04/05/17/0516220
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davidt
on Monday May 17 2004, @01:00PM
Morrissey on "Music: Response" - Xfm Radio (May 17, 2004). Post your info and reviews in the comments section below.
04/05/17/0411238
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posted by
davidt
on Monday May 17 2004, @07:00AM
You Are The Quarry, Morrissey's first studio album release in 7 years, is out today, May 17, 2004. (Out tomorrow, May 18 in the US).
- youarethequarry.net - new official UK site, audio clips, lyrics - Apr. 20, 2004
- Final YATQ artwork surfaces; audio & video soon on official site - Apr. 15, 2004
- You Are The Quarry press release (pdf): DVD details; UK TV, radio, press appearances - Mar. 27, 2004
- morrisseymusic.com - new official site, Manchester May 22 one-off gig announcement, on sale Feb. 28 - Feb. 21, 2004
- You Are The Quarry press release, Morrissey bio - Feb. 20, 2004
- More album details at true-to-you.net - Jan. 9, 2004
- You Are The Quarry in April - album, song title news at true-to-you.net; more album/tour news - Jan. 5, 2004
- Moz record "won't be out until next May or so" according to producer Jerry Finn (Undercover news) - Dec. 1, 2003
- Jerry Finn signed on to produce the new Morrissey album, reportedly - Aug. 7, 2003
04/05/17/0739200
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posted by
davidt
on Monday May 17 2004, @07:00AM
njosnavelinx writes: You Are the Quarry was reviewed in the Los Angeles Times today, and was given a 3 star rating (out of 4 stars).
LA Times ratings note: Albums are rated on a scale of one star (poor), two stars (fair), three stars (good) and four stars (excellent).
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Morrissey's mood indigo still entrances
Stephen Patrick Morrissey is a piece of work, as they say here in the U.SA., the Englishman's current land of residence. After a five-year hiatus, Brit-rock's eternal misfit returns in full flower on "You Are the Quarry" (in stores Tuesday), atremble with emotional conflict, affronted by a world that treats him with indifference or cruelty, cursed to isolation but longing for connection. Welcome back, Mozz.
Morrissey finds someone to blame for this pickle in "I Have Forgiven Jesus," in which he doesn't seem to have forgiven him at all: "Why did you give me so much love in a loveless world, when there is no one I can turn to, to unlock all this love?" he sings to no avail -- Jesus has no comment. Elsewhere, Morrissey encourages a potential partner to "close your eyes and think of someone you physically admire, and let me kiss you." Then there's the woman who tells him she loves him -- "which means she must be insane."
Morrissey's lyrics often seem to spill out, unprocessed, straight from his heart, but their bizarre ungainliness is somehow disarming. From the opening song, a mixed-emotions critique of the U.S.: "It brought you the hamburger/Well, America, you know where you can shove your hamburger/And don't you wonder why in Estonia they say, 'Hey you, big fat pig, you fat pig, you fat pig."
Like his previous solo albums and his 1980s output with the Smiths, Morrissey places these sentiments and his song-song deadpan vocals in musical settings that, at their best, swell, sigh and swoon with the surging buoyancy of classic British rock, in line from the Beatles to the Kinks to Bowie.
"Quarry" is a little heavy on the lugubrious ballads, but it's all Morrissey all the time.
-- Richard Cromelin
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A scan of the article is available here.
04/05/17/0030254
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posted by
davidt
on Monday May 17 2004, @07:00AM
stinky writes: Another great review (except for the Dido reference)!
The Times review by Ian Watson---
The text for those who can't get to the link was posted by ChaCha on the general board:
04/05/16/2343251
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davidt
on Monday May 17 2004, @07:00AM
04/05/16/2332249
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posted by
davidt
on Monday May 17 2004, @07:00AM
Requiescant Inpacce writes: The BBC Teletext service, Ceefax, have given "You Are The Quarry" a rather middling review this week. The review can be found on page 531 this weekend, and will probably be in their Entertainment Section for the week ahead.
Their gripes with the album seem to be two-fold; 1)The self-obsession of the lyrics, which they claim covers well-trodden ground, and 2)the music, which they seem to think is bereft of any melody. 'Only on "The First Of The Gang To Die" does anything resembling a melody make an appearance' claims Tom Bishop who penned the piece.
He claims the album is more "Kill Uncle" than "Vauxhall and I", and then goes onto use an old cliche about Morrissey moaning. He ends the article by comparing Morrissey's comeback to that of Prince, saying that any relevance of the current album will buckle under the weight of his stunning back-catalogue.
A rather back-handed compliment to end a rather po-faced review.
04/05/16/2338209
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davidt
on Monday May 17 2004, @07:00AM
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davidt
on Monday May 17 2004, @07:00AM
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davidt
on Monday May 17 2004, @07:00AM
Anonymous writes:
YATQ gets 5/5 in this Saturday's edition of daily Swedish newspaper Helsingborgs Dagblad. The reviewer also writes that Morrissey sings better and with more self-confidence than ever. I so agree!!! His voice sounds absolutely magnificent!
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