Morrissey - Southpaw Grammar (2009 Expanded Edition)
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Artist: MorrisseyEdition: Music CD
Format: Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2009-05-05
Music Label: 101 DISTRIBUTION
Soundtracks:
- The Boy Racer
- Do Your Best And Don't Worry
- Reader Meet Author
- Honey, You Know Where To Find Me - New Recording
- Dagenham Dave
- Southpaw
- Best Friend On The Payroll
- Fantastic Bird - New Recording
- The Operation
- The Teachers Are Afraid Of The Pupils
- You Should Have Been Nice To Me - New Recording
- Nobody Loves Us - New Recording
Music reviews of Southpaw Grammar (2009 Expanded Edition)
Music Review: One song makes the remastered album worth while
Rating: 4 Stars
Just listen to "You Should have been nice to me" I dont know why Morrissey did not include this trackin the original version or put it out as a b side. The song is beautiful and moving. The lyrics are deep and makes you wonder how can some one that once loves you can with time treat youlike garbage.
Description of Southpaw Grammar (2009 Expanded Edition)
Originally released in 1995, Southpaw Grammar was Morrissey s fifth solo album, charted at No.4 in the UK charts on release, and featured the fans favourite singles Dagenham Dave and Boy Racer . This re-issue has become a very personal project to Morrissey, who wanted to re-sequence the tracklisting, adding in four previously unreleased tracks, and give it completely new artwork. The album features new design by Anthony Lui, and previously unseen photographs by Linder Sterling.Pop stars who last more than a decade often survive but change: U2 goes from righteous to cartoonish, Sting from new wave to adult contemporary, Prince from purple to nameless. Morrissey, though, survives by staying the same, by pushing the flashing-red alienation buttons of each new year's crop of outsider adolescents. So while fans tend to grow out of the great Moz sometime after they lose their virginity, there's always a new, larger batch of pubescent mopers to take their place. For older listeners, it may seem Morrissey hasn't written a consistently incisive or catchy album since his first solo effort, 1988's Viva Hate, which itself pales next to his classic work with the Smiths. Since going solo, he's completely abandoned evocative poetry, opting instead for funny titles (remember the empty tease of "Hairdresser On Fire"?). Southpaw Grammar, Morrissey's fifth studio record, has a number of stellar song names--"Best Friend on the Payroll," for instance--but musically, adds up to just another indistinguishable mush of groaned haiku ready to be heaped onto the pile of other cleverly titled but otherwise forgettable releases. To be fair, Southpaw Grammar is not all bad. A moody epic like the 11-minute orchestrated opener "The Teachers Are Afraid of the Pupils," a classic Morrissey modern-day crucifixion tale, at least balances the recycled MTV-fare of "The Boy Racer" and "Dagenham Dave." There's even a hint of career development: Long instrumental sections, such as in the 10-minute finale "Southpaw," plus an overall heavier rock sound, indicate more creative input from the band. But would anyone put on a Morrissey record to hear a two-and-a-half minute drum solo like the one that starts Southpaw's "The Operation"? Then again, perhaps we should just be thankful Morrissey didn't use the moment to berate us with more shameful triteness like Southpaw's "Do Your Best and Don't Worry."
And yet, the man's popularity steadily grows. For grown-up, former fans, it seems the more we ignore him, the closer he gets to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. --Roni Sarig
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