I was resting, smoking a little bit of weed, just tired and at ease when the algorithm suggested The Smiths 4th May 1984 Markthalle, Hamburg, Germany. The thumbnail looked good, Morrisey looked good tbh, and I started listening watching the performance, something just clicked. The disposition, the sweet gloomy romanticism of it all. So good, it made my previous general dismissiveness of their most well known work unexplainable, I still don't understand why I'm more attuned to it now than before when my highschool friends where all over it.
I don't care really I just feel that this new sense is expanding, unfolding this new horizon of music I had been instinctively recalcitrant to get into. I associate this sound with a lot of stuff I had avoided as well but that now I feel I will understand with my heart, stuff like Pulp (thanks to Chris Wade), New Order, Joy Division, are they all New Wave acts? I don't know anything about this scene, maybe you can help me find more stuff to love.
I feel that I should also mention that I really like Interpol and that I had years of getting my ears full of shoegaze. Now I listen to wallpaper music mostly.
Yeah it's weird. Being from the US I had no idea at all that morrissey was such a horrible person. And I would have never guessed it from the music and his image. They never really got a ton of press over here and were always a cult band so all I really knew was the music itself.
Morrissey was actually sorta labour leftist when he started, but he went further and further right.