Years of Refusal, the title of Morrissey’s latest release, could easily describe my feelings for the guy’s entire solo career. While I’m a Smiths fan through and through (“I Know It’s Over” is the saddest, bitterest song ever. This is not a debate), it’s always irked me that Moz basically shit-canned his Smiths songwriting partner Johnny Marr only to keep writing Johnny Marr-esque songs, all jangly and sarcastic and blissfully theatrical and what-not. [more]