Viva hate

"This is the Viva Hate album, given a crisp remaster by Stephen Street. Except Morrissey's cut one song ("The Ordinary Boys"), replaced it with a demo ("Treat Me Like a Human Being"), and added nothing else. No B-Sides, no Wolverhampton, just an album that's not quite the same as you remember. This mix of tampering and parsimony makes it hard to recommend the reissue (had this set been done well, the mark here would have been higher), a shame since Viva Hate is one of Morrissey's most interesting records, and certainly his riskiest".

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"While the music is occasionally pedestrian, Morrissey compensates with a superb batch of lyrics, ranging from his conventional despair ("Little Man, What Now?," "I Don't Mind If You Forget Me") to the savage political tirade of "Margaret on a Guillotine."".

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