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Blender - YATQ #6 album of the year; other mentions

posted by davidt on Tuesday November 30 2004, @10:00AM
Cooka writes:

Blender magazine just released their top albums of the year list and nesttled among some good and some not so good artist sits the man's "You are the Quarry" at number 6.
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Abrahán Garza also writes:

From December 2004 issue of Blender Magazine:

50 GREATEST CDS OF 2004:

#32 Nancy Sinatra - Nancy Sinatra (Sanctuary)
Pop's sexiest sexagenarian returns, with U2 and Morrissey polishing her boots.

#6 Morrissey - You Are the Quarry (Sanctuary)
After seven years, Moz and his perfect coif return. Since his last album, most of his fans had given up on him. The 45 year old had exiled himself to L.A., seemingly content to spend his days with Nancy Sinatra sipping tea. But, as Franz Ferdinand and the Killers acknowledged their debt to his band, the Smiths, Morrissey reemerged with a new album as good as his solo work. Here, his voice is melliflous his song titles are hilarious, his mood is defiant and his timing's impeccable.

100 BEST SONGS OF 2004:
#62 Morrissey - First of the Gang to Die (Attack/Sanctuary)
Stunning wordplay and street-crime imagery from the master of miserabalism.

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They also reviewed Jobriath's Lonely Planet Boy (Attack/Sanctuary)

THEY GAVE THE CD A ONE STAR REVIEW.

-Tragically fabulous '70s glam casualty turns out to be just tragic.

An early example of catastrophic hype, Jobriath was a Hair cast member hastily rebrabded for early '70s glitter-rock. Elektra Records made extravagant claims that they had found the new Bowie. But while the former Bruce Wayne Campbell had such attributes as homosexuality, a cockney whine - "I'm an elegant ma-yun!" - and mock-operatic arrangements, he was only a K-Mart Ziggy. His death from AIDS in 1983 ensured that Jobriath became a romantic touchstone to the likes of Morrissey, who compiled the album, but Lonley Planet Boy just disinters a lot of fifth-hand Bowie-isms so trite they resemble an unfunny parody of the polysexual '70s. Vlanging harpsichords, strangulated Jagger vocals, musical theatre piano pieces, "earthlings" and "space clowns" - it's all here, and none of it works.

DOWNLOAD THIS: None.

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Why can't they even recommend one song?
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