No wonder he likes it so much!

I promptly downloaded the ones I didn't already have.

I got the Smoking Popes, Iggy Pop, White light White Heat Album, Roxy Music.

I find Smoking Popes very easy to listen to. I'm not sure if I will ever like the Iggy Pop album, I'm a big fan of the Lust for Life album though. I'm a big fan of the first Velvet Underground album and I'm sure the second will grow on me. I like the sounds of a few of the Roxy music songs, some at first at least are a little dissapointing.

I chose Damien Dempsey, I first heard Damien on a local Irish radio station in Sydney. I searched for him more that I heard that Morrissey was a fan. After spending two years in Dublin I really GET his music and the power and significance. He is really for you all a great artist to discover. Shots is also equal if not better as an album in my opinion. If you want to see the power of the human voice listen to Massai from the Hell or Barbados album.

Where was T. Rex- Electric Warrior

I've tried but I just don't get it. Buster Poindexter also certainly didn't help none.

i've never heard any of these albums. Looks like it's time for me to download.

R.I.P Jeff Buckley....
such a sweet voice.

great album!

Are really the top two of the bunch
all in all great records

I never got Jeff Buckley though, or the Sparks - not really into them

no fun

Iggy and the Stooges

it's a miracle that he's still alive, and what
acarriere, after the Stooges split/dump/drugusing
rather than make a demoo, Bowie helped him
with the song that, on that album, which says
it all for Iggy, lust for life

This scarved man is still doing a show, many
young bands can only dream of

thoughthe choice was difficult, Buckley, both father Tim and son Jeff have released legendary
music
that's for about all the ones on the list,
I wanna say Morrissey got taste, Roxy Music
what an influence they had, as The Sparks

I wannt to add

the colour of spring- Talk Talk
and XTC-dunno the albums name, but they made more
than 1 good one

where are Mark Hollis and Andy Partridge nowadays
or the last decade?

nice poll

Not a big fan of any of the albums to be honest, but Sparks just edged out Roxy Music to win my vote. "Amateur Hour" is the best track on the album.

get my vote every time (but KIMONO isn't their best. Check out the Tony Visconti-produced INDISCREET instead). VU and Roxy I love, but the rest are unbearable imo (esp NY Dolls).

Morrissey likes American music.

10 of 13, Jeff Buckley is not canadian right?

Roxy Music - British
Nico - German
Damien Dempsey - Irish

How can you not love Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry!!! So amazing! I'm looking forward to Bryan's new album...

The Smoking Popes are brilliant. Try listening to their album "Stay Down". Pure genius.

The Popes have a great sound and Josh Caterer is a wonderful singer. Their lyrics are witty and funny. They are the band that Morrissey has tried so hard to impersonate musically. Unfortunately he has never succeeded.

Morrissey has really great taste.My vote would go to Jeff Buckley`s Grace.I really love that album.Lover You Should`ve Come Over is one of all time favorites.A close second would have to The Ramones.The Smoking Popes also have a great song with Need You Around.I also especially The New York Dolls Subway Train.

When I was 17 and in my 'Radiohead's Ok Computer is the best album ever' phase, I read somewhere that Thom Yorke had been brave enough to sing in falsetto after hearing Jeff Buckley sing Corpus Christi Carol; I went down my friendly local HMV and bought Grace. After one listen Ok Computer was no longer the best album ever. Over the years I bought more Jeff Buckley recordings than was good for my student bank balance and I now have 4 versions of Grace in various guises.

However, when I listened to Mystery White Boy and heard the Hallelujah / I Know It's Over medley, I went down my friendly local HMV again and bought Hatful of Hollow and The Queen Is Dead. From there it's been 10 glorious years of Morrissey fandom and the discovery that the best album ever is actually Strangeways Here We Come.

Anyway, all this time, I had no idea Morrissey liked Jeff Buckley.

no surprises here, no British 60s female singers though, no t rex or bowie.

for your pelasure, banana album and smoking popes all squeeze into my top 30.

Moz seems to like American albums. I'm not sure why. And I'm not quite sure I believe he'd pick Iggy Pop over Bowie, either. I think that's more driven by anger and bitterness towards Mr Showie than anything else.

His actual top 13 would obviously include plenty of Bowie, T Rex.

Bailiff.

Like The Smiths, the Dolls should have been HUGE. Shit bands from their era, Kiss and Aerosmith were a safer choice for early 70's America and therefore got the fame and fortune that The New York Dolls deserved.

chelsea girl by nico. wonderful record.

The Banana Album - no contest. The best record ever made and probably the most influential. Forget Srgt Pepper.

Wham! - The End

This album is so masculine so brave, moz please make a cover of: wake me up before you go-go, careless whisper, club tropicana or freedom.

oooh I like George Michael sex appeal, he is so mean so sexy.

moz please I beg you cover those songs!

just kidding!

I vote for "Kimono My House"

I'm proud to see many of the albums listed here hail from my hometown of NYC. My vote goes to The Ramones, from my home borough.

Trivia: The Ramones, Simon & Garfunkle, and Burt Bacharach all attended Forest Hills High School. Obviously not all at the same time.

As much as I love VU & Nico, White Light is a shockingly bad album. It sounds dreadful, there isn't anything in terms of "songs". It is a very very poor follow-up to their first album with the banana cover. It's not even "art rock" , it's shit. As a concept it is an interesting record (drugs, Warhol had gone, etc) but in reality it is very poor, hardly listenable. The band plays badly, the production/ recording is sub-standard. The only good thing is the (original) cover of a bad sailor skull tattoo.
I am surprised Morrissey chose this album as one of his favourites. It's pure amphetamine fuelled drone. And I didn't think Morrissey takes such drugs!

The two Jobriath albums are brilliant.
He was way way way ahead of his time. Sadly Jobriath was labelled as a Bowie/Ziggy copyist in the UK, but this is an unjust accusation; first of all, he lived in America, not the UK, and the rock/pop scene was entirely different and homo-phobic in the US at the time (1973). He was brave to do what he did and his songs and lyrics were actually very good and full of artistic "thought". In fact, Jobriath was a talented song-writer, a trained actor, excellent pianist and a singer. Jobriath simply was talented in many ways and had a real "vision" about how pop music could be more daring, exciting, dangerous, glamorous and subversive. He wore futuristic make-up and combined ballet in his shows - in 1973! Jobriath paved the way for punk, glam rock (as we know it) and new-wave. He was an inspiration for Siouxsie & The Banshees - and even Sid Vicious admitted to liking Jobriath's records.

The Ramones are simply the best no doubt about it! i listen to their music, or even when I just hear Joey's voice I want to cry! There's just that one thing that The Ramones had that no other band ever had! Morrissey just know's whats real & good... -ladydean l.a, c.a

And where the Hell are The Monochrome Set?

Oh, people (I'm looking at you, Morrissey) so quickly forget.

the older I get, the more Nico is haunting me (as in "a friendly ghost" kind of way). I personally like her "Marble Index" even more than Chelsea Girl - but it's nitpicking.