Morrissey's 1992 album Your Arsenal was one of the best recordings produced during that decade. I first heard tracks from it just after I moved from New Mexico to California on what was the world's greatest alternative radio station KROQ. Though the album is chalk full of amazing music it is the opening track You're Gonna Need Someone On Your Side that has stuck with me over the past three decades ending up on countless playlists.
Morrissey had been rehearsing with a new band prior to the release of Your Arsenal, which was the first official album of this new line-up.
Commencing with "You're Gonna Need Someone on Your Side", the album represents a clear change in direction for Morrissey from indie pop to a more muscular rock sound; with some elements of rockabilly. It also contains a glam rock influence, due to the involvement of ex-David Bowie guitarist Mick Ronson. Songs such as "Certain People I Know", "Glamorous Glue" and "I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday", which are respectively influenced by T. Rex, and David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust period songs (e.g. "The Jean Genie" and the last by "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide"). David Bowie later covered the track "I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday" on his 1993 album Black Tie White Noise. - Wiki
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