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posted by
davidt
on Monday September 26 2005, @11:00AM
sweetnesss writes:
Funny, sad, moving and controversial, Kill Uncle is everything a Morrissey album should be. Shame that cos of a rather silly post-Smiths backlash that so few of his legions of fans have heard it then. --- Sean Hannam also writes: Morrissey's Kill Uncle has been named a 'great lost album' on new music website Pop Junkie - www.popjunkie.tv
The site, which launched last week, has been designed to promote underrated and 'lost' pop records. It was started by two national journalists who were bored with the same old lists of Top 100 albums. Other bands featured on the site, which is updated weekly, are Gene, Pet Shop Boys, Puressence and The Boo Radleys.
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no doubt (Score:0)
Kill Uncle (Score:1)
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Re:Kill Uncle (Score:2, Insightful)
Kill Uncle is his worst album by far, most of the songs are good but production is crap, where´s the guitars? . It could have been much better with a different sound.
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Journalists who Lie (Score:2, Insightful)
That combo does not a good album make....
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Kill Uncle (Score:0, Insightful)
Dicks (Score:2, Insightful)
Apparently, IQ tests aren't necessary to create a website...
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I Love It (Score:1)
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Kill Uncle (Score:1)
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Finally! (Score:0)
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Re:Finally! (Score:2, Insightful)
In my opinion, Kill Uncle is neither "brilliant" or "crap" - so therefore I neither love or hate it. Having said that, I do have very fond memories of when he toured with this album..
As some people have pointed out above, Kill Uncle does contain some decent songs and interesting lyrics. However, songs like "Found..." etc are weak in relation to the rest of Morrissey's work. It is one of his less good albums, but that doesn't mean it should be written off as "rubbish" like some posters are keen on doing.
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let's kill uncle (Score:0)
Our Frank
Sing Your Life
King Leer
Driving Your Girlfriend Home
There's A Place In Hell For Me And My Friends
Tony The Pony
and the production is experimental,
not flawed.
this is a good album.
My nominations.... (Score:1)
(the definition being an album that is actually supurb despite lacking critical/commercial acclaim)
Morrissey, KILL UNCLE
The Cure, THE TOP
David Bowie, DIAMOND DOGS
Love, FOREVER CHANGES
Tori AMos, BOYS FOR PELE
Beck, MIDNIGHT VULTURES
Doors, THE SOFT PARADE
Echo & The Bunnymen, PORCUPINE
Pearl Jam, BINAURAL
Television, ADVENTURE
Supergrass, SUPERGRASS
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Kill Uncle's Production (Score:1)
The production is a little pristine, especially compared to other works that Langer & Winstanley produced, such as "My Love Life".
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finally, a post worthy of a -1, Redundant score (Score:2, Interesting)
the album begins with its first single, "Our Frank"- a perfcet choice for the lead single as it is likely the most similiar to his previous solo singles on the album. this song also perfectly sets up the tone and progression of the album: an emphatically expressed desire to shake off the weighty thoughts of deep conversation and introspection that eventually gives way to an uncontrolable compulsion to think about "everything" "deeply" and "bleakly". all delivered by means of a racing and poppy musical backing and clever, humourous and undeniably charming lyrics and vocals, this is a fantastic way to open.
"Asian Rut" is easily one of the strangest songs in the Morrissey cannon, but this only adds to its interest. an eerie musical accompaniment, complete with the beautifully harmonius, yet unsettling, violin of Nawazish Ali Khan, a chilling depiction of racism and violence ending with one of the most transcending stanzas of Morrissey's career, "I'm just passing through here/On my way to somewhere civilised/And maybe I'll even arrive/Maybe I'll even arrive...." by that line alone this song is made spectacular.
one of the more accepted songs off Kill Uncle is second and final single taken from the album, "Sing Your Life". really, not much needs to said here: a joyously bouncy musical backing for perhaps Morrissey's most inspirational and encouraging lyrics ever. complete with the Morrissey charm and humour- which has never been displayed more or better than on this album- this is one of Morrissey's finest.
"Mute Witness" serves as a wonderful mirror to the classic "November Spawned A Monster" in its view of a disabled girl from the opposite and seemingly unsympathetic perspective. now, many will criticise Morrissey for having bad taste in attempting to extract humour from such a situation before abruptly sending the poor girl off in her taxi, but the very fact that Morrissey does write about things like this, where most would never attempt, shows his true empathy for the disabled. an ambiguous lyric and a glammed up musical performance, this is another great song.
people juste dont get "King Leer" ithink. ithink theyre juste being too serious or stuck up or something, but when people refer to one of Morrissey's greatest lyrics as his "lyrical nadir" it really makes me wonder what is wrong with them. simply a perfect piece of fey pop boasting an absurdly hilarious lyric with its series of cringeworthy, but completely intentional, puns and cliches including the title's labeling of the boyfriend as "King Leer"- brilliant. imean, if you think hes being serious, he completely gives himself away when he begins to laugh at himself in the middle of the song. this is the most playful moment of Morrissey's career and it is classic all the way.
"Found Found Found" begins the fall back into that uncontrolable compulsion of introspection suggested in opener, "Our Frank". the hardest music on the album works as a signal call for the shift in mood and perspective. another brilliantly transcending line, even though it was pipped from Noel Coward, comes at the end with "I do believe that the more you give your love, and I do believe that the more you give your trust, the more you're bound to lose." great track.
its been spoken of before how "Driving Your Gilfriend Home" can be seen as the otherside of The Smiths' classic "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" and itotally buy into that. its easy to see how this song may tell from the driver's perspective the return from the night out of seeing "people" and "life" to finally drop the girlfriend off at what he calls "her home" but what she would refer as not her home, but "their home" (
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Johnny Marr fans (Score:0)
Who'd had thought Marr fans were far more deluded and blind to their hero's faults than Morrissey fans?