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I love the tone and sincerity of his voice here and it is a wonderful song that has held up well. Some people have said that it seems a surprising theme (the idea of Johnny being suicidal or pushed around in the music industry after the split) - but I think it aligns well with Morrissey's...

Think the interview was in '92 - before Billy Budd.

This is basically the story of Moz' solo career - that beautiful voice (and his talent for vocal melodies) carrying so many songs with such plodding backing. Really shows you what he brings to the table.

Really poor. One of his worst songs.

I'd say "Yes" to both of those, but none of the rest. :LOL:

Autobio is fantastic, well worth checking out.

It was an unedited cringeworthy mess - which was really surprising because Autobio was excellent.

LOTL was so appalling that I'm hugely wary of M writing fiction. Maybe some essays or short stories or something but nothing similar to LOTL.

Drop the music for a while and start work on volume 2 of the Autobio.

Getting back at society - by killing their children, yeah. Dark.

It's a creepy inversion of Suffer Little Children. Dark, atmospheric, not something I'd really want to listen to.

I can easily see M wanting to veil the meaning of certain songs, it's what he does. I think he was angry and emotional when he wrote it and time dilutes those emotions, he probably felt differently later on. The sentiment in those songs ranges from "I love you / I'll be here when everyone else...

The clumsy lyrics kill Art-Hounds for me (fat aunt Mabel, really?) but weirdly - I love Scandinavia! It's just very different, very theatrical. And yeah, LIHS is an embarrassment. In my head, I've just wiped it from his discography.

I think it's both. When you suffer losses, it's natural to look back on your life and wonder if a 'pattern' is forming - you mull over previous failures and problems and what you might have done differently, like he does in Friday Mourning. This part: The strange logic in your clumsiest line...

Slow, plodding filler.

Absolutely agree - they're God-awful.

Very good point, I hadn't thought of that.

I think it was the first Morrissey album I bought where I just thought - there's scarcely one decent song here. Great titles and very different musically but no hooks, nothing memorable. Stuff like "Neal Cassady...".. they're total non-songs to me, I would never reach to repeat them. When the...

I'm aware of Morrissey's process when it comes to choosing material (which has never changed) - and I never said that Boz wasn't talented. He wrote some of my favourite Moz songs of all time. Try again.

Oh, sorry - I completely forgot about World Peace! (played it once and abandoned it). Thank you for the reminder - I'll edit the OP.