Ouija Board, Ouija Board Yea-Sayers:
"...the sound of a great pop writer fading gently in sunlight"
Ouija Board, Ouija
Board
Yes,
I Am BlindEast
West
Released In November 1989
| "I've recently started
to appreciate Ouija Board in a way that originally I didn't. Like so many
Morrissey songs, it evokes two reactions: laughter and sadness. The melody
is gut-wrenchingly sad but the words are hysterically funny. That's my
current favourite..." - Siobhan Fahey (Bananarama/Shakespeare's Sister), Q, September 1992 |
Nay-Sayers:
| 'Ouija Board, Ouija Board' is the
sort of thing that '60's pop stars made when they wanted to go serious
after two flawless years of smiling Mandarin jackets and Cuban heels.
Langer and Winstanley achieve the sort of Here We Go Round The Mulberry
Bush sound that they got on Elvis Costello and, later, Madness records.
But this is nothing to be proud of: a dull, fey whine that would never
see release unless the singer had a track record. The flip, 'Yes I Am
Blind' is curiously affecting with its Countryish guitars and circular
structure. This is the sound of a great pop writer fading gently in sunlight.
Morrissey should get back to playing 'Gloria' and 'Here Comes The Night'
fast. - Ian McCann, New Musical Express, 11/18/89 |
Moz-Speak:
| '...while I admit that 'Ouija Board
Ouija Board' wasn't 'Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep', I do think the backlash
has been slightly overdone - Morrissey, Vox, November 1990 "Standing next to Joan Sims when we made 'Ouija Board Ouija Board'. Mainly because she was so excellent, so enormously gifted, and here I was, a silly sausage from somewhere near Manchester." -Morrissey recounts his greatest moment of 1990, Vox, November 1990 |
