I don't believe Morrissey will ever live up to the standard Smiths fanatics demand, but on this CD he barely manages a coherent standard at all. 'The Teachers Are Afraid of the Pupils' takes what I can only call an 'orchestral riff' and repeats it for 11 minutes. 'The Operation' is catchy and genuinely swings, but is undercut by offensively dull 2-minute long drum solos. Half of these tunes make no impact whatsoever, except to suggest Morrissey wants to be a singer in a garage punk band. Moz, we don't want you to be Johnny Rotten, we want frilly multi-instrument emotionally direct concise tunes. (Like what you did before this mess, and then did after with 'Maladjusted.') I'm always a fan, but this CD is a career-killer. Only 'Reader Meet Author' works well, and you can get that on the far better 'My Early Burglary Years' compilation.