How do you feel about Kill Uncle?

[Girl-with-the-Thorn]

Kill Uncle is generally considered to be one of Morrissey's 'worst' solo albums.

While it's certainly not my favourite (Vauxhall and YOR share that place in my heart ), I really do rather like it- the only criticism I have is the odd echoey-voice effect on some tracks. My personal favourites are 'Our Frank' 'There Is A Place In Hell For Me and My Friends' and 'Mute Witness', and there isn't a single song I actively dislike. Rather, there are a few I am simply ambivalent to.

How do you rate KU personally? Vote on the poll, it's public.

 

[Thrupenny Bits]

Kill Uncle is generally considered to be one of Morrissey's 'worst' solo albums.

While it's certainly not my favourite (Vauxhall and YOR share that place in my heart ), I really do rather like it- the only criticism I have is the odd echoey-voice effect on some tracks. My personal favourites are 'Our Frank' 'There Is A Place In Hell For Me and My Friends' and 'Mute Witness', and there isn't a single song I actively dislike. Rather, there are a few I am simply ambivalent to.

How do you rate KU personally? Vote on the poll, it's public.

Why? Boring.

 

[Girl-with-the-Thorn]

Why? Boring.

Cheers.

Also, could a mod possibly delete this thread for me? I clicked the submit button before I remembered to put a poll in, but I made a new one.

 

[wontshareyou]

I really like the record. I wish he would play at least SOMETHING off of it. Strangely enough, I find myself listening to it more than Vauxhall and I, which is widely considered to be the best solo release.

 

[oye terence]

I can't stand it, at all.But, to each their own.I may have liked it better if it had sounded more like how the songs came out live.Who knows.

 

[Qvist]

I think that on balance I would consider it his weakest album - which is not to say that I don't like it.

What brings it down to that level is the absence of any really first-rate songs on it. Most of them are good enough to be worth owning, but the best of them (which to me would be Our Frank, King Leer, There is a place in hell and end of the family line) are merely good. A close competitor like "Southpaw Grammar" has Southpaw and Reader meet author, there is nothing remotely of that quality on Kill Uncle. And the airy and somewhat lethargic instrumentation/production does not make the best of the material, unlike another close competitor like "Ringleader" (which I find similar to it in the way that it lacks any really great songs). That trio of albums are in my opinion a good notch below the rest.

cheers