FOR HISTORIC RECORD, BEFORE I DIE. - Morrissey Central

FOR HISTORIC RECORD, BEFORE I DIE. - Morrissey Central
June 28, 2019

…the ten most important recordings

1. New York Dolls - New York Dolls
2. Horses - Patti Smith
3. Chelsea Girl - Nico
4. Ramones - Ramones
5. Raw Power - The Stooges
6. The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico
7. Kimono My House - Sparks
8. For Your Pleasure - Roxy Music
9. White Light/White Heat - The Velvet Underground
10. Jobriath - Jobriath

Buy these today or drop dead.
-Morrissey.


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3 of the 10 would be in mine all time and 2 bubbling with others

Horses-Patti Smith
Nico-Chelsea Girl
Nico& the Velvet Underground-Nico & the Velvet Underground

the other 2
For your pleasure- Roxy music
Raw Power-Stooges

no suprises in Morrissey's list
 
Did you see what he did? It was immediately obvious to me.

This list is all about Roxy Music. He once said that he couldn’t ever listen to them after discovering that Bryan Ferry was a supporter of Fox Hunting. Fast forward to 2019, and swathes of his own and general music fans are doing the same about his own support for a political party. He’s put out a list of 10 songs and in so doing craftily negated a inconvenient personal stance that so far hasn’t been picked up on.

Revisionist Morrissey.
 
...the ten most important recordings

1. Dog Man Star - Suede
2. I Am A Bird Now - Antony & the Johnsons
3. Sign ‘o’ The Times - Prince
4. The Wild Heart - Stevie Nicks
5. Low - David Bowie
6. Songs of Faith & Devotion - Depeche Mode
7. Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads
8. Live at the Sands - Frank Sinatra
9. Debut - Björk
10. Ray of Light - Madonna

Buy these today or drop dead!
- Eric
 
Oh Hello!

Come back “Bryan Ferret” all is forgiven. Morrissey separating the Artist from the Art. How very timely.
 
He listed his 13 favourite albums back in 2010.

Back then:
1. New York Dolls - New York Dolls
2 Ramones - Ramones
3. Patti Smith - Horses
4. Nico - Chelsea Girl
5. Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power
6. Sparks - Kimono My House
7. The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
8. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
9. Henryk Gorecki - Symphony Number 3
10. Damien Dempsey - Seize The Day
11. Smoking Popes - Born To Quit
12. Jeff Buckley - Grace
13. Jobriath - Jobriath

http://web.archive.org/web/20170423105023/http://true-to-you.net/morrissey_news_100814_01

He cited his favourite 13 singles a month later:
1. Jet Boy - New York Dolls
2. This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us - Sparks
3. Saturday Nite Special - The Sundown Playboys
4. Young, Gifted And Black - Bob & Marcia
5. Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy - The Tams
6. Soldier Blue - Buffy Sainte-Marie
7. Granada - Al Martino
8. Mighty Joe - Shocking Blue
9. All Grown Up - The Crystals
10. I've Been A Bad, Bad Boy - Paul Jones
11. I'm Livin' In Shame - The Supremes
12. So Little Time - Diana Dors
13. Groovin With Mr Bloe - Mr Bloe

http://web.archive.org/web/20170423110308/http://true-to-you.net/morrissey_news_100926_02

Regards,
FWD.

 
FOR HISTORIC RECORD, BEFORE I DIE. - Morrissey Central
June 28, 2019

Buy these today or drop dead.
-Morrissey.

If these are my only two options...goodbye cruel world!

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Probably not the best timing for him to claim that the 10 most important albums ever are all by white people.
And not one of them Irish. But then we are the Black's of Europe That's it, I'm calling Michael D to revoke his passport.
 
He cited his favourite 13 singles a month later:
1. Jet Boy - New York Dolls
2. This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us - Sparks
3. Saturday Nite Special - The Sundown Playboys
4. Young, Gifted And Black - Bob & Marcia
5. Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy - The Tams
6. Soldier Blue - Buffy Sainte-Marie
7. Granada - Al Martino
8. Mighty Joe - Shocking Blue
9. All Grown Up - The Crystals
10. I've Been A Bad, Bad Boy - Paul Jones
11. I'm Livin' In Shame - The Supremes
12. So Little Time - Diana Dors
13. Groovin With Mr Bloe - Mr Bloe

http://web.archive.org/web/20170423110308/http://true-to-you.net/morrissey_news_100926_02

Regards,
FWD.
And his top 10 songs ever from BBC's My Top 10 in 1984:

1. The Tams - Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy
2. Billy Fury - I Will
3. Timi Yuro - Insult to Injury
4. John Leyton - Johnny Remember Me
5. Francoise Hardy - All Over the World
6. Sandie Shaw - You've Not Changed
7. Rita Pavone - Heart
8. The Marvelettes - Paperboy
9. Sandy Posey - I Take it Back
10 Klaus Nomi - Death

https://www.morrissey-solo.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/10/1619216
 
Did you see what he did? It was immediately obvious to me.

This list is all about Roxy Music. He once said that he couldn’t ever listen to them after discovering that Bryan Ferry was a supporter of Fox Hunting. Fast forward to 2019, and swathes of his own and general music fans are doing the same about his own support for a political party. He’s put out a list of 10 songs and in so doing craftily negated a inconvenient personal stance that so far hasn’t been picked up on.

Revisionist Morrissey.

He listed his 13 favourite albums back in 2010.

Back then:
1. New York Dolls - New York Dolls
2 Ramones - Ramones
3. Patti Smith - Horses
4. Nico - Chelsea Girl
5. Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power
6. Sparks - Kimono My House
7. The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
8. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
9. Henryk Gorecki - Symphony Number 3
10. Damien Dempsey - Seize The Day
11. Smoking Popes - Born To Quit
12. Jeff Buckley - Grace
13. Jobriath - Jobriath

http://web.archive.org/web/20170423105023/http://true-to-you.net/morrissey_news_100814_01

As the anonymous poster referenced:

True to You edits Morrissey Favourite Albums list - Jan 24, 2011

Dave2006 writes:
Je Suis Julie has noticed that True to You has edited Bryan Ferret out of the list of Morrissey's favourite albums. Roxy Music has been replaced at number 9 by Henryk Gorecki Symphony Number 3.

Pre 2011 web archive:
https://web.archive.org/web/20100817213458/http://true-to-you.net/morrissey_news_100814_01
 
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I have them all except the Sparks record, and as much as I love Horses, Ramones and Raw Power, only the Velvets & Nico would make my top ten.
 

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