BookishBoy
Well-Known Member
Today's song is this Morrissey/Street composition, from the Viva Hate album. (And then removed from later reissues of that album...)
What do we think of this one?
He said this in 84 - which might be relevant:
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It's from an interview with The Advocate.
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It takes me right back to 1988... from that era where regardless of what the song is 'about' Morrissey just makes it feel like he's speaking to you. It's an absolute shame that this was excluded from the Viva Hate reissue. 9/10.
That's just such lazy analysis, isn't it? Could it be possible (shock horror!) to be a working class writer, and to write about working class experience, without having to extol the virtues of all aspects of working class society?! Especially when one's lived experience of that life is of having been an outcast in many ways...Yeah, I think he's a very universal writer.
But that prat from Gene cited this song as the moment Morrissey turned on ordinary people - I think it was more likely to be the other way round. If anything.
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He was always fringe.That's just such lazy analysis, isn't it? Could it be possible (shock horror!) to be a working class writer, and to write about working class experience, without having to extol the virtues of all aspects of working class society?! Especially when one's lived experience of that life is of having been an outcast in many ways...