Morrissey - Live at Earl's Court
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Free Music Review: A kickass live album!
Hit: 5 Stars
After standing up to that pig George Bush, Morrissey releases an awesome live album that proves how brilliant this man is. "I Have Forgiven Jesus," "Irish Blood, English Heart," and "How Soon Is Now" all ROCK! Morrissey has courage, intelligence, and talent. Five stars!Free Music Review: GREAT Live Album
Hit: 5 Stars
This is just a fantastic sounding live album. It's great to hear that Morrissey hasn't lost anything in the last 20 years.
Many great songs on this album but I think my favorite is the way Morrissey just absolutely tears it up in "November Spawned a Monster"
Free Music Review: Morrissey back on top.
Hit: 5 Stars
Hey, this is the best live album i've ever heard. Great mix of old and new songs, that flow wonderfully.Free Music Review: Snapshot of a triumphant comeback
Hit: 4 Stars
It still seems strange that an artist of Morrissey's stature should have languished in the wilderness for seven years without a record label, but his triumphant return in 2004 with the album You Are The Quarry (Jewel Case) and a whole slew of songs on singles, live DVDs and TV appearances galore put him right back into our black shrivelled hearts. The comeback culminated in a week-long victory tour of the United Kingdom just before Christmas 2004, of which this seventy-five minute set is the live souvenir.
A note in the booklet reads, "Everything on this CD was recorded live. Nothing was added or replaced in the studio". It was recorded on 18 December 2004 at Earls Court in London (although the rest of the tour was recorded and some of the banter with the audience is said to have come from other dates, and it has been claimed that some of the vocals were "repaired" with vocals dropped in from the other concerts), in front of a typically appreciative 17,183 people. Unfortunately, the picture of Morrissey on the cover was taken not at Earls Court but in Las Vegas the previous April. The album was produced by Peter Asher, continuing Morrissey's interest in sixties culture as Peter Asher was one half of Peter and Gordon and brother of Jane Asher, both having Beatle connections.
Although seven of the songs came from You Are The Quarry, Morrissey was clearly keen to reclaim his past and peppered the set with Smiths-era hits, opening challengingly with a muscular performance of How Soon Is Now?, originally a B-side, and including Bigmouth Strikes Again, There Is A Light That Never Goes Out, Shoplifters Of The World Unite and a climactic Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me). He also featured a couple of his pre-wilderness solo singles (November Spawned A Monster, The More You Ignore Me The Closer I Get) and dropped in an unrecorded cover of Patti Smith's seventies poem/song Redondo Beach. To round out the set were some more new songs that had appeared during the year on singles, the paternal Don't Make Fun Of Daddy's Voice, Munich Air Disaster 1958 (which began with the same verse from a New York Dolls oldie that he had been using to launch Every Day Is Like Sunday earlier on the tour) and the sombre Friday Mourning. Two of the songs from the album were extracted as a double-A side single (Redondo Beach/There Is A Light That Never Goes Out).
Morrissey's voice had changed from Smiths days but was in fine fettle nonetheless and of course he wasn't onstage alone. Benefiting from a year spent touring, the band featured the mighty Boz Boorer, Jesse Tobias, Mikey V Farrell (actually adding a dramatic trumpet to a couple of tunes), Gary Day and Deano Butterworth. There is no lack of confidence or panache in the playing and there is a lot of atmosphere in this snapshot of where Morrissey was in 2004, though the studio versions of these songs probably remain definitive.
Free Music Review: Talk Of His Brilliance? Well They Weren't Lies...
Hit: 4 Stars
A kick in the eye to the sticker division at Morrissey's record company, responsible for the genius label on the cover of this latest Morrissey release explaining Live At Earls Court contains `Rarely Performed Smith's tracks'. Empty fools. Nonetheless, when a live album begins with The Greatest B-Side Of All Time, How Soon Is Now?, as performed by the towering intellect behind its charming lyrics, you know you've hit a rich seam of musical gold. As Stephen Patrick Morrissey's voice warms to the occasion during this live London show recorded at the tail end of 2004, further Smiths hits make up a generous third of this 18 track collection, alongside a similar portion of old solo tunes and songs from his most recent outing, You Are The Quarry. Ol' Mozz might have his audience patter well rehearsed, but the clarity and quality of his vocals during this show is consistently impressive. The chugging guitar riff of newest addition Don't Make Fun Of Daddy's Voice, the lyrical switch of walkman to iPod on Bigmouth Strikes Again and the hint of reggae on the Patti Smith cover Redondo Beach are all of note for Morrissey trainspotters, while less obvious tunes such as Let Me Kiss You, I Like You and You Know I Couldn't Last are similarly solid. Morrissey is at his best on There Is A Light That Never Goes Out, although You Are The Quarry highlight, I Have Forgiven Jesus, comes to a hard hitting end with the lyric `Why did you stick in self-deprecating bones and skin - do you hate me?'. Morrissey really shouldn't sound this great after years in the commercial wilderness, but thank Salford he does. This storming live album ends with an immense take on Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me and Morrissey's departing plea, "Don't forget me". No chance of that Stephen - the world is listening once more.