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Title: "The Queen Is Dead" is Especially Dark
Review: Just reading the lyrics in the CD booklet is enough to send one into the depths of despair. Mr. Morrissey seems a talented poet and often makes allusions to poets that are truly great, but his songs indicate a level of depression that would make Sylvia Plath seem like a happy clown. His collaborator, Mr. Marr, is the more talented partner. His music is light and infective, unlike Morrissey's sad, sad songs and banshee wail. This reviewer especially enjoyed the music to "Frankly Mr. Shankley" (also Morrissey's best outing)and "The Boy with the Thorn in his Side." The bottom line is that "The Queen Is Dead" has excellent music, but depressives, alcoholics and impressionable children and adults should not buy this album.
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