elrod-tom
Moderator - Prefers "stereo weirdo" to "audiophile"
Well, I was at Best Buy the other day, picking up my DVD copy of Miracle, and this new CD caught my eye. My new rule is that I generally don't buy a CD unless I'm a big fan of the band until I've heard at least a couple of tracks. I'm not a HUGE Morrissey fan, but I've liked his work with The Smiths and his solo work, so I thought I'd take a flyer on it.
My first impressions are not so good. It strikes me as an album made up from reading the Cliff's Notes for older Morrissey and Smiths tunes. Nothing with the sort of "happy on the outside and miserably suicidal on the inside" effect that worked so well for The Smiths. Most every song that I listened to reminded me of other songs, only not nearly so well done.
For example, the song "I Like You" could easily have been lifted from "Every Day is Like Sunday"...the similarities are such that I doubt that they are accidental.
I will post more impressions later...I don't want to give up on this album too quickly, but so far it's not so good.
My first impressions are not so good. It strikes me as an album made up from reading the Cliff's Notes for older Morrissey and Smiths tunes. Nothing with the sort of "happy on the outside and miserably suicidal on the inside" effect that worked so well for The Smiths. Most every song that I listened to reminded me of other songs, only not nearly so well done.
For example, the song "I Like You" could easily have been lifted from "Every Day is Like Sunday"...the similarities are such that I doubt that they are accidental.
I will post more impressions later...I don't want to give up on this album too quickly, but so far it's not so good.