Emotional Guide Dog
Chairman Of The Bored
It's Not Your Birthday Anymore had slight potential, but fizzled out fast with lame lyrics and out of place chorus and vocal melodies.
I didn't really agree with the above post but that's a good point regarding It's Not Your Birthday Anymore. Why does he have to howl the second chorus instead of singing some words? Without the howling I think it could've been a hit, one that may have even got played on daytime local radio. Alas, there was Skull which is a fine song but about as likely to be played on the radio as a medley of songs from Scott Walker's' The Drift'.
To answer the question, I think YOR is a very solid collection of songs. As much as I hate to admit it, the reason I have all of Morrissey's albums & bought them so freely is that he's just so damned consistently 'good' as opposed to occasionally 'outstanding'.