Non-Urban Music Morrissey

[Ristol]

Are you all familiar with Morrissey? Go google him if you're not. The Smiths anybody?

They're my all-time favorites. Nobody has anything on the Smiths.

(I now see that Yeshua started a Smiths/Morrissey thread in 2005. But I think we should do one every four years, don't you?)

 

[Chronic]

I really enjoyed The Smiths' self-titled album, The Queen Is Dead and their compilation Hatful of Hollow.
Not familiar with Morrissey's solo output though.

 

[Prize Gotti]

Yeah Morrissey is great, not a huge fan og The Smiths though.

 

[Ristol]

I really enjoyed The Smiths' self-titled album, The Queen Is Dead and their compilation Hatful of Hollow.
Not familiar with Morrissey's solo output though.

Start at the beginning with Viva Hate. His best solo songs are on par with anything the Smiths did. Except maybe The Queen is Dead, which is downright perfect.

And thank you for deleting my double-post.

 

[stefanwzyga]

Morrissey is the man, and The smiths are pure class.Their first album/ Queen is dead/ strangeways here we come/louder than bombs/ pretty much everything they ever done i love. Defo the band in the uk to listen to in the eighties, or any other decade to be honest.

 

[Ristol]

Moz songs everyone needs to listen to right now:

1. Girlfriend in a Coma (Smiths)
2. The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get
3. Something is Squeezing My Skull
4. When Last I Spoke to Carol
5. First of the Gang to Die
6. Suffer Little Children (Smiths)
7. The Last of the Famous International Playboys
8. Black Cloud
9. We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful
10. Every Day Is Like Sunday

If you hear people say he's depressing, or a morose character, they're simply wrong and uninformed. They have never listened to the music. Morrissey shattered the myth that he was a self-pitying asshole a long time ago. Probably around 1986 when The Queen Is Dead came out.

The truth is he's literate, funny, and sometimes unavoidably serious. He's a genius, one of rock's greatest gifts to the world, and one of the world's greatest gifts to rock.

 

[ArtsyGirl]

I thought you might have meant Van Morrison who is an absolute champ.. I am not familiar with who you are refering to.

 

[Ristol]

Van Morrison is cool. Astral Weeks = pure folk rock perfection. But Morrissey's not a trifle that way.

 

[brianrocks7]

Dude yeah I was kinda thinking Van Morrison too....

 

[Bender]

i was really into the smiths music around 2005, morrissey is a great lyricists, his older songs are better than the newer solo stuff though. i stopped listening to morrissey's music when it lost its ingenuity and started sounding depressing, i have passed the phase of being really into the smiths music, they are the best band of the 1980's though imo

the queen is dead is the smiths favourited work, i played hatfull of hollow more times though, there's so many good songs to pick favourites from all their albums, most i have, i know its over is probably my personal favourite as a sad song, cemetary gates has a good uplifting feel to it despite the gloomy title, it's a great song

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i wondered how you knew i liked the smiths thought maybe i was being e-stalked, but a quick search would show up such stuff.

i agree the smiths are a great listen, morrissey and marr were a great songwriting duo, i definitely recommend people should check out their music if they haven't already, it helps if you try to overlook some of the things morrissey sings about to be able to enjoy the poetic lyrics and music properly

 

[Ristol]

i was really into the smiths music around 2005, morrissey is a great lyricists, his older songs are better than the newer solo stuff though. i stopped listening to morrissey's music when it lost its ingenuity and started sounding depressing, i have passed the phase of being really into the smiths music, they are the best band of the 1980's though imo

the queen is dead is the smiths favourited work, i played hatfull of hollow more times though, there's so many good songs to pick favourites from all their albums, most i have, i know its over is probably my personal favourite as a sad song, cemetary gates has a good uplifting feel to it despite the gloomy title, it's a great song

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i wondered how you knew i liked the smiths thought maybe i was being e-stalked, but a quick search would show up such stuff.

i agree the smiths are a great listen, morrissey and marr were a great songwriting duo, i definitely recommend people should check out their music if they haven't already, it helps if you try to overlook some of the things morrissey sings about to be able to enjoy the poetic lyrics and music properly

If you stopped listening to Morrissey when he lost his ingenuity, then you never stopped listening. Seriously, listen to the album he released in 2009, Years of Refusal. If you don't think he's done anything in a while, you just aren't paying attention.