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I really do think a more classical backing would suit him, a terribly dramatic and pompous orchestra sound would be big enough. It could even suit these songs more, perhaps.
This is, of course, purely my own wishful thinking. But it seems it would be a lot more fitting, and/or daring. But I can't get over how much it would improve something like "The World is full of Crashing Bores", with a vast amount of strings, stabbing violins and grandeur.
I'm totally agreed with you on the lyrical front, though. The thing with much of this new one, for me, is that he covers the same old ground too often - and with a humour-lacking bitterness I personally hadn't heard from him in song, before. Let us hope he does fall in love, again!
Where the lyrics and music don't coincide, I feel it sounds more as if the band are in another room to where Morrissey is singing. Next door, perhaps. I think with the current band, that may just be where out tastes diverge. Certainly, even when I thought the lyrics were silly, "Cemetary Gates" was one of the finest pieces of guitar music I'd ever heard, and I'm more inclined to that style rather than what seems a more "straight ahead" type of rock. I do recall talk that they stopped playing "Suedehead" on the current tour because they'd finally given up on being able to play it. Although I may have just made that up.
Listening again: may have been a touch too harsh. "Come back to Camden" sounds quite nice, and is more the direction I imagine him going (with a fuller sound). I think I should get around to compiling a CD of the solo songs of his I really like, and I would find that a fuller and more enjoyable listen. The tracks that stick out as bad on the new record really, really put me off the rest. "America is not the world", for example, makes me a little embarassed.
Does anyone have any suggestions, bearing in mind my favourite Morrissey songs are the likes of "Suedehead", "The last of the famous international playboys" and "Everyday is like Sunday" -? |
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