". Then, he called Chinese people a "sub-species". Then, he kicked some of his own fans out of his concerts. Then, he said mass murders of people in Norway were not as bad as KFC. Then, he banned Canada from his touring itinerary because of the indigenous people's seal-hunt (but is perfectly fine with paying taxes to the US military). And on and on.

It got so bad that, in 2008, a spokesman for the group Love-Music-Hate-Racism announced that they would no longer accept (damage-control) contributions from Morrissey because his comments had gone too far.

As I could dislike him more, he then went and published his autobiography with Penguin books, to try to make himself look smarter than he is. (I see he's now got a crappy short novel out.)

Can't take him. His music, of very limited range, has gone downhill since the mid-90s anyway, but even if it hadn't, there comes a point where a person is so unlikeable that I just can't bring myself to listen to their music.

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ThePanther said:

I'm really hard on Morrissey. Can't take the bastard at all.

The reason for my virtriol is that back in the early/mid-90s my friends and I used to admire him, and we all listened to The Smiths and his early solo records. Seemed like a cool, artsy-fartsy, ambiguously gay, guy. Loved him. Your Arsenal and Vauxhall And I were great records. There was some concern about his waving the Union Jack at concerts and singing "Bengali in Platforms", but we gave him the benefit of the doubt. (He also said, way back in 1986, that reggae was the most racist music in the entire world and was a "total glorification of black supremacy".)

Then, he started to go way downhill, flirting with the right-wing and making comments about how England was being overrun with immigrants (even though Morrissey's own parents were immigrants to England). Then, his records got worse. Then, he moved to L.A. and became a total drama-queen. Then, he tried to cheat Andy and (esp.) Mike from The Smiths out of their fair-earnings from the band (the UK Justice called him "devious and truculent" in court). Then, he told NME that "the floodgates to England" were open and anybody can have access to England and join in; consequently, he said "England is a memory now". Then, he called Chinese people a "sub-species". Then, he kicked some of his own fans out of his concerts. Then, he said mass murders of people in Norway were not as bad as KFC. Then, he banned Canada from his touring itinerary because of the indigenous people's seal-hunt (but is perfectly fine with paying taxes to the US military). And on and on.

It got so bad that, in 2008, a spokesman for the group Love-Music-Hate-Racism announced that they would no longer accept (damage-control) contributions from Morrissey because his comments had gone too far.

As I could dislike him more, he then went and published his autobiography with Penguin books, to try to make himself look smarter than he is. (I see he's now got a crappy short novel out.)

Can't take him. His music, of very limited range, has gone downhill since the mid-90s anyway, but even if it hadn't, there comes a point where a person is so unlikeable that I just can't bring myself to listen to their music.

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He sounds like the type that might get elected!!!

ThePanther said:

I'm really hard on Morrissey. Can't take the bastard at all.

The reason for my virtriol is that back in the early/mid-90s my friends and I used to admire him, and we all listened to The Smiths and his early solo records. Seemed like a cool, artsy-fartsy, ambiguously gay, guy. Loved him. Your Arsenal and Vauxhall And I were great records. There was some concern about his waving the Union Jack at concerts and singing "Bengali in Platforms", but we gave him the benefit of the doubt. (He also said, way back in 1986, that reggae was the most racist music in the entire world and was a "total glorification of black supremacy".)

Then, he started to go way downhill, flirting with the right-wing and making comments about how England was being overrun with immigrants (even though Morrissey's own parents were immigrants to England). Then, his records got worse. Then, he moved to L.A. and became a total drama-queen. Then, he tried to cheat Andy and (esp.) Mike from The Smiths out of their fair-earnings from the band (the UK Justice called him "devious and truculent" in court). Then, he told NME that "the floodgates to England" were open and anybody can have access to England and join in; consequently, he said "England is a memory now". Then, he called Chinese people a "sub-species". Then, he kicked some of his own fans out of his concerts. Then, he said mass murders of people in Norway were not as bad as KFC. Then, he banned Canada from his touring itinerary because of the indigenous people's seal-hunt (but is perfectly fine with paying taxes to the US military). And on and on.

It got so bad that, in 2008, a spokesman for the group Love-Music-Hate-Racism announced that they would no longer accept (damage-control) contributions from Morrissey because his comments had gone too far.

As I could dislike him more, he then went and published his autobiography with Penguin books, to try to make himself look smarter than he is. (I see he's now got a crappy short novel out.)

Can't take him. His music, of very limited range, has gone downhill since the mid-90s anyway, but even if it hadn't, there comes a point where a person is so unlikeable that I just can't bring myself to listen to their music.

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I won´t deny that some of the things he has said were pretty stupid. But things are not as black and white as you make it sound like. Being critical of immigration is not the same thing as being plain racist. He has proved many times that he is not racist. His contribution to peoples lives through his music far outweights the negative things.
Morrissey just says what he thinks even if it goes against the common opinion. He is not mainstream and never boring.

I did not buy the two records before Low in High-School because I found them a bit uninsteresting musically but I think Low in High-School is really good.

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That was a nice gesture from Morrissey. I liked The Smiths but didn't really think much of him until he gave some comments on Brexit and shared a rational viewpoint on the Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey incidents, so I admire him even more now - not to mention his ongoing barbs about the "utterly useless" "royal" family that are usually quite true. Although I will always like Robert Smith's perspective on him: "if Morrissey says not to eat meat, then I am going to eat meat; that's how much I hate Morrissey"