Years of Refusal: #43 on MySpace's Best of 2009

[Je Suis Julie]

This should be MUCH higher, but at least it's there:

http://www.myspace.com/music/yearinmusic

"Ten years ago, no one would have predicted how this decade would have turned out for Morrissey. When the ’00s kicked off, the semi-retired singer was living as a recluse in the Hollywood Hills, only coming out in daylight to take his pinstriped suits to the cleaners. But ever since he released You Are The Quarry in 2004, the former Smiths frontman has been on a undeniable roll, banging out triumphant albums like Years Of Refusal that are filled with the sort of punchy alt-rock tunes that should belong to artists half his age. (Seriously, if it weren’t for his theatrical singing on “Something Is Squeezing My Skull” you might confuse it for something by the Alkaline Trio.) But in 2009, that is exactly what made Morrissey so cool: He knows now that it’s practically his duty to emerge every few years and, with both style and grace, show the rest of us how it’s done."

I really like the last line

 

[jamescagney]

He knows now that it’s practically his duty to emerge every few years and, with both style and grace, show the rest of us how it’s done."

I really like the last line

Agreed. I can't get enough of his last three studio albums. They rock me.

 

[Scarlet Ibis]

Agreed. I can't get enough of his last three studio albums. They rock me.

We agree.

 

[dizzywhore_1804]

I think I need to re-listen to YoR (again!) in a desperate attempt to see the genius other people are seeing. I personally would've thought 43 is way too high (and no I can't name 42 better ones off the top of my head, but it just sounds wrong).
I wished I like the album, but for such a supposedly ""physical" album it all sounds rather limp.

 

[Girl-with-the-Thorn]

This is great . It should have been higher in my opinion, but at least it's up there. I luuurve YOR.

 

[MuteWitness616]

Myspace has bad taste in music