Morrissey - Southpaw Grammar
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Free Music Review: not a good attempt
Hit: 2 Stars
morrissey...what is this unlikeable music. a horrible attempt what happened to your arsenal or vaxaul...anything plaeseFree Music Review: 'What Difference Did He Make..?'
Hit: 1 Stars
Morrissey's still quite funny and entertaining but he never quite got over the fact that the Smiths were brilliant and DID NOTHING WITH IT!!
Wasted the lot in front of thousands of blind 'worshippers in aircraft hangars', and, more importantly, the legacy of their good stuff is constantly obscured by wretchedly bad live albums and singles compilations - and this irks the ageing Moz. He doesn't want to be remembered for that.
He's an intelligent, influential man, but knows he missed an opportunity - THE opportunity.
He's just thrashing around now, living on former glories. Still capable of the odd brilliant line, a startling hook, but because the world no longer hangs on his every word, it's all meaningless.
So much grumpy-old-man hot air.
Some of his more recent work is passable enough in isolation but compared to giants like 'Accept Yourself', 'William it Was Really Nothing' or even later gems like 'the Boy With the Thorn in His Side' or 'Paint a Vulgar Picture' you can't help but realise how pale and weak it plainly is.
Sadly, no-one's taken up the mantle. No-one's carrying the Wildean literary strangeness baton; the disarming melodic thrust.
All his acolytes seem content to plough the angsty guitar pop furrow. Concentrating blandly on whine instead of shine. Small 'c' conservativism instead of flames and brains. Again, this is forsaken and awful. The pupils can't even upstage their rotten teacher. (perhaps THEY'RE afraid....?)
Watch your spirits DIVE when a promising looking young combo are asked who their influences are, and they mumble.. 'the Smiths'. You just know it's downhill from there-on.
'Southpaw Grammar' is his worst album. Even 'Quarry' has a good song ('Gang') but this is a total, grim, gormless failure. The music itself has become squalid:
Loud 'rock'..... will he never learn?
The well-known maxim, that the most intelligent of people sometimes lack common-sense is painfully true in Mozzer's case. He's got squealing electric guitar, drum solo's, insipid strings and a few lines of choice verse, and just chucked the lot in a blender. The results are insulting. Kid's stuff.
For him, things shouldn't be this difficult. He should sail through his solo career with acres of talent to spare. He should mellow into a Quentin Crisp type satirist. Do stand up. Go on tour with Attila the Stockbroker and Dollar. Write his own vegetarian cookbook. Have his own chat show (the tv companies would be frenzy incarnate!) Be the new Simon Cowell! (wouldn't he be FAB at that?) Anything, just as long as he stays away from this awful caveman music.
I would cry myself to sleep at night at the thought of Morrissey being remembered for this and not 'Reel Around the Fountain' or any number of crazy, funny, ingenious songs that his name SHOULD be synonymous with.
'Southpaw Grammar' wouldn't look good on Sting's CV, and that's the cruellest thing I've ever written in a review.
It's an unlikeable, busting carbuncle of an album. It's kind of nowhere-man punk rock, an ostentatious death-rattle of a talent that was, but now everybody (including him - he IS intelligent I tell you.) can see - isn't.
'Southpaw Grammar' despite it's blustery title and gritty Northern England connotations, (he just won't let that lie will he?) couldn't knock the skin off a rice pudding.
And would probably knock itself out trying.
Free Music Review: Pretentious execution & production kill good melodies
Hit: 1 Stars
I don't believe Morrissey will ever live up to the standard Smiths fanatics demand, but on this CD he barely manages a coherent standard at all. 'The Teachers Are Afraid of the Pupils' takes what I can only call an 'orchestral riff' and repeats it for 11 minutes. 'The Operation' is catchy and genuinely swings, but is undercut by offensively dull 2-minute long drum solos. Half of these tunes make no impact whatsoever, except to suggest Morrissey wants to be a singer in a garage punk band. Moz, we don't want you to be Johnny Rotten, we want frilly multi-instrument emotionally direct concise tunes. (Like what you did before this mess, and then did after with 'Maladjusted.') I'm always a fan, but this CD is a career-killer. Only 'Reader Meet Author' works well, and you can get that on the far better 'My Early Burglary Years' compilation.Free Music Review: Morrissey:a small talent requires a small review
Hit: 1 Stars
"Southpaw Grammar":They'd not written enough tracks,so they stretched two of them on the Song Rack.Low Point:"The Operation"-back in 1983,did anyone think a Morrissey record would feature a drum solo?Free Music Review: An excellent coaster for a jumbo beverage
Hit: 1 Stars
This album has exactly ONE good song: Do Your Best and Don't Worry. The rest is a failed experiment in arty hard rock. I like Morrissey, but this album is guano.