[Music] Morrissey's Bonfire Of Teenagers

[Wozza]

It's a 'no' from me...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ntu9G195DU

 

[B-right-on]

I really don't get Morrissey. He's a right miserable git, singing miserable, non-sensdical songs.

 

[Is it PotG?]

As expected then, pants.

 

[BBassic]

A man so far up his own arse his eyeballs are tiny nuggets of sweetcorn.

 

[hart's shirt]

Bigmouth strikes again.

 

[herecomesaregular]

I always found the The Smiths lyrics very humorous tbf. The trouble is as an artist ages (badly) they can just become a poor parody of their previous selfs. Unfortunately, this is Morrissey nowadays.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

He’s just doing what he’s always done ie going against current fashion. If it was Bonfire of the Old People then the NSC oldies would love it.

 

[jonny.rainbow]

Is this song about the Manchester Arena bombing?

Several of the lyrics suggest it might be.

If it is then Morrisey is even more of a back to front than I previously thought.

 

[HalfaSeatOn]

Song about being angry at the Manchester Arena terrorist, just not a very good one.

 

[Insel affe]

I used to be a big fan, but this is tasteless, he’s wrote a song about a terrible event and turned it around to his condemnation of forgiveness.

Morrissey what have you done, disappointed in you.

 

[Wozza]

He’s just doing what he’s always done ie going against current fashion. If it was Bonfire of the Old People then the NSC oldies would love it.

Er... you appear to have missed the topic of the song, which subsequent posters have noted.

 

[jcdenton08]

Morrissey can just **** right off.

Here is Peter Serafinowicz reading from "the Morrissey autobiography"

https://youtu.be/r1JLmHXAz9Q

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

Er... you appear to have missed the topic of the song, which subsequent posters have noted.

Yeah, missed that. I didn’t know he (or anyone) could be quite so tasteless.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Talentless and hugely overrated.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Like many others I was a fan and found his lyrics clever, playful, interesting and with wit. But, with age he has turned into a bitter man totally devoid of any of these qualities. Many of his peers (and some of his heroes like Sparks) have now publicly distanced themselves from him and the shite he now spouts and so will I.

 

[Barnet Seagull]

Not a fan but from an art perspective at least he is thought provoking.
I'm happy to be led down a path by music and lyrics, its a more constructive path than the overt provocation and baiting of for example Piers Morgan.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

That said, I saw him on a flight about three years ago and he had a gorgeous Prada man bag.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Not a fan but from an art perspective at least he is thought provoking.
I'm happy to be led down a path by music and lyrics, its a more constructive path than the overt provocation and baiting of for example Piers Morgan.

I agree in principle but these lyrics are quite basic and I would say designed to bait as opposed to stimulate any intellectual debate; there is no interesting angle to think about. In this sense how does it differ from Piers Morgan?

 

[The Clamp]

I worked at a music venue when he played there a few years ago. His list of rules included no meat in the building on the night or for 48 hours before. All staff and punters to be searched on entry and any meat products removed. Staff to be sent home of they were carrying meat. All smells of meat to be removed from the building. If these rules are broken or he “smells meat” in the venue, he will pull the gig. Which he did in Paris.

Paul Weller was probably the most entitled though, insisting he be allowed to smoke inside the venue, including on stage. Which he proceeded to do .

The majority of artists I have met , no matter how talented, are self-obsessed wallys.

 

[Icy Gull]

Am I seeing a little dig at Oasis chucked in there?