mute witness king leer our frank and driving your girlfriend home are excellent tracks and should be listened to my anyone who listens to Morrissey's music

Im the only one who loves 'The Harsh Truth Of The Camera Eye' and 'Found Found Found' ? Those songs are superb in my opinion.

I'm sorry.... Kill Uncle is not a good album. It's a couple of good songs and a couple of really really bad ones.
That combo does not a good album make....

Kill Uncle is a festering turd.

Um, what Morrissey fan hasn't heard of Kill Uncle? We've heard it, and most of us don't like it. One of the "legions of fans" who have ignored the album happens to be Morrissey, since we've not heard a song from that album live since Your Arsenal came out.

Apparently, IQ tests aren't necessary to create a website...

I've always said on this site that I love Kill Uncle. Morrissey has never sounded better!

is a rather average album, some nice tracks e.g. sing your life , king leer and our frank but when compared with other albums e.g. vauxhall and i and your arsenal, it clearly is not the best

Finally "kill uncle" gets the recognition it deserves. There two kinds of fans: those who love it and those who hate it. I belong to the first group. Enough said.

at least six classic songs:

Our Frank
Sing Your Life
King Leer
Driving Your Girlfriend Home
There's A Place In Hell For Me And My Friends
Tony The Pony

and the production is experimental,
not flawed.

this is a good album.

For Best "Lost" Albums are....
(the definition being an album that is actually supurb despite lacking critical/commercial acclaim)
Morrissey, KILL UNCLE
The Cure, THE TOP
David Bowie, DIAMOND DOGS
Love, FOREVER CHANGES
Tori AMos, BOYS FOR PELE
Beck, MIDNIGHT VULTURES
Doors, THE SOFT PARADE
Echo & The Bunnymen, PORCUPINE
Pearl Jam, BINAURAL
Television, ADVENTURE
Supergrass, SUPERGRASS

Does anybody feel that the production on Kill Uncle is quite similiar to the production of The Smiths eponymous debut?

The production is a little pristine, especially compared to other works that Langer & Winstanley produced, such as "My Love Life".

even moreso than Southpaw Grammar, Kill Uncle is the most misunderstood, and thus underrated, album of Morrissey's career. surely, it is one of the most unique, and this is likely why it is so chastised by fans and critics alike- yet this uniqueness should be seen as one of its many strengths.

the album begins with its first single, "Our Frank"- a perfcet choice for the lead single as it is likely the most similiar to his previous solo singles on the album. this song also perfectly sets up the tone and progression of the album: an emphatically expressed desire to shake off the weighty thoughts of deep conversation and introspection that eventually gives way to an uncontrolable compulsion to think about "everything" "deeply" and "bleakly". all delivered by means of a racing and poppy musical backing and clever, humourous and undeniably charming lyrics and vocals, this is a fantastic way to open.

"Asian Rut" is easily one of the strangest songs in the Morrissey cannon, but this only adds to its interest. an eerie musical accompaniment, complete with the beautifully harmonius, yet unsettling, violin of Nawazish Ali Khan, a chilling depiction of racism and violence ending with one of the most transcending stanzas of Morrissey's career, "I'm just passing through here/On my way to somewhere civilised/And maybe I'll even arrive/Maybe I'll even arrive...." by that line alone this song is made spectacular.

one of the more accepted songs off Kill Uncle is second and final single taken from the album, "Sing Your Life". really, not much needs to said here: a joyously bouncy musical backing for perhaps Morrissey's most inspirational and encouraging lyrics ever. complete with the Morrissey charm and humour- which has never been displayed more or better than on this album- this is one of Morrissey's finest.

"Mute Witness" serves as a wonderful mirror to the classic "November Spawned A Monster" in its view of a disabled girl from the opposite and seemingly unsympathetic perspective. now, many will criticise Morrissey for having bad taste in attempting to extract humour from such a situation before abruptly sending the poor girl off in her taxi, but the very fact that Morrissey does write about things like this, where most would never attempt, shows his true empathy for the disabled. an ambiguous lyric and a glammed up musical performance, this is another great song.

people juste dont get "King Leer" ithink. ithink theyre juste being too serious or stuck up or something, but when people refer to one of Morrissey's greatest lyrics as his "lyrical nadir" it really makes me wonder what is wrong with them. simply a perfect piece of fey pop boasting an absurdly hilarious lyric with its series of cringeworthy, but completely intentional, puns and cliches including the title's labeling of the boyfriend as "King Leer"- brilliant. imean, if you think hes being serious, he completely gives himself away when he begins to laugh at himself in the middle of the song. this is the most playful moment of Morrissey's career and it is classic all the way.

"Found Found Found" begins the fall back into that uncontrolable compulsion of introspection suggested in opener, "Our Frank". the hardest music on the album works as a signal call for the shift in mood and perspective. another brilliantly transcending line, even though it was pipped from Noel Coward, comes at the end with "I do believe that the more you give your love, and I do believe that the more you give your trust, the more you're bound to lose." great track.

its been spoken of before how "Driving Your Gilfriend Home" can be seen as the otherside of The Smiths' classic "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" and itotally buy into that. its easy to see how this song may tell from the driver's perspective the return from the night out of seeing "people" and "life" to finally drop the girlfriend off at what he calls "her home" but what she would refer as not her home, but "their home" (

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The comments part seems to have been overrun by Johnny Marr fans championing Boomslang.

Who'd had thought Marr fans were far more deluded and blind to their hero's faults than Morrissey fans?