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Title: Beef: Savour the Flavour of Murder. (TM)
Review: This isn't the Smiths' best album, but it's pretty good. It's main weakness, I feel, is that Morrissey's decided he needs to address specific social issues, losing to a certain degree the amiguity and richness his lyrics possessed in the past. The best tracks--What She Said and That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore--are the ones that stay farthest away from that, although Nowhere Fast is undeniably good. Okay, so Rusholme Ruffians and The Headmaster Ritual Aren't Bad, and even Barbarism Begins At Home has something to be said for it. But I absolutely HAVE to dock the album as a whole a star, just for the title track, which may have been intended to make a powerful statement, but just comes across as being very, very silly. Oh well.
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