Your Top 10 Morrissey albums

1. Vauxhall
2. Your Arsenal
3. Viva Hate
4. Years of Refusal
5. Ringleader of the Tormentors
6. You are the Quarry
7. Malajusted
8. World Peace
9. Southpaw
10. Kill Uncle
 
Your Arsenal
Vauxhall & I
Viva Hate
World Peace Is None Of Your Business
You Are The Quarry
Southpaw Grammar
Ringleader of the Tormentors
Years of Refusal
Maladjusted
Kill Uncle
 
1. Viva Hate
2. Vauxhall And I
3. You Are The Quarry
4. My Early Burglary Years
5. Your Arsenal
6. Swords
7. Live At Earls Court
8. Bona Drag
9. Ringleader Of The Tormentors
10. Years Of Refusal

When I look at my playlist, this is the ones I would pick. For my listening, I may actually have ranked My Early Burglary Years and Swords too low.
 
1. Viva Hate
2. Bona Drag
3. Vauxhall And I
4. Maladjusted
5. Southpaw Grammar
6. Your Arsenal
7. Kill Uncle

2004 - Now

1. World Peace Is None Of Your Business
2. Years Of Refusal
3. Ringleader Of The Tormentors
4. You Are The Quarry
 
1. Viva Hate
2. Bona Drag
3. Vauxhall And I
4. Maladjusted
5. Southpaw Grammar
6. Your Arsenal
7. Kill Uncle

2004 - Now

1. World Peace Is None Of Your Business
2. Years Of Refusal
3. Ringleader Of The Tormentors
4. You Are The Quarry

I’m wondering if my ranking will change a bit in the future but right now as a whole I really do think WPINOYB is his best since Vauxhall. Crazy.
 
I’m wondering if my ranking will change a bit in the future but right now as a whole I really do think WPINOYB is his best since Vauxhall. Crazy.

I just can't rank albums at the best of times let alone Moz albums. I certainly can't rank the pre Quarry albums amongst the post Quarry albums. It's like mixing oil and water for me. Both good commodities, no better than each other. I agree though that World Peace is his best since Vauxhall.
 
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1. Your Arsenal
2. Viva Hate
3. You Are The Quarry
4. Vauxhall and I
5. Maladjusted
6. World Peace Is None of Your Business
7. Southpaw Grammar
8. Kill Uncle
9. Years of Refusal
10. Ringleader of the Tormentors
 
Southpaw
Quarry
Arsenal
Uncle
Hate
Vauxhall
Malad
Refusal
Tormentors
Peace
 
Maybe because it's still sparkling and new, but...

WPINOYB
Vaxhall and I
Your Arsenal
YATQ
Viva Hate
ROTT
Kill Uncle
Southpaw Grammer
Years of Rufusal
Maladjusted
 
1. Vauxhall & I
Predictable but it really is his best album.

2. World Peace Is None Of Your Business
Still very new, but a wonderful collection of songs, Earth Is The Loneliest Planet is probably my least favourite track here and I still like it.

3. Viva Hate
What were initially the weaker tracks in my opinion are now ones I play quite often, like I Don't Mind If You Forget Me, Alsatian Cousin and Little Man, What Now?

4. Your Arsenal
I still feel I need to put this higher, but how can I with the other 3 being so good. Brilliant from start to finish, Fatty is probably the weakest here and still raises a smile when I hear it.

5. You Are The Quarry
It could've been right up there with Vauxhall if only a couple of tracks were swapped with the b-sides of the time, I'm Not Sorry switched with The Never Played Symphonies for starters.

6. Ringleader Of The Tormentors
For Life Is A Pigsty, admittedly, it does tail off somewhat towards the end.

7. Southpaw Grammar
Underrated for the most part, now that I think of it, I could easily put it above Ringleader, I must listen to Southpaw again I think.

8. Years Of Refusal
Not a bad album by any stretch but it does seem a little one dimensional maybe and it lacks an absolute killer track like the other 2 in the 00's trio - ROTT has Pigsty, Quarry has Come Back To Camden

9. Maladjusted
Like ROTT it has a killer track in Trouble Loves Me, and there are a few others too, the title track is brilliant and the first single is good but it is rather patchy as a whole.

10. Kill Uncle
I don't like putting this last really, this was the first new studio album I bought as a Morrissey fan, and the first year I saw him live on the Kill Uncle tour, it does have a few problem tracks for me though like Found Found Found and the Harsh Truth Of The Camera Eye. In its defence it does kind of sound different to every other album he has recorded.
 
1. Vauxhall and I
2. Your Arsenal
3. Southpaw Grammar
4. Viva Hate
5. You are the Quarry
6. Kill Uncle
7. Maladjusted
8. World Peace is None of Your Business
9. Ringleader of the Tormentors
10. Years of Refusal
 
It would be interesting to see what year everyone started listening to Morrissey as well. I'll bet that can affect their top 10 list. Shockingly for most I really only got into Morrissey this year. I took me awhile but I have become addicted pretty quickly. Here's my Top 10

1) Your Arsenal
2) World Peace is None of Your Business
3) Southpaw Grammar
4) Years of Refusal
5) Swords
6) Vauxhall and I
7) Viva Hate
8) You are the Quarry
9) Kill Uncle

That's all I have so far. Collection will be completed soon.
 
1. Vauxhall & I
2. Viva Hate
3. You Are the Quarry
4. Your Arsenal
5. Southpaw Grammar
6. World Peace is None of Your Business
7. Ringleader of the Tormentors
8. Years of Refusal
9. Maladjusted
10. Kill Uncle
 
I'm so glad to see so many of you placing Vauxhall & I at the top and Years of Refusal at the bottom because that corresponds exactly with my own feeling. :)
 
1 Viva Hate (by three zillion miles)
=2 Vauxhall and Arsenal
4 World Peace (INOYB)
= 5 Kill Uncle/Maladjusted
7 The Year of Refusal
8 Ringleaders
9 You are the Quarry (the only Morrissey album to only contain one brilliant song)
10 Southpaw Grammar (the only Morrissey album not to contain at least one brilliant song)
 
1 Viva Hate (by three zillion miles)
=2 Vauxhall and Arsenal
4 World Peace (INOYB)
= 5 Kill Uncle/Maladjusted
7 The Year of Refusal
8 Ringleaders
9 You are the Quarry (the only Morrissey album to only contain one brilliant song)
10 Southpaw Grammar (the only Morrissey album not to contain at least one brilliant song)

quarry only 1 good song? what about the 4 singles from it?
 
1. Years Of Refusal
2. Vauxhall & I
3. Your Arsenal
4. Ringleader Of The Tormentors
5. Viva Hate
6. Maladjusted
7. Southpaw Grammar
8. You Are The Quarry
9. Kill Uncle
10. World Peace Is None Of Your Business
 
Studio

1) You Are The Quarry
2) Viva Hate
3) Your Arsenal
4) World Peace Is None Of Your Business
5) Vauxhall And I
6) Kill Uncle
7) Ringleader Of The Tormentors
8) Years Of Refusal
9) Southpaw Grammar
10) Maladjusted

Compilation

1) Bona Drag
2) World Of
3) The HMV/Parlophone Singles '88-'95
4) Swords
5) My Early Burglary Years

Live

1) Live At Earls Court
2) Beethoven Was Deaf

'Best Of'

1) Greatest Hits
2) Suedehead: The Best Of
3) The Best Of
4) Very Best Of

Re-issue And Deluxe

1) Viva Hate (2nd re-issue)
2) Bona Drag
3) Your Arsenal
4) World Peace Is None Of Your Business
5) Kill Uncle
6) Viva Hate (1st re-issue)
7) Southpaw Grammar
8) Maladjusted
 
quarry only 1 good song? what about the 4 singles from it?

Not 1 'good' song, 1 'brilliant' song.
Irish Blood has a good tune but rubbish lyrics. Most of Morrissey's attempts at political commentary are pretty embarrassing (the song World Peace is even worse).
Jesus is a ghastly and foolish song, although the music's ok.
Let Me Kiss You is jangly and pleasant enough but in no way a brilliant song.
First of the Gang, however, is a brilliant song.
 
Books:

1. James Dean is Not Dead
2. Exit Smiling
3. The New York Dolls
4. liner notes to Under the Influence
5. Autobiography
 
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