I had hoped that if I had the stomach to listen to "Kill Uncle" in its entirety that I could do the same with "Years of Refusal", but I couldn't. ("Years of Refuse", more like.)
But, in the interest of covering every era of Morrissey, here's a B-side from the "Years of Refusal" sessions that's far superior to anything on the album proper. It was one of the last songs that Alain Whyte wrote with Morrissey before they regrettably parted ways.
And, finally, two songs from Morrissey's most recent album, bringing us to 2014.
The first was a hard choice between "Istanbul" and "World Peace Is None of Your Business", but I ultimately decided that since I had already posted the latter in the Your Latest Favorite Song thread, I should post the former here.
That's kind of funny that you posted "Happy Hour," thotkins. We had a "team outing" today and towards the end I was suddenly alone with my boss, my old boss, and their boss. They'd all had a few drinks and were making dinner plans for places that are probably a little to posh for my salary. At least they're really good people to work for and my boss is pretty hilarious with a few drinks in her. It wasn't as bad as in the song, but I can still relate.
I was lucky enough that my night out on Friday was a standard few drinks after work in a place I really like. Anything more organised than that gets me thinking of Happy Hour.
"...not having to believe in a thing to be interested in it and not having to explain a thing to appreciate the wonder of it."
The dB's - The Sound of Music - they should have been bigger than they were. This one traded the quirky power pop of their first couple albums for a more traditional rock sound that would have probably been pretty radio friendly if it had come out in 1994 instead of 1987. Peter Holsapple could write uptempo songs, sad songs and funny songs, sometimes all at once.
I haven't been able to find my CD of it in a couple years and because I am a big dork about internet I just realized I could find it on Spotify. So next up on the parade of stuff Matt lost, Husker Du - Warehouse: Songs and Stories.