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...Cornell--Collins, Morrissey, Rine; Harvard--downing, O'Brien, Walton. A: Cornell--Rine, Robertson; Harvard--Shumway, Downing S: Cornell--Wright 22; Harvard--Milhollin...
Appropriately chosen Morrissey music hummed in the background, while the audience, primarily composed of gay male couples, filtered in. There was a certain sense of isolation involved in being in the midst of a group where everyone knew everyone else, and greetings between them flew thick and fast...
...even flops in the self-pity department. Most of the tunes are simply yawn-inducing regurgitations of familiar material. Morrissey sounds unconvinced as he sighs, "All my life no one ever gave me anything." By the time he whimpers out a half-hearted "I wish I had the charm to attract the one I love...you see I've got no charm," you'll be inclined to agree...
Only a few moments hint at Morrisey's former greatness. "The National Front Disco" is a vaguely catchy tune about a small-town teen lost in the wilds of the nightclub scene, and Morrissey delivers the tale with relish. He also proves he's still capable of knocking off a diverting lyric with "You're the One for Me, Fatty." In this song he beseeches his obese sweetheart to "say if I'm ever in your way..a-hey,-a HAAAAY." He really wallows in the line, and the song offers hope that his old languid wail...
...these tracks are hardly enough to sustain this slight album (it only contains about thirty minutes worth of music). Could it be that Morrissey's morbid imagination is floundering because he's secretly found happiness? There's got to be some explanation for his lack of gusto on Your Arsenal. Too often, he doesn't even sound interested in his own dejection...