Morrissey - Ringleader of the Tormentors
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Free Music Review: The Voice Still Rings True!
Hit: 5 Stars
This curve ball from the poet of our time came out of no where and truely delivers new classics from the Master of emotional satire! 2004 gave fans a great effort as a come back. It was more like a pause, in an illustrious career that has produced countless material, the Ringleader takes control. It is hard to say what is his best work. Each decade he releases potent efforts that please fans and may even get a little airplay, here and there, reaching out to a much larger audience.
This work is very strong in all areas. Alain Whyte delivers one of his strongest musical presentations since 1994's "Vauxhall and I". Lyrically, Moz could not have his tongue pressed deeper in his cheek. "You Have Killed Me" is easily the radio freindly tune here. "In The Future When All is Well" is a rocking retro sing-along hit that demands to be played on the beach!
As for you gloom fans, there is my immediate favorite-"Life Is A Pigsty". Outrageously funny and sad at the same time. It can be a mantra for this generation. Luscious arrangement with just enough dissonace to seem like fingernails running down a chalkboard! One could look down in dispair and cry...Instead I break out in uncontrollable laughter! "Killer" is a keyword for this album!
This is more really good stuff from the best male vocalist of all time. Like those "sour candies" that make one pucker up, but you have to eat one more to see if it get any sweeter or tastes any better...
Free Music Review: Can anything Morrissey comes in contact with be less than 5 stars?
Hit: 5 Stars
At this point in his life, Steven Patrick Morrissey is as much a brand name recognized as a symbol of quality on par with IRS Records, John Waters movies, and Pizza King pizza (which you're at a loss on if you're not from the Midwest, sorry, but it's a reason to visit all the same). Based on past performance, you know you're going to like it before you ever even consume the content.
In terms of standout tracks, "You Have Killed Me" and "The Youngest Was the Most Loved," are two that might gain Morrissey mass appeal beyond us bedsit denizens who have moped along for the last twenty-odd years since The Smiths were more than a legal case covered in faded t-shirts of the four in front of the Salford Lads Club (Did they take any other pictures? I wonder.)
Much brouhaha has been made over the second track where Moz appears to finally be getting some in his mid-late '40s, but if there is an Achilles' heel, it is this track. It sounds like another British fop to come out (pun intended very much so) in the 1980s, Marc Almond. It's great, sure, but it doesn't sound like Morrissey.
Of course, putting him together with Tony (Bowie and Bolan would be nothing without me (and they wouldn't) Visconti as producer guarantees this to be explosive and in the words of the two hillbillies from SCTV, "HE BLOWED UP REAL GOOD!"
Signed,
epsteinsmutha
Free Music Review: Explosivo!
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a solid effort from Morrissey. "Ringleader of the Tormentors" and his last album "You are the Quarry" have pulled him out of the where-are-they-now? file. His voice and songwriting are as strong as ever. My favorite track is "Dear God Please Help Me," not radio-friendly, but it shows the dark/moody/poppy side of Morrissey that I was hoping to hear.
One word of warning, stick with this album-only version. The DVD is short and boring, just Morrissey lip-synching a few tunes. No interview or anything special.
p.s. - memo to "Chopper"
If this is a Christian rock album, it's the first one with lines like "there are explosive kegs between my legs." Johnny Marr was great, but if you listen to old Smiths recordings now, it is his playing that makes their once fabulous tracks sound dated. Yes, Smiths fans miss him, but today's Morrissey fans aren't shedding any tears over his absence. If you don't like the solo stuff, don't buy it.
p.p.s - memo to "BA" in Hawaii
If you're a "love it or leave it" American reactionary, what the heck are you doing listening to Morrissey? His last album slammed the the USA. Remember "America is not the World?" Toby Keith has some albums that you will love.
Free Music Review: still a hero
Hit: 5 Stars
Explosive kegs of lyrical wonder and sonic production that bring the listener into the rarefied and enriching realm of the masterful Morrissey.
As we saw in Oklahoma when the great songwriter and performer delivered many of these masterpieces for the first time, Rome has been good to him, indeed. The songs open up great vistas of thought and musings on the vagaries of life. The voice is strong and Visconti's influence gives this one the same epic grandeur achieved on Bowie's Heathen. There is even a unique element of sweetness and kindness on this one that I have not heard in his previous releases.
Morrissey has gotten better and better with age and maturity. This work is certainly one of the best releases of 2006 and demonstrates unequivocally that there is profound hope for the world of pop music that is done on the artist's terms...in this case an artist who consistently aspires to the highest levels of artistic merit, unfettered by silly commercial concerns.
Long live Morrissey, the great Tormentor! You brought the house down at Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa!!!
Free Music Review: Mozzalini is the cherub
Hit: 5 Stars
Morrissey is almost 50 and he's been performing for the last 25 years, the fact that could make some other pop star relax and drift copying the songs that made him famous in the past. But that's so not true with our beloved Mozz. "Ringleader of The Tormentors" stuns with fresh sound and never heard before sincerity in the lyrics, which are well crafted but not pretentious. I'm not going into the details about each song but my personal highlights of the album are "The Youngest Was The Most Loved" (that is very catchy and the child choir makes it somewhat reminescent of some touching songs The Smiths made about childhood problems) and "Dear God, Please Help Me" with the most beautiful use of voice Morrissey has ever done and cinematic strings of Ennio Morricone turning it into an opera aria. "Ringleader of the Tormentors" may not be as easy to get as "You Are The Quarry" but if you give it a chance it will likely grow on you with every listen. For me, it's the best CD Morrissey's recorded since "Vauxhall and I".