ANALYSIS: TRUE. Much as I admire Morrissey’s refusal to conform, I don’t much like his music.

Too many of the Smiths’ songs feel like brilliant backing tracks with vocals plastered on haphazardly afterwards. None more so than their best-known song, 1985’s “How Soon is Now,” whose sharp tremolo and Eventide Harmonizer-laden guitars are marred by Morrissey’s moping vocals, which have little to do with the music underneath.