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posted by davidt
on Friday May 27 2005, @09:00AM
charles byron sends the link:
Morrissey - Who Put the ‘M’ in Manchester? - Straight.com
By Sarah Rowland
Publish Date: 26-May-2005
If you weren’t a die-hard Morrissey fan before popping Who Put the ‘M’ in Manchester? into your DVD player, then you certainly won’t be after watching four different versions of “First of the Gang to Die”, as well as three separate renderings of both “Irish Blood, English Heart” and “I Have Forgiven Jesus”. Depending on your mood, you can tune in to the former Smiths frontman push his 2004 comeback release You are the Quarry outdoors at last year’s Move Festival in Manchester; see him do the same indoors at Manchester Evening News Arena, where cameras captured his homecoming/birthday extravaganza; or skip to the video section to check out the clips you never saw on MuchMusic outside of The Wedge.
Behind-the-scenes tidbits and interviews with the main attraction are pretty much nil here. We get one measly streeter with a devotee who describes what the ’80s gay icon has meant to him. There is, however, an unexpected PETA-sanctioned documentary tacked on to the end. Narrated by Alec Baldwin, Meet Your Meat is a montage of undercover camerawork. Here we see chickens getting their ultra-sensitive beaks clipped off, pigs getting their brains smashed against concrete floors, and diseased cows getting their pus-filled tits milked. Funny, this little slaughterhouse bonus doesn’t seem to be listed anywhere on the DVD cover. While the highly polished two-hour concert footage of Morrissey sprinkling his earlier solo hits with way too much newer material may preach only to the converted, this short is powerful enough to make card-carrying carnivores switch to soybeans.
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