Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Morrissey began what was to be his follow-up album, Bona Drag, surrounded by acrimony and litigation. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Morrissey decided to scrap the idea of a full-length LP and release a compilation of singles and B-sides instead.

Bona Drag features all of Morrissey's solo singles up to that point, two of which ("Suedehead" and "Everyday Is Like Sunday") were taken from his first solo album Viva Hate, while the others were making their first ever appearance on an album. Packaging, like the other anniversary releases is great - printed inners, a poster (well not sure about that but. There is not a bad track on this album and the new vinyl version with 5 extra tracks is even better. The album is also significant for including the first tracks by Morrissey to chart in the United States. The compilation was a reminder of how fruitful this period of Morrissey's career had been when he needed it most.As such, he released " The Last of the Famous International Playboys", " Interesting Drug", and " Ouija Board, Ouija Board" over the course of 1989. Rarely does an artist release a compilation album as his second solo album, but Morrissey is no ordinary artist, so of course he did just that. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Morrissey explained, "People will view it suspiciously in England but not in the rest of the world where all those funny little singles were never released.

It became his biggest hit to that point, the first of four consecutive UK top-10 singles, and, with "Everyday Is Like Sunday", one of the tentpoles of his outstanding solo debut, Viva Hate. The album features an array of Morrissey's most popular songs from his early solo career, most of which had not been released on any previous album.Instead of choosing to produce an immediate follow-up album, he decided to release a string of independent singles in the hopes of achieving success in that market.