Recent content by CJM

This looks, yet again, like an own goal for team Morrissey. Beethoven Was Deaf is a great live album with artwork that really does not need to be tampered with. (Much like Bona Drag, Southpaw Grammar, Maladjusted…) While I welcome a reissue, it could have been done so, so much better! Just...

Hmm... Not for me!

So, it appears to be 250 copies on black vinyl, and a further 250 copies pressed on “Translucent Orange” vinyl. I imagine a fair few of these will be snapped up by hardcore Morrissey completists. It is news I suppose, but not very exciting!

Shania Twain as a headliner?

This lesser-known number of theirs always reminds me of Oh Well, I'll Never Learn... Coincidence?

So, that is two woman in the band now? Why not get three more - it worked for Robert Palmer! ;)

Pray do tell Mr Davies, what are his beliefs now? I would dearly love to know!

56 years young - why is this such a little known gem?

Any suggestions for a good pre-Palladium pub?

Wow - nothing in Europe and what looks like 11 new North American dates...

I dare say that many fans of Morrissey and visitors to Morrissey Solo would be more than happy for a Morrissey setlist to be comprised of purely his solo output, on the condition that the setlist wasn’t chosen by Morrissey. The man has a truly bountiful back catalogue of perfection, but he seems...

I don’t know why, but this has always been one of my least favourite songs by The Smiths. It ticks all the boxes, does everything it should in all the right places, but something just doesn’t hoist the song higher for me. Of course, by saying that this is (in my opinion) a lesser song by The...

Like others here, I was disappointed when I first heard Spent The Day in Bed – being the lead single of the album I was hoping for something a little… stronger. On hearing this and seeing that album ‘artwork’ for Low In High School, I was rather nervous. As an album track or B side it would have...

A wonderful opposing bookend to The Teachers Are Afraid of The Pupils which starts our commute to and through ‘Southpaw Grammar’, this album finale, another ten minute topper, is just as absorbing. Lyrically Southpaw, to me, is an enjoyable slice of cathartic self-therapy. Couple that with some...

Years or Refusal is a difficult album for me, I would hazard a bet that it is the studio album I listen to the least (OK… it may tie with Ringleader of the Tormentors). In my mind the album has a few great songs, but is defined by a good half a dozen or so songs that are just a little…...