"World Peace" will win. Just look at how many people joined in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. These good people, who tend to be very young, have limited knowledge of the other albums listed. It is also natural to want the album of your own time to be the best. Quarry is better but for the reasons I noted "World Peace" is going to top this poll.
I think it's way too early for this kind of question, but if you want my premature opinion:"World Peace" will win. Just look at how many people joined in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. These good people, who tend to be very young, have limited knowledge of the other albums listed. It is also natural to want the album of your own time to be the best. Quarry is better but for the reasons I noted "World Peace" is going to top this poll.
it's possibly the only dated-sounding Morrissey record (I'm not sorry....I like you....bleurgh)
Far too many of the drum patterns on Quarry sound like late 90's Alterna-Rock/Jungle-inspired holdovers.
The synths sound like your typical cheesy late 90's-early 00's virtual analogs, which were all over music in that period.
The MicroKorg came out in the early 2000's, and suddenly every "Indie" band was an "Indie-lectro" band. It's made me hate the things.
At least the more overtly 80's-sounding synths on WPINOYB sound like proper "vintage digital" synths, not cheap VA's or the uber-90's ROMplers (the later of which are all over Maladjusted), though a lot of the sounds seem like they come from VSTi's in a DAW... they all have their idiosyncrasies, and they're all hard to describe, but it's not hard to "feel" them when you hear them. More to the point, there's really nothing wrong with any them, I'm only trying to make the point that the synths on Quarry are very much dated, but they were not dated for 2004. They were all the rage back then.
I do think it's crucial since when you are a Morrissey fan.
In 2004 zeitgeist was in favour of Morrissey.....all the emerging indie bands parising him, citing him as influence etc....massive NME/music press support. Still when i heard Quarry i was hugely disappointed. The production is terrible, and looking back it's possibly the only dated-sounding Morrissey record (I'm not sorry....I like you....bleurgh). Same old chord sequences.....it's easily the worst in his post-2000 canon. But since the press hailed it as a return to form, it stuck in pur memory as a good record. It isn't.
World peace took me by surprise. It's far better.
A fan since 1988.
Exactly, what i meant, too. Also about the drums: very lame processed sounds.
But my point stands: no other Morrissey solo record sounds that badly dated than YATQ. And of course no point to start arguements about the quality of the songs, it's a question of taste. I still maintain it's not half as good record is as critics said. It's just the great combination of factors that helped Morrissey in 2004.
I agree with you completely apart from your comment about the press hailing it a return to form.
They didn't. It got the worst critical score of any album since Maladjusted, and rightly so.
It's got one genuinely brilliant single (and lots of great b-sides) but the rest of it is pretty dire. Well moderately dire, musically, and hugely dire, lyrically.
It's only the simple folk in Morrissey fan land who consider it a classic. If you can overlook the clumsy, crap lyrics to Irish Blood (I can't), you could argue it had two great singles. The singles did brilliantly (all top 10), the album outsold all others including Smiths, and the hype was phenomenal (mainly due to first album in 7 years).
But as a collection of songs, the critics were right - it's his worst of the 21st century.
I agree with you completely apart from your comment about the press hailing it a return to form.
They didn't. It got the worst critical score of any album since Maladjusted, and rightly so.
It's got one genuinely brilliant single (and lots of great b-sides) but the rest of it is pretty dire. Well moderately dire, musically, and hugely dire, lyrically.
It's only the simple folk in Morrissey fan land who consider it a classic. If you can overlook the clumsy, crap lyrics to Irish Blood (I can't), you could argue it had two great singles. The singles did brilliantly (all top 10), the album outsold all others including Smiths, and the hype was phenomenal (mainly due to first album in 7 years).
But as a collection of songs, the critics were right - it's his worst of the 21st century.