Low In High School is out now.
Daily Star: tits
You mean Margaret on the Guillotine wasn’t nasty, or Hang the DJ for that matter.
Once again, as indeed with the Bowie analogy, you are talking nonsense.
Is that good or bad?
Really laughed hard during his "Venezuela" screaming. Does he really knows what's going on there ? I dunno. Probably watched tv so much during spending his day in bed.
I agree 100% after the first 5 tracks it completely falls apart. Which is sad, because the first 5 tracks are really solid.First 5 songs are decent but.....
Venezuela doesn’t pay its bills on time either. Maybe that’s why he likes it so much.
Is Morrissey today capable of a “Where Are We Now?” or “Lazarus”?
Well....back to Mountjoy.
Good bye friends, and be well.
The absolute worst Morrissey album to date.
Morrissey acts like a condescending know-it-all. His lack of education and insight makes him sound childish and out of touch with reality.
Low in High School is nothing more than political rants put to mediocre music.
He’s a singing Donald Trump.
It is absolutely dreadful. I was embarrassed for him, frankly. I think it outstrips Roy’s Keen as his worst ever. The one about protecting us from the Thames Valley Police is pretty dire too. I don’t know what it’s like where you live, but my local Odd Lot are mostly under 5ft 5” and carry all the gravitas and public confidence of a hippy social worker. As for the rest of the album, well, it isn’t as rotten to the core as World Peace. There are actually some tunes on this one. Funny what passes for good news these days.
Two days ago I listened to Vauxhall & I all the way through, and enjoyed it so much I did so again immediately afterwards. As we know it explores all the usual Morrissey themes of loneliness, alienation, unrequited love and requited love gone wrong, but it never preaches. Each track is a little vignette, and each flows into the other naturally. His last two albums have been trying instead to educate people rather than entertain, which is fine if the teacher is demonstrably correct.
Low In High School, like World Peace before, sees Morrissey, once more, not as wry social commentator but angry tubthumping evangelist. It doesn’t suit him. The songs The Queen Is Dead and Meat Is Murder do the same, but in clever, more subtle ways. The first amusingly, the second chillingly. That subtlety, that memorable turn of phrase have now gone, and I miss it.
I still maintain that perhaps one day when he’s finally shuffled off this mortal coil - hopefully many, many years from now - we might discover what happened to him circa 2011/12/13 that turned him from an irascible charmer with a glint in his eye into this pugnacious, out of touch arsehole. Whatever it was, be it health issues, relationship, finances, or all three plus other things, it effectively wrecked his career.
I’m sorry to bring up Bowie, but it seems apt taking into account their animosity to one another, and that there was a time when it was fair to say Morrissey was entitled to be mentioned in the same breath, but Bowie continually sought new collaborators. It was always recognisably Him, but surrounding himself with a pool of talent who would come running even on the off chance of working with the great man.
Morrissey had that opportunity but wasted it. Whether he still has that “power to charm” is arguable, but it is no-ones fault but his own. Others have part shares in the decline, but in the end it’s down to him.
I watch his rare television appearances these days and see Graham Norton or Jools Holland blow smoke up his arse and then being cheered to the rafters by the audience and I think “These people don’t know him at all,” confident in the knowledge he’d see every man jack of them lined up kneeling at a mass grave and shot in the neck.
Perhaps exploring the darker recesses of the human condition so extensively has finally got to him.
Will this be his swan song? Now the industry has changed I suspect he’ll only make music while he is healthy enough to tour it, as that’s where the money is now. There’s no point making an album in the hope it’ll sell enough to cover its production costs anymore.
Why would anyone assume any of us are interested reading all of this?
How anyone can like or even love this album is truly beyond me.
M. is trying so very hard to shove his worldview down my throat, but his views are so Trump-esque and intellectually underwhelming, it’s makes my skin crawl.
He’s the local drunk nobody wants to talk to.
This is truly his worst album to date.
The sad part is I can’t listen to the Smiths anymore without thinking about this big smelly turd of an album.
Thank you for pissing all over your legacy, Moz.
I wish you lonely.