Did this guy really call Kill Uncle 'excellent' and describe Your Arsenal as when 'his bus started to veer towards some nearby cliff'?? I agree that Morrissey doesn't get enough credit for how brilliant a lot of his solo work is, but f*** me that's an odd take. As for the rest of the, er, article... I'm not sure what the overarching theme is...is there one?
Most of this article, I didn't agree with, this point I did.
I think Viva Hate, Kill Uncle and Bona Drag , the two-word title lps Were the last of Morrissey, in that interesting very British sense, he was in the smiths.
He was still that person in life but the art started to be more obvious in many ways.
I think Kill Uncle is very underrated, it's his novella record.
The trouble with Douglas is he attacks Morrissey very much as an American/ Canadian would
in the 90s.
They had this idea of Morrissey as this "straight edge grur", don't drink don't smoke, who does he do?
The truth is the Smiths were laddish in many ways, and M liked a drink then, Though not as much as he did later.
It was also unfair to think of Andy and Mike as people who came via NME ads ,
Andy was a very old friend of Johnnys
It would do M a huge favour not to mention him, in the same breath as Trump. In lots of people's minds M is like an "indie Trump" - which is understandable.
Douglas is seems is still trying to apologise for giving one of the worst Morrissey interviews ever.