When Henry hosted the music video show Rage on Australian TV, he raised a few eyebrows by choosing to play the video for November Spawned a Monster by the object of his disdain, Morrissey. He explains:
“The reason I picked Morrissey, because in my opinion Morrissey just embodies every horrible trait that a human can possibly possess. I mean he’s British he doesn’t have to work very hard. I mean they have a handicap anyway. You notice all the great musicians who are English, moved. Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi and Bill Ward the members of Black Sabbath one of the worlds most greatest bands, even though they are English. They moved to America which is great.
“I just love this video because it captures our hero Morrissey lounging about on lonely isolated terrain in this hilarious shirt and I just… when ever I see the video of ‘November Spawned A Monster’ I’m always here with a twinge of regret that it was not I who got to direct this video because in the last scene Morrissey would just be dowsed with gasoline and set on fire. And then we’d just get some wild sound that could just catch the sound of this hair and the polyester shirt burning into his skin and his last cries on earth. And what we could do is we could take that and put a house beat behind it, put it on a 12 inch and sell it to all these emaciated kids with bad teeth, who don’t have enough vitamin c, who never get outside. It’s like, Morrissey cheer up! It’s not that bad! When you have as much money as that guy does, I’d be happy. You know David Lee Roth once said money can’t buy you happiness but it can buy you a boat big enough to sail right up next to it (laughs) so I think the guy should cheer up.
“So I think we should play this video today to show everybody you know the traits they shouldn’t cultivate. Look at Morrissey and just be… jump up and down in joy that you’re not him. That’s why. And I know that this might be a little cruel and I might of bashed our beautiful friends over there in Britain and you know I really don’t care. I really don’t care. Personally I wouldn’t want to burn him up. I would like to tie him to a chair and tease him until he pees his pants and promises never to do it again.”
Henry Rollins is a fucking untalented loser who never achieved the cult status that Morrissey did. I also find it quite funny how stupid the guy sounds when he says,
“You notice all the great musicians who are English, moved. Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi and Bill Ward the members of Black Sabbath one of the worlds most greatest bands, even though they are English. They moved to America which is great.”
Not only does that make him sound like an arrogant and fucking stupid American, but Morrissey has lived in Los Angeles for years. Fucking wanker.
Also, Morrissey can sing about whatever the fuck he likes, the guy is a legend.
You, “someone” of indeterminate gender, are a daft, mental twat who spews uninformed bullshit about someone whose work you seem to know nothing about. And before you start slinging the “arrogant and fucking stupid American” bullshit, I’d like to point out that, after about 10 years of New Labour quasi-neoconservative bullshit, the British put that fucking Thatcherite Cameron in power, who’s set to dismantle the NHS and all the positive social progressive policy that was the legacy of post-WWII England. I’d say you’re not doing too much better than the Americans at this point.
And by the way, Morrissey was nothing without Johnny Marr. All of his post-Smiths output makes that clear.