Morrissey – ‘I Just Want To See The Boy Happy’ (Sanctuary) Released 04/12/06

Morrissey is famously a storyteller, and ‘I Just Want To See the Boy Happy’ is the latest chapter in his extraordinary career.  It’s easy to fictionalise that the vivid picture painted is perhaps that of an older Mozza, looking back at the melancholic and morose characters of the past, he proclaims “I want to see the boy happy, with his arms around his first love,” a prospect all too allusive to the Morrissey of old. Where this would suggest that his song writing has taken a more hopeful turn, it is not without his infamous melodrama, “before I die, I have one final dream/ for my life I don’t care anything.” Following the success of recent singles, ‘I Just Want To See the Boy Happy’ opens with a brief but catchy guitar intro and is a simple guitar, bass, drums set up, which is beautifully understated and then brought to life by a rousing and climatic saxophone piece which brings the track to a close. The track may be trademark Morrissey, but it’s also a fresh example of his creative genius. It’s positively infectious as dance floor filler, or soundtrack to bedroom bound solemnity.