to take this thread vaguely back towards topic!
It's interesting that Andrew Collins should post here, but credit to him for doing so. He's a top-notch writer and his contributions to Word are always insightful and witty. However, he was one of the most spiteful Moz-hating journalists around in the early 90’s (which is saying something!); see his NME review below of ‘We hate it when’. I would think Moz would be more pissed off with him about this than the ‘Flirting with Fascism’ piece! However, in fairness, Andrew went on to give Your Arsenal a pretty glowing review, and has been v positive about Moz in recent years unlike vicious, permanently sarcastic, Moz-obsessed twat, David Quanticks (who, recently, even used writing a friend’s obituary as an opportunity to slag off Morrissey), or mulleted, uber-buffoon John Harris.
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SINGLE OF THE WEEK (NOT!) Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Morrissey is laughing at me. And you. He is the Tony Hancock of rock who refuses to lie down. Methodically casting aside those who helped make him the greatest pop star of the 1980s, he is now alone but for some inept rockabillys and a cash register inside a cosy nest made of moist fan mail from The Great Uncritical. Don't you just hate it when that happens?
Start your sobbing, this is by far and away the ex-Smith's WORST single. Played alongside it, 'Ouija Board' sounds choppy and inspired. Sure, the ambiguous title allows 30 seconds of salacious conjecture, but that double-bluff "Ha ha ha ha ha ha" non-chorus scores a direct miss, and the sound of five men bashing around in the darkness in search of a tune merely drains you of the will to live. And the live B-side of 'Suedehead' was played by monkeys who clearly hated 'Viva Hate'. Use the money you save by not purchasing all formats of this record, do yourself a f---ing favour and invest in Morrissey And Marr: The Severed Alliance by Johnny Rogan (Omnibus f14.95). Remind yourself why Morrissey has this peculiar hold over your faculties ie he was in The Smiths, who single-handedly saved a decade, got split up by Danny Kelly and, as individual components, withered on the vine. Moz is history, and we'd all do well to learn it.- Andrew Collins, New Musical Express, 5/2/92
It's interesting that Andrew Collins should post here, but credit to him for doing so. He's a top-notch writer and his contributions to Word are always insightful and witty. However, he was one of the most spiteful Moz-hating journalists around in the early 90’s (which is saying something!); see his NME review below of ‘We hate it when’. I would think Moz would be more pissed off with him about this than the ‘Flirting with Fascism’ piece! However, in fairness, Andrew went on to give Your Arsenal a pretty glowing review, and has been v positive about Moz in recent years unlike vicious, permanently sarcastic, Moz-obsessed twat, David Quanticks (who, recently, even used writing a friend’s obituary as an opportunity to slag off Morrissey), or mulleted, uber-buffoon John Harris.
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SINGLE OF THE WEEK (NOT!) Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Morrissey is laughing at me. And you. He is the Tony Hancock of rock who refuses to lie down. Methodically casting aside those who helped make him the greatest pop star of the 1980s, he is now alone but for some inept rockabillys and a cash register inside a cosy nest made of moist fan mail from The Great Uncritical. Don't you just hate it when that happens?
Start your sobbing, this is by far and away the ex-Smith's WORST single. Played alongside it, 'Ouija Board' sounds choppy and inspired. Sure, the ambiguous title allows 30 seconds of salacious conjecture, but that double-bluff "Ha ha ha ha ha ha" non-chorus scores a direct miss, and the sound of five men bashing around in the darkness in search of a tune merely drains you of the will to live. And the live B-side of 'Suedehead' was played by monkeys who clearly hated 'Viva Hate'. Use the money you save by not purchasing all formats of this record, do yourself a f---ing favour and invest in Morrissey And Marr: The Severed Alliance by Johnny Rogan (Omnibus f14.95). Remind yourself why Morrissey has this peculiar hold over your faculties ie he was in The Smiths, who single-handedly saved a decade, got split up by Danny Kelly and, as individual components, withered on the vine. Moz is history, and we'd all do well to learn it.- Andrew Collins, New Musical Express, 5/2/92