You Are The Quarry

Rejected alternate titles: (1) "Morrissey's Pseudo-Intellectual Musings About the State of the World, Delivered with the Subtlety and Nuance of a Monkey Operating a Chainsaw," (2) "In Which Morrissey Paradoxically Accuses Other People of Being Boring," (3) "Morrisey Finds a Way to Whine About His Press Clippings on What Feels Like Every Song," (4) "We give up, Morrissey - just put something that sounds like you're simultaneously threatening and seducing the consumer, and we'll Photoshop a Tommy Gun into your hand later. Signed, The Producers." Best track: First of the Gang to Die

I Cannot Fucking Wait Til Morrissey Dies

Oh, I am the quarry, am I? I'm not sure what villainous plans you have for me Morrissey, but I'm only half interested in what you have to say. Are you planning on drilling into me? It that your twisted fantasy, is it? To have me, ME! covered in vegetables, laid out in front of you, legs spread with my coin piece pointed towards you, trembling, whilst you warble miserably about foreigners and meat, licking your lips and greasing up your penis. You sick, vegan, racist, self satisfied, bequiffed prick. I'm in.

My god, his stuck his head so far up his own ass this time that he’s starting to wiggle the shoulders in too.

Love this record. Hate this human.

When I first saw this pop up, I audibly sighed because Morrissey is such a miserable & whiny twat. I decided to push my feelings aside & listen...after all, I do love some of his & The Smiths music. Well I ended up enjoying this so much, I listened twice. First of the Gang to Die is fantastic, and the rest sounds like classic Moz. Moz wins this challenge. 4.5

I'll just focus on the music and not the complications that the actual person Morrissey brings up. It's a decent enough album filled with Morrissey doing what his usual, very english, often dark but oddly comedic alt rock. It's decent enough with a few tracks that shine and nothing truly offensive but it definitely doesn't feel as essential as some of his early work (most notably his The Smiths output of course).

No. 95/1001 America is not the World 4/5 Irish Blood, English Heart 4/5 I Have Forgiven Jesus 3/5 Come Back To Camden 4/5 I'm Not Sorry 4/5 The World Is Full Of Crashing Bores 3/5 How Can Amybody Possibly Know 3/5 First Of The Gang To Die 4/5 Let Me Kiss You 3/5 All The Lazy Dykes 4/5 I Like You 3/5 You Know I Couldn't Last 3/5 Average: 3,5 You can definitly see that he was already on track for his later extreme views. But nothing offensive yet, just regular anit-establishment views. So this didn't defer me from this record. Thought it was an alright alt-rock album. Maybe a little pretentious in some cases.

Absolute banger, his lyrics are unmatched in music! Really really enjoyed the album. Just a shame that he ended up becoming really UKIP/Brexit-y. Everyone gets over their Morrissey period apart from Morrissey!

Morrissey has low self esteem but he's a complete tosser so he's going to take it out on everyone else. Anyway, enjoy this hatefuck of an album.

There is no need for this self centered, egotistical fuck to have at least 3 albums on this list ffs. This depressed, bleeding heart douche is so busy telling everyone how great he is and how he's better than everyone else... It's sickening. To quote Come Back to Camden: "and I remember that I am alone Alone For evermore" ... I wonder why, you insufferable douche canoe. Favourite songs: The First of the Gang to Die, The World is Full of Crashing Bores Least favourite songs: America Is Not the World (go eat a hamburger and calm the fuck down you pretentious ass hat.... Morrissey is not the world either I'm sad to tell ya), "Irish Blood, English Heart" (oooh, tough guy Morrissey can't be bought.... Fuck off), I Have Forgiven Jesus (he's also apparently better than religion), I'm Not Sorry, How Can Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel? (no one cares), All the Lazy Dykes Thank fuck that's over... 1/5

I confirmed what I have always suspected, I hate Morrissey.

Morrissey is a pretentious bastard & his music sucks.

This album has very pleasantly surprised me. Some of the songs are absolute bangers. The lyrics are very well written, eloquent, and at times very beautifully poetic. The sound is a nice blend of old and new, lively, quite catchy and the guy's voice I just love. It just makes me feel things. Big thumbs up. Favorites: "First Of The Gang To Die" and "I Have Forgiven Jesus." But all of them are good. 8/10 After reading some of the other reviews I noticed that Morrissey seems to have obtained a negative reputation. Still, I'm choosing to separate the artist from the art here as you usually should. The music's good.

This is the second Morrissey album I've been given, and my opinion hasn't changed. From reading others' reviews, it seems like there's a lot of 'I rated this 1 star because he's a twat', and 'this guy is a twat but the music's great, so 5 stars from me'.... I feel like I'm just listening to completely different albums than the people that enjoy this on its own. There's nothing ground breaking about the music itself, it's just okay. So, you take okay backing tracks and Morrissey kind of just drones his poems over them while they play in the background. I swear to god they just record him crooning and they pick a backing track afterwards. It almost sounds like he's making up some lyrics free style, but he's trying to fit too many syllables into the bar so he just kind of stretches random words out or fires off 8 syllables in .2 seconds to kind of catch up with the music. No reason or rhyme (literally, in a lot of cases). It's hard to imagine anyone head banging or even dancing to this stuff. It's hard to imagine anyone feeling the urge to sing along when this stuff comes up on the playlist. It's hard to imagine hearing these lyrics and actually thinking "wow, profound". So I guess even though I'm of the opinion that music serves a bunch of different purposes, and there are many different ways music can be called "good", Morrissey misses the mark on all of them, for me at least. 2 stars since I didn't want to die while I listened to it, but I'm never firing this one up again.

Man, I was so happy when this album ended and I could stop listening to some dude whine about how miserable everything is. This may be the whitest album I've ever heard.

Fuck Morrisey

This was boring to listen to. Like the same mindless droning on every song. And lyrically he just complained about a bunch of other countries, and world politics, while also complaining about how terrible he's personally been treated. Overall, I won't be recommending it to anyone

This might be the most insufferable Morrissey album yet. It starts with a song about how America isn't progressive enough, which is rich coming from Morrissey. In case that gave you any doubts about his politics, the second song "Irish Blood, English Heart" sounds like he's trying to write the theme song for UKIP or the Refom Party, moaning about being called racist for doing racist things. Later in the album, he sings about how he never found the woman of his dreams in the exact same song where he is at pains to describe how he's never sorry for anything. The rest of the album is basically a list of everything he finds boring (his go-to insult), while sticking his head further and further up his own ass. This challenge has made me listen to three solo Morrissey albums now, which has only reenforced my belief that he is an awful person. The music from Alain Whyte is listenable and as usual Morrissey aligns himself with good songwriters, but it hardly makes up for it. The Smiths had the genius of Johnny Marr to make you ignore Morrissey's antics (and anyway, that are of Morrissey was a lot less controversial), but I'm happy to finally be done with these solo albums. To use his own words, this album was a crashing bore.

Absolute first class pop. Great song writing & performance. Been a long time since I last heard Morrissey. Loved it!

Reminded me of Oasis but less annoying. Accessible easy-to-listen pop-rock. I liked it a lot but the lyrics were so noticeably bad that I'm removing a point. Stand-out: First of the Gang to Die

this sucks so bad it's got me defending America, which i ordinarily would not. "You're heads so big..." bruh, look in a fuckin mirror. It's amazing that The Smiths were so great in spite of this wanker. Despite being from 2004, this sounds like AI slop. Yes his lyrics can be clever at times, but nowhere near as clever as he thinks they are. And fuck me apparently he has 3 albums on the list...

In a 2018 interview, Morrissey said: "I don't think the word ‘racist’ has any meaning any more, other than to say ‘you don’t agree with me, so you’re a racist.’ People can be utterly, utterly stupid.” Well, you're wrong, mate. Racism is a thing, and you seem to do it a lot. I am sick of your long-term embrace of ugly nationalist politics and your contempt for everyone around you. It comes through in your public statements and actions (of which there have been so many, I have to believe they are sincerely felt) and it shows in your music. You Are The Quarry is lyrically clever, as to be expected, but full of contempt for all humanity including the listener. Musically, it's dull. The ongoing debate about "the artist or the art" asks when and how we can separate the words and actions of the artist from our enjoyment of the art itself. Morrissey makes that easy: he is his art. It is right there in plain sight. Morrissey keeps threatening to retire. I wish he would.

Pretentious and boring. Ick.

Dreadful.

I love it when these are easy: Three Morrissey solo records down, one to go.

I am not a fan of Morrissey at all. Two of his albums now that I didn’t enjoy.

I don’t care what the haters say. Morissey is melodramatic but still has lines to speak to my doleful soul.

There's some damn good Moz songs on here. It's probably a 4 but as usual, this gets an automatic 5 to counter all the 1 star whiners.

Yeah, I know Morrissey is kind of a twat. At some level, I'm probably some apologist, but for the most part I try to ignore the current Morrissey and instead embrace the Morrissey I knew at this time where he was focused on the spit and venom of Irish Blood, English Heart as well as some of the most beautiful songs ever in Come Back to Camden and Crashing Bores. The album is passionate and real. One of my favorites.

It came as such a pleasant surprise. After a couple of obscure minor albums, Mozz reinvented himself and relased his masterpiece. Brave, catchy, infectious, glorious, 'First of the Gang to Die', 'Irish Blood, English Heart'... just a bit of filler towards the end, but much stronger as a whole than all his previous -and later (Oct '23)- efforts

It pains me to say that some of this is quite good. It's still a pub rock (meat) pie compared to The Smiths' sublime foie gras, but songs like First of the Gang to Die and The World is Full of Crashing Bores are actually fun. He's still a horrid little NF div though.

Je ressens bien sûr un pincement au cœur de n'accorder que trois étoiles à Morrissey. Je sais bien que les ventes de cet album ont permis la construction de vingt-deux orphelinats et d'une centaine de puits en Érythrée. Je suis également au courant de ses nombreuses actions humanitaires au Laos et de son combat pour la reconnaissance du génocide arménien. Je n'oublie pas non plus qu'il participe de manière active à la recherche contre le cancer avec des dons quotidiens. Cet album n'est juste pas aussi formidable que son auteur.

"No, it's just more lock-jawed pop-stars, Thicker than pig-shit, Nothing to convey, They're so scared to show intelligence, It might smear their lovely career" Whenever I get my album for the day I always note the release year. This being a 2004 album makes perfect sense when the first three tracks are so overtly and clumsily political. I'm not going to fault an artist for earnestness, but damn, if these lyrics weren't painfully cumbersome. That continues throughout the album even as we move from broad political topics to more personal losses and complaints. In fact this whole album has a whiney-ness to it. Along the way, however, I found some narrative threads worth pulling on for brief moments. "The World is Full of Crashing Bores" and "First of the Gang to Die" both earned back enough of my attention to see where they were going. After the album ran out of steam and thankfully ended. I'm told The Smiths are worth checking out but Morrissey on his own is burdened by trite songwriting and a milquetoast rock sound. I think this is what the kids call Cringe nowadays.

Forever fuck Morrissey.

Absolute trash

No.

Album 623 of 1001 Morrissey - You Are The Quarry (2004) Rating : 5 / 5 Many seem to not like Morrissey very much. I'm not in that group. I happen to love this blend of introspective ballads and biting social commentary. Several of his singles have become repeat listens over the years and I didn't realize that most are from this one album. A new one for the list of favorites.

Okay okay okay. Literally banger after banger. This one got me through work

Sometimes, you want intricate layered metaphor, and other times you want Morrissey. He hits you over the head with unveiled distaste. As always the voice and the instrumentation are immaculate.

Rating: 9/10 Best songs: Irish blood English heart, The world is full of crashing bores, The first of the gang to die, I like you

Morrissey is the goat!

I didn't think I'd like this one very much because the title says that I'm an empty shell where all the rocks were removed. Or does it also mean that I'm the one being hunted. And why do British people say "Herb" as "erb", but you can't say "Hunt" and "unt"? Anyway, it's much more solid than your typical rock, I'm sure.

Ah the one from his return. Not his best, but still a great album.

Despite Morrissey being a hateful person, he does make good music, I thought this album was actually really good especially the first 3/4 although for me it got a bit worse towards the end and fell off a bit but not by too much, I just think it fell into a bit of a more boring, kind of generic phase in the album. Highlights were America is not the world, The first of the gang to die and pretty much the entire album other than the ones mentioned before. Overran 7/10

4.2 - Starts with "America is Not the World" that finds Morrissey dishing out the kind of on-the-nose anti-US critiques that you might hear in a European youth hostel. Much of the rest of the record contains similar conversational political observations ("Irish Blood, English Heart", "Come Back to Camden). Characteristically, he's managed to seemingly set pages of his personal journal to beautiful melody, delivering them with his signature brooding vocals. I'd written off Morrissey as a solo performer, finding his politics unpalatable and his wordy song titles unapproachable. I'm pleasantly surprised.

Not bad, but I think I would have preferred a less modern Morrissey album. Please and thank you. The first song about how America isn't the main character is still very timely though. Probably moreso now than in 2004.

It’s solid enough, but musically it falls so short of anything Smiths related.

These song titles absolutely crack me up: I Have Forgiven Jesus, The World is Full of Crashing Bores, How Can Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel?, and I'm Not Sorry. He continues to crack me up. He's like a bad accident that I can't turn away from.

Morrissey, an insufferable human being, his albums aren’t as good as The Smiths, too many albums on this list, blah blah blah, BUT as an American having to listen to Donald Trump blather incoherently about annexing Greenland the first song “America Is Not the World” hits just about right.

I really like his music. I wish he didn't suck so much

I love The Smiths and Morrissey’s singing and lyricism on those records. I cannot say the same for this solo project. It’s a far cry from what I loved from before. His sound is distinct from The Smiths, and is not one that I enjoy nearly as much. Morrissey is Morrissey, so if you disagree with what he says, you’ll simply dislike the song. He’s kinda like Kanye in that sense, unabashedly himself, which I do like. I disliked the opening song about America. Seems lowbrow, especially now after a black president. Sometimes the production on this album gets electronic and kinda strange. It can sometimes take you out of the experience. Standouts: Come Back to Camden, The World is Full of Crashing Bores, First of the Gang to Die, and Let Me Kiss You.

A poet with backing tracks. It was pretty clear, early into the album, that the songwriting seems to be the draw. The music felt like an afterthought or that the music was built around the lyrics. It reminded me of something I'd have expected to hear on a soft rock station, which I diligently avoid. It was... Fine... But I didn't need help falling asleep. This is my first time with Morrissey, so I'll just say it like this. I am surmising that his lyrics are the draw, but I don't have the time or patience to sift through them like they might deserve. I won't fault anyone for liking it. A few of the lyrics jumped out -- a little -- so I recognize there is something there, but it's not my cup of tea. (2.5/5) On the strength of the lyrics, but push it down to a 2 for the "my parents' rock" vibe that came off it.

First song feels weak in lyrics. The second is a bit stronger but is massively helped by better music. I Have Forgiven Jesus feels more personal and introspective and works well. This continues nicely in Come back to Camden. This back and forth continues through the album. The First of the Gang is a clear standout as a single.

The blandest of bland

Shut up Morrissey

Gah enough of him!! Too much on here. 78 whiny minutes.

I hadn't ever listened to Morrissey in any meaningful way, and was intrigued when it popped up on the list. Boy did that pass quickly. How could I have made it this far in life without having appreciated the pseudo philosophical ramblings of a 3rd rate lounge singer who gleefully eschews any poetic framework or song progression? I seriously feel like I'm missing out on the joke somewhere. From the first track (if a pretentious twelve year old heard I'm Afraid of Americans once and tried to sing it from memory) to the last (You Know I Wish it Hadn't Lasted So Long), I couldn't wait for this poor excuse of an album to be over. He should be sorry. How can anybody possibly care how he feels? A quick look at the global reviews filled me with dread. Not that my opinion was an unpopular one (there's an ample number of folks who agree with my assessment), but that there are apparently two other albums of his forthcoming on this list. 0.125/5 rounded up to 1 because I guess I have to.

"The time is gone, the song is over/ Thought I'd something more to say" Variety: 1 Adequacy: 2 Listenability: 1 Uniqueness: 1 Emotionality: 1 = 1.2 rounded down to 1 Morrissey has always been very hit or miss for me. Lots of great material with The Smiths, but also lots of insta-skips. One of my issues, especially with his solo stuff as it's often lacking the catchiness inherent in a lot of Smiths work, so it's VERY reliant on the lyrics alone. I guess I'll be playing closer attention here than on most, but I'll be trying to avoid falling into the trap of ascribing any personal intent to the content. As I would try to do with most artists. The only time I think that can be useful is if you're looking at pure protests songs or something. And this is all about entertainment in my opinion. Plus, Morrissey's too smart for that and using a literary voice is part of his game anyway, even if he might be fully just stating his honest opinion. THE TRACKS "America Is Not the World" - Musically this is fine. The sentiment, while on its face is pretty hilarious as a concept ( imagine this as a letter being written to an old friend the author is on the rocks with) is also in that nebulous area where I find myself questioning if it's SUPPOSED to be funny. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt though, as he's proven himself no slouch in that department in the past. A knee-slapper it is not though, and from the start here we seem to be leaning into the musically unfriendly. Immediately upon finishing this I couldn't even begin to try and hum it. "Irish Blood, English Heart" - Once again the music seems secondary to the message. No matter how much I might agree with he sentiment, I'm feeling a bit sorry for the session musicians as it seems like they have nothing to do. "I Have Forgiven Jesus" - Bit more musically dynamic here with the organ, but once again nothing special. And still not getting what I think is intended to be some sort of humor. "Come Back to Camden" - Sounds like a schmaltzy, slow motion imitation of something Pulp could have done much better. "I'm Not Sorry" - Wow. The instrumentation on this sounds like something that would be included in a music library package. The World Is Full of Crashing Bores" - The title is by far the most interesting part of this one. "How Can Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel?" - Finally something halfway decent. Not amazing by any means, but has he finally hit his stride here? "First of the Gang to Die" - I guess not. I really can't get over how generic this sounds. And how dated. 2004? Really? This sound firmly in the realm of 1996 at the latest to my ears. "Let Me Kiss You" - And this one even older maybe. 1991? Are these songs he sat on for a decade? This is proving to be a bit of a chore to get through. "All the Lazy Dykes" - Again I guess the humor is lost on me. Is this a takedown or a celebration or both? Neither? "I Like You" - Something approaching a catchy chorus here, but it's lost beneath the generi-rock sound. "You Know I Couldn't Last" - Dear lord. This sounds like the 11 O' clock number in an awful musical about the evils of corporate rock that was written by someone not very familiar with actual rock music. At least it's over. I hope no one decided to subject themselves to the deluxe edition (I audibly groaned when I thought for a few seconds this was a double album and I had mistakenly clicked on the wrong version). HIGHLIGHTS - "How Can Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel?" ( quite the feat for a 3 star song) LOWLIGHTS - Everything else. FINAL THOUGHTS Why not just switch to writing books of "humorous" essays at some point? I'll admit there have been a handful of solo Morrissey songs I've listened to and enjoyed, most everything has paled in comparison to his stuff with Marr. By any measure of financial and critical success I don't think most would say he peaked too early, but there's a bit of that in my opinion. He's certainly no Sting in that respect, at least as far as mainstream popular solo careers go. This whole thing felt like he was on autopilot. I found myself defaulting so many times during this to "oh, that's supposed to be a clever turn of phrase I guess" with the instrumentation becoming the unnoticed wallpaper in the room where Morrissey attempts to impress us with his scathing takedowns and occasional self deprecation. While I don't think he slips into unintentional self-parody on this, I also don't think he's got much of anything to say that's interesting enough to overcome the lack of engaging hooks, memorable riffs, or anything of the sort that would make this an enjoyable listen for me. This felt like being talked at by the most boring person at a boring party. PLAYLIST ALTERATIONS - You get nothing! You lose! Good day, sir!

I started it, but couldn't finish.

Ooph. I love The Smiths, they thread a very delicate needle being overly romantic but also painfully aware of the futility of it all and incredibly witty. Morrissey going solo proves this was a lot thanks to Johnny Marr, especially true in this latter stage of Morrissey’s solo output. The songs are so bombastic and over the top and the vocal delivery is on too much and there’s nothing to balance it off. Somebody had to go to him and tell him he makes Sinatra sound gritty. Some songs do work like I Like You and The First of The Gang To Die. Overall this is exhausting and it sucks. The couple of few songs would be enough to push it to two stars but Morrissey is so annoying and the lyrics are so lacking in subtlety I’m docking a star. One star.

Fuck Morrisey

This is from 2004, and I said it all with this. Also, there is no way I will ever love something from this guy.

Worst opening track to an album ever? We've already had 2 albums by The Smiths...I bet there's a couple more. Why is this on the list? It has a 72 metacritic score. So boring and pretentious. Wish to never listen to this one again.

First listen Saved 1/12 Top track: Irish Blood, English Heart

Perhaps the most self righteous and narcissistic lyrics of his entire career. The music itself doesn't explore any new sonic regions. Insulting and boring as shit. Seriously, there must be better albums in 2004 that are not on the list. Here are some that were just personal and actually explored new sonic areas in 2004: Assemblage 23 STORM, June Reactor's LABYRINTH, mind.in.a.box's LOST ALONE, or Skinny Puppy THE GREATER WRONG OF THE RIGHT?

Talentless hack. Unlistenable boo hoo emo music.

just kinda boring 1

Don't need to be lectured to…

Sorry, I have difficulties to endure Morrissey. As untrustworthy he seems to be as a person, as untrustworthy I see his music. Disconnected emotions in his performance although great voice, and lyrics that occasionally can be anarchist it blends in with religious dedication. Only plus I can find is the backing band which sounds great.

Ih

Dumb and boring. It honestly hurts my head how someone who helped make The Smiths brilliant can churn out solo work this painfully mediocre.

I don't like crooner era Morrissey. Not should how he lost the plot so bad after the smiths.

like what even are these lyrics bro

Fuck you Morrissey

Couldn't really listen to this for more than 10 minutes, and I forced myself to try. The lyrics are so stupid and the music is boring.

Never been a fan

..? its so dumb?

Not going to waste my time listening.

fuck off

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How Can Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel (When it's All I've Been Banging On About Since 1982)?

This fuckin' guy again?

Possibly the most overrated singer ever, easily top ten. I can’t get through 30 seconds from when he opens his mouth. Everything he sings literally (yes, in the proper use of that word) everything he sings sounds the same.

Didn't think I would give any album on this list a 1 star, but this is by far the worst album I heard so far, maybe even ever. This album get's it wrong on so many levels for me. For starters, musically it's really boring. Most of the songs sound exactly the same, with a drum beat and simple melodies in the background. Like something you would make in 2 minutes in your bedroom. Second, and this is a big one, the lyrics and themes are so bad it's unbelievable that other people who worked on this album didn't try and put a stop on this being released. I am not familiar with the work of the Smiths or Morrissey in general, so I am not sure if all of the albums are like this, or did he slowly descend into some sort of madness. The album is pretty much a pretentious rant all the way through. Whatever and whoever he doesn't like, he makes fun of, but in a really immature way, like a teenager entering puberty who starts hating the whole world. He tells America to fuck of with the hamburger, sure dude, that'll tell them. The only "good" song for me was First of the Gang to Die, with a catchy chorus.

God I hate Morrissey. Setting aside his more than odious rightwing views, this was unbearable. His lyrics read like a teenager in the first flush of puberty discovering word and emotions for the first time, his vocals are dreary and grating and the music lacks the fun and energy of the smiths.

Fuck Morrissey

Barely got through 2 songs before having to turn this shite off. Where's the zero stars option?

Next 5 songs played by my Spotify Algorithm: The Jesus and Mary Chain - Sometimes Always The Smiths - Ask XTC - Ten Feet Tall Gene - Still Can't Find the Phone Pixies - Velouria

never cared for morrisy. and while i agree with some of the messaging in this album, it just feels preachy coming from him

Hate him

Fuck yes. I love Morrissey. America is not the world: 6/10 Gotta respect an American diss track. Irish blood, English heart: 7/10 Solid track, great love track too. I have forgiven Jesus: 8/10 Banging tune. “By Friday, life has killed me.” Come back to Camden: 7/10 Solid tune Im not sorry: 7/10 Me neither Morrissey. Nice melody. The world is full of crashing bores: 7/10 Some banger one liners in here. I reckon this would go off live. How can anybody possibly know how I feel?: Nice guitar. First of the gang to die: 8/10 Belter Let me kiss you: 7/10 Great guitar work. All the lazy dykes: 6.5/10 What a title. I like you: 7/10 You know I couldn’t last: 7.5/10 Holy heavy. Oops nevermind, spoke too soon. Holy doolie the heaviness is back.

Combines Alt-rock with pop and gives this nice sound. Very relatable songs, especially I Forgive Jesus. Very solid album.

Morrissey is surprisingly good. Unique lyrics and unusually way of singing over the melodies that are also very good. I was thinking of giving it a 4 but throughout it doesn't really have a bad song

Ótimo disco!

First surprise. This album is super good then did a little research and figured out this is the front man for The Smiths. Saw he wasn't a very good person but rating this album purely on the music and nothing else and I thought this was a super good album.

This is the peak of Morrissey's latter solo career (maybe his whole solo career), and ushered in a series of subsequent, wryly-observed, croon albums. This remains the best though, from the immediacy of 'Irish Blood, English Heart' and 'First of the Gang to Die', to the slow-burn, sweeping ballads in between. He also confounds this idea of being ultra right-wing with his take down of American politics in 'America is Not the World' - a highly prescient sentiment (although he may have since confounded that confoundment). Variously in the cross hairs are the royal family, all politicians, all singers, Jesus - actually all people except himself. He's a right card! I think about the only one that feels a bit like a 'Southpaw Grammar' throwaway is 'I Like You', a song with more of a b-side charm. Overall I think it's (often subtly) glorious. And his best solo work.

Perfect music for when you feel unloved and lonely.

This album contains some of Morrissey's worst lyrics... but still, 5 stars. That's just how fanboys are.

Really enjoyed this album he has an amazing voice