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Morrissey nominated for a Brit Award - 'British Male Solo Artist'

posted by davidt on Monday January 10 2005, @12:00PM
Vincent writes:

Morrissey is nominated in the category 'British Male Solo Artist' for this years Brit Awards.

BRITISH MALE SOLO ARTIST - nominations
* Jamie Cullum
* Lemar
* Morrissey
* The Streets
* Will Young

More info at the nme website: Franz Ferdinand lead Brit Award nominations

And this is what the official Brit Awards website (link) says about our man:

Capturing the mood of an entire generation of angst-ridden boys, Steven Patrick Morrissey is truly a musical icon. Born in Manchester, Morrissey co-founded The Smiths with Johnny Marr in 1982. His lyrics and Marr's music ensured The Smiths were one of the era's most critically acclaimed bands. On going solo in 1988, Morrissey brought out an EMI album, Viva Hate which made UK No.1. A sting of successful singles followed, including Suedehead, The last OF The Famous International Playboys and Interesting Drug. Landmark albums Your Arsenal (1992) and Vauxhall And I (1994), cemented his reputation. However chart success did not always match Morrissey's 'favourite son' status, and a quiet spell ended in 2004 with a highly acclaimed Sanctuary Records album You Are The Quarry.
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  • ....I really can't, can you?
    momus -- Monday January 10 2005, @12:24PM (#146487)
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    because..because we must
  • If he doesn't win then i really will lose all faith in the British Music Industry FOREVER.
    Keely -- Monday January 10 2005, @12:27PM (#146488)
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  • The Brits are all about politics, not music. The major record companies share the nominations, then decide who gets which prize to sell some more records of whatever act is hot. Poor Moz doesn't stand a chance, but he probably, and hopefully, won't even show up for it.
    Although it would be great seeing him do an acceptance speech.
    Johan de Witt <[email protected]> -- Monday January 10 2005, @02:11PM (#146514)
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  • "Thank God for the public image"
    Anonymous -- Monday January 10 2005, @02:55PM (#146525)
  • Let's hope they stick 'First of the Gang' on the soon-to-be-released nominees CD.
    I'm actually pleased he's been nominated but The Streets are, sadly, absolutely bound to win.
    John
    Anonymous -- Monday January 10 2005, @03:16PM (#146527)
  • well i'am glad morrissey has been nominated, and i hope he wins, i've been a fan of his since the smiths early days, and he deserve's an award of this stature, he should pick this up along with the outstanding contribution to british music award, good luck mozz
    wrightytheman -- Monday January 10 2005, @05:04PM (#146542)
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  • the streets? surely they r a group? mozzer easily deserves it, but if THE BAND The Streets are in it they will probably get it ...
    Anonymous -- Monday January 10 2005, @06:16PM (#146553)
  • maybe because he has been nominated in same category b4...it might be his 'time' to win.
    Anonymous -- Monday January 10 2005, @07:43PM (#146566)
  • I don't care what people say about awards. Morrissey should win this one hands down. This is his time and this is a big one. By the way, no nominations for his album or songs?
    texasbloke -- Monday January 10 2005, @08:31PM (#146570)
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  • Look at him in their with all those people who suck, heh heh.

    History will vindicate the Quarry haters.
    Anonymous -- Tuesday January 11 2005, @01:02AM (#146598)
  • Well what a list of the creme de la creme of British music!!!

    We've got our man Moz, who we all know won't win, despite being the most talented and consistent artist for over 20 years, who returned this year with the album of the year.

    Then we've got the rest of the shower of shit!!!

    Will Young the housewives choice, winner of Pop Idol!! Need I say more. Who will not have a record deal by the end of this year no doubt.

    The instantly forgettable Lemar, the poor mans Luther vandross, who came 3rd or 4th, in the terrible BBC version of Pop Idol, where one of the judges was Robin Bloody Gibb.

    The demented Jamie Cullum, who sings (badly) old Dean Martin songs while playing the piano, and doing a silly dance at the same time.

    And finally the probable winner, truly laughable bad boy The Streets , who longs to be a black American Gangsta rapper from the hood, whose masterpieces I've just looked up, include Fit But You Know It, and the obviously autobiographical classic song of Such A Twat!!
    borntohang1968 -- Tuesday January 11 2005, @03:30AM (#146614)
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    older and wiser never applies to me
  • Will Young! Holy Crap! If that kid wins I'd like to drop my trousers to the world, I am a girl of means...

    To me it's obvious that Morrissey will win - he's the only in the list who can actually sing and therefore be considered a 'singer'...
    mozzergirl -- Tuesday January 11 2005, @03:34AM (#146615)
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    Will you put your arms around me, I won't tell anybody
  • Of course he was going to be nominated and deserves to be. My heart says he will win, not least because of the dross also nominated., but also he seems to really returned to the nations consciousness in glorious fashion and no longer seems to wrankle those who don't love him. My head says Mr Skinner coz they must be desparate to give him something and he won't win the other categories he is in.

    Anyway, I am at a loss at why Moz is not in the live category. Did I dream last year, when he stole the festival scene, blew the roofs off venues all over the world and ended his UK stint with a sell out masterclass in performing live at Earls Court?
    Anonymous -- Tuesday January 11 2005, @03:49AM (#146617)
  • I do not want to be done the same treatment with nominated people.

    all kinds of award are rubbish.
    Any prize is unnecessary for him.

    Morrissey is Morrissey,just all.
    Anonymous -- Tuesday January 11 2005, @03:57AM (#146618)
  • By the way, did you see which songs were nominated for best songs ever? Will Young 'Leave right now' and Robbie Williams 'Angels' - best songs ever?! Jeez but how stupid do they think we are?! Unfortunately the average, socalled musicfan today don't know shit about music - but they know lots about Usher, Maroon 5, Will Young, Robbie Williams and all the other MTV whores... "thicker than pigshit/nothing to convey/they're so scared to show intelligence/it might smear their lovely career... I am SO tired of all that crappy, meaningless MTV-music - it's everywhere... and now at the Brit Awards too...

    Oh yeah, and why give Bob Geldof a special award for a lifetime achievement to British Music?! What did he do? Oh I vaguely remember that he don't like Mondays - and thats about it... Then he arranged the Live Aid concert because he's 'such a concerned pop star' - no he's only concerned about his bank account and he's own wanna-be-Bono-image... crap!
    mozzergirl -- Tuesday January 11 2005, @04:09AM (#146623)
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  • BRITs25 : THE BEST SONG AWARD

    Joy Division - 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'
    Kate Bush - 'Wuthering Heights'
    Queen - 'We Are The Champions'
    Robbie Williams - 'Angels'
    Will Young - 'Leave Right Now'

    Possibly the most bizzare list i have ever seen. Can you imagine it? Joy division nominated for a Brit award?! I cant quite get my head round it. Absolutely fantastic that a song like that has been recognised but i dont know whether to laugh or cry.

    Morrissey is the obvious and only winner of his particular category, however, i do not expect him to win. Again, i dont know whether to laugh or cry. Nominated with Jamie Cullum Lemar and Will Young?

    Aghast. If he doesnt win it would only be sensible to give the award to Mike Skinner.

    Also, Franz Ferdinad will wipe the teen-soaked floor with everyone.
    Old Man -- Tuesday January 11 2005, @06:04AM (#146643)
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  • Will 'Understudy-for-Cliff-Richard' Young???!!!! This category must be an anagram, best British 'lame' artist. Please de-select Moz now.
    Auric Goldfinger -- Tuesday January 11 2005, @07:30AM (#146647)
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    Do my eyes deceive me, or is Senna's Lotus sounding rough?
  • Go Jamie Cullum!
    Anonymous -- Tuesday January 11 2005, @08:11AM (#146652)
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  • from Manchester online http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/entertainment/music/s/142/142361_morrissey_and _joy_division_make_brits_shortlist.html

    Morrissey and Joy Division make Brits shortlist
    MANCHESTER veteran Morrissey has capped off an incredible year after receiving a Best British Solo Artist nomination for this year's Brit Awards.

    The star returned to the spotlight last spring with a well-received comeback album, You Are The Quarry

    Best British male will go to either Jamie Cullum, Lemar, Morrissey, The Streets or Will Young.
    someraincoatedlovers -- Tuesday January 11 2005, @09:25AM (#146655)
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  • "Capturing the mood of an entire generation of angst-ridden boys"

    What about the girls?
    Anonymous -- Tuesday January 11 2005, @01:20PM (#146703)
    • Re:boys by Anonymous (Score:0) Tuesday January 11 2005, @01:53PM
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  • We all know he should win, we all want him to win, but we all know deep down he won't, as people have already pointed out, not because the others are better (even my four year old lad knows Moz is the greatest thing since Bob the Builder pasta shapes, he even knows that dad loves Moz alot more than mammy, she knows it too!!) but because the whole thing is a sham.
    Does Morrissey care if he wins ?? Who knows, but he knows we will not love him any less if he doesn't, and we won't will we, well I won't anyway.
    Uniformed Whore -- Tuesday January 11 2005, @02:12PM (#146717)
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  • Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas has been nominated for best single. Is any of this to be taken seriously? Do we want Moz to receive an award from these fuck-wits? I think it would be an insult to all of us.
    BazMJ -- Tuesday January 11 2005, @06:21PM (#146760)
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    Living longer than I had intended, something must have gone right.
  • Kate Bush? Where's she been all this time? If Morrissey wins I hope he makes an under the radar comment to Joyce that only the two of them, the rest of the lads and the devout would understand.

    ILOVEKC
    Anonymous -- Tuesday January 11 2005, @10:35PM (#146784)
    • Re:Whuh? by Tottenham Tom (Score:1) Thursday January 13 2005, @09:03AM
  • Paddy Power betting has him at 9-1, so if you want to make some good money, place your bets now!

    Best Male Solo Artist
     
    2005 Brit Awards
    Selection Prices
    The Streets 5 - 4
    Will Young 5 - 2
    Lemar 11 - 4
    Jamie Cullum 6 - 1
    Morrissey 9 - 1
     
    No, I don't think he will win either...
    Johan de Witt <[email protected]> -- Wednesday January 12 2005, @05:20AM (#146821)
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  • He didn't win with Vauxhall & I...whats changed?
    Anonymous -- Wednesday January 12 2005, @05:50PM (#146876)
  • I mean, Will Young? Lemar?

    The only other one in there with any sort of claim to make serious music is The Streets.

    And if anybody thinks that's Hip Hop, it's not.

    The only decent UK Hip Hop artist left is Roots Manuva. Run Come Save Me, what an album, A Grand Don't Come For Free, what a joke.
    Marlowe -- Thursday January 13 2005, @04:30AM (#146900)
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    "The bubbles in her champagne glass were rising like false hopes"
  • I would like to put forward that I don't see Morrissey as a solo artist anymore. His songwriting team of Alain Whyte, Boz Boorer has been the same since late 1991. In that time frame they have had numerous #1 entry singles in the UK charts, top 10 singles in the US charts, number one LP's in UK, top 20 in US, sold out the HOllywood Bowl, 5 nights at NY's Apollo Theatre, toured Australia and S. AMerica (which never ocurred with the Smiths) and the list goes on. Right up until the beginnning of the tour of Morrissey's current record the bandmembers Alain Whyte, Boz Boorer and Gary Day were the same as 14 years ago, (mind you the Smiths were only together for 5 years). Granted that in that time there have been drummers and bass players come and go, but the songwriting team is in effect the same and we all know how Morrissey feels about drummers and bass players anyway ("as replaceable as parts to a broken lawnmower" was how he referred to Mike and Andy during the legal proceedings he faced a few years ago). But in my eyes, Boz and Al are no hired gun guitarists, they are legitimate collaborators and songwriting partners that are on par with if not exceeding the team of Morrissey/Marr...I would love to hear your thoughts.
    Thanks,
    Tom
    bennyjoy -- Thursday January 13 2005, @05:04AM (#146903)
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  • Finally, the music industry recognises Him as the little gem he truly is...
    Although, it IS infuriating band wagon jumping, is it not? And, frankly, I hope he wins it, because if he does, I'll be convinced that human nature is not completely corrupt and evil. Also, he gets to be smug. I love him smug. Cole Berlin.
    Cole Berlin -- Thursday January 13 2005, @10:31AM (#146926)
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  • Meteor Irish music award. Up against eminem, george michael, Usher, Kayne west and robbie (yis r havin a laugh) williams. This is International Male category. He has this won I' d put me house on it, none of the other 5 have spat on Oliver Cromwell its in the bag, also he is the only one likely to turn up.
    Anonymous -- Monday January 17 2005, @09:48AM (#147344)
  • Well he is going to win or lose, are you going to free us all and die?
    Meatfreecotter -- Tuesday January 11 2005, @06:40PM (#146765)
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  • Are you still here Mr. minus one?
    Shithead.
    Anonymous -- Wednesday January 12 2005, @03:57PM (#146865)
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