Now it's 12 years on

[puddle]

since the last time you didn't bitch about a Morrissey release.

seriously, why do some of you bother? i mean after that many years of disappointments, why do you come here just to let us know you are let down again. we don't care. we like. we like it and we love it. what's funny, for me personally YATQ is the most disappointing for me in the last 12 years, although there are still songs on it i like. just didn't have much of a soul for me.

 

[Jamie]

> since the last time you didn't bitch about a Morrissey release.

> seriously, why do some of you bother? i mean after that many years of
> disappointments, why do you come here just to let us know you are let down
> again. we don't care. we like. we like it and we love it. what's funny,
> for me personally YATQ is the most disappointing for me in the last 12
> years, although there are still songs on it i like. just didn't have much
> of a soul for me.

Very much in agreement. I shared a theory with a friend once concerning artists with careers spanning a number of years. Essentially, it has to be presumed that a further increasing diminishment of returns will happen the longer someone stays active--musical history is rife with examples, so I won't bore you. But I find it ludicrous to hold Morrissey's each successive release to the standards of The Queen is Dead or Vauxhall and I. Such hopes are destined to be dashed, as we see each time out.

Honestly, I think the variety in the first three songs we've heard to be extremely encouraging and refreshing. Quarry kicked off with one of the weakest songs of his career followed by two top-rate songs hampered by vacuum-sealed production--nothing really truly ignited until Come Back to Camden. (Alas, then it was flutes, too-slow ballads, and criminal lyrics until FOTGTD...)

I'm encouraged by the Southpawesque level of divisive opinion the first leaks have wrought. Morrissey is at his best when he's stirring things up and what better way than to scare off the more lukewarm fans with a volley of songs that transcend the expectations of "popular music."

Cheers,

Jamie

 

[mauve21]

> Very much in agreement. I shared a theory with a friend once concerning
> artists with careers spanning a number of years. Essentially, it has to be
> presumed that a further increasing diminishment of returns will happen the
> longer someone stays active--musical history is rife with examples, so I
> won't bore you. But I find it ludicrous to hold Morrissey's each
> successive release to the standards of The Queen is Dead or Vauxhall and
> I. Such hopes are destined to be dashed, as we see each time out.

> Honestly, I think the variety in the first three songs we've heard to be
> extremely encouraging and refreshing. Quarry kicked off with one of the
> weakest songs of his career followed by two top-rate songs hampered by
> vacuum-sealed production--nothing really truly ignited until Come Back to
> Camden. (Alas, then it was flutes, too-slow ballads, and criminal lyrics
> until FOTGTD...)

> I'm encouraged by the Southpawesque level of divisive opinion the first
> leaks have wrought. Morrissey is at his best when he's stirring things up
> and what better way than to scare off the more lukewarm fans with a volley
> of songs that transcend the expectations of "popular music."

> Cheers,

> Jamie

Plus, some people are not satisfied until they have criticised the
crap out of someone else. I think we should all be happy
just for the fact that Morrissey is still gracing our ears, after all these years.
Ooops, didnt really mean tot make a poem of it, but there ya go.