Meat Is Murder

Why does everyone hate the title track?

Do they? best track

Mindless vegan drivel

Now that you mention I do remember some people saying it's shit. I like it tho

Live version (can't remember from where and when) is far better than album version

Have you ever seen Morrissey live?He plays videos of animals being slaughtered while people hand out peta flyers

It's the best track on the whole album desu

nice musical criticism lads!

In all seriousness it's one of the best tracks on the album.

Unless you dont want to be lectured

No way, in the studio theres two guitars at the same time. Jonny marr wrote both parts

It would make a nice change

Because not only is he preachy, but he sounds like a complete whiny bitch at the same time. And it also lacks any subtlety whatsoever.

Barbarism Begins At Home is the best track come on

Not liking its message or the way in which it's delivered does not make a song bad.

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Also I just find the music generally boring.

I prefer Morrissey's vocals in the live version

>implying subtlety is always the best way to deliver a message
being on the nose isn't inherently bad, pleb

Because it's preachy and it comes after Barbarism Begins at Home

If it weren't for Johnny Marr these points would be true

It is in this case though.

Yes it does

So the music itself doesn't exist, just Morrissey's "message"? Music isn't bad because of what it's about but what it is. There is a degree of musical interest to the song which is the primary art form in question here.

They lyrics are part of the music

>Words are music
Wrong art form mate

>>Words are music
No, vocals are music.

Because it's an underwhelming closer, especially as it comes right after the best track on the album.

I think it's musically ok, but the opening noises turn me off. Never listen to it as a result.

Yes the vocals conveying the melody are music but not the lyrics and their message

The vocals are comprised of words and they're at the forefront of the song. Stop being an autistic pedant.

It doesn't really fit with the rest of the album. Meat is Murder is probably the Smiths' most upbeat album and then at the end of it you have a really dark, and for the Smiths really noisy political diatribe. It's a complete change in mood, and an unfitting one at that, from the rest of the album, and indeed from what the Smiths did best which is making upbeat music with subtly dark lyricism. If it were a b-side I could see it being treated better, and I don't think it's by any means a bad song, I just think it's a very unfitting song and not the best way to end the album.

Imagine a version of this album with Meat is Murder replaced by How Soon is Now?

>The vocals are comprised of words
The words aren't inherent to the melody as its notes influenced by the underlying chords are. If you want to call me an autistic pedant for rating music by the value of music and not by the value of words and ideas do remind yourself you're on Sup Forums's Sup Forums