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The guy hasn't been lonely in decades. Every time he turns around, Damon is standing one foot behind him.If Morrissey's so lonely, why does want all the foreigners to leave?
The guy hasn't been lonely in decades. Every time he turns around, Damon is standing one foot behind him.If Morrissey's so lonely, why does want all the foreigners to leave?
The guy hasn't been lonely in decades. Every time he turns around, Damon is standing one foot behind him.
I'm simply whelmed. Neither over- nor underwhelmed. It was about what I expected from Morrissey in 2017 following in the wake of World Peace Is None Of Your Business. My ear prefers "I Wish You Lonely" and "Home Is A Question Mark" (albeit less the BELLS). The latter makes me exceptionally curious to hear Mando's other composition, as there is a sweet tone to the latter that is redolent of Alain Whyte's slower, softer compositions. Whereas "When You Open Your Legs" makes me quite glad that there is only one other Jesse Tobias composition. It feels like a concatenation of "Earth Is The Loneliest Planet" and "When Last I Spoke To Carol" - as such, it is the median between the dire and grand. Boz, as usual, provides variety, but "All The Young People" tries too hard to be a knees-up singalong. For me, a barroom piano is a bridge too far in a Morrissey song. Let's leave that for Bob Seger, thanks.
Does anyone else feel, lyrically, that "Jacky..." is essentially "Girl Least Likely To" with amateur dramatics substituting for poetry?
Have listened to the new songs a fair few times since Monday by now.
Here is my 'chart' (so far):
1. Home Is A Question Mark - a really solid Morrissey song, reminiscent of his mid 90s material
2. I Wish You Lonely - very good
3. Jacky - just ok at the moment, though I sense it will grow on me
4. When You Open Your Legs - ditto
5. Spent The Day In Bed - not my cup of tea, HATE that keyboard (though I admit it's a catchy song overall)
6. All The Young People - awful, there is just no excuse for this song
Based on what we have heard so far, I believe Low In High School will be a better album than World Peace, which pleases me no end.
I do that before the show. I know when I hear Lipsynka I'd better move it. But yes, MIM definitely inspires the same exodus as Kristeen Young's impassioned caterwauling.
I've seen many shores
I hugged the land
but nothing more
because I haven't met you
I have whined and
I have dined with
every bogus music mogul
no sign of you
I brush and I roll (?)
pressing palms
excluding charm
yet never in arms
And that's why
home is a question mark
home is a place I don't know
home is a question mark
home is a place I don't know
I have been brave
deep in every shaden day
none with you
another film on replay
this time Hell
with Guillaume Canet
for ?
That's why
home is a question mark
home is a place I don' know
home is a question mark
home is the place I don't know
Home
is it just a word?
Or is it something you
carry within you?
I'm happy just to be here
if I ever find home
if I ever find home
if I ever find home
if I get there would you meet me
wrap your legs around my face
just to greet me
if I get there would you meet me
wrap your legs around my face
just to greet me
if I ever get there
do you think I will?
do you think I will?
do you think I will?
How many times I'd say (?)
The guy hasn't been lonely in decades. Every time he turns around, Damon is standing one foot behind him.
I'd just be happy if he changed "Eat. Kill. Eat. Kill. Murder." back to the much more powerful line "A death for no reason, and death for no reason is murder."always thought that M should have K.Young come out to sing MIM instead of him, think the fans would have loved that.
I'd just be happy if he changed "Eat. Kill. Eat. Kill. Murder." back to the much more powerful line "A death for no reason, and death for no reason is murder."
I think he converted many more with a blood red spotlight and resonant words than he has with abattoir footage and browbeating.
I'm not going all the way back to The Smiths, because here we are in Solo times, but compare. It's apples and oranges.Agreed. It's the most powerful line in the song for me.
If Morrissey's so lonely, why does want all the foreigners to leave?
I've only listened to the songs which are on the BBC Red button and was impressed with All The Young People, believe Jacky will be better on the record and I keep on finding myself singing Spent the Day in Bed due to its innate catchiness. I thought the live performance was pretty good myself (accept I may be in a minority)
I look forward to the album
I was fortunate enough to catch Years of Refusal songs live and Quarry ones prior to their release. For this reason Something Is Squeezing My Skull remains a high watermark of Morrissey's 21st Century oeuvre for me. All the Young People has potential to equal that imo
with Guillaume Canet
for ?
for English me.
Don't you care about Julie being stuck in the weeds? I hope she gets out one day or at least smokes them.They're ok without being mind blowing. Let's wait and see how the album versions sound.
All the young people..starts off promising, then it's just constant repetition for the last 2mins. It's the repetition of lyrics I don't like. Morrissey has had 3 years to write some good stuff and can't fill 3 mins of a song without repeating the same thing over and over. His songs used to be story telling, they'd unveil things and develop as they went on, but they just go nowhere now. Also I don't like when the title of the song ends up being the first line of the song, (spent the day, I wish you, jackies only happy) It's always seemed lazy to me. But most disappointng of all, his songs have stopped meaning anything to me, Who the f***'s Jackie and why should I care about her?
I am reticent to explore the songs from the BBC performance because I want to hear the studio versions first. Whether I can hold out that long is another thing. My guess is no. I did listen to Home Is A Question Mark once and liked it on first listen. Is that song from the Quarry circa or much earlier? I can't place it.