who’s your favorite child?
With all the songs having been out for a few weeks now, it's striking just how good they are. The quality of the songwriting is so much better than on a standard Morrissey album. Think of the richness and sheer musicality of Bobby, the gorgeous chorus melody of Knockabout, and compare it to the sheer thinness and mediocrity of the likes of Dagenham dave, Roys keen or any one of 40 or so other dreary Alain Whyte compositions (nice guy though he undoubtedly was).