Morrissey

[beale]

Anyone else think Neil Tenant is far more talented?

[jills]

actually yes, I do. Always thought Morrissey was a bit of a tos ser and never really liked his music (apart from Every day is like Sunday, for soem odd reason), then saw him on Jonathon Ross and I still think he's a tos ser. And a pretentious one at that - 'I never perform Johnathon!' etc etc. Conversely, went to see PSBs in concert two years ago and didn't expect much....Neil was never a great singer etc. But I was blown away by them, as was the whoel group of us who went. One of the best live gigs I've been to. Guess it depends what floats your boat.

[slimjim]

Personally, yes but I'm not sure it's fair to directly compare them. Not only is he more talented he is a much nicer person too. But Morrissey is Morrissey and he has an enormous legion of fans who like him for being like that.

[beale]

You're probably right slimjim. It's just I think that songwriters in a loosely similar vein from the past twenty years or so (like Neil Tenant, Andy Partridge, Luke Haines etc.) are much better but get overlooked. The only thing I can see that's really missing from those three is the self-pity factor, which is usually sure to bring on those legions!

[Mattk]

Pet shop boys were good back in the day(80's) but the music got a bit too camp for me in the 90's ! Morrissey is over-rated and a really boring sod and was at his absolute best with the smiths but i would reach for a morrissey/smiths cd every time before even considering psb-neil tennants dull dance

[sprogglin]

No.