Morrissey - Year of refusal

loltim · 21 Feb 2009 at 22:32

Morrissey - Years of refusal

Anyone got it yet? What do you reckon?

djmc0 · 22 Feb 2009 at 01:38

God, I hate Morrissey! I really do!

Two good songs, but with The Smiths, Cemetery Gates and This Charming man

Dave77 · 22 Feb 2009 at 04:05

Its an ok album, but will never hit the Smith stufff. Their is a light that never goes out is a great song, love the ringing rickenbacker sound.

blix · 22 Feb 2009 at 10:05

I was just getting into The Smiths and then they took it all off Spotify.

loltim · 22 Feb 2009 at 18:06

djmc0 said:
God, I hate Morrissey! I really do!

Two good songs, but with The Smiths, Cemetery Gates and This Charming man

You're entitled to your opinion but I suggest you go out buy 'Louder than Bombs.'

banja · 23 Feb 2009 at 02:26

The Smiths didn't write a weak song. They recorded one duffer imo - Golden Lights, but they didn't write it.

I'll check this out, but I doubt it will match his early solo stuff, which was quite good I thought.

loltim · 23 Feb 2009 at 07:18

I kinda like Golden Lights :/

It comes on after one of my favourite tracks (Ask). Breaks up the album a bit anyway

Who was the woman vocalist?

Bubo · 23 Feb 2009 at 09:31

I am a huge Smiths/Morrissey fan but the one thing I wish hadn't happened with the last two Morrissey albums was the feeling that he'd developed a slight american twang to his Salford accent, probably due to living out there for so long. Its only a minor thing thing but it does seem apparent at times.

CircleFaust · 23 Feb 2009 at 10:13

i found it mediocre. there are maybe 2/3 stand out songs but its mostly bog standard rock/pop songs. his voice is pretty good but the band dont really do anything special.

i had trouble getting into the two before this also. the very early Morrissey is good, bona drag, vauxhall and I

he will never touch what he did with the smiths though. barely 1 bad song in four albums, great stuff

Robosapien · 23 Feb 2009 at 18:22

No man it was on bona drag....ah 1 2 3 4 whheeww!

loltim · 24 Feb 2009 at 19:46

Robosapien said:
No man it was on bona drag....ah 1 2 3 4 whheeww!

What was?

Anyway, I like the first 4 tracks but I still keep sticking a Smiths album back on

Black Cloud is awesome.

warren_1979 · 24 Feb 2009 at 22:25

Smiths forever!!

loltim · 2 Mar 2009 at 22:29

I've now decided, after a good few listens, that's it's a really good album.

Favourites are tracks 1, 3, 4, 7 and 9.

The guitar in track 9 (its not your birthday anymore) is awesome.