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posted by davidt
on Thursday December 23 2004, @12:00PM
ElBoydelz writes:
Morrissey made the Top 50 on the very tasteful if slighty pretentious PITCHFORKMEDIA.COM website.
38: Morrissey
You Are The Quarry
[Attack]
Steven Patrick Morrissey has always been a polarizing figure. He didn't help proponents this year by saddling us with Dido rhythm tracks and producer Jerry Finn's monochrome palette. But people criticized the production on The Smiths, too. With Morrissey, it's always about the assiduously ambiguous songwriting, and You Are the Quarry provides plenty of reasons to think of Moz kindly. For one, "The First of the Gang to Die" is Morrissey's finest pop song since "The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get". His effete croon is in career-best form, too. Whoever said Morrissey can't play an instrument never heard the way his voice subtly quivers as he delivers the name "Cromwell" in the riotous "Irish Blood, English Heart", his gloriously idiosyncratic timing in "I'm Not Sorry", or his show-stopping bathos in "Come Back to Camden". Gelignite aimed at sundry quarry-- America, England, boring pop stars, critics, and most all himself-- Morrissey reconfirms his lasting significance. --Marc Hogan
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