BookishBoy
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We round off the Fs with this track, originally a B-side on the "Let Me Kiss You" single, and also included in the deluxe YATQ album and also the Swords compilation.
What do we think of this one?
1. | "Don't Make Fun of Daddy's Voice" | Morrissey, Whyte | 2:53 |
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2. | "It's Hard to Walk Tall When You're Small" | Morrissey, Whyte | 3:32 |
3. | "Teenage Dad on His Estate" | Morrissey, Whyte | 4:08 |
4. | "Munich Air Disaster 1958" | Morrissey, Whyte | 2:30 |
5. | "Friday Mourning" | Morrissey, Whyte | 4:08 |
6. | "The Never-Played Symphonies" | Morrissey, Whyte | 3:03 |
7. | "My Life Is a Succession of People Saying Goodbye" | Morrissey, Whyte | 2:55 |
8. | "I Am Two People" | Morrissey, Whyte | 3:55 |
9. | "Mexico" |
Ha! I suspect he has a lot more lazy autopilot puns still left in his notebooks...I have to add that I always thought that the title was one of Morrissey's laziest, most autopilot puns.
How lazy can you be though, to abandon the "never" just to have a rhyme and then rhyme "time" with itself?
The lyrics do come perilously close to overdoing the self-pitying angst, to the point where if I'm not in the right mood I end up wanting to shake the narrator and tell him to grow up and stop being such a bloody drama queen. That said, there are enough gorgeous moments that it just about balances out. I also love all the non-lyrical noises Moz makes in this, both the "loser -oh-wo-wo-oh-wo-owo", and particularly the end, where it sounds like he's singing "Biddldy-bop bo-hmmmm-booo, biddly-bop bo-hhhmmmmm ooouchoo lo-deh no!"I used to think, I couldn't get enough of Morrissey's pathos. But this is a bit too much.
The lyrics do come perilously close to overdoing the self-pitying angst, to the point where if I'm not in the right mood I end up wanting to shake the narrator and tell him to grow up and stop being such a bloody drama queen. That said, there are enough gorgeous moments that it just about balances out. I also love all the non-lyrical noises Moz makes in this, both the "loser -oh-wo-wo-oh-wo-owo", and particularly the end, where it sounds like he's singing "Biddldy-bop bo-hmmmm-booo, biddly-bop bo-hhhmmmmm ooouchoo lo-deh no!"
I have lived my whole life in ruins because of songs that were pleasant.In a few words, this song is borderline gratuitous. But its pleasant enough.