Years of Refusal

by Morrissey

Years of Refusal cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 16 February 2009
  • Label: Polydor
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 43:19
  • Community rating: 3.67/5 from 6 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Morrissey muscles up his sound with a heavier, rock-oriented backing band on 'Years of Refusal'. The album is energetic and aggressive, featuring some of his strongest vocal performances in years. It is a defiant, confident late-career statement.

Genres

Descriptors: witty, guitar-driven, confrontational, crooning, literate

Tracklist

  1. Something Is Squeezing My Skull (02:38)
  2. Mama Lay Softly On the Riverbed (03:53)
  3. Black Cloud (02:48)
  4. I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris (02:30)
  5. All You Need Is Me (03:12)
  6. When Last I Spoke to Carol (03:23)
  7. That's How People Grow Up (02:59)
  8. One Day Goodbye Will Be Farewell (02:56)
  9. It's Not Your Birthday Anymore (05:09)
  10. You Were Good in Your Time (05:01)
  11. Sorry Doesn't Help (04:03)
  12. I'm OK By Myself (04:47)

Credits

  • Solomon Walker - bass
  • Matt Walker - drums
  • Seth Waldmann - engineer
  • Boz Boorer - guitar
  • Jesse Tobias - guitar
  • Andy Gould - management
  • Irving Azoff - management
  • Lil Gary - management
  • Bill Inglot - mastered by
  • Dan Hersch - mastered by
  • Travis Shinn - photography by [band]
  • Jake Walters - photography by [front]
  • Arturo Osorno - photography by [inner bag]
  • Roger Joseph Manning Jr. - piano, keyboards
  • Jerry Finn - producer
  • No Allegiances - sleeve
  • Morrissey - vocals, written-by
  • Alain Whyte - written-by

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