Ernest Hilbert’s Top Two Hundred Best Songs of the Decade, Number 11
by Ernie on 21/02/10 at 10:00 am
“The World is Full of Crashing Bores” by Morrissey: He came to prominence in the eighties, enjoyed a fruitful solo career through the nineties, and is still tickling us with his arch, prickly, mournful songs today. He still pulls his shirt off on stage and flings it to the audience, but I notice lately he has another shirt on within moments. His fan base runs from men in their fifties to teenaged girls, quite impressive, and he still puts on a hell of a show with the usual album every few years to show he’s still got some chops in the studio. We’ve all been able to relate at one time or another to this song’s point: the world is, indeed, filled with crushing bores. You may even be one of them sometimes.
