Morrissey "Vauxhall and I" (1994)
Morrissey's fourth album... this is another of those points where I have
scratch my head at the selections on the list. I don't really hear
anything musically in this album that hasn't already been covered in
Morrissey's other entries in the list so far. There are far more
musically interesting albums out there from other artists that could have been selected in
place of this.
The album is pretty much Morrissey doing his thing. It's a bit
mellower than "Your Arsenal" and the lyrics seem to very much be driven
by the deaths of people around Morrissey at the time, including
legendary guitarist Mick Ronson (who'd produced Morrissey's previous
album), his manager, and a director of some of his music videos. With a song
called "Hold onto your friends", and the line 'tell all of my friends/I
don't have too many' in the song "Now my heart is full" it seemed that
Mos was ruminating on mortality in general and the shrinking of one's
social circle with age. Worthy subjects, but still not really enough
that the album needed to be in this list.
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