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I dont believe that any singles should have been released from this album. Its an experimental/concept album and I honest believe that none of the songs on here were commercial enough to be singles.
I never understood why people say that about Southpaw Grammar. Boy Racer, Dagenham Dave, Reader Meet Author, and Do Your Best... are all straight up Rock & Roll songs!
Reader Meet Author is proably the most commercial song and IMHO probaly the best song on the album. Dagenham Dave is ruined by the monotonous repetition of the Dagenham Dave line. Its just not a commercially good song. Boy Racer is ok. But thats it.
But what does ‘commercial’ mean exactly? To me it means a song with a strong melody and I guess one that doesn’t really drag on for too long. Apart from the occasional ‘Life is a Pigsty’ or ‘Late Night Maudlin Street’ or a softly strummed ‘I Know Very Well…’ , surely all Morrissey songs should be ‘commercial’. Songs with really strong, memorable melodies that sound great when they come blaring out of the radio or at the indie disco.
I want a Morrissey album full of ‘commercial’ songs, please!
"Dagenham Dave" probably didn't transfer well to the American ear (for non-fans, that is.) Americans don't know what, or where, Dagenham is, and why it's funny that the guy is from there.
What I meant is that the pronunciation would be confusing to an American. In the song, it's pronounced "Daggen-m" and an American would tend to say "Dagg-en-ham" with an emphasis on the last syllable.
And it would have been nice to have more lyrics than just the repetition of "Dagenham Dave" again and again.