Morrissey & Johnny Marr Interview 1985 (Part 2)

Morrissey and Johnny Marr interviewed for ARSENAL - Especial The Smiths Catalonian TV Special.
Johnny Marr talks about the state of music in 1985, Morrissey about the importance ofThe Smiths record sleeves. Johnny Marr also speaks about Joy Division and the Manchester sound. Finally Morrissey talks about Death!!

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[thebostonbruiners]

That's because Joy Division's influence on the future of pop music wasn't realized until after they were gone, obviously.

[psykoosi]

Johnny's face in the end is quite... well, haha obviously he doesn't agree with Moz :D

[dean24uk]

mr marr your the man, my idol :)

[Misterioso]

Joy Division is one thing but... "Who actually cared about The Doors when they actually existed?". I know this was televised years ago but what an idiotic comment.

[treehousewizkid]

@Vanchi78 He's actually referring to the riff from The Kinks' "All Day and All of The Night."

Morrissey is also correct about the singles. In retrospect, Light My Fire is really the only respected Doors' song to reach #1 at the time of its release in the states. A very small percentage of their singles had respectable chart positions in comparison with their post-break-up success.

[dfxman]

He's a different animal these days)morrissey)..i find maturity agree's with him.

[Fallen80sChild]

I hate The Doors so the ending made me lol hard. XD

[makidtrej]

I guess Morrissey was trying to say that if those bands, The Beatles, Joy Division (my personal favorites, being in second place The Smiths)and The Doors is that have they lasted in the music industry like The Rolling Stones for instance, they would have been forgotten and would have never became legendary bands. If i am wrong, well, the fact that Morrissey plays a lot of The Smiths songs in his concerts is a proof that he might regret what he said here.

[Nekhben1]

Morrissey seems quite condascending when he makes his point about The Doors and the public's fondness for the dead, and I can't help but find it a tad hypocritical when the man idolises and even wrote a book about James Dean, especially when he expresses a level of disinterest towards Dean's films in a seperate interview in favour of the man's image- a definite example of one glamourised by the exploitation of his passing.

[Zerusuke]

@KnfRaw what does it mean to be on the same level as Jim Morrison?

What morrissey says is quite accurate, I don't agree with him when he says "who really cared about the Doors" since they had quite a lot of fans, but people like Kurt Cobain, Ian Curtis, Jim Morrison and even Sid Vicious made their bands or former bands even more famous in some way... Sadly, death sells.

[KnfRaw]

"Who really cared about The Doors when they existed?" Morrissey, you obnoxious twat, you can only dream of being on the same level of The Doors and Jim Morrison.

[Vanchi78]

@rherrick123, it is very possible that he did. Johnny Marr expressed once that he wishes everyday that he was the one who created the riff of "Hello, I love you"... so he obviously disagrees with Moz on that one