Morrissey - You Are The Quarry (Gatefold)
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Artist: MorrisseyEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-05-18
Music Label: Sanctuary Records
Soundtracks:
- America Is Not The World
- Irish Blood, English Heart (1st single)
- I Have Forgiven Jesus
- Come Back To Camden
- I'm Not Sorry
- The World Is Full Of Crashing Bores
- How Could Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel
- First Of The Gang To Die
- Let Me Kiss You
- All The Lazy Dykes
- I Like You
- You Know I Couldn't Last
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Music Review: 'A Bullet in the Gullet'
Rating: 3 Stars
Unfortunately, it isn't saying much that 'You Are the Quarry' is Morrissey's best solo venture, and it'll come as no surprise that the best songs on it are the ones which sound most like the Smiths.
It has much the same failings as 'Southpaw Grammar', ie; Moz resorting to sub-rock MOR, which is unforgivably lazy as well as artistically unchallenging.
It feels strained and contrived; a dash of strings here, a twiddle of synth there, a sporadic Mozzer exclamation just enough to save it all from inevitably going down the pan.
But, and it's big but, he has a handful of songs here, which out of the complete blue, partially resurrect him as a protuberant talent and go some way to re-establishing him as a force in modern pop. If only he had a couple more, he'd be within a midget's wink of achieving what's really important to him; critical acclamation, and therefore some sort of Morrissey assuage.
'You Are The Quarry' has one of the best songs Morrissey has ever written: 'First of the Gang To Die' is certainly his best solo effort but I think it would stand up to most Smithsongs. Racy, percussive, then giving way to a mad terrace-chant chorus, with howling lyrics and a ferocious Marr-style guitar/mandolin arrangement.
I don't know if it's a surprise or not that he can still produce stuff like this, but it shows a bit of the old spirit and bile is still there after all this time.
Is he deliberately keeping it hid? Perhaps to punish the critics, and remember it was his failure as a rock-writer which inspired him to write lyrics in the first place. When Marr met him he already had reams. Song after song features snippets of reviews and quotes, and all are stuck it to by Moz and his venomous canards and spirants.
'I'm Not Sorry' is a goodish slushy ballad with a cool flute outro, and the album heads for home quite powerfully with the VERY Smithsian 'All the Lazy Dykes' but it's the final song 'You Know I Couldn't Last' that takes the final lap. 'Paint A Vulgar Picture 2' would be a better title, with it's ruthless barbs at the music industry and yet more digs at those perennial targets - music journalists.
Solid Mozzer songs to be sure but the rest is pure filler; 'America is Not the World' (try telling Bono that!) is dull, 'The World is Full of Crashing Bores' is as pretentious as its desperately eccentric title warns and 'How Could Anyone Possibly Know How I Feel' is just plain frightful. It's the usual solo Morrissey-down-in-the-dumps confusion, as if he's excitedly found some piece of new self but can't let go of the (very!) old.
If he calmed down a bit he might enjoy some form of renaissance but I'm convinced he'd be better employed elsewhere.
Give him a TV show, cast him as Hannibal Lecter in the next Thomas Harris adaptation, he'd probably write you a great soap.....
We wait with baited breath. It'll be the greatest back-from-the-dead trick since Lazarus.
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