Comments on: Morrissey, Years Of Refusal http://popshifter.com/2009-03-30/morrissey-years-of-refusal/ One Giant Leap for Fankind Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:06:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Popshifter » We Want To Thank You http://popshifter.com/2009-03-30/morrissey-years-of-refusal/comment-page-1/#comment-594 Popshifter » We Want To Thank You Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:42:18 +0000 http://popshifter.com/2009-03-30/morrissey-years-of-refusal/#comment-594 [...] blog posted links to a couple of Popshifter pieces: a review of Morrissey’s Years Of Refusal and “Worst [...] [...] blog posted links to a couple of Popshifter pieces: a review of Morrissey’s Years Of Refusal and “Worst [...]

]]> By: Kat http://popshifter.com/2009-03-30/morrissey-years-of-refusal/comment-page-1/#comment-360 Kat Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:19:51 +0000 http://popshifter.com/2009-03-30/morrissey-years-of-refusal/#comment-360 My husband, two friends and I just traveled to Buffalo, NY to see Morrissey's Tour of Refusal. As someone who is not a huge fan of Morrissey (my husband and our friends are), I found the concert too over-the-top-shoegazingly-sad for my tastes (nearly an hour of uber sad ballads). All my friends who were at the show who were Morrissey fans, however, thought it was an amazing show wherein he played songs he's never played before (or rarely does) throwing in a few Smiths and older solo songs. By all accounts of these uber-fans, this album is one of his best (though it all sounds like depressing rants to me) and fits perfectly in with the life he has always portrayed publicly. One of the absolute reasons all Mozzer fans say they love him is, in fact, his utter disregard for his fans (this "alienating attention-whoring"). Then again, I think Morrissey fans can sometimes go out of their way to praise the man in the hopes that he may acknowledge them somehow. It's probably just complete cronyism drawing them to his records. My husband, two friends and I just traveled to Buffalo, NY to see Morrissey’s Tour of Refusal. As someone who is not a huge fan of Morrissey (my husband and our friends are), I found the concert too over-the-top-shoegazingly-sad for my tastes (nearly an hour of uber sad ballads). All my friends who were at the show who were Morrissey fans, however, thought it was an amazing show wherein he played songs he’s never played before (or rarely does) throwing in a few Smiths and older solo songs.

By all accounts of these uber-fans, this album is one of his best (though it all sounds like depressing rants to me) and fits perfectly in with the life he has always portrayed publicly. One of the absolute reasons all Mozzer fans say they love him is, in fact, his utter disregard for his fans (this “alienating attention-whoring”).

Then again, I think Morrissey fans can sometimes go out of their way to praise the man in the hopes that he may acknowledge them somehow. It’s probably just complete cronyism drawing them to his records.

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