How did this band become such a dreary corporate sell-out in the 2000s ? Listening to the guitar stab out teardrops from 3.20m onwards , I wonder why they thought " reapplying to be the biggest band in the world " ( or whatever the exact quote is ) meant anything more than this moment ?
I love the way the synths rise to their crescendo around 2.35m and give us a plateau from which to view the ultimately casually vengeful lyrics ... so appealing ...
I'll never ever understand why Morrissey didn't lead off "YA" with this track or "Tomorrow" as the singles instead the boringly gimmickly music-hall numbers like " Fatty" and "Successful" and " Certain ". I hate to invoke the Elvis Costello comment about great titles but forgetting the rest of...
The music and vocal melodies speak so much of yearning ( as the lyrics refer to the imagined defence of the realm ) and romanticism and I'm reminded of nothing so much as Edward Said in the linking of nationalism with romanticism ... Another superb exploration by the man ...
And this from the best war film of all time . No spectacular , theme-track accompanied killings or escapes or dying. Just the horrific ordinariness of death in a POW camp as a Japanese officer who finds himself in love with David Bowie ( who plays a captured British commando ) watches the man of...
And this one reminds of Sylvia Plath more than any other song . The same blue icy-cold tone and sound we find in "Sheep In Fog" if I had to pick one of Sylvia's to match this track ...
It took me literally a decade or more to get over crap like "Lady Lazarus" and "Daddy" and realise Plath was...
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