Morrissey being miserable on his desert island.

On monday (last week), my teacher Charles recommended me the radio 4 program ‘Desert Island Discs’. The concept: an interviewer has a (famous) guest on, who gives his /her top 8 tracks they would listen to, were they stranded on a desert island. The persons in question can tell a bit about themselves as well during the interview. Charles recommended it to me, because this weekend’s guest was Morrissey – and he knows I’m into him. He said I could listen to it on the BBC iPlayer, and he himself hadn’t listened to it yet either. I predicted the New York Dolls would be Moz’ number 1 and Charles jokingly said that he probably chose one of his own tracks.
So that day after school I decided to give it a listen. Naturally, I was right and the first track he chose was ‘New York Dolls – (There’s Gonna Be A) Showdown’.

Here's the rest of his top 8:
1 New York Dolls - (There's Gonna Be A) Showdown
2 Marianne Faithful - Come and Stay with Me
3 Ramones - Loudmouth
4 Velvet Underground - The Black Angel's Death Song
5 Klaus Nomi - Der Nussbaum
6 Nico - I'm Not Saying
7 Iggy and the Stooges - Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell
8 Mott the Hoople - Sea Diver

Of course, during the interview Mr. Moz also had to keep up his status of being the most whiney and moany bitch in pop music. Often I don’t even take it serious anymore, you just know that it’s ‘his thing’, being a miserable, vain, lonely, animal-loving bastard. Ironically, a desert island would be exactly the place Morrissey would be most ‘happy’ with himself.
Several parts of the interview just made me laugh really, how can you not laugh when you hear good old Moz saying things like ‘I think self-deconstruction is honourable’ and ‘Nothing in this world comforts me’. You just never know when he’s actually being sarcastic towards himself.
At the end of the interview the interviewer, offered him ‘The Complete Works of Shakespeare’ and ‘The Bible’ as reading material for his desert island. To the question ‘Which book would you choose to take to the island?’, he replied: ‘The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde’, oh well what a fucking surprise. Mozzie, you’re just so predictable, tut tut.

Nonetheless, this is how we love Mozzie best: just being a miserable einzelganger. and ‘Desert Island Disc’ seems like something I should continue checking out.