Yeah, I'd been wracking my brain trying to think of the perfect answer for this question, and the last sentence of the article just switched the light right on. "All You Pretty Girls," "Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her, Kiss Her," "Grass," "Scissor Man"….HOW are these not already songs from musicals?

The threads on this article have been refreshingly light on Morrissey-bashing, but saying homophobia isn't a HUGE part of the Morrissey haters' schtick is insanely disingenuous. 99% of the time it's the immediate go-to insult, just total middle-school bullshit, and for some reason it's widely tolerated on just about…

It's a shame they're both deceased, because clearly the ideal casting for Jerry and Eazy would've been Ricardo Montalban and Herve Villechaize.

Really, any time they'd cut to any photo of Colbert and he'd be making that face. Absolutely never gets old.

I'd go to the mat for the pillow gag from Naked Gun being the funniest gag in the entire history of comedy.

Then they jacked up the price!

I know I'm personally a big fan of the dry, melancholic "giant breast" segment of Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*but were afraid to ask).

"the dry, jazz-scored, melancholy-tinged comedy of early Woody Allen"

I don't think it's necessarily a zero-sum game. The Smiths are my favorite band/musical entity of all time, and my love of Morrissey's solo stuff is an extension of that, so it's hard to compare them directly, but I would say if you asked me to make a top 20 or 25 favorite Moz/Smiths songs, it'd be a pretty even mix…

Yeah, "Meat is Murder" surprised the hell out of me at the show I saw a couple weeks ago. I mean, I knew he'd play it (and as a vegetarian, I didn't mind it at all) but I did not expect his band to bring the fucking thunder like that. That was one of the loudest, craziest things I've ever seen live, and I've been up…

"The Boy Racer" is probably the most representative track from that album, but when I close my eyes and think of Southpaw Grammar, it's all about "The Teachers Are Afraid of the Pupils." Holy SHIT. What a song. What an unbelievable, axe-swinging leviathan of a song. Anyone who claims Morrissey "never changes his…

It's a really good album, and another one that gets way more shit than it deserves (Simon Goddard, author of Mozipedia and Songs That Saved Your Life, argues that it's his worst album, for instance). It's hard not to wince at the inclusion of the frankly not-that-exciting "Wide to Receive" in place of the amazing "I…

Or better yet, have someone who's a fan, but whose opinion of the album isn't the exact same as everyone else's. As Jordo articulated so brilliantly above, this article seemed to boil down to two points: 1) Vauxhall is "too slow" and therefore "boring," and 2) Viva Hate is his best album and no one in the world…

AV Club Morrissey Comments Time!

I once wrote about half of a feature-length screenplay called "Bunnie, I Loved You" inspired purely by how moved I was by that line.

I just want to say that the typo "Now My House is Full" is absolutely delightful.

I'd argue that the b-sides are arguably TOO good, because "Ganglord" absolutely destroys everything on the actual album. If he'd added that, "Good Looking Man About Town," "Christian Dior" and the non-fucked-up "Sweetie Pie" in place of some of that album's weaker tracks, it'd be a really great album, but as it…

This is the best comment ever.

YES. First thing I thought of.

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