BookishBoy
Well-Known Member
Our song for today is this Morrissey/Whyte composition, from Ringleader of the Tormentors.
What do we think of this one?
Our song for today is this Morrissey/Whyte composition, from Ringleader of the Tormentors.
What do we think of this one?
I don't know which Ringleader dud is more overrated, this one or "Dear God Please Help Me."
How anyone could compare it to "Late Night Maudlin Street" is beyond me; the two have nothing in common except length and absence of chorus. The former is a lyrical masterpiece, while this one is content to repeat ad nauseam the kind of one-dimensional, self-pitying scribble that should've never made it out of the margins of Morrissey's notebook. I recall the run-up to Ringleader's release with the press hyping up this track as a spiritual sibling of "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Paranoid Android," which seemed like a joke even then.
The lifeless production does a wonderful job of sucking out any vitality that the composition may have initially possessed, delivering instead this flat, faux-epic that tries way too hard to do what something like "Speedway" does effortlessly.