![]() ![]() "Disappointed” is the most Smiths-esque song from the early solo Morrissey era. The lick also partakes in another kind of consistency it conjures an affinity with the earlier Smiths records. Let’s give Stephen Street and Vini Reilly credit the song is built around a marvelous lick that keeps things consistent within the hem and the haw of track. The song’s most consistent element is the echoed and shaking band. “Disappointed”’s ending feels sudden because of the tricky arrangement of the song and the way that Morrissey tugs against the traditional verse/chorus/verse pattern with his playful and singing. The drummer even beats out a slowed count in the final full measure. Only it’s not a slam-on-the-breaks-and-startle-you BAM!. Same goes for the original 12", which has another Song Thoughts favorite, “Will Never Marry.”) (BTW: If you do happen to be listening to the original “Everyday is Like Sunday” 45, on which “Disappointed” is the b-side, give us a ring here at Song Talk, and we’ll work something out to take it off your hands. … Or if you’re listening on the original 7”, you’ve got the needle trolling in the lock groove. Or you’re on to the next spot in your iTunes (Mos Def, maybe?). The song is going along and developing as a composition, the form still unfolding, and then, BAM! it’s over. Things are still changing in the lyric/composition/production right up to the end, and then Moz yanks the sound out from underneath us. I love the ending of “Disappointed"-how inventive, how sudden it is. Morrissey, “He Knows I’d Love to See Him” ![]()
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