Compile a Best Of Latter-Day Morrissey Collection

Ah, well... I don't know if "superior" knowledge is the right expression, I just tend to be an insufferable smart ass.
Anyway, nice compilation!

No, that's fine, 'smart-ass'/pedant is fine too, thanks for pointing out...problem I had was, on my spreadsheet, I have the albums in columns by date, so I chose those two erroneous tracks because they appeared under Maladjusted Re-Issue 2009, which is my preferred Maladjusted version. In my haste though, I failed to cross check against the '97 version & the date of the song writing. Sort of forgivable, but not quite.
 
No, that's fine, 'smart-ass'/pedant is fine too, thanks for pointing out...problem I had was, on my spreadsheet, I have the albums in columns by date, so I chose those two erroneous tracks because they appeared under Maladjusted Re-Issue 2009, which is my preferred Maladjusted version. In my haste though, I failed to cross check against the '97 version & the date of the song writing. Sort of forgivable, but not quite.
The added tracks on the re-issues are usually b-sides or unreleased songs from the respective album eras, but there are some rather weird exceptions. Fantastic Bird on the Southpaw re-issue comes to mind, which was in fact recorded around Your Arsenal.
 
  1. My Love I’d Do Anything For You
  2. I Just Want To See The Boy Happy
  3. Istanbul
  4. The World Is Full Of Crashing Bores
  5. Spent The Day In Bed
  6. If You Don’t Like Me, Then Don’t Look At Me
  7. Never Again Will I Be A Twin
  8. Ganglord
  9. Wedding Bell Blues
  10. It’s Hard To Walk Tall When Your Small
  11. I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris
  12. Blue Dreamers Eyes
  13. Bobby, Don’t You Think They Know?
  14. Come Back To Camden
  15. You Have Killed Me
  16. Life Is A Pigsty
  17. Back On The Chain Gang
  18. Oboe Concerto
  19. Some Say I Got Devil
  20. First Of The Gang To Die
 
1 Come Back To Camden
2 Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets
3 Wedding Bell Blues
4 Mexico
5 Julie In The Weeds
6 Dear God Please Help Me
7 My Life Is A Succession Of People Saying Goodbye
8 The Bullfighter Dies
9 No One Can Hold A Candle To You
10 Istanbul
11 Sweetie Pie
12 Christian Dior
13 Lady Willpower
14 Throwing My Arms Around Paris
15 Life Is A Pigsty
16 It’s Over
17 Oboe Concerto
18 You Have Killed Me
19 Back On The Chain Gang
20 Satellite Of Love
 
The Never-Played Symphonies
First Of The Gang To Die
You Have Killed Me
Kiss Me A Lot
Irish Blood, English Heart
I Have Forgiven Jesus
The Youngest Was The Most Loved
World Peace Is None Of Your Business
That's How People Grow Up
Spent The Day In Bed
Something Is Squeezing My Skull
My Love, I'd Do Anything For You
Let Me Kiss You
Jacky's Only Happy When She's Up On The Stage
I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris
I Just Want To See The Boy Happy
Earth Is The Loneliest Planet
The Bullfighter Dies
Bobby, Don't You Think They Know?
All The Young People Must Fall In Love
 
We’re obviously all got f*** all else to do, but...

First of the Gang to Die
Irish Blood
Let me Kiss You
All the Lazy Dykes
Teenage Dad on his Estate
You Have Killed Me
Pigsty
If You Don't Like Me
Christian Dior
My Dearest Love
All you need is Me
Something is Squeezing my Hull
Paris
Because of My Poor Education
Istanbul
Art-Hounds
I Wish you Lonely
Spent the day With Ted
Chain Gang
Israel
 
1 Life is a Pigsty
2 All You Need is Me
3 Istanbul
4 I Have Forgiven Jesus
5 The Youngest Was the Most Loved
6 In the Future When All's Well
7 Sweetie Pie
8 First of the Gang to Die
9 I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris
10 Blue Dreamer's Eyes
11 I'll Never Be Anybody's Hero Now
12 Dear God, Please Help Me
13 That's How People Grow Up
14 I Just Want to See the Boy Happy
15 Good Looking Man About Town
16 Something is Squeezing My Skull
17 The World is Full of Crashing Bores
18 I Like You
19 I Will See You in Far-Off Places
Bonus: Suedehead (Mael Mix)
 
1. First Of The Gang To Die
2. Irish Blood, English Heart
3. I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris
4. You Have Kill Me
5. I Have Forgiven Jesus
6. Life Is A Pigsty
7. Back On The Chain Gang
8. Spent The Day In Bed
9. Let Me Kiss You
10. All You Need Is Me
11. In The Future When All’s Well
12. Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets
13. That’s How People Grow Up
14. I Wish You Lonely
15. Home Is A Question Mark
16. Come Back To Camden
17. Istanbul
18. I’m Not Sorry
19. You Know I Couldn’t Last
20. It’s Over
 
all you hear on here is how bad his output has been since 2004,well judging by these lists his output has been solid,some greats songs in these lists.
 
all you hear on here is how bad his output has been since 2004,well judging by these lists his output has been solid,some greats songs in these lists.

Most people who I have heard saying that everything from Quarry onwards has been poor (both on and off this site) are generally people who blame him for the end of The Smiths and have never given his solo career much of a chance.

The "Morrissey is such a racist, Johnny Marr was the talent anyway" brigade.

I've always found it fascinating how Morrissey comes back in 2004 with the most commercially successful album and set of singles of his career, embarks on a wildly popular tour and yet there's the same old faces trying to play it down.
 
Think "Morrissey has been shit since 2004" has got to be a pretty niche viewpoint. I'm sure there are some out there, but there can't be huge numbers who think that Quarry and Ringleader are terrible albums, whereas Maladjusted is brilliant.
 
Whether or not my selection is the best representation of latter-day Morrissey or not, is debatable; these are my 20 favourites Moz compositions, though:

First of the Gang to Die

You Have Killed Me

Life is a Pigsty

Scandinavia

Christian Dior

Teenage Dad on His Estate

The World is Full of Crashing Bores

Something is Squeezing My Skull

All You Need Is Me

You Were Good in Your Time

I’m Not A Man

People Are The Same Everywhere

Dear God, Please Help Me

My Love, I’d Do Anything For You

I Wish You Lonely

Home Is A Question Mark

I Bury The Living

When You Open Your Legs

Israel

I Thought You Were Dead
 
1- first of the gang to die
2- I have forgiven Jesus
3- come back to Camden
4- you have killed me
5- life is a pigsty
6- i just want to see the boy happy
7- I'll never be anybody's hero now
8- if you don't like me don't look at me
9- something is squeezing my skull
10- I'm ok by myself
11- mama lay softly on the riverbed
12- when last I spoke to Carol
13- all you need is me
14- staircase at the University
15- kiss me a lot
16- forgive someone
17- jackys only happy when she's up on the stage
18- back on the chain gang
19- morning starship
20- it's over

Something like that. I've liked all his post 2004 albums apart from low in high school, that was a pretty weak album for me.
 
1 Life Is A Pigsty
2 I Wish You Lonely
3 I'm Not a Man
4 All You Need Is Me
5 I'm OK By Myself
6 The World Is Full Of Crashing Bores
7 Some Say I Got Devil
8 Home Is A Question Mark
9 One Of Our Own
10 Oboe Concerto
11 Art Hounds
12 Wedding Bell Blues
13 I Just Want To See The Boy Happy
14 The Never-Played Symphonies
15 World Peace Is None of Your Business
16 It’s Over
17 The Public Image
18 Friday Mourning
19 The Bullfighter Dies
20 People Are The Same Everywhere
 
The World is Full of Crashing Bores
Come Back to Camden
I Like You
Friday Mourning
Dear God, Please Help Me
Human Being
The Youngest was the Most Loved
Life is a Pigsty
You Have Killed Me
Something is Squeezing my Skull
I'm Throwing my Arms Around Paris
That's How People Grow Up
Shame is the Name
Action is my Middle
Art Hounds
Istanbul
Kick the Bride Down the Aisle
Home is a Question Mark
Jacky's only Happy when She's up on the Stage
Never Again Will I be a Twin
 
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