"What He Said" - response to "Steven And I"

Posted on Mon, May 22 2000 at 9:30 a.m. PDT
by David T. <[email protected]>

Here's a response to the previously mentioned "Steven And I" article: "What He Said", by Fred Solinger, April 11. This was a link off of Fred's Bruce Springsteen / Morrissey comparison in his music blog. From Bob:

Bruce Springsteen and Morrissey?!

...I just read this on a music blog I often visit.

Steal this blog! (May 16)
Excerpt:

...so let me make a statement and it's up to you to decide how you feel about it: early bruce springsteen is like morrissey before he lost hope in everything and everyone. bruce wrote "born to run" and moz has "there is a light that never goes out." both are about escape -- bruce wants to get out of that dead-end town with his girl by his side, and moz wants to escape out of this life and would like to think that there's someone committed to him enough to join him -- and both have a unbearably poignant, tragic romanticism to them. discuss.
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Comments / Notes

To compare Morrissey to Bruce Springteen is like comparing everything to nothing.

Mute Witness
- Mon, May 22, 2000 at 20:09:07 (PDT) | #1

To compare Bruce Springsteen to Morrissey is like comparing everything to nothing.

Lanrock
Thunder Road - Mon, May 22, 2000 at 23:06:51 (PDT) | #2

It's just silly and unimportant - "before Morrissey lost everything and everyone.." - Hmmm now let me think 'Hold onto Your Friends' 'Now my heart is full'....

The only thing that Morrissey has lost is the people who don't understand him nor his music - and that's no great loss is it?

Martin <[email protected]>
Birkenhead - Tue, May 23, 2000 at 00:23:41 (PDT) | #3

Martin, you wouldn't happen to be a tatty boy would you?

4eyes.
- Tue, May 23, 2000 at 00:46:10 (PDT) | #4

Another example:
Springsteens Badlands, "You talk about a dream, you try to make it real, you spend your life waiting for the moment that just don't come, well don't spend your life waiting."
Or Thunderroad: "It's a town full of losers and I'm pulling out of here to win."
Compare with maybe: "The rain falls hard on the hum-drum town, this town has put yoy down." Or: "I tried to live in the real world instead of a shell but I was bored before I even began."

Per <[email protected]>
- Tue, May 23, 2000 at 04:29:30 (PDT) | #5

Um, like, NO.

Kruzifixia Avenue <[email protected]>
- Tue, May 23, 2000 at 04:59:37 (PDT) | #6

well..... they both do their fair share of denim wearing and ass-wiggling.

and.... you can both call out their names in an arena soccer game fashion. "MORRRRRRISSSSEEEEEEEEYYYY!"
and "BRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCE!"

Morrissey's nickname is "MOZ". Bruce's nickname is "the BOSS"

this is ridiculous....ksdhfjkhaoiekslskjdlihwp

hated for loving
going back to cali, yo - Tue, May 23, 2000 at 08:28:19 (PDT) | #7

Comparing these two is like comparing apples and oranges. C'mon, somebody had to say it.

Someone's Puney Brother
Chicago, IL - Tue, May 23, 2000 at 18:54:00 (PDT) | #8

That should of read, Morrissey is everything and Bruce is nothing. Besides, Bruce's lyrics may have been good, but the music sucked.

Mute Witness
- Tue, May 23, 2000 at 19:36:31 (PDT) | #9

Oh my goodness, could it be? An anagram for Steven Patrick Morrissey turns into:

Sick rat overy Sprinsteem

Uncanny.
I'm eating an orange for breakfast with some coffee, Cafe Verona w/ cream and Equal. I think I'll watch TV.

Suffer
- Wed, May 24, 2000 at 08:43:06 (PDT) | #10

BRUUUUUUUCCCEE!!!!!

Lanrock
Thunder Road - Wed, May 24, 2000 at 22:53:37 (PDT) | #11

Morrissey...old.
Bruce.......reeeaalllly OLD!

Boy with some corn in his eye
- Fri, May 26, 2000 at 10:26:01 (PDT) | #12

* return to Morrissey-solo