Your Arsenal

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sabra tu novia que escuchamos morrissey?

Didn't feel like I needed to listen to this one. 4/10

Kind of ‘meh’ for my taste. He is an ok singer. Sounds like a studio band behind him. Nothing too interesting going on.

Sound quality is horrible. Album is OK.

La voz de él es muy buena, pero no me gustó

I’m not a violent person by nature, but when I hear those words from that mouth in that voice, I really just want to punch Morrissey in the face. Seeing as his only writing contribution is lyrics, the Great White Mope once again ruins a lot of otherwise great music. I mean, it’s Mick Ronson! Great production and guitar work here. All squandered on Morrissey. I would love to hear an instrumental version of this album. That would be at least 4 stars.

One of the major tragedies of our beloved Morrissey is that he used to be this good. Your Arsenal is powerful, funny, despondent and vital. Why did he become such a vile specimen?

Je m'attendais pas à apprécier plus que ça mais il y avait de bonnes sonorités

Boring old miserable tw*t

This feels a little pretentious, I know nothing about Morrissey so I might be wrong. This album is fine. Nothing more nothing less.

Και πολύ του βάζω, δεδομένου του πόσο με ενοχλεί το "εξώφυλλο"

Morrissey's solo music from the last about 20 years is truly some of the worst music I've ever heard. He definitely got worse as a solo artist, but even his earlier stuff isn't great. He's definitely a lot less up his own ass on this album that he has been on his more recent stuff, but I still have this problem that there's just something missing. I absolutely love The Smiths, and his earlier solo music just feels like it's trying so hard to sound like The Smiths. But without the presence of the rest of the band (especially Johnny Marr) he just doesn't even come close. And then you're left with this really empty and generic sounding rock album.

Surprisingly enjoyable, consider what a dick Morrissey is these days. Starts well with 'You're Gonna Need Someone On Your Side' before heading into a stomping 'Glamorous Glue'. But then it all goes a bit weird, talking about being 'the last truly British people you will ever know' and singing about the young boy joining the National Front. Thankfully he saves it with 'We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful' and 'You're the One For Me, Fatty' which still sound great today. The latter few tracks are also good, and before you know it, 40 minutes has gone by and you've been smiling for a fair bit of it. Quite the trick, eh?

Surprised at how alternative and different this sounded compared to the other Smiths and Morrissey entries on this list. My bias is still in full effect and I often feel that his bands are always better than he is. Yet he takes most of the glamour and credit. The music was outstanding. And I didn't quite critically study the lyrics but I'm sure is daft meandering around love, life and politics. The guys 3 favorite things.

I expected a pity party and got a bar fight with feelings. Big glam energy, big emotions, zero Morrissey chill. Spins: 2 Playlist Additions - You're Gonna Need Someone on Your Side - Glamorous Glue - We'll Let You Know - We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful

You're Gonna Need Someone on Your Side - 4/5 Glamorous Glue - 3.5/5 We'll Let You Know - 3.5/5 The National Front Disco - 4/5 Certain People I Know - 3/5 We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful - 3.5/5 You're the One for Me, Fatty - 3.5/5 Seasick, Yet Still Docked - 3/5 I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday - 3/5 Tomorrow - 3.5/5 Sounds like what you would get if you crossed about a fourth of the Smiths with Nirvana. And that you leave anything interesting from the Smiths behind and only had that twat singing. This is about as exciting as how Arsenal plays in real life. Thank god Gabriel missed that penalty kick in the Champions League final or else I would really be upset. Up the Irons! Overall: 3/5 Favorites: You're Gonna Need Someone on Your Side, The National Front Disco

Quite pleasant music with vocals that tend to sound a bit oily (like all Morrissey stuff). It works, even if it's not my idea of a great time. 3.5, rounding down.

the musical decisions made on any Morrissey solo record always feel quite strange until you realize they're all born of second choices. the best course for any of these songs would be to make them sound like The Smiths, but he can't do that because he's not in The Smiths any more, and so every song is operating on plan b. sometimes plan b is surf music, sometimes t. rex glam-stomp. it's always mixed pretty poorly. the best songs here are the simplest, the most stripped-down, the ones that could be bleary rainy-day first-album Smiths songs. so. largely, this sounds not so good. the lyrics? buddy. not great! the two early turgid clunkers about British Identity segueing directly into the jaunty number about a sympathetic young fascist is a particularly heinous section, but the unpleasantness continues into the record's more personal tracks. again, it's Seasick, Yet Still Docked that wins, which does away with Moz's characters and one-liners for something lovely and direct. found this overall really bitter and unpleasant. i've never liked Morrissey's solo career, and don't understand how someone who wrote such composed, empathetic, funny songs became so nasty and made such staid music. i find it really sad!

сколько раз моя бровь поднималась вверх за первую половину альбома? но после бенгера you are the one for me fatty стало как-то даже красиво. вот так всегда у меня с морисси получается. большую часть рыгать охота, а потом вдруг раз и красиво… и че ставить, какую оценку. непонятно.

achei que seria pior. algumas músicas legais, outras bem esquecíveis. ainda detesto esse homem ele que vsf

My first thought was oh god not this whiny bastard again. Then I hit play and the first track was kind of rocking and I realized this was not more of the same. Surprisingly good album by an artist I don't care for. I'm not ready to give it 5 stars but If I could it would be 4.5. Its not often that I hear an album on hear from an artist I have a negative opinion of and think I'm going to listen to this one again soon.

Not a Morrissey fan. I just like all the Albums he’s on. 4/5

Just flew by. It's decent, but not outstanding Favorite Songs: We'll Let You Know, National Front Disco, I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday

I thought it was going to be much worse, good background music to be honest

Okee Dokee... Now, don't get me wrong (please), but I was almost mildly irritated when this album came up... I won't suddenly be great with Morrissey's voice. I have tried, I have spoken of it, I have... scaled that fence numerous times... Asch... Just I can't. I do not hate Morrissey or the music or the band behind him. Even I can enjoy a song or two and like them... but an album all in a row with Morrissey voice... I gotta' once again nope out. Sorry but not sorry. In what universe is any single Morrissey album going to be that much different than another?

Came with low expectations but this is great. Gives off that optimistic late winter - early spring feeling.

Best Track - "Certain People I Know"

There's a British lightess that you got to love about it. The sound is great and production brings out some more aggression compared to most of Morrissey's catalog. As for the songs, it's a mixed bag. Some great ones, some goofy stuff, some nice and some a bit too much. Overall, what can you do, it's all in relation to the Smiths. And it lacks the brilliance of Johnny Marr. Still a solid album with bangers. A 3 plus

klassisk morrisey

I said previously, when I reviewed Meat is Murder, that Morrissey's contribution was, indeed, valuable, and he was not just floating on the superior work of his fellow Smiths. I stand by my evaluation, but I do not think he is anywhere near strong enough to rescue bad or uninspiring music by himself. The fundamental bluesy-rockabilly conceit of this album just simply does not work, and even though there are some interesting turns of songwriting on Your Arsenal, I would not place it above the cut.

Honestly not as bad as I expected, and clearly the least annoying Morrissey album I've got so far. It still feels surprisingly "new wave" for a 1992 record, but the addition of typical 90s alt rock guitars somehow makes it work. Morrissey hadn't entirely become a prickhead back then (ok, he was already showing off his abs with the subtlety of a drunk elephant, but I'll let that slide), and most songs manage to keep a good balance between bleak and energetic. I don't really vibe with it, so it's certainly not something I'll listen to again ; but it was all right as a one-time experience. 5/10

Jonnhy Marr is aften said to be na underappreciated guitarist, but Mick Ronson was too. a nice Morissey

Morrissey at his solo best. A few strong, melodic tracks and a welcome rockabilly groove. For once, his voice is a real asset.

3,5 and minus 0,5 for Morrisey being an arse

I am not a fan of rock music, and I did not like The Smiths musics. This missed for me.

Surprisingly good album, I didn't expect the guy from the band that made The Queen Is Dead to make non-boring music. I really like the guitar melodies on this one. :3

(decent 6/10) Starts off surprisingly strong, the heavier instrumentals really benefit Morissey's vocals on this record, and the bass is pleasantly trebly and audible giving it that early 90's alt rock edge that I love from this period. After the mid-point though it devolves into the usual self-loathing that a narcissist like Moz employs to garner sympathy from their peers and the closing track "Tomorrow" is just the icing on the cake for that (the tune itself is still alright though). Probably not the worst Morissey solo album I've heard but not one I'll actively seek out either.

Once again I have to address the elephant in the room. His politics are abhorrent to me, and now with the fullness of time you can see them peeking out here, but the art itself is exciting and an album I loved at the time. The glam stomp and heartfelt ballads would be perfected on the following Vauxhall and I but there’s pure Morrissey on here too. The political snark of Glamorous glue and the heartbreaking closer tomorrow. He’s a berk, this is something that speaks to me strongly

Not for me, far too dreary and depressing

Fuck Morrissey but unfortunately this isn't bad.

Nothing transformative here. But still a great listen if you are a member of Smiths and Morrissey fan clubs

It's fine

Worth listening to just for the song, "You're the One For Me, Fatty."

eher unterklassig, verglichen mit seinen anderen alben resp. the smiths.

Lieblich und etwas langweilig

Eh, it was fine. Not really an upgrade on the Smiths, and the lyrics foretell what an angry old man he will become

i got what you need, fatty

Another Morrissey project, and this one is the most inoffensive I've heard yet. I do like some of the aspects the album offers. As always, his voice remains as soft as ever and is nice to the ears, the kind of shoegaze-ish guitars in the first couple of tracks sound really great and loud, and the very calming "Seasick, Ye Still Docked" and "I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday" are very pleasant and truly relaxing. But as a whole, there is nothing that I find to be memorable. Nothing is catchy, emotional nor interesting. It just a decent produced album with the performances being the bare minimum of entertaining so the album doesn't bore me.

Great album with all the best morrissey hallmarks both lyrically and musically. I’m gonna come out, though, and say I don’t like the cover. There’s nothing interesting about it except that he’s holding the microphone in a vaguely phallic way. This album deserves a better cover, especially with the bangers the smiths were consistently putting out. But otherwise a great album.

Top form Morrissey, so about a three.

Not his best work it was fine.

Typical of my listening to anything Morrissey - the first couple of tracks are great, then it gets a bit boring, then some just awful songs, and more average stuff to finish off. Still didn't make a fan of the man or his music.

So dramatic

*Groans* Another Morrissey album. These are almost getting annoying at this point. Of course, it's mediocre without being anything special. It's not even the politics of it all that piss me off, it's the insipid music. Every Morrissey album sounds the same, even though this one is slightly more aggressive in tone. None of them belong on the list. This album is ranked #14 of 26 albums for 1992. Other 1992 albums rated by me: Dirt(3/26)-5 The Chronic(4/26)-2 The Predator(5/26)-3 It's A Shame About Ray(11/26)-3 Connected(19/26)-1 Hypocrisy is the Greatest Luxury(21/26)-2 Lam Toro(23/26)-3

Morrisey may be an ass but his music is good.

#493/1001. Not really the Smiths…Morrissey was an interesting part of the band, but not the whole band. This is mostly rather basic and boring pop with an (at least by voice) interesting singer

So the last Morrissey album felt like the band just dissolved into the background, in comparison this is much more rock forward release. I thought this might help it but it actually made the whole thing feel a bit more mundane and boring. I don't really have strong feelings about this one way or another. A couple tracks did grab my attention, I know it's Gonna Happen Someday I thought was a standout, but a lot of this album seemed pretty forgettable.

The generator heard that I'm not a fan of Morrissey in my review a couple days ago, so it decided I must hear more! In all seriousness, I did actually enjoy this album more than the last one, but I'm still not exactly a fan. He does come off as a major prick a lot of the time.

I thought this album opened strong with an enjoyable first few tracks, but definitely got weaker as it went on. Probably my least favorite Morrissey project I've gotten so far (or maybe I'm just getting tired of how many are on this list).

Kill em with sadness.

Close to Morrissey's peak as a solo artist. 4.5

3 stars

Var veldig morrissey dette

-Tracks longer than 3:59: Way too many -Long tracks interesting or special: No -Album shorter than 58 minutes: Yes -Will listen to album again: Not a chance Overall: I know people love them some Morrissey, but my god his voice is annoying. I see from other reviews there is more on the way, I hope I won’t see them for a while. 1/5

I like Morrissey, but this album isn't as interesting as others. Still pretty good.

Try as I might, I can't really get into The Smiths, and especially Morrissey. I feel like it's adjacent to things I like, but it just doesn't do much for me.

It's pretty good! Definitely in my top 3 solo Morrissey albums.

*Four* Morrissey albums AND *three* Smiths? A joke? Maybe, maybe not, but those numbers make the whole 1001 thing a joke. No way any artist aside from Bowie or the Beatles should have more than a trio of selections here. Look, I get you want to big up your UK artists, but this is a mockery. Choose ONE Morrissey and stick to it. I might otherwise of given this a mid-3 vote, but my 1 here is a protest. Bah.

Decent Morrissey outing, but not in the upper echelons. I miss the jangles.

3/5

I'm a grown man, I'm not listening to fucking Morrissey

Can’t stand this dude, but he sure is a talented prick. Top tracks: We’ll Let You Know, Certain People I Know, I Know It’s Gonna Happen Someday

This album start very strong but like a lot of Morrissey albums it goes in a direction that is very dull.

Probably coloured by my opinions of Morrissey now but I don't see why I would listen to a Morrissey album when I could listen to a Smiths album

This album grew on me the longer I listened to it. The songs at the front of the album are more heavy rock (with a kind of country edge), but over time the songs became more moody and atmospheric, and I can tell he's influenced by his former band, The Smiths. Morrissey has the perfect voice for this kind of music. Highlights for me were, "Seasick, yet Still Docked" and "Tomorrow".

he desperately needs Johnny Marr around to smack him any time he gets too Morrissey

meh total. 5/10

Mittelmäßig

Great Morrissey album with some ballads and some great post punk tracks

He did all he needed to do with the Smiths. And I am unwilling to separate the artist from the art.

Best album of his I've heard.

Enough of a departure from the Smiths to be interesting. But Morrissey can’t help sounding like he sounds, and I can’t see myself wanting to listen to this a second time.

Probably a 3.5, but very easy to listen to. Is this what happens when there is this much Morrissey on the list? Rounding up due to enjoying the humor and “I Know It’s Gonna Happen Someday” predating “Creep” by two months.

what an awful man, but he sure does know how to catch a vibe (musically)

Cool. Second Morrissey. I wasn't into my previous outing of his on "You Are the Quarry". Bit shit, innit? Reminds of that one fella from the UK office whose comedic stylings now consist of waxing poetic about how offensive and crasse his comedy is without actually telling a single joke. You Are the Quarry is similar in that it acts all high and mighty with its garden variety cynicism and misanthropy without having a good vocal hook or lyric in its compact disc. Anyways, I've somehow managed to go half of this list with only having heard one Smiths album and one Morrissey album, so I can't write off his solo career just yet. "Meat Is Murder" is a pretty fantastic album, and I'm hoping this will prove to be the same. Here goes. While I am quite down and out about the quality of Morrissey's solo career, it's hard not to dislike his vocals. He is a pretty good singer and performer. Still, he's put to limited use on this album. The instrumentals are spotty, the vocal hooks are limp, many of the songs drag on for longer than they're welcome and the lyrical content is occasionally eye-rolling. Morrissey retains his jangle pop roots on this album, but with a harsh, reverberating, stadium rock atmosphere that I don't think works. Many of the songs sound quite muddy and unfocused because of this new stylistic approach, and the single, lone guitars don't do much to be engaging, either. All in all, I found this album to be a bit vacuous, though part of me does want to give it a second chance somewhere down the line. This music is in my sphere of interest, and as I said earlier, I do favour Morrissey as a vocalist. For those reasons, I couldn't bring myself to dislike this album, though I'm just as equally unenthused by it for my reasons listed earlier. As a result this album falls right down the middle for me. Book time. A whole host of controversies surround this album. There's Morrissey wishing Smiths biographer Johnny Rogan died a series of dramatic deaths, "The National Front Disco" and Morrissey performing the aforementioned song at a concert with skinhead backup dancers while waving a Union Jack flag. The audience apparently threw bottles at Morrissey until he left the stage. I have no idea what reaction he was expecting from doing that, but based nonetheless 👍 Mick Ronson (guitarist for Bowie's Spiders From Mars band) produced this album, and the book entry closes out by saying "...Your Arsenal was certainly Morrissey's finest and most confident work for years." Wikipedia has fuck all on this album, though it was well-respected by the critics and performed alright on the charts. Of the eight countries where it charted, it notably peaked at No. 29 in New Zealand, No. 28 in Canada, No. 21 in the US, No. 12 in Australia and No. 4 in the UK. It also reentered the charts in the UK and Hungary when a remaster of the album was released in 2014, notably peaking at No. 18 on the Hungarian charts. Yeeeeah, nah. Four list albums for Morrissey is just way too many for this guy, and I don't have any reason to believe this is his finest hour. Bye-bye. In place of this album, I humbly submit "Keep It Like a Secret" by Built to Spill for inclusion on the list. I've never listened to the album and I'm only familiar with Built to Spill because of their proximity to Modest Mouse, though I am aware that it's a classic release in indie rock.

Fucking Morrissey. An album from my birth year. Honestly, at best it's just ok, and a lot of the time it's bad. The lyrics are fucking terrible if you're a positive empath. The music wanders into Americana with the rockabilly, ew, just completely unnecessary. Or well, I can just recognize that flow isn't my thing and he isn't the one to make it listenable. 1.9/5

Rock. Was alright. Not much to say.

morrissey is such a terrible person we can only let him have 20-30 hits

I know he’s a prat but I liked it!!! 3.9

A good sound

What a voice

It sounds like the Smiths, but not morose!

not terrible but also not very good. All sounded kinda samey, i do like the acoustic guitar tones and even the production overall, but was just bored most of the time.

We hate it when we have to listen to these shallow lyrics. Aha aha ha. oho ho ho ho.

A lot better than I expected. Solid rock album but maybe slightly unassuming to be included in this list

Morrissey nimmt sein drittes Soloalbum im Februar 1992 in den Utopia Studios in Primrose Hill auf, den Rest im März im Wool Hall Studio in Bath. Am Pult sitzt Mick Ronson, früher Gitarrist bei David Bowie, und man hört ihn sofort: Aus dem zurückhaltenden Indie-Pop der ersten beiden Soloalben wird hier ein Glam-Rock-Rockabilly-Hybrid mit echtem Biss. Erschienen ist Your Arsenal am 27. Juli 1992 bei His Master's Voice. Die neue Band um Alain Whyte und Boz Boorer gibt Morrissey einen Unterbau, den er vorher nicht hatte. "We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful" knallt als Opener rein, "Glamorous Glue" hat diesen lässigen Glam-Groove, und bei "You're the One for Me, Fatty" merkt man, dass ihm sein Humor nicht abhandengekommen ist. Anders liegt der Fall bei "The National Front Disco" — der Song lässt bewusst offen, ob er eine Perspektive beschreibt oder sie feiert, und diese Ambivalenz wird ihm bis heute vorgehalten. Kommerziell lief es glänzend: Platz 4 in den UK-Charts, eine Grammy-Nominierung, ausverkaufte US-Shows bis hin zur Hollywood Bowl. Ob das Album seine Kontroversen wirklich verdient oder eher ein Missverständnis war, darüber streiten Fans bis heute — mich lässt "The National Front Disco" jedenfalls nicht kalt. Ein hartes, unbequemes Album, das genau deshalb hängen bleibt.

Morrissey and The Smiths are about as "meh" as it gets for me. I enjoy it a bit, but overall neutral about the music for the most part. 3/5.

I was not previously familiar with this album. It is a bit more rock-forward than the material I know from The Smiths. There are some glam rock influences present here that I like. Overall it was a good and enjoyable listen, but not particularly memorable. I would listen again but might not seek it out specifically.

A bit too miserable for me, but seemed ok