Based on first listen...
My Love, I’d Do Anything For You - I like this a lot, strong opener, society’s hell indeed.
I Wish You Lonely - My second favourite.
Jack’s Only Happy When She’s Up On The Stage - Like.
Home Is A Question Mark - The standout track, without a doubt.
Spent The Day In Bed - I hated it upon first listen and I still do, simply awful.
I Bury The Living - Strange, and not in a good way. It gets worse as it goes on too, strong contender for the worst song in the album (or possibly his entire career).
In Your Lap - Not keen. At all. The music is pretty dire, the lyrics a rambling mess, a non-song really.
The Girl From Tel Aviv Who Wouldn’t Kneel - I don’t like the music, I can definitely hear a similarity to Kill Uncle here, but the worst of KU, not the best, sadly.
All The Young People Must Fall In Love - I didn’t like it live and I do not like the studio version either.
When You Open Your Legs - Like.
Who Will Protect Us From The Police - Liked bits of this one, I cringed at times too, so mixed feelings.
Israel - The best of the five tracks we had not heard until today. I like it, different to the sound we are used to, but this time in a pleasant way.
So it seems it was the best of LIHS that was premiered at the Beeb and Berlin gigs, a bit of a shame as I liked 5 out of those 7 songs and was hoping for a similar ratio on the remaining 5.
Alas, I only liked 1 out of those 5 upon first listen.
All in all, a mediocre album I am afraid, 5/6 out of 10 I would say.
I do believe the good songs - Question Mark, Lonely, Jacky, etc - are indeed better than anything on WPINOYB, but the bad ones are really bad, perhaps some of his worst ever.
Feeling somewhat disappointed truth be told.
Still, on a more positive note, I now have 6 more Morrissey songs to listen to and enjoy.