One of the outstanding tracks from his recent lap of honour album “Ringleader Of The Tormentors”, “The Youngest Was The Most Loved” is very much Mozzer at his swashbuckling, cinematic, everything-AND-the-kitchen-sink best and a typically Sillitoe-ian last-gasp tale of “a small boy from a poor house, he turned into a killer.” It’s tailor made for a Moz keen to ravish us once again (and he IS keen, judging by the references to powder kegs between legs on the album) and features that unsettling kiddie choir doing the “Panic” bit with that line “there is no such thing in life as normal” which – frankly – is difficult to refute.
Stay tuned for ‘exclusive’ B-side “If You Don’t Like Me, Don’t Look At Me” too. As ever, Morrissey’s titles are stories in themselves, but these days he seems to have the hunger to bother telling the stories around them again and this one – again a Morrissey/ Jesse Tobias co-write – smoulders very effectively indeed. The production is a little more low-key than the album (the kitchen sink didn’t make the inventory this time round) but it’s another of those patented yearning Morrissey treats that he’s getting more generous at throwing to the great unwashed again.
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