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Mozza's platters that matter
Now Mozza has revealed his favourite records of all-time in an interview with music website thequietus.com
The former Smiths frontman cited the likes of Jeff Buckley, The Velvet Underground, Patti Smith and the Ramones in the list, which also featured Iggy And The Stooges' Raw Power and The Smoking Popes' Born To Quit, of which Morrissey gushed: "Did you ever hear Born To Quit? I thought that album was extraordinary, the most loveable thing I'd heard in years."
Here's the full list of Mozza's platters that matter:
Jobriath - Jobriath
Jeff Buckley - Grace
The Smoking Popes - Born To Quit
Damien Dempsey - Seize The Day
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
Sparks - Kimono My House
Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power
Nico - Chelsea Girl
Patti Smith - Horses
Ramones - Ramones
New York Dolls - New York Dolls
Source: NME.com 
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Steven Patrick Morrissey (born 22 May 1959), known as Morrissey, is an English singer and lyricist. He rose to prominence in the 1980s as the lyricist and vocalist of the alternative rock band The Smiths. The band was highly successful in the United Kingdom but broke up in 1987, and Morrissey began a solo career, making the top ten of the UK Singles Chart on ten occasions. Widely regarded as an...
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Comments
Interesting, but hardly surprising that Morrissey cites Sparks Kimono My House as an important album. The difficulty would be choosing which Sparks album, I would have thought. We all know about his obsession with the NY Dolls but hitherto I'd not been aware of his sparks fetish. It's indeed wonderful to see the most important singer ever acknowledge a band that unbelievably is still making albums 30 years later. Go Mozz, go the Mael brothers.
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