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Morrissey Vauxhall and I LP 20th Anniv Definitive Master SEALED 180g Rhino Sire

Sold Date: April 9, 2015
Start Date: March 21, 2015
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You are bidding on Morrissey - Vauxhall and I, gatefold record, 180G vinyl remaster.


A1     Now My Heart Is Full     4:56
A2     Spring-Heeled Jim     3:45
A3     Billy Budd     2:08
A4     Hold On To Your Friends     4:02
A5     The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get     3:44
B1     Why Don't You Find Out For Yourself     3:20
B2     I Am Hated For Loving     3:41
B3     Lifeguard Sleeping, Girl Drowning     3:41
B4     Used To Be A Sweet Boy     2:49
B5     The Lazy Sunbathers     3:07
B6     Speedway     4:28

On March 14, Morrissey’s fourth proper studio album, Vauxhall and I, celebrated its 20th anniversary... and on June 3, 2014, the celebration continues, with Rhino releasing the definitive master of the album.

When Vauxhall and I was originally released, the reviews were, for all practical purposes, just as rapturous as those doled out to its predecessor, 1992’s Your Arsenal. Q described the lyrical tone of the album as “predictably melodramatic and self-pitying” but “more resigned and even peaceful,” and handed out a five-star rating,” while the All Music Guide suggested that album contained “some of Morrissey’s best material since the Smiths,” adding that, “out of all his solo albums, Vauxhall and I sounds the most like his former band, yet the textured, ringing guitar on this record is an extension of his past, not a replication of it.” The record-buying public proved to be equally charmed, sending the album to the top of the charts in the UK and providing him with the highest-charting US album of his career up to that point (#18).

Arguably more impressive, however, is the fact that Vauxhall and I’s first single, “The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get,” took Morrissey into the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time in his career. Mind you, this is another one of those cases where it sounds much more impressive to note that the song topped the Modern Rock chart than it does to giddily announce, “Morrissey made it all the way to #46 on the Hot 100!” Nonetheless, it’s an impressive accomplishment in the grand scheme of things, and at the very least, it’s certainly worth a golf clap.


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