Reviews (page 8 of 8)
Another Morrisey that I wont listen to. Fuck this guy.
Barf
Shite as usual
Whiny and depressing seems a fair summary. I would single out ‘Treat me like a human being’ as a specific low, but it’s probably unfair given the rest is similarly dire. I did however enjoy ‘Suedehead’, but one song does not an album make
I did not enjoy this. I have an almost visceral reaction to his voice, the song which differentiated migrants from people who "belong" in the UK really annoyed me, and I think, particularly in current times, the guy's an absolute tosser. At least on The Smiths albums you get Johnny Marr. 1/5
On a plane well outside of reality, in a place where nothing much matters because a magic circle has been so firmly drawn around you to protect you from evil, you can finally say what you want to say and be who you really are. When you're there who or what do you imagine yourself to be? When you envision your greatest expression of self, is it black and white? Are things cast in such stark contrast that you can only see in binaries? Now imagine your success and fame has drawn that circle for you but in this world, how does it play out now? It seems this record's cover and title says it all for you these days. Everything's just black and white, us versus them, in or out. The longer any of us live the more tragedy we see; so it's fair to say that it's only a minor disappointment in life for me to know that when you entered the magic circle you found only hate and ressentiment in your heart. Maybe you weren't surprised, and maybe we shouldn't have been either. It's the classic lesson to not idolize another that plays out again and again.
Another confirmation that Johnny Marr is a saint for putting up with the Moz. This album isn’t great, it’s basically all the whining and none of the great music from the Smiths. #TeamMarrforever
Really didn't land at all for me. All the worst parts about Morrissey's music - theatrical maudlin whimpering. Really boring instrumentation. No atmosphere whatsoever.
Racist cunt with a shit voice.
This generator is really great at expanding your horizons. I knew almost nothing about Morrissey before - but thanks to the list, I have now found a whole new artist to hate ! This was insufferable. Having to listen to three more albums by this whiny manchild makes my skin crawl. 1/10
Well let's get the obvious out of the way. He is UK Kanye. Not Kid Rock, Kid Britpop. And miserable? Sad, morose, self loathing. Is there any reason why people would want to listen to this level of depressing? Here in Australia The Smiths and Morrisey didn't make a huge impression as far as I know. "How Soon is Now?" and "This Charming Man" were hipster fare, buy they were essentially niche. Too British, too introvert. Too miserable. Sure, the playing on this is impeccable. The musicians are top notch and giving it plenty. But the songs - the lyrics - are the sort of thing a self absorbed 16 year old might produce in order to come third at his school's Slam Poetry Competition. They thud out of the speakers like lead and just sit there, with a level off triteness and inconsequentiality that's extraordinary. Just appallingly badly written. And then there's Bengali in Platforms. As someone said in another review: "Fuck that Racist Shit!" It was bad anyway and the racism is the curdled cream on top.
Skipped all of it, depressing, soppy
Wow! Another plain brit pop album! This list has so few of these!
Fuck this whiner.
I have no idea why this is in the list - it was nothing special at all, and I really didn't enjoy it.
Literally nothing is worse than the thought that I currently have 3 more of his albums to listen to for this project. And one more The Smiths album
Sun is shining. Im about to have a couple of days of for eastern. I feel terrific. No way in hell im going to ruin that by listening to Morrisey.
Boy does he know how people feel about him. In his own language 'What A Fucking Wanker'. I fear that if I listen to more Morrissey it will start to tinge how I feel about the Smiths. Honestly did not like them much to begin with but Shoplifters Of The World Unite is such a great fucking song it will never fall from grace in my eyes because of Morrissey. Honestly I'm halfway through and it's not as bad as I was thinking but it's amazing how long his career has lasted. How long can you keep putting out albums that are just the same thing over and over again. The only song worth a shit on here is "Everyday Is Like Sunday" and "Margaret On The Guillotine" which is only there because Margaret Thatcher is worse than Morrissey. As I started this with I'm sure that Morrissey will outlive us all because he lives on how much hate people have for him so Viva Hate.
😧 again !?
First listen
Boring AF, I couldn't even finish
For the people in the back, who haven't heard me before...this pretentious full of himself @sshole is OVERRATED! Every album is the same, whiny voice, obvious overdone 80's emo music, with really basic lyrics. This could have been any random wanna be 80's band that didn't make it, but somehow this guy must have known the right person and they backed him and suddenly he became a thing. Albums like this make me truly believe its not always about talent but having the right media people, because he isn't special, he is mediocre at best and somehow has gone down as one of the greatest artists ever. This album's title really encompasses how I feel about this album and Morrisey overall. I am also starting to lose hope in this project....why is this racist, sexist, jerk on this list 7 times! One would have been semi-justified and MORE than enough of him.
Nope. No more Morrissey for me. He’s firmly in Bob Dylan territory now. This is just getting ridiculous. If it’s good or not, I just don’t care. This list is clearly from some boomer who only listens to corporate approved Rock or some pretentious music critic getting paid by corporate music. At this point, it’s almost like they’re daring you to tap out of this project.
Racista.
It’s pretty cool listening to this because of how much it sounds like a lot of the indie and alt stuff that’s coming out now. For example, "Late Night, Maudlin Street" sounds a lot like "In My Mind" by Amanda Palmer. Unfortunately Morrissey also sounds like shitty Bowie.
I got Eric Clapton earlier this week, and today Morrissey. Looks like it’s racist week on the ol’ 1001 Albums listening project. Viva Hate has some of Morrissey’s best solo output, particularly with “Suedehead”, but it also has the explicitly anti-immigrant “Bengali in Platforms”. With The Smiths he wrote some self-indulgent, sometimes downright terrible lyrics, but at his best he could be witty, even occasionally with some levity. That’s all gone here, replaced by performative moroseness and a sense of grievance. What an odious gasbag.
Bad album by a bad human.
more whiny men, i guess? where's the spunk. where's the creativity. get a grip Would I listen again: No Deserves to be on this list: Two songs have over 100 million streams and I couldn't tell you why. No. 1.3 (I wrote this review unaware of how much Jack Morrisey sucks on his own. My hate is now warranted)
Please let this be the last album by Morrissey that I have to listen to.
no
Vierde plaat van deze koekenbakker, de zevende (!) als je de Smiths meetelt? Vaker dan Queen, Prince, Michael Jackson, Pink Floyd, de Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley, Elvis, Sinatra, Johnny Cash, Madonna, Aretha Franklin, Leonard Cohen, Dire Straits, Sting & the Police? Waarom, waarom moet deze doorjengelende jarentachtigboy er zó vaak in? Want als je één album van hem gehoord hebt, heb je ze echt allemaal wel gehoord. Dezelfde mistige achtergrondtonen, dezelfde kabbelende instrumentatie. Van zichzelf geen onaardige muziek, maar het is volslagen onzin dat dit zó vaak in de lijst moet terwijl andere acts er niet eens in staan. Ik snap dat de man er zelf ook niks aan kan doen dat hij door een stel over het paard getilde snobs op een onverdiend marmerend voetstuk is neergekwakt, maar soms heb je als artiest gewoon pech en krijg je daar dikke aftrekpunten voor.
Dnf
Every whiny song sounded the same. Angel Angel We Go Down Together stood out. Just need a different voice singing it. 1/5
No.
Not for me.
Anything f*cking Morrissey album?!
This is the fourth (and hopefully final) Morrissey album I’ve got on this list. I’ve been patient, but I think now is the time to give this asshole the 1 star he deserves. While I’ve made an effort to separate the art from the artist, “Bengali in Platforms” and its not-so-subtle racism was the last straw for me. Even ignoring that song leaves nothing but a mediocre, down-tempo Smiths album where he meanders verse to verse without a hook or memorable line in sight. He somehow makes a song about killing Margaret Thatcher boring. Fuck this mopey, spinach eating prick.
meu deus que coisa horrorosa, pessima mix, pessimo tudo, parece uma demo de 40 minutos
he’s just so depressing! much more palatable with johnny marr’s
Shit
What a boring cunt
3 for being alright. -2 for being a Morrissey album.
Trash / 5 Viva La Hate, and I have a lot of it for this "music album". Yet another person who doesn't know anything about what can be accepted as music. Whoever put this on 1001's list was definitely lobotomized. Avoid at all costs, the only setting I can see myself listening to this is when I wanna invoke puking all over the place.
1/5
I could tolerate it. 1
This would have been better as an instrumental album.
This album infuriated me. Rhyme scheme be damned, this dude just said random things in a Brit pop voice. I almost gave it a 2 at one point but I wouldn’t ever put this back on.
Oui Morrissey est mon souffre-douleur. L'autre fois, je n'avais pas partagé ce potin avec Nick Cave mais là c'est plus fort que moi: Nick Cave has said that he turned down Morrissey’s request to appear on a new song in 2024, claiming that the former Smiths frontman wanted him to sing “an unnecessarily provocative and slightly silly anti-woke screed he had written”. C'est China qui m'informe sur les potins. (À noter que j'attends Michael Jackson de pied ferme; un fasciste et un pédophile)
Mostly depressing, but what really topped the cake was the last song ending with a lever being pulled, releasing the guillotine down on poor Margaret. I'm not okay.
viva: hated. (⌐■_■)
41/1089 second Morrissey album, and hopefully the last… he has a very obnoxious, self-important vibe and sound. And coming into these albums knowing his reputation hasn’t made it easier to withstand these for sure. The repeated percussive sound in Little Man, What Now is very annoying and overstimulating. He’s voice is the epitome of what i consider cringey, try-hard middle aged man music. Maybe it’s the over-pronounced style or “faux”-aloofness Bengali in Platforms is crazy… the gall… Maudlin street has a kinda nice instrumental part towards the end one saving grace being him asking when will the wicked witch die on the final track lmao 1 star (10/100) no faves and Bengali in Platforms is the definite least fave (but none are great imo)
more generic 80's . Who likes this stuff?
It was getting a 3, but these lyrics earned a 1.
Pretty mid. Outside of a couple decent songs it just feels like pure filler. This sucks. Lots of wailing, not much substance.
actually miserable
Jedinica iz principa. // Bila bi jedinica logično.
His vocals suck. Literally anyone else singing would make this at least a bit bearable. "Morrissey sucks, but he's soo talented!" I absolutely don't get the talented part...
I so can;'t be bothered listening to this.
Yeah, nice try, but I'm not committed enough to this list to put myself through listening to Morrissey. It's a guaranteed 1 star anyway (but only because zero isn't an option).
Utter fucking nonsense. What is this doing on here. I want the last 40 mins of my life back.
Don't have to listen to that, I know I'll hate it
Better than most of its ilk
Ugh that was a boring slog of an album. By time he was singing "When will you die?" I was thinking that sooner rather than later might be preferable as I pantomimed myself blowing my brains out onto the driver side window and then Imagining the cruise control taking my driverless car into the ditch and through a fence and out into a western South Dakota pasture.
Another whiny and pretentious man.
Tedious and charmless, just like Morrissey himself. This album is like “what if a bad Smiths cover band didn’t know any Smiths songs?”
I'm so sick and tired of Morrissey. Probably a 2 star, but its getting an aggregated 1 star. Good riddance!
I just can't with this guy. Did not listen.
Bengali in Platforms is about where the whole album lost the plot for me. I've always heard allegations about Morrissey, and I guess I see why. What do you even say about this album? If you ignore the lyricism, I guess the vocals are fine, but the tempo and music are so slow paced the whole album just drags. It made me think of the review for Spinal Taps Shark Sandwich.
Went into this with an open mind and can confirm I didn’t dislike it as much as I thought I would. If you took away his dreadful monotonous drone it might actually be ok.
May be fine. Not my style.
Morrissey sucks
Jao, ne mogu. 1/5, 2/10
Two days in a row of controversial artists. Unlike Ryan Adams, I've always struggled to like Morrissey so I have no problem giving this one star.
you can stick your gladioli up your...
Nah. No thank you. Another example of an individual’s actions overshadowing their art.
Meh
Album #13 - 1/5 Honestly, I love a whiney little bitch boy. You're allowed to be loudly sad. I like the sound of the album enough (nothing special)... But reading through the other ratings in here, I've learned that Morrissey is a piece of shit! No racists for me. <3 (Actual music/album is probably a 2.5.)
For Viva Hate I'll literally just quote what I said for the last Morrissey album we had. Every song sounds basically the same form of dull monotonous crap from a complete wanker of a human. Never liked The Smiths or his style, this isn't for me at all. 1.
Ugh, Morrissey again. Like the Smiths, hate Morrissey, and this began his Marr-less record string. This one was especially Morrissey-y - whiny and pretentious with a lot of bitterness. Plus it gets the Morrissey penalty of -1 points.
Not my style
You know what. I can't even be bothered.
Morrissey is a twat. I'm boycotting this album, because Morrissey is a twat. Now don't get me wrong, I like the Smiths, they had some belters, I've got a lot of time for them, but Morrissey was a twat then too. He had a couple of big hits off this effort, which are fine and do a good job, but at the end of the day, when all is said and done, Morrissey is a twat. I would give it three stars, but I'm knocking two of them off because, well, you know, Morrissey is a twat. #MorrisseyIsATwat
Absolute self indulgent rubbish. No stars if possible.
Morrissey can eat my dick. Too bad he’s a vegan and won’t shut the fuck up about it.
Eat a bag of dicks Morrissey
Meh
Morrissey is a pompous whining loser.
It's not clear to me exactly why I hate Morrissey, but it's like nails on a chalkboard for me. Ugh, just fucking stop.
fuck you morrissey
stop
I tried, i really did. This is my 3rd Morrissey album and i really hate the man, his voice, hit lyrics, his music and his politics. Im 300 albums in and ive genuinely listened to each one. After 2 tracks i realised that as much as i want to be disciplined in this process, there are better uses of my time than being tortured by this bigoted, self involved wanker.
Mais uma chance para reafirmar que o cara é chato pra caramba. Nem vou me desculpar.
Quite a fitting name for this album as I hate this piece of shit and his singing voice like nothing else
I never liked the Smiths because I found them depressing, and felt that Morrissey was pretentious twat. Musically this album is OK, but Morrissey's whining vocals, which seem to be for a different album, ruin it for me, heaven knows how miserable I felt while listening to this album.
In my mind a worried mix between industrial, synth-pop, brit-pop and some singer-songwriter. I didn't now Morrisey, and as I see, I don't miss a thing.
Just dogshit
I wanted to slit my wrists but I got too depressed to move.
Spare me.
Un pop-soul meloso y espantoso. Careta y superficial,
Racist
Morrissey is a butt
Was not a fan of the Smiths and i think i see why
If I could give a zero
What a wanker
*weary sigh* I only had The Smiths 2 days ago and had to reference what a total helmet Morrissey turned out to be. So more of the same but without Marr, Rourke and Joyce isn't what I needed right now. Still enjoyed Suedehead, but the rest? Shrug.
pass
Seichtester alternative Rock.
Not a Morrissey fan
I was just thinking this morning about how much of a shitbag Morrissey is, imagine that. Yeah I don't like this in the slightest. The Smiths have some lyrical powerhouses, but Johnny Marr's songwriting prowess is always what I came for in the end, and without that, even the best Morrissey lines fall flat over this dull 80s soft rock. Also, Everyday is Like Sunday gives me retail flashbacks, so it's all in the gutter for me.
Morrissey needed Johnny Marr’s jangly guitar in the Smiths to balance out his morose and “woe is me” lyrics. Now, post-Smiths Morrissey is just mopey and pretending to be spoken word poetry about death and sadness. Granted, he might have been a major influence on 90s/early 2000s emo, but at least they had the good sense to have actual melody. If you ever meet a diehard Morrissey fan, run.
That’s a no for me dawg. 1 star. I couldn’t get through it. Just felt so whiny- I hear babies crying enough during the day now, don’t want it on my music too. Ouch, burn, sorry Morrissey.
Bash the fash
I could not get past the monotonous voice and melancholy lyrics on this album.
1.5
Morrisey is a cunt, his voice appears way too much on this list
1/5. I don't care on a good day about the Smiths, hard to feel anything listening to this. It's boring at the best of times. There are some catchy beats and the guitar work is impressive in some songs but I can't get the hype about Morrissey. I wish I related more but I don't. The last song is funny though, but that's all I can credit it.
Meh
J'aime pas des sons trop court et pas ouf
Blijkbaar is dit de zanger van The Smiths, en dat hoor je. Ik kan er gewoon echt niet aan wennen, dan jaren '80 kopstem gejengel. Ik twijfel zeer tussen 1 en 2 sterren, en weet je wat, we doen gewoon 1.
Meh
Can’t get into this. Just like the Smiths, it does not go well through my ears. Too soft, just not feeling it.
ugh. Its so melodramatic and emo, and he is SUCH an asshole. 1/5
NAHHHHH THIS AIN't it......
Not my style at all to say the least. 80s punk vocals mixed with cheesy radio lyrics. No Thanks.
Too much morrissey, couldn’t enjoy
Un tanto anodino. Muchas canciones iguales. No tiene mala voz, pero lo veo demasiado insulso
Never liked his solo stuff as much as the Smiths
Ouf J'aime pas le personnage. Trop à droite pour moi, j'ai juste entendu parler de lui pour ses positions politiques et ses annulations dernière minute... J'ai écouté la première face pis c'est pas bon
Mauvais. Il chante de façon désintéressée. Les chansons ne vont nul part.
cant do it fuck morrissey
You know, this probably isn't bad but... Morrissey is just such a cunt that it's pretty impossible to go into this with an open mind. Fuck off, Morrissey
Morrissey's preoccupation with a halcyon Britain largely of his own imagining was mildly disquieting even in the heyday of the Smiths - hinting at a social and political alignment at odds with that of many of his admirers. This album marks the point at which he started to say the quiet part out loud - as was obvious to many when it was released, despite the efforts of his apologists to explain away its questionable aspects. Whatever he intended with its title, it reads today as a declaration of intent. Yeah yeah yeah, but shouldn't we distinguish between the artist and his work? Fortunately we can sidestep that thorny issue, because this album, Mozza's first without the benefit of Marr's guitar, amounts to no more than a couple of lukewarm singles and a wodge of nondescript filler.
MEH
Ugh again?
Il suo stile è talmente brutto che a tratti lo trovo affascinante. Comunque sarebbe un bel disco da 1 ma l’ultimo pezzo in cui dice che vuole uccidere la thatcher gli fa guadagnare un punto. Bengali è veramente una canzone assurda. No mentre scrivevo sono ripartiti alcuni pezzi, il voto è 1.
Morrissey is an insufferable talentless cunt
Morrissey is one of those people I can't separate from the music. All I can think about when listening to him is how he sounds like a shitty version of The Cure mixed with Joy Division. The Smiths will always be what comes to mind when I hear the words "domestic abuser." Not that he's a domestic abuser, but if there were ever a soundtrack to domestic abuse, it would be The Smiths.
nope
don't like
I'm surprised Morrissey managed to keep his career afloat after recording this first solo album.
Meh, George Michael was better
Was let down after I realized Morrisey was not Van Morrison. I like one of those two and it isn't Morrisey.
Bad bad