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Your Arsenal |  | Artist: Morrissey
Label: EMI
Category: Music
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 8512
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 077779979424
EAN: 0077779979424
ASIN: B000025OIY
Release Date: July 27, 1992
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| Tracks:
| • | You're Gonna Need Someone On Your Side | | • | Glamorous Glue | | • | We'll Let You Know | | • | National Front Disco | | • | Certain People I Know | | • | We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful | | • | You're The One For Me Fatty | | • | Seasick Yet Still Docked | | • | I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday | | • | Tomorrow |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
His fourth and finest solo album is, as the cover shot suggests, Morrisey's idea of hard rock. There's a gritty, glam feel to Mick Ronson's production (check the iZiggy Stardust/i cop on "I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday"), while the loud'n'rude riffs of new guitarist Boz Boorer banish memories of the Smiths. Best news: for once the songs focus on adult life, not the man's well-documented adolescence. i--Jeff Bateman /i
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Must have Morrissey July 14, 2005
coppertortoise (sussex)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Have just got into Morrissey and the Smiths, (I can't belive it has took me 20 odd years, what was I thinking of?) Have only recently bought this in quick sucession with VIVA Hate and Vauxhaul, but this is THE one to have. The whole heavy guitar feel,and weird wailings etc and full on production is fantastic. I think this kind of production really suits Morrissey style and just adds extra emotion. Not a dull track on here, 10/10
His Master's Voice, nearly 10 years on May 28, 2001
are-empty (Dorset, England.)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
A somewhat up-tempo, exciting collection of songs from Moz, and the first I heard by him, including his work with The Smiths. Only the misjudged 1997 album 'Maladjusted' is more blatantly rock; this album takes you by the scruff of the neck and flings you against stone. Not a poor track is in evidence and the lyrical couplets will never leave your bonce. Songs like 'National Front Disco' are almost singalong but with a wry wit as always to the fore, allying Moz unwillingly? with the xenophobic skinhead contingent. You're The One For Me Fatty, Glamorous Glue and Certain People I Know are simply glorious fun, the latter taking a satirical standpoint on being your own person: 'I take the cue from certain people I know/I use the cue and then hand it on to you'. The album ends with two fabulous pieces whose contrast rounds the album off nicely: 'I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday' (which was quite reassuring to hear during my teen years) and 'Tomorrow' which may be the best Morrissey song ever, full of optimism and pained glory. This organised noise flails at the the listener, just like the man himself.
So this is what I#x27;ve been missing January 4, 2006
Mr. John Evans (Northamptonshire UK)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Wander into historic Salt Mills, near Bradford, and the chances are that you#x27;ll be greeted by the sound of Morrissey over the PA system. In charge of the music is a guy who says he#x27;s the world#x27;s number one Morrissey fan. A visit led to my buying this, my first Morrissey album. How come I missed Morrissey? This really is an intriguing, entrancing work, kicking off with a couple of pleasant enough rockers, which lead to a succession of songs whose melodies, lyrics and production emphatically achieve greatness. pFantastic guitar work complements an album that just gets played and played again. Don#x27;t wait till you#x27;re 58, as I did, before getting hooked!
A storming masterpiece... March 1, 2000
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
The professional critics of the music press seem to identify 'Vauxhall I' as being Morrissey's definitive album. On the scale of Moz's work however, 'Your Arsenal' certainly doesn't give up without a fight.pStarting with the storming riff of 'You're Gonna Need Someone On Your Side', 'Your Arsenal' displays Moz at his hardest. It is a flawless collection of heartwrenching yet brutal 3 minute pop songs that reaches it's pinnacle with the trio of singles ('You're The One For Me Fatty', 'We Hate It When Our Friends Become Succesful' and 'Certain People I Know').pThe dark glam rock stomp of 'Your Arsenal' is enhanced by some of the greatest lyrics ever recorded. If you are new to Moz, you could do a hell of a lot worse than cranking up 'Your Arsenal'.
Where things went right and wrong February 9, 2002
Jason Parkes (Worcester, UK)
27 out of 43 found this review helpful
The debut, 'Viva Hate' was mostly a dissapointment- the follow-up 'Kill Uncle' was worse. However, there had been some great songs- 'Hairdresser on Fire', 'Sister I'm a Poet', 'He Knows I'd Love to see Him', 'The Loop'. The band Morrissey assembled around himself on the 'Kill Uncle' tour became the gang-nucleas that would record this album.pThe great, late Mick Ronson- cruelly ditched by Bowie- produces the album. His most obvious input is in the Morrissey/Nevin 'I Know it's Gonna Happen Someday'- where 'Rock'n'Roll Suicide' is invoked (though the song continues the theme of 'How Soon is Now?' and 'Last Night I Dreamt'). pThis is the best Morrissey-guitar implosion since 'The Queen is Dead'-'Shoplifters'-era. The Smiths precedents are T-Rex- 'Panic' was 'Metal Guru'; 'Your Arsenal' takes 'Cosmic Dancer', 'Ride a White Swan' etc. as a prime influence on songs like 'Certain People I Know' 'Glamorous Glue'...The single 'We Hate It...' (rumoured to be about James) heralded a great comeback; though follow-up 'You're the One...' is a throwaway dud in the mode of 'Death at One's Elbow'. pThe music has guts- the riffs of 'You're Gonna Need Someone on Your Side', 'Glamorous Glue' (London is dead!) and 'Tomorrow' are somewhere between prime Jam and 'Queen'-Smiths. 'Tomorrow' is even, a love song...pThe highlight for me is the dreamy ballad, 'Seasick, Yet Still Docked'- which is a precursor of Radiohead's 'Exit Music'. So far from where I intended to go- it's the ultimate resigned ballad and as otherwordly as Bonnie Prince Billy's 'I See a Darkness'.pThe problems with 'Your Arsenal'?. Well, the Union Jack flirtation with Nationalism in (pseudo)PC-times. Morrissey played the ambiguous card- which he had done in the Eighties ('Reggae is vile'). He should have done it earlier- both The Jam and The Who posed with the Union Jack; while a few years later Britpop would do much the same: Blur circa 'Modern Life' and Noel Gallagher's silly guitar. Right-on journos would take Morrissey to task- as if he were Jacques Le Pen or Albert Speer. The 'problem' started with a simplistic interpretation of 'Viva Hate's 'Bengali in Platforms'- which appeared to be an 'outsider' identification with ethnic groups- in the mode of Hanif Kureshi's 'The Buddha of Suburbia'. Yoko Ono, Patti Smith and The Stranglers had done it in the Seventies- with songs like 'Woman is Nigger of the World', 'Rock N Roll Nigger' and 'I Feel Like a Wog'. 'Kill Uncle' offered the strange (and crap) 'Asian Rut' and here we have 'The National Front Disco' and 'We'll Let You Know'. The former has one of the best riffs Morrissey has ever sung to- and is lyrically VERY similar to XTC's 'No Thugs in Our House' (from 'English Settlement'). It captures the glam world of the 70's- the backdrop of Bowie, Bolan, Reed to the Ska-Skinhead collision- the language of Teddy-Boys and Rockers. The old Engerland dreaming. If only he'd printed the lyrics- which would have been encased in to signify an ironic, dramatic use- as the dialogue of writers like David Mamet and Quentin Tarantino. England for the English reads England for the English?- why do writers take Morrissey so literally? Did he really advocate his gender on songs like 'William, It Was Really Nothing', 'Half a Person' and 'These Things Take Time'? Sure, there were tubthumping style songs- 'Panic', 'Meat is Murder', 'Suffer Little Children'- but there were just as many oblique songs: 'Some Girls are Bigger Than Others', 'Reel Around the Fountain'. And this continues the themes of songs like 'Sweet Tender Hooligan', 'Rusholme Ruffians', through to 'Picadilly Palare' and 'The Ordinary Boys'. 'We'll Let You Know' is of a similar theme- written from the perspective of the Engerlish football-racist hooligan. Morrissey- as with most significant artists- attempted to say the unsayable. Was there uproar at the reissue of 'Naked Lunch' in the Early 90's?- which uses racist language. The songs we sing/there not supposed to mean a thing- Morrissey taps into the 'Clockwork Orange'-mentality of the UK. The nationalist-jingosim present to this day; the reason why we can't form a coherent National Identity. Look back to the Empire, to World War II, to 1966. Look at the treatment meted out to asylum seekers and ethnic groups- by the Cambridge educated head of the BNP. With 'We'll Let You Know' Morrissey presents people who believe there the end of the pure Anglo-Saxon line- that those that follow are diluted. The view of many MP's and Lords. Would Morrissey, a fan of gospel music, Spector soul, Shirley Bassey, Prince Naseem, Echobelly etc- be a racist in actuality?pSo, due to a combination of kneejerk journalism (did the same NME/MM writers not adore 'La Haine' and 'Romper Stomper'?) and the disease of contoversy, 'Your Arsenal' was overlooked. It's the strongest work he'd released since 'Strangeways...' and along with 'Vauxhall I' is his best solo work.
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