Morrissey
My Early Burglary Years
Label:  Warners Brothers 
Date:  9/15/1998
Length:  0:00
Format:  CD
Genre:  Rock; Alternative
  Category:  rock
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      Sunny    
      2.  
      At Amber    
      3.  
      Cosmic Dancer (live 6/1/1991)    
      4.  
      Nobody Loves Us    
      5.  
      Swallow on My Neck    
      6.  
      Sister I'm a Poet    
      7.  
      Black-Eyed Susan    
      8.  
      Michael's Bones    
      9.  
      I'd Love To (US version)    
      10.  
      Reader Meet Author    
      11.  
      Pashernate Love    
      12.  
      Girl Least Likely To    
      13.  
      Jack The Ripper (live Paris 12/22/92)    
      14.  
      I've Changed My Plea...(US version)    
      15.  
      The Boy Racer    
      16.  
      Boxers    
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      Reissue, repackage, repackage. The Morrissey melodrama continues on My Early Burglary Years, the ex-Smiths frontman's third U.S. compilation of previously released material. So what do we get for our trouble and pain? This time around the prince of loneliness offers a handpicked disc of his favorite B-sides along with a few live cuts and some scattered album tracks. It's a fairly strong collection, actually--and worthwhile, especially if you haven't bothered keeping up with Mozzer's U.K.-only singles. Highlights? The hummable "Nobody Loves Us," the Smiths-reminiscent "Sister, I'm a Poet" ("Is evil just something you are / Or something you do?"), and the only-Moz-could-get-away-with-it pathos of "Boxers." Typically Morrissey, the collection drips with melancholy. But call him morbid, call him pale, it's hard to resist curling up in bed on a gray Sunday morning with nothing but a stack of Moz CDs and a six-disc changer. --Steve Landau