You know what? Honestly, I just don't like It's Not Your Birthday Anymore all that much. I get the impression that the people who go so crazy for it on these boards do so largely because they so badly wanted to see a masterpiece on YOR, and so everybody's kind of latching onto it. Not that the reviews necessarily mean much, but I haven't seen a single reviewer single it out as a highlight of YOR. Also, whenever I play it at work, sometimes my casual and non-Morrissey fan colleagues skip past it without asking me (as with You Were Good in Your Time. I love Morrissey's softer and more sentimental sounding songs, but Birthday just doesn't do anything for me.