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on Monday December 28 2009, @11:00AM
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A decade in music – 50 best albums of 2004 - 12. Morrissey, You Are The Quarry - NME.com “The Mozfather’s unique voice had never been more mellifluous, sharp-tongued or relevant.”
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<em>You Are The Quarry</em> #12 in NME "A decade in music – 50 best albums of 2004"
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Please.... (Score:2, Interesting)
Typically they'll just opt for The Strokes - Is This It, because after all they did sort of bring back leather jackets and dirty shoes which appeals to their 'fan base'
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NME polls (Score:2, Insightful)
-- Hello Indie, you are truly funny, even though i'm having to suppress the visuals in my head!
As for Morrissey's global appreciation and discrete absence from the top of NME polls... afraid he'll have to die before the bastard music industry lavish the sort of praise on him he deserves. The press are obtuse, it is the natural state of affairs for them to blatantly ignore him!
PS: Beyonce at no.1? The fur wearing travesty of a woman/artist has a face i'd never get tired throwing darts at - put your bottom away dear, i really don't want to see it! Oh, and stop wearing murdered animals please.
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R.i.p NME (Score:0)
R.I.P NME
Since we have ONE more year left... (Score:0)
sorry people (Score:1)
Morrissey will never get the credit he deserves,
it's His fate, and ours
Blame the music critic-press
this is not a kick to anyone who send it the
newslist
sorry just bored
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The case for 'Years of Refusal' (Score:3, Interesting)
'Quarry' is a very, very good record. The melodies are zingy and turbulent; the lyrics singular and acrid; the style not too far away from 'irresistable.' The minor gripe of occasionally mechanical musicianship doesn't weigh too heavily down upon the record's shoulders because - in the final analysis - it's a superb collection of songs. 'First of the Gang' delghts and surprises with its wistful 60s melody and peculiar imagery; 'Irish Blood' says something that needed to be said with a sang-froid; 'You Know I Couldn't Last' panders to the bitter, washed up icon, refusing to lie down and crumble, far better than the combined efforts of all songs on 'Maladjusted.'
Each Morrissey solo effort has sought to achieve a different sound to its predecessor: Viva Hate, Kill Uncle, Your Arsenal, Vauxhall and I, Southpaw Grammar, and Maladjusted all moved the sound on. In Quarry's case, it didn't really seek to radically alter the overall sound, it just did a far better job of it.
'Years of Refual' is, however, a better album. It might not have been as well-timed as 'Quarry,' as romantic a tale as the scarcely believable rising from the ashes, or as accessible to the mainstream of pop. But it is better. I'm convinced it will be remembered alongside 'Vauxhall' as Morrissey's finest solo work.
'Refusal' doesn't so much drift along as charge. The most obvious difference between this album and the two preceding albums was this viciousness of intent. 'Skull' is the first time I can recall Morrissey's band providing the kind of sweetly melodic, charmingly crisp backdrop that Marr used to deliver with aplomb. It's a searing opener with its mildly confused lyrical vagueness, perturbing gravity and coy turn of phrase, peppered with the kind of amusing twists and turns that define Morrissey's writing. It's a 'What She Said' for 2009 focusing on the often-neglected topic of mental health. 'Mama Lay Softly On The Riverbed' is epic, sprawling, strange and addictive. "You Were Good in Your Time" is a Bond theme tune with a difference: camp, self-aware and self-deprecating. It's Morrissey's most joyous torch song since 'I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday.' The rest of the album rattles and rocks and jousts playfully. 'When Last I Spoke to Carol" is mournful and melodic, sprinkled with magic courtesy of Spanish guitar and brass; while 'It's Not Your Birthday Anymore' recalls the oddness of form and style of 'Speedway,' intriguing with its paradoxical cynicism and heart-felt vocal delivery . "The heart has a heart of its own..." conflicts with "Do you really think we meant all those syrupy, sentimental things we said yesterday?" There are weaker moments in 'Black Cloud' and the final two songs, which make it down the runway without quite taking off.
'Refusal' is his most urgent post-comeback record, it's his most diverse and there's enough there to keep you amused and distressed until the next Morrissey release. It's a special album. It looks to the past (the melancholia of Vauxhall, the ambition of Southpaw Grammar, the more aggressive bite of Your Arsenal) and reinvents it as something wholly new. That's what Morrissey has been doing throughout his career and rarely better than here.
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Should have been (Score:0)
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Does he like it (Score:1)
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