The music on "Art-Hounds" is astonishing, and I think this song solidifies Boz Boorer's place as one of the 20 greatest songwriters of all-time.
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The music on "Art-Hounds" is astonishing, and I think this song solidifies Boz Boorer's place as one of the 20 greatest songwriters of all-time.
The amusing thing for me is how much people liked Years of Refusal when it came out and now it seems to have plummeted in everyone's estimation. There seems to be very little in common that ties this album together. Quarry and Ringleader had themes and a solid foundation in my opinion. Refusal and World Peace are experimental. Alain Whyte is sorely missed. I think the fans on this site are trying very hard to like this, a lot of people seem to be saying it's a grower. It will fade and Quarry will emerge at the top of everyone's list again.
Refusal and World Peace are experimental.
I agree with you on this one point, and I think it's a large part of why WPINOYB and YOR are my favorite post-'90s albums. I don't want to hear the same things over and over. It's exciting to hear new things happening, and I really do like this lineup. (Without even trying!)
The amusing thing for me is how much people liked Years of Refusal when it came out and now it seems to have plummeted in everyone's estimation. There seems to be very little in common that ties this album together. Quarry and Ringleader had themes and a solid foundation in my opinion. Refusal and World Peace are experimental. Alain Whyte is sorely missed. I think the fans on this site are trying very hard to like this, a lot of people seem to be saying it's a grower. It will fade and Quarry will emerge at the top of everyone's list again.
Blimey!
I've been posting quite a few negative comments about this album over the past week on here - not overly negative or insincere, I hope; just how I actually felt about it - but I gave it a rest for a couple of days and I just played it through again for the first time. My God, it's wonderful! How could I have been so stupid to dismiss it so out of hand???
I hope it lasts, but right now I feel like this is one of his absolute best albums since The Smiths!!! <3
Blimey!
I've been posting quite a few negative comments about this album over the past week on here - not overly negative or insincere, I hope; just how I actually felt about it - but I gave it a rest for a couple of days and I just played it through again for the first time. My God, it's wonderful! How could I have been so stupid to dismiss it so out of hand???
I hope it lasts, but right now I feel like this is one of his absolute best albums since The Smiths!!! <3
Oh, it's wonderful and not just in the sense of it being a great, great album but it also makes you realise the vast chasm between being stuck in the past, putting Morrissey into a box of your own making, desperately hoping he goes back to 1987 and opening up to the present and seeing Morrissey's ever-changing creative genius in its true evolving glory.
Certainly, World Peace is None of Your Business is his most ecstatically free and creatively energetic album since The Smiths broke up. It's Morrissey completely unbridled by the past and writing his legacy anew!!!
Oh, it's wonderful and not just in the sense of it being a great, great album but it also makes you realise the vast chasm between being stuck in the past, putting Morrissey into a box of your own making, desperately hoping he goes back to 1987 and opening up to the present and seeing Morrissey's ever-changing creative genius in its true evolving glory.
Certainly, World Peace is None of Your Business is his most ecstatically free and creatively energetic album since The Smiths broke up. It's Morrissey completely unbridled by the past and writing his legacy anew!!!
I agree.Oh, it's wonderful and not just in the sense of it being a great, great album but it also makes you realise the vast chasm between being stuck in the past, putting Morrissey into a box of your own making, desperately hoping he goes back to 1987 and opening up to the present and seeing Morrissey's ever-changing creative genius in its true evolving glory.
Certainly, World Peace is None of Your Business is his most ecstatically free and creatively energetic album since The Smiths broke up. It's Morrissey completely unbridled by the past and writing his legacy anew!!!
Oh, it's wonderful and not just in the sense of it being a great, great album but it also makes you realise the vast chasm between being stuck in the past, putting Morrissey into a box of your own making, desperately hoping he goes back to 1987 and opening up to the present and seeing Morrissey's ever-changing creative genius in its true evolving glory.
Certainly, World Peace is None of Your Business is his most ecstatically free and creatively energetic album since The Smiths broke up. It's Morrissey completely unbridled by the past and writing his legacy anew!!!
I agree.
It's weird, after the period of quiet after Years of Refusal, the world of Moz became dominated by his stupid utterences, gossip and other such trivia.
I began to forget why I liked him in the first place.
And then we get Autobiography and the new album.
Both wonderful and crafted.
This is what he is about, not the nastiness, rascist remarks and UKIP support.
Well said. It's absolutely amazing when you trace the journey of the early insular Morrissey to the incredibly broad worldview expressed with this album. I do wonder if that's what some British fans don't like about it...
Well said. It's absolutely amazing when you trace the journey of the early insular Morrissey to the incredibly broad worldview expressed with this album. I do wonder if that's what some British fans don't like about it...
i dont like it coz its shit.
You saying its only british fans that dont like it?
That was very funny Orson.It's always a thrill when Brian Sewell posts here.