release date: Apr. 4, 2005
format: cd
[album rate: 4 / 5]
producer: Peter Asher
label: Attack Records - nationality: England, UK
Track highlights: 2. "First of the Gang to Die" - 3. "November Spawned a Monster" - 5. "Bigmouth Strikes Again" - 6. "I Like You" - 8. "Let Me Kiss You" - 10. "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out" - 11. "The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get" - 13. "I Have Forgiven Jesus" - 15. "Shoplifters of the World Unite" - 18. "Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me"
2nd live album by Morrissey released on Attack and recorded at Earls Court, London on Dec. 18, 2004. The album is exclusively reserved to his material since the last live album, Beethoven Was Deaf (1993), or at least the majority of the tracks, and those that are not recent compositions are five tracks written together with Johnny Marr for The Smiths and one track taken from Kill Uncle (1991). The entire album consists of 18 tracks with a total running time of about 75 minutes. Like the front cover, the album tells the story of how Morrissey has succeeded in turning himself into a contemporary 'crooner', and what's specifically enjoyable about it is how it only adds new dimensions to his live repertoire without repeating what worked on his first live album.
Highly recommendable.
[ allmusic.com 4,5 / 5, Rolling Stone 3 / 5 stars ]
