Strangeways Here We Come (Picture Disc)

VINYL FORMAT. Limited edition release of Strangeways, Here We Come on picture disc!

"Strangeways comes brimming with melancholy tales of love gone, [Johnny] Marr's musicianship and Morrissey's swoony vocals.

Joe's troubles in "A Rush and a Push and the Land is Ours" are followed by the beating slap of "I Started Something I Couldn't Finish" in which Morrissey growls and croons about uncertainty and aloofness over Marr's saxophone arrangement. The gradual build-up of "Death of a Disco Dancer" comes next; the tune's title repeated as piano builds on guitars that built on the drums that accompanied the lazy bassline and stray guitar pickings and pickings that opened the song. Then comes that one joyous ditty we all know and love, "Girlfriend in a Coma," a bleak, bouncy, deceptively happy lover's lament where Marr's string arrangements aptly couple with Morrissey's pleas.

Sandwiched between the bad-to-worse relationship tale of "Stop Me if You Think You've Heard This One Before" and the guilt-ridden "Unhappy Birthday" comes two minutes of staid crowd sounds and piano prior to the orchestral punctuations of "Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me." An anthem for melodramatic sufferers of unrequited love, who among them couldn't relate to the lyrics "Last night I felt / real arms around me / no hope - no harm / just another false alarm." - Treble 'Zine