Morrissey - Viva Hate

[GNL]

I know he's cancelled, but this album really did stand the test of time*.



* except Bengali in Platforms. Jesus Christ, what was THAT?!

 

[Jocasta Clun]

Why leave THAT on and get rid of THE ORDINARY BOYS? Did KYLIE SUE?

 

[The Unholy Ghost]

I hope we’re going to have a CHOOSE AND DISCUSS YOUR FAVOURITE RACIST thread and poll. Mine is WALT DISNEY and I like to have Disney posters all over my apartment with racist slogans daubed on them

 

[GNL]

Why leave THAT on and get rid of THE ORDINARY BOYS? Did KYLIE SUE?

He was team Chantelle in the break-up.

 

[Jocasta Clun]

Darling I know EL MOZIARTY is the BERNARD MANNING OF POP but I DON'T CARE. Although he hasn't made a decent record forever but then apart from the MUCH-MISSED LAUGHING LENNY C name me another OLD CUNT who HAS!

 

[octophone]

The discussion around "Bengali In Platforms" at the time seems remarkably tin-eared now. It was considered clumsy more than anything else - Morrissey was felt to be saying "mate, this place is a shithole, you're wasting your time, these morons will never accept you" and the song considered a comment on the UK's toxic culture. But the song was so unremarkable (even with a completely different lyric, it would be the lowest point on side 1) that it almost drifted past. Almost.

That bit that goes "don't hate me just because I am the one to tell you" translates as "just saying". Which spears a good faith interpretation.

 

[octophone]

Alsatian Cousin is still fucking amazing tho'. It really was a shocker as an opener, especially given reports that Morrissey had rejected a Marr tune during the recording of SHWC for being too heavy. For Mr "burn down the disco" to open with a funky "White Lines" bassline with wild, feedbacking guitar felt like a real left turn.
Everyday Is Like Sunday is marvellous, as is Late Night Maudlin Street.

But, really, I find it had to listen to him at all these days.

 

[Kate]

With your TENT FLAP OPEN WIDE!

 

[RJN]

I hope we’re going to have a CHOOSE AND DISCUSS YOUR FAVOURITE RACIST thread and poll

My grandmother (may she Rest In Peace)

 

[Cerro de Casa]

1. Vauxhall and I
2. Your Arsenal
3. You are the Quarry
(Bona Drag)
4. Viva Hate
5. Maladjusted
6. Years of Refusal
7. Ringleader of the Tormenters
8. Southpaw Grammar
9. World Peace is None of Your Business
10. I am Not a Dog on a Chain
11. California Son
12. Low in High School
13. Kill Uncle

 

[Cerro de Casa]

A note upon his desk,
'P.S. Bring me home and have me'
Leather elbows on a tweed coat
Oh, is that ht best you can do?
So came his reply,
'But on the desk is WHERE I WANT YOU'
So I ASK
Even though I KNOW
Were you and he LOVERS?

 

[octophone]

Leather elbows on a tweed coat
Oh, is that ht best you can do?

I mean, that is pure SHADE. The "Oh" is delivered quite ambiguously but the following line he positively spits. I really does make his downwards slide all the worse.

 

[Cerro de Casa]

That 'Oh' may have influenced my 'Oh' Moopy posts

 

[Cerro de Casa]

I will use this thread as a safe space to admit that I saw him on his recent UK tour.

Three times.