...or does it sound as if the reviewer is completely missing the point of this album? Sounds like he thinks it's a tribute to Moz rather than a compilation of tracks selected by him.

Says a lot for this guy's reviewing capabilities if he believes the likes of Klaus Nomi and Joey Ramone would still in a fit state to contribute to a tribute record...!

not only did he miss the point of the album, he misses the point of Morrissey. the whole "miserable" thing i never understood. Guns and Roses wrote way more sad songs...no one calls them "Mopey"

eh, anyways, about this album: i don't quite get the point. does Morrissey get a cut of the royalties? do these things actually sell? i could really care less who/what Moz listens to...Ramones? yuck!

I always enjoy confirming that the average Moz-hating journalist has a deeper problem of poor linguistic articulation lurking below his debatable musical taste.

"God only knows there's plenty to choose from"? He surely means "God knows there's plenty to choose from", for he also claims to know it. It's not important, just a symptom of untidy reasoning. Which I enjoy, call me childish.

Happy Birthday to me, Morrissey has decided to share something he enjoy's with us his fans. All my friends make me tapes, or cd's of there favorite tunes. Some songs I like, some I don't but I understand why they do, and sometimes it opens a whole new enjoyment to me. This work is like one of those gift tapes from a friend but it is from Morrissey, who I have endlessly felt a freindship with. I don't think guys like that are even meant to understand what this means to people like us.

And how he got a job in journalism?

This is like the time "Satan Rejected My Soul" came out as a single and one of the B Sides was "This is not your country"and the gobshite reviewer,who obviously hadn't even heard the song,denounced it as another racist diatribe,which it pointedly is not.
Wankers!!!

I've never understood why a critic would review a genre she or he fundamentally opposes. (And surely The Smiths / Morrissey may be considered a distinct genre).

Moreover, this critic admits in the first lines a bias. Why should we keep reading? Why on earth did he continue writing?

...is a newspaper that aims to one day emulate the literary style of the Sun, but thus far fails to live up to their high standards.

The woman who reviews music in the Daily Record is a complete moron with no taste whatsoever, giving five stars to the likes of Busted. It's very populist and has about as much authority as the reviews section in Heat magazine.

Not all tabloids have bad music coverage - The Mirror has the great Gavin Martin, ex-of NME to review music. The broadsheets music coverage can be poor too.

Morrissey getting a bad review in the Daily Record isn't such a bad thing really, as the Record's musical stance is so utterly amateurish and contemptable. The day after they reviewed Under The Influence they announced that Morrissey had signed a new deal, and would be releasing an album soon. The article was accompanied by a photo of Morrissey from The Smiths days, probably the most up to date photo of him they have.

The Daily Record's music journalism has always been lamentable, probably because they still have Billy Sloan as the music editor. Sloan has been in charge of the music coverage for almost 30 years now, and he is still spectacularly clueless. He is forever praising tripe like Rod Stewart, The Average White Band, Nazereth etc, purely because they're Scottish. Occasionally he tries to bolster his credibilty by reviewing hip Indie bands, often with laughable results, like today when he gave Radiohead a 5-star live review, but got several of the song titles wrong.

Could someone please post the name of the author of this 'piece of journalism' as well as the e-mail, phone number or mailing address?
Thank you

Oh well, this guy probably hates Morrissey because he talks openly about depression and lack of selfconfidence.. Things that the reviewer knows everything about but like many other people who dislike Morrissey doesn't wanna talk about because its taboo....... It's always the same kind of who doesn't like Morrissey....Who cares anyway?

I'm shocked! Not at the review obviously, but the fact that the Record staff managed to stop licking Lorenzo Amorouso's arse long enough to actually have time to write something else!

Someone shoot this tosser!

Now that the FCC in the U.S. has loosened regulations for managing the % market a media corporation can own, this will only become more common place. I'm sure this reviewer could tell you everything there is to know about pop music and whatever music he enjoys listening to at home, but anything else...forget it! Corporate media cares about profits and consolidation.