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| 3.0 good | Tokyochuchu | December 12th 09 |
A solid yet workmanlike effort from Morrissey. This album mostly retreads 'You Are The Quarry' to uninspiring, yet mildly diverting effect. 'I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris' is classic autopilot Mozz, whilst 'It's Not Your Birthday Anymore' has emotion and power behind it's vocals and 'One Day Goodbye Will Be Farewell' has a delightful eighties synth stomp running through it... But then the record shoots itself in the foot by making the remaining tracks a bit ho-hum and then ending with the two worst songs on the album by the way of 'Sorry Doesn't Help' and 'I'm OK By Myself'.
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| 3.0 good | bobafe6604 | April 1st 09 |
Morrissey undoubtedly has an incredible voice, but where "Years of Refusal" falls short is not only in the lyrics, but in the music itself. "Years of Refusal" feels like an aging singer/songwriter who wanted to inject a little youth into his repertoire, thus having him search out a band of 30-somethings only to croon over 00's punk rock hooks about *gasp* lost love etc. This album would have been incredible if the band wasn't nearly completely inept.. power chord hungry licks and "does he exist?" drumming and "HE doesn't exist." bass pull this album down from greatness to plainness. Not to mention some of the ridiculous lyrics Morrissey pulls out of his bag from time to time about naked men haunting peoples' dreams and possible ED references... yeah; not great, but OK.
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| 4.0 excellent | Jerrad | July 3rd 21 |
| 3.5 great | fifek | April 11th 21 |
| 3.5 great | heck | February 11th 19 |
| 5.0 classic | kb3984 | January 6th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | DoDo95PL | December 29th 17 |
| 3.0 good | Jan555 | November 26th 17 |
| 3.0 good | wg98 | November 26th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Dylan | May 10th 17 |
| 3.5 great | TwigTW | March 28th 17 |
| 3.0 good | carl22 | November 24th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | nobouk | September 25th 16 |
| 4.5 superb | Kf1975 | March 29th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | MsPinky | March 11th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Keating | December 26th 15 |
| 4.5 superb | oagece | November 13th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | vonseux | July 15th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | Sebe | February 1st 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | pmellis | December 23rd 13 |
| 3.5 great | Huybie | September 6th 12 |
| 3.0 good | jrs67 | August 19th 12 |
| 3.5 great | Host78 | March 20th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Bossie | September 15th 11 |
| 3.0 good | Sowilo | August 4th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | rjmunthe | February 20th 11 |
| 2.5 average | Hep Kat | October 23rd 10 |
| 3.5 great | IRAI | October 3rd 10 |
| 2.5 average | cvrcmrc | September 2nd 10 |
| 5.0 classic | jmrobm | August 14th 09 |
| 3.0 good | Rudy K. EMERITUS | March 3rd 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | star69 | February 28th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | rliu | February 5th 09 |
| 3.5 great | Hewitt | January 26th 09 |
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