Some days ago in Facebook I came across a clipping in which Morrissey reviews the singles for some weekly magazine (Record Mirror? No. 1?) in 1984. It was a surprising read, since Morrissey awarded Duran Duran's Wild Boys as "the bestest single of the week" and also was very appreciative of Ultravox, Psychedelic Furs's Heartbeat and Scritti Politti (even though he mentioned that Green has said mean things about The Smiths so many times, that at some future point he must take revenge -- but Hypnotize is too good a single to not praise). Since we also remember how he liked a-ha a lot in the eighties, it seems that he really never was totally against synthetizers, even though he has used them in his own music very rarely until recently. Sparks have also been very much a synth band at times, even though Morrissey really loves their seventies glam period the best.