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14/05/2004 Morrissey - (puzzling) flavour of the month
You'd have to be pretty busy not to have noticed that there's a new Morrissey album. The first Morrissey release in seven years, You Are The Quarry has been pretty favourably reviewed. The album, along with associated sell-out live performances, and his curating in July of London's Meltdown Festival, means that the outspoken Mancunian has a higher UK profile than he's had since his move to LA. But I just don't get it. Morrissey's lyrics, it's claimed, are unusually intelligent and wide-ranging. Hmm, compared with... ? Like a few other indie musos from the same era, notably Elvis Costello, Morrissey never penetrated my defences. I periodically give them another spin, to try find the secret, but routinely fail. It's not because I'm an Olde Farte who refuses to listen to any music made since 1975 - there are hundreds of poprock acts, from Morrissey's heyday to the present day, I either like or can, at least, appreciate. Readers with the key to Morrissey's art are invited to share their insights with readers of Music for Grown-Ups Daily Update: just why is Morrissey so popular? Five hundred words on Morrissey for Sceptics, anyone? Gerry Smith
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