· mattorefice
· 2006 Reader's Choice Awards - Your Band Sucks
· More News/Media stories
· More Index stories
· Also by davidt
Morrissey-solo
Archive
|
|
|||||||||
posted by
davidt
on Friday January 19 2007, @02:00PM
mattorefice sends the link:
2006 Reader's Choice Awards - Your Band Sucks - Something Awful Most Unwelcome Testicular Imagery Morrissey - Dear God Please Help Me After a 20 year career in which Morrissey thankfully remained asexual and aloof he finally decides to let his audience know exactly how horny he is with the unforgettable line; 'There are explosive kegs, between my legs.' The mental image of a middle-aged Morrissey wandering the streets of Rome with a bulging scrotum is not one I had hoped to encounter. While I can't really begrudge the man his sexual awakening, I wish he had not let us know about it with this extremely disturbing metaphor. -David C James
This discussion has been archived.
No new comments can be posted.
"Most Unwelcome Testicular Imagery": 'Dear God, Please Help Me' - Something Awful
| Top
| 84 comments
| Search Discussion
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
|
|||||||||
|
now cmon people (Score:0)
cue angry psycho moz fans...
"how dare he make fun of my mozzers balls!"
But oh, my dearest (Score:1)
And everthing in true art surrenders itself to the touching powers of imagination: I can still cry over the sight of Moz's explosive kegs, even though I totally lack them myself...but it is not his kegs I am seeing, it is the feeling of deprivation, brought down to the most psychossomatic form, the erotic, sensitive one, that reaches me here...
Probably it reached this guy's where he really didn't want!
(User #14157 Info)
Honestly... (Score:1)
(User #13041 Info | http://www.myspace.com/jehne)
balls (Score:1)
(User #17577 Info)
Swallowneck - Testies Testies!!! (Score:0)
(User #16900 Info)
smell the roses (Score:1)
(User #6184 Info)
Absolutley Thank you (Score:1)
(User #15744 Info)
dumbing down (Score:0)
I'm not sure this fellow could possibly know about metaphor.
Bland lyrics are all that's required (Score:0)
How dare he write something that disturbs or unsettles us. He should study Coldplay and learn to write lyrics that are inoffensive.
It's a metaphor for his unrequited love/lust... (Score:1)
Although, I am only 4 years younger than Morrissey and am in my sexual peak for sure (a little Catholic twisting did help with my stunted sexuality). Woman, man, what difference does it make? Sex gets better and more intense with age. Deal with it.
And...further more, I don't believe he has been asexual for years. A gentleman doesn't discuss such matters. Morrissey is a gentleman if nothing else, no?
(User #11911 Info)
Is that guy trying to say... (Score:1)
(User #18036 Info)
Birth or rebirth (Score:1)
(User #14157 Info)
Hasnt anyone realized... (Score:0)
Don't take this too seriously people! Cheer up!
You're a wanker (Score:1)
Very plaintive, very unexpected, very sexual without a hint of vulgarity or crassness, if that's a word. Anyway, it is now. It's a bloody GREAT line.
So sod off, no one cares what you think of Morrissey or his lyrics. If you even got close enough to the album to HEAR that line, then you should have been stopped at the gate for trespassing.
Carry on, Mozzer. I love you.
(User #17742 Info)
I love him so much.... (Score:1)
Mozzer for PM!
(User #18150 Info)
sorry but the lyric is hideous (Score:0)
if the 27 year old Moz was told that he would one day write such a cringe inducing lyric he would have retired there and then.
Sadly, Moz surrounds himself with too many 'yes men'.
"Dear God" is the best song on the album (Score:1)
I can just see him, contemplating this rather beautiful melody, and thinking about how he could shake it up a bit. If he had penned a more moderate line about yearning, we would have a far less interesting song on our hands. As it is, I think he rather consciously threw a lyrical spanner in the works. He upset a few people, caused many tongues to wag, and gave his audience a mental image that many find a bit too visceral, but I'm sure gives him a giggle.
If only I could hear it live...
(User #14203 Info)
explosive kegs kill uncle (Score:1)
It's not the line, it's the way it appears in the song. It almost sounds like they tacked it onto the end of a verse. But explosive kegs line or not, it's the general lack of anything happening musically in that song that makes it stand out as not very good. And Tony Visconti should hang his head in shame for butchering Morricone's strings the way he did. That song had potential and they just pissed it away.
Anyhoo, Most Unwelcome Testicular Imagery. That's pretty funny, what were the other nominees I wonder...
(User #7618 Info | http://www.myspace.com/anthonycutt)
ugh (Score:1)
(User #1967 Info)
MORRISSEY RINGLEADER OF THE TORMENTORS Medium T-sh (Score:1)
(User #10674 Info)
Titter ye not. (Score:1)
As for all those people who think Moz has somehow betrayed his Smiths self with vulgar imagery, have you not listened to Handsome Devil? "Let me get my hands on your mammary glands". He's also been verbally dropping his trousers since 1984.
Inside every bookish intellectual is the repressed naughty schoolboy waiting to shock.
An old (very moral) friend recently suggested to me that he saw the line as reflecting his own repressed desire. i.e. he could sleep with every looker in the street that gets him excited, but he chooses not to, hence he's a bit full sometimes (for want of a better expression).
I, on the other hand, think Moz is really, really enjoying himself in Rome, releasing his pent up frustration all over the holy city (if that's not too graphic an image). God love our Morrissey and his potty mouth; it raises a giggle in an otherwise heartbreaking song, and what other artist can do that for you?
(User #14229 Info)
Cover time (Score:1)
(User #16324 Info)
Re Put that bucket of sand away (Score:0)
I am David C James and I wrote this. (Score:0)
That's more or less . . . (Score:1)
(User #9489 Info)