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== Content ==
The nature of the album is different from past Morrissey releases, such as the inclusion of two tracks which surpass the ten-minute mark, the near two-and-a-half-minute drum solo courtesy of Spencer Cobrin which opens the track "The Operation" and the sampling of a [[Dmitri Shostakovich|Shostakovich]]<sup>1</sup> symphony. [[AllMusic]] described it as Morrissey's "[[art rock]] album, complete with strings, drum solos and two ten-minute songs."<ref name="Erlewine"/> The album cover features a picture of boxer [[Kenny Lane]]. Morrissey said the album title refers to the [[School of Hard Knocks|school of hard knocks]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Maconie |first=Stuart |date=September 1995 |title="Do You F*@kin' Want Some? |work=[[Q (magazine)|Q]] |pages=102-108 |issue=108}}</ref>

=== Musical style ===
''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'' magazine described the album's musical style as "[differing] from the crushed flowers studio formalisations of last year's ''[[Vauxhall and I]]'', building instead on the earlier ''[[Your Arsenal]]'', Morrissey's sly, unexpected blending of [[rockabilly]] and [[glam rock|glam]]."<ref name="Hunter"/>