Your Morrissey album Top 11

Thewlis

Very Senior Member
With the last album having sunk in well enough with most of us I presume, it's time for the old game.
Rank all of Morrissey's 11 studio albums, no Bona Drag allowed!!
Here's mine.

1. Vauxhall and I
2. Viva Hate
3. You Are the Quarry
4. Your Arsenal
5. Low in High School
6. Southpaw Grammar
7. World Peace is None of Your Business
8. Maladjusted
9. Kill Uncle
10. Ringleader of the Tormentors
11. Years of Refusal
 
World peace is none of your business
Viva hate
Your arsenal
Maladjusted
You are the quarry
Vauxhall and I
Years of refusal
Low in high school
Kill uncle
Ringleader of the tormentors
Southpaw

As always it’s subject to change depending on I’m tired of and how I’m feeling. The bottom four feel fairly consistent and the group in the middle are all so close that almost anything could move them around. I will say that though I didn’t add bona drag and swords they are both albums that I love and would be in my top four if I was adding them
 
1) Kill Uncle
2) Viva Hate
3) Ringleader of the Tormentors
4) You are the Quarry
5) Maladjusted
6) Vauxhall and I
7) Southpaw Grammar
8) World Peace is None of Your Business.
9) Years of Refusal
10) Your Arsenal ( I REALLY love Tomorrow though! But one song can't lift it up the list)
11) Low in High School

(But Bona Drag is my favourite, although I know why it’s not on the list!)
 
  1. You Are the Quarry
  2. Vauxhall and I
  3. Ringleader
  4. Viva Hate
  5. Your Arsenal
  6. Years of Refusal
  7. LIHS
  8. World Peace
  9. Kill Uncle
  10. Maladjusted
  11. Southpaw
 
I'll play:

Viva hate
Your arsenal
Vauxhall and I
World peace is none of your business
Ringleader of the tormentors
Low in high school
You are the quarry
Southpaw
Years of refusal
Kill uncle
Maladjusted
 
Volkshalle and I
Ringleader of the Sturmentors
Jew are the Quarry
Your Anschluss
Years of Reichsfuhrer
Kill Uncle Yitzchak
Low in Heil School
One Thousand Years of World Peace is None of Your Business
Viva Hate
 
Vauxhall and I
Your Arsenal
World Peace is None of Your Business
Viva Hate
Maladjusted
Low in High School
You are the Quarry
Ringleader of the Tormentors
Years of Refusal
Kill Uncle
Southpaw Grammar


Top three are pretty much unassailable. The rest depends on my mood. Sometimes, for example, I'm in a Kill Uncle mood; and, when I am, I love it.
 
You Are The Quarry
Viva Hate
Your Arsenal
Low In High School
Vauxhall And I
World Peace Is None Of Your Business
Kill Uncle
Ringleader Of The Tormentors
Years Of Refusal
Southpaw Grammar
Maladjusted
 
Your Arsenal
Southpaw Grammar
Vauxhall And I
Maladjusted
Ringleader Of The Tormentors
Years Of Refusal
You Are The Quarry
Viva Hate
Kill Uncle
World Peace Is None Of Your Business
Low In High School
 
Vauxhall and I
Your Arsenal
World Peace is None of Your Business
Viva Hate
Maladjusted
Low in High School
You are the Quarry
Ringleader of the Tormentors
Years of Refusal
Kill Uncle
Southpaw Grammar


Top three are pretty much unassailable. The rest depends on my mood. Sometimes, for example, I'm in a Kill Uncle mood; and, when I am, I love it.

I agree about kill uncle. It’s a tough one to rate. It’s not that it’s a bad album but I’ve always described it as slight so it’s only great when I’m in a particular mood
 
I don't consider myself obstinate, provocative or 'edgy' (I will leave that to those far better qualified here :) )
That said, I truly can't rank the albums.
I've bought hundreds of singles, 12"s and multiple copies of albums etc and never really rated them in that manner.
Viva... was special to me because the horror I felt seeing The Smiths break and then seeing the chaos and excitement at Wolverhampton thereafter and the fact there even was an album - well, I return to it always because of this.
The critical response to Vauxhall renewed my love of the music - it made me glad to be a 'fan' and that body of work is still something I'd never turn off if I heard it.
Maladjusted, too, has me returning to it - for reasons not befitting a web forum.
Quarry - with its build-up, marketing (being a huge fan of the Attack products/iconography) and coming back from the 'wilderness' remains a high point too (that 'wilderness' seemed like forever).
Mentioning these specifically doesnt diminish my love of other albums though.
Obviously, one thing to mention is that some of the tracks we all love and listen to repeatedly never featured on any 'official' album.
Regards,
FWD.
 
1. Southpaw Grammar
2. Your Arsenal
3. Vauxhall & I
4. World Peace Is None Of Your Business (deluxe)
5. Years of Refusal
6. Viva Hate
7. Maladjusted
8. Ringleader of the Tormentors
9. You Are The Quarry
10. Kill Uncle
11. Low In High School
 
With the last album having sunk in well enough with most of us I presume, it's time for the old game.
Rank all of Morrissey's 11 studio albums, no Bona Drag allowed!!
Here's mine.

1. Vauxhall and I
2. Viva Hate
3. You Are the Quarry
4. Your Arsenal
5. Low in High School
6. Southpaw Grammar
7. World Peace is None of Your Business
8. Maladjusted
9. Kill Uncle
10. Ringleader of the Tormentors
11. Years of Refusal

1. Bona Drag

Only joking!

I like 'em all and the only ones I was truly concerned about were the first five. The rest could go in any order and I'd still be happy!

1. World Peace...
2. Low in High School
3. Viva Hate
4. Years of Refusal
5. Vauxhall and I
6. You Are The Quarry
7. Ringleader of The Tormentors
8. Your Arsenal
9. Maladjusted
10. Southpaw Grammar
11. Kill Uncle
 
1. Vauxhall and I
2. You Are The Quarry
3. World Peace... (deluxe)
4. Viva Hate
5. Your Arsenal
6. Low in High School
7. Ringleader of The Tormentors
8. Years of Refusal
9. Maladjusted
10. Southpaw Grammar
11. Kill Uncle
 
Glad to see the love for world peace. Despite the silliness surrounding its launch it and swords has been my go to morrissey albums for a while now. To me it’s a classic morrissey
 
1) Viva Hate
2) Vauxhall
3) Your Arsenal
4) Ringleader
5) Maladjusted
6) Quarry
7) Kill Uncle
8) Years Of Refusal
9) Southpaw
10) World Peace
11) Low In High School
 
1) Vauxhall and I 10/10
2) You are the Quarry 10/10
3) Maladjusted 10/10
4) Viva Hate 10/10
5) Ringleader of the Tormentors 9.5/10
6) Low in High School 9/10
7) Your Arsenal 8.5/10
8) Years of Refusal 8/10
9) World Peace 8/10
10) Kill Uncle 7.5/10
11) Southpaw Grammar 6.5/10
 
1.Southpaw Grammar
2.Your Arsenal
3.Vauxhall And I
4.Viva Hate
5.You Are The Quarry
6.Maladjusted
7.Kill Uncle
8.Low In High School
9.Years of refusal
10.Ringleader Of The Tormentors
11.world peace bollocks
 
Not much love for Kill Uncle so far is there! It was my first Moz Tour and holds great memories for me.
 
First Division
1. Vauxhall
2. Ringleader

Second Division
3. Viva Hate
4. Your Arsenal
5. YAT Quarry
6. Years of Refusal
7. Southpaw

Third Division
8. Kill Uncle
9. Maladjusted

North West Counties Football League
10. Low in High School
11. World Peace

I'd predict that I am not going to end up listening to future releases very much, so this can probably be considered definitive.
 
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