...keane wasnt on the top of the list. snooooze

at least he came up with an original, thought-provoking title for HIS album.

look at those top 5 albums - 4 of them are named after the band who made them. it's pretty common that a band's first album will be named after themselves, but in this top 5, it's almost uncomfortably so that these are all "new" acts.

let's wait for 15 years and see if they're around in a big way, the way Morrissey is now, "coming back" to the fold.

as for the relative panning of IHFJ - you can't really expect anything else. both of the songs from YATQ that wound up on the top songs list of the year are both straight forward pop/rock'n'roll.

The Futureheads are overrated, Scissor Sisters' initial charm has worn off to show some not very good ballads, The Streets are good (but shouldn't be higher than Moz), The Libertines are good (but shouldn't be higher than Moz), while Franz Ferdinand are too light and insignificant. Morrissey is still the music industry's greatest genius, even if this isn't his best album.

it's easily his worst song since Roy Keane.
horrible keyboard sound; miserable, humourless, poetry-free, sixth-form lyrics.
what a huge mistake.
if only he'd released the gorgeous, elegiac 'never-played symphonies'.
J

I've listened to "The Streets" album twice now, and its conclusion always leaves me shaking my head.. What is the UKs fascination with this album?? Its terrible!

moz should be above all those bands! are we really to believe that YATQ falls that far behind the libertines and franz ferdinand? the results are not really surprising, but it would have been great to see morrissey in the top 5, if not #1.

Correct if I'm wrong but the Q Magazine listed 50 best albums of the year and Quarry was NOT included. I Just S I M P L Y cannot believe it. All the new "London's Burning" rock bands were on the list of course (Razorlight, Libertines, etc) but not Morrissey. Jamelia? Phew!
Boycott Q magazine!

The NME rarely makes a relevent comment these days. It seems to me that they try too hard to find the next big thing when it's not really there.

The merits of the Franz Ferdinand album escape me. They proved to be a good support act to Morrissey at the M.E.N, but the album is dull and not very original.

The Libertines are atrocious, and the medias' interest in the lowlife Pete Doherty appalls me. A druggie who breaks into his bandmate's house is not worthy of any praise. The band sound like drunken buskers too.

The Streets album of 'laddish' subjects such as drugs and fights, says nothing to me about my life, thankfully.

YATQ should be up there with Keane and Green Day for album of the year.

Nice review Stan, clever last line. I found IHFJ an uncomfortable first listen, clumsy sometimes. But how can you deal with a subject like that? It's a coming-of-age song about religion finally, to me, because only among equals can disagreement be expressed and worked out. How many of us have felt like we have no say where religion is concerned, it's all commandments and rules? But in this song, the relationship of parent to child changes; now it's adult to adult, partners, despite the feared ricochet - 'do you hate me'? Good faith doesn't always pay off, and it isn't fair, life isn't fair, promises fail etc. It's a strong song, like 'I love you; it's murder' (I am two people). That's my starting position anyway...

I was about to go to bed but can`t let this go. I love Franz, I`m in two minds about the Libertines, respect The Streets though its not my thing and ain`t heard the Futureheads.

But the Scissor Sisters?!?! I`m appalled at how this horrific 70's disco-lite has got some bizarre veneer of "coolness"! How the fuck?! So they're gay, they dress up in trashy chic stuff and look the part. That really is all there is to them! The kind of sub-Elton Johnn shite they churn out is on club stages every day, and it really is yet another example of the music press yakuza foisting another turd on the general population. In my opinion...

id be interested to know all of what is keeping Moz out of the top10, top5, top3 and topspot. for me '...Quarry' is top3 [better than all of the top5 listed, easily better than Franz Ferdinand] and idve thought even objectively that hed deserve at least a top10 this year.

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1. Franz Ferdinand
2. The Libertines
10. The Dears
11. Interpol
13. The Killers

all artists who would claim Morrissey as a huge influence [and im sure there are others there who would that idont realize]. perhaps not album of the year, but Morrissey should definitely be artist of the year.

the fuckin' Scissor Sisters, what a load of shite, the NME's obviously gone right down hill, in the 10 years since i last bought it!

Have you heard his wonderful Christmas album yet?

Michael Bolton is very talented. And such a hunk. I have been dreaming of fucking his cute ass for years.

Damn, I am getting hard again....