A CRACK ON THE HEAD

“I am the son
And the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar”

This time the shyness is referenced in the service of a couple of clever and telling homophones. Morrissey simultaneously bemoans this inherited shyness and announces his rather elevated place in the world: “I am the Sun, and the Air…”

But How Soon is Now? sounded like 2005 from where I sat in 1985, which made the whole pill easier to swallow.

My vegetarian ass had little use for Meat is Murder, and I liked but did not love The Queen is Dead.

I was developing all along a sneaking suspicion that The Smiths were primarily a singles’ band…