Should i listen to The Smiths, I didn't like Bona Drag, Your Arsenal and half of Viva Hate.
you have backwards land opinions, so you probably wouldn't like the smiths.
Also forgot to say i have heard a few Smith song before and i didn't like em(How Soon is Now, Please Please and There is A Light)
Give The Smiths and Meat is Murder a try.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0KCDcRNTFo&ab_channel=CometaHalley
>>66359591
>>66359833
I'll give The S/T album a try.
Garbage taste
>>66359286
you at least liked vauxhall right
>>66361348
Yes, Vauxhall was probably my favorite or second.
>>66359286
>>66359591
>>66359833
>>66360243
Aside from a few good tracks (This Charming Man, Hand in Glove, Reel Around the Fountain and Still Ill), this is a fairly disappointing album. There are too many moments where nothing is happening musically and the lyrics/vocals are clearly not fully developed as this is the first Smith album, overall i’d rate the album an 5/10 probably won’t be listening to the rest of The Smiths discography and just stick to Morrissey’s solo stuff.
>>66361722
Curious how would you rank the solo albums
>>66361888
1.Vauxhall And I
2.World Peace is None of Your Business
3.Ringleader of The Tormentors
4.You Are The Quarry
5.My Early Burglary Years
6.Southpaw grammar [Legacy Edition]
7.Viva Hate
8.Maladjusted [Legacy Edition]
9.Years of Refusal
10.Your Arsenal
11.Bona Drag
12.Kill Uncle
>>66359286
give this song a chance m8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=700I5J_305I
>>66362189
I like it, it's better than most of The S/T album. though still prefer Hand In Glove and Still Ill,
>>66362156
I agree on 1 and 12 but I cannot fathom how the rest of this list came together.
Morrissey on censorship, this paper just came out quite the hilarious read.
>>66362768
Morrissey satanist confirmed.
>>66362768
>>66362846
>>66362768
>>66362846
>>66362907
Everyone should do themselves a favor and watch the Ouija Board video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8V82TXOzm0&ab_channel=officialmorrissey
>>66363041
Is that Waynetta Slob / Perry (of Kevin & Perry fame)?
>>66363387
Yeah that's Kathy Burke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOdoJWzxDJE
Best Morrissey solo song coming through
Fun fact Johnny Marr's favorite Morrissey solo song is Ouija Board.
>>66363531
Have you heard the extended version?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i7m0dx7G-Y&ab_channel=Morrissey-Topic
Have you bought yours yet, /mu/?
>>66363778
I would but i'm to poor, i guess i'll remain hidden by rags.
>>66362768
i love this arrogant twat
>>66359286
Listen to miserable lie, that falsetto
>>66363976
Read >>66361722
>>66359286
This is a truly puzzling opinion, but I guess I can see how it's possible. Which half of Viva Hate did you dislike? It's basically Strangeways, Here We Come, Part 2. Strangeways is a massive shift from the self titled album, you might like it
>>66363531
I enjoy this version most, with the outro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4Gsshbch5g&spfreload=10
>>66364186
I Don't Mind If You Forget Me
Alsatian Cousin
Little Man, What Now
Angel,Angel Down We Go Together
Margaret On The Guillotine.
>>66364331
In that case I'd say give Strangeways a listen if you have the time. It's close to the parts of Viva Hate you seemed to like
>>66364186
Well with Morrissey and most music i like in general i listen for the lyrics and vocals.
>>66364390
I'll give it a try.
>>66359286
dude really?
hatful of hallow and the queen is dead are some of the greatest records of all time. How can one claim to like Morrissey without listening to those gems?
>>66364596
We i've heard the songs that people say are the best Smith songs and i didn't like them.
Also for the record my favorite song was 'Why Don't You Find Out For Yourself'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQvy2uu2BV0&ab_channel=Mashmash07
Never listened to a Morrissey album, but I've been sort of obsessed with this song for the past couple days after it was posted in a "what are you listening to" thread:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-MHECOqrwM
>>66365045
Another favorite 'Come Back To Camden' both songs not terribly interesting musically but have really good vocals and lyrics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6kf6olVaoo&ab_channel=ThomasEdwardFreeman
>>66365076
A song so good even David Bowie did a cover of.
>>66365246
I just listened to that. It's not bad.
>>66365271
You might like this song also.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZS5scNrSVc&ab_channel=NekoStrak
>>66365076
Vauxhall and I is a really great album, and I guess the songs are pretty similar to what you posted
>>66365076
Another gem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiEm1Qz2GOs&ab_channel=DansenOpWagner
>>66365326
>>66365377
>>66365593
thanks guys
Anyone else seen this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7cU-DDy1F4&ab_channel=TheChrisGethardShow
>>66364390
I just finished listening to Strangeways it was better than The S/T Album, but eh i'd rate it an 7/10
Best Songs
>Paint A Vulgar Picture
>A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours
Worst Songs
>Death At One's Elbow
>Girlfriend In A Coma
On the subject of Morrissey i remember listening to this song every day during High School.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8ASok9tBWc&ab_channel=rgmu101
>>66363041
its just too cringe
its kinda funny but I keep having to stop watching just so I stop wincing from embarrassment
>>66366717
That's kinda the point just like the November Spawned A Monster video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TndBViTADMI&ab_channel=RHINO
>>66366764
oh I know but that's gotta be one of my favourite ever videos
Morrissey cringe is great but the old woman in that vid (not Kathy Burke) is too embarrassing for words. And definitely not in a good way
>>66366717
He was operating on a level of post-irony unheard of in the 80s
>>66366244
That's a shame. It's the closet they ever were to his solo output.
You might find this funny: the piano on Death of a Disco Dancer was improv'd by Morrissey during the recording, and he refused to let Marr redo it
>>66366855
Ah ok have you seen the Dagenham Dave, Girlfriend In A Coma and You're The One For Me Fatty videos cause they're quite funny.
>>66362768
>I should be applauded for even trying
post yfw you realize Morrissey is a 60 year old Millennial
>>66366966
He was being sarcastic, also he's 57.
>>66366873
Well the reason i like Morrissey's music is for the lyrics and vocals and the lyrics/ in this album weren't that good
Yo /mu/. Been writing stuff, like full on songs, in my head while at work, but I've been having trouble getting back into actually playing. Anyone else have this problem? Is it even a problem?
Anyway, how's your music coming along, anons?
>>66367195
Oops, meant to post in catalog. Sorry OP
>not liking Bona Drag
>>66367220
If it helps, I thought Your Uncle was a pretty comfy album.
>>66367195
Here's a little motivation for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asJ9FNUfQD4&ab_channel=officialmorrissey
>>66367032
S a m e
A g e
A s
P r i n c e
>>66367271
Well Morrissey ain't drug addict like Prince so?
>>66367242
>Liking Bona Drag
He's so charming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZDI4PIq8_s&ab_channel=Benedetta84
We could have new Morrissey music on the way!(Person in photo is Morrissey's guitarist)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BHyDpu3gUGz/
>>66368197
After WPINOYB i'm very excited for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lslM6VMwtg&ab_channel=tangkad99
Listen to the Queen is dead what the fuck are you waiting for
What clueless fuck recommended the self titled first
You're all fucking stupid
>>66368197
Oh shit hype!!
>>66368197
It'll probably suck but i'm excited anyway.
>>66368197
Please don't suck.
Don't really care about a new Morrissey album just wanted to post his gif.
>>66367572
how could you not like bona drag -_-
>>66368475
>>66368534
>>66368590
>>66368657
November Spawned A Monster has a weird video.
>>66368675
How could you LIKE Bona Drag.
>>66368711
I think you mean the best video
>>66368737
Just stop
More Morrissey dancing gifs!
>>66368197
>>66368197
Eh i'm sure the diehards will buy it but i just can't bring myself to caring.
>>66367572
>not liking Bona Drag
>>66367256
Just what I needed, anon :)
DONT REPLY THIS IS BAIT
I REPEAT
THIS IS BAIT
>>66362156
>not liking Viva Hate
>not liking Kill Uncle
Bad taste.
Facts.
>>66371808
The white album is the beatles, not the smiths
>>66371808
meat is murder > the queen is dead > s/t
>>66371808
FACTS
>>66362156
Garbage list
>>66371808
Meat is Murder is the best Smith album though.
>You can pin and mount me like a butterfly
is this the best moment in the history of music?
>>66364724
Listen to Hatful Of Hollow, The Queen Is Dead, and Meat Is Murder, not they're self titled. Big Smiths fan here and even I think that it's complete garbage
>>66373401
>>66373492
BUT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN
>>66373522
Bees knees tend to be used by them for carrying pollen - hence they are wonderous things, and so it means "You're great".
But the line "Two lumps please, you're the bees knees, but so am I" is used to suggest boredom - ie people who have nothing to say to one another once the niceties have been done away with.
>>66373555
I had read somewhere that bees knees meant "really good at sex" in this context. maybe genius.com
>>66373596
The phrase "the bee's knees", means "the height of excellence"
>>66373596
The song itself could conceivably be about child molestation, although I doubt it.
I think it's relatively straightforward; a young (though not necessarily too young) person falls in love with a persuasive, and probably somewhat strange, older peer. The two carry on a brief and most likely clandestine romance that has a significant transformative influence on the younger individual's psyche. The relationship ends. They part ways.
It happens.
How great is Ringleader of The Tormentors, it's easily his most underrated album and it also has his best album cover.
>>66373875
Ringleader is pretty underrated the B-sides definitely should have made the album.
>>66374072
Morrissey/Smiths have some pretty god tier B-sides, also the artwork is pretty great.
>>66374139
Luckily he releases them as compilations.
>>66374139
More great B-side art.
>>66374434
"Why must you betray me ice cream"
>>66374139
>>66374434
>>66374506
>>66373478
Eh i'll guess i'll give a Hatful a try.
>>66374139
>>66374434
>>66374506
>>66374548
>>66372828
>>66359286
>>66362156
Yeah what the fuck? Is it opposite day?
>>66374951
thinking of getting myself a pair of glasses like the ones moz wears in that picture
they're shurons, right?
>>66375085
Yes.
>>66374951
>>66374548
>>66374506
>>66374434
The Smiths had some great covers also.
My favorite of the Singles cover, used to have it on a shirt.
>>66373478
>>66374683
First off i just wanna say the HoH versions of the S/T songs range from garbage to ok, except maybe What Difference Does It Make.
The songs i’ve haven’t heard range from good to awful, These Things Take Time lyrics wise is very good everything else is awful, i’ve heard How Soon Is Now? Before though i didn’t like it then and i still don’t like it,Handsome Devil lyrics and music wise it’s very good though it sounds like Morrissey had a cold during the entire song like several of the songs on this album,Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now meh is what i thought it, it' ok but that’s about it,
This Night Has Opened My Eyes is probably my favorite song of this album and probably my favorite Smith song,Accept Yourself good lyrics bland music, Girl Afraid is probably my second favorite song off the album,Back To The Old House like the lyrics and kinda like the music don’t like the singing, Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want another song i’ve heard before and also didn’t like it then and still don’t like it.
Overall i’d rate the album a 6/10
Favorite Songs
>This Night Has Opened My Eyes
>Girl Afraid
>Accept Yourself
>William It Was Really Nothing
Least Favorite Songs
>How Soon Is Now
>These Things Take Time
>This Charming Man
>You’ve Got Everything Now
>>66375660
>6/10
>>66375660
Kill yourself
>>66375660
>>66375660
>>66375660
How would you guys rank The Smiths and Morrisseys albums?
https://www.neverendingchartrendering.org
>>66375660
Shit opinons are every where nowadays.
>>66376543
Ain't he perfect.
speedway is comfortably one of the best album closers of all time
>>66377188
>listened to 15 Morrissey related albums and none of them are The Queen is Dead
wtf, why?
>>66377685
Have you heard how good it sounds live?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0RD7txljPI&ab_channel=hackum1
>>66377795
Not a fan of The Smiths as much as his solo stuff and The Smiths stuff i've heard which people have recommended me and i wasn't nearly as fond of.
Just heard this today wondered what /mu/ thinks of it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0nDU-h5Zck&ab_channel=just,Morrissey&TheSmiths
Favorite Smith album.
>>66378720
Meat is Murder
>>66378720
Strangeways
Queen is Dead > Strangeways > S/T > Meat is Murder
>>66378720
The Queen is Dead
>>66378720
S/T
>>66368534
What a fag!
>>66378416
Pretty good most of the tracks are on the Maladjusted [Legacy Edition]
>>66377644
No one will ever be as perfect as him
>>66375660
How could some one have such a bad opinion.
>>66377886
Oh.
>I'm Starved of mirth, Let's go and kick a dwarf
Kek
>>66381389
>And then just To pass time; let us go and rob the blind
KEK
>>66378416
better than anything on maladjusted itself frankly.
>>66381522
Well i'd defend Alma Matters and Trouble Loves Me but others i agree, also the bonus tracks on The Southpaw reissue are also really good.
>>66371808
this is shit
strangeways is their signature "le look at me guys i like the bad and unpopular one!!!!" album, it is by definition contrarian.
the queen is dead is my favorite and their best but it's pleb as shit.
meat is murder is not contrarian. it's not really patrician either so it's pleb. and so is the s/t. the smiths are my favorite band but i don't think they ever made any truly patrician music.
>>66381834
That's what Morrissey solo music is.
>>66381834
Morrisseys solo stuff is pretty patrician
>>66381834
i think you should get off the internet for a while lad
>>66382388
i think you should suck my dick
>>66382459
>>66381522
That's not saying much lol
ANOTHER MORRISSEY THREAD.
>>66363531
>Saw the link
>"Best Morrissey song"
>Immediately start thinking of Piccadilly Palare
>Probably not Piccadilly Palare
>Open link
>It's Piccadilly Palare
Mein neger
>>66383580
>Using a Kim Kardashian meme in current year
>>66383740
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4Gsshbch5g&ab_channel=HenryNer
True patrician
So how did /mu/ get into Morrissey/Smiths
>>66384711
Through friends who would tell me i would like them because they're depressing.
>>66384711
Through the constant Morrissey/Smith threads on /mu/
>>66362156
1. Vauxhall and I
2. Southpaw Grammar
3. Viva Hate
4. Your Arsenal
5. Maladjusted
6. Kill Uncle
7. You are the Quarry
8. Ringleader of the Tormentors
Haven't listened to his latest output and te rest are compilations
>>66359286
What did you think of Southpaw Grammar?
>>66385151
I would recommend giving WPINOYB a try it's really good, mainly tracks 6-18.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AefW7uCP9w&ab_channel=DominicFoxx
>>66385172
I liked it though i heard the expanded edition version, my biggest complaint was that Southpaw, The Teacher and The Operation were way too long.
>>66385216
Thanks, I will! I have actually listened to this one song and enjoyed it tremendously.
Also, I made this flowchart a while ago, thoughts?
>>66384711
back when i was a pleb still using spotify, i added their discography to my library because i heard about them somewhere. i originally kept putting it off as your typical tumblrcore garbage until one night i decided to listen to it to see for myself it was really as bad as the other stuff those fags like. i picked the queen is dead first because it was the shortest album. best decision ever.
>>66385305
Agree with that chart, though Years of Refusal ain't there and it would probably for in between Your Arsenal and Southpaw grammar.
>>66385401
>>66385513
i hate that website so much
>>66359286
fun fact, Johnny Marr is what made the Smiths great, not Morrissey.
>>66385616
Talking about the song 'Pretty Girls Make Graves'
>>66385853
Cause Johnny Marr's solo career has been so great right?
>>66385882
I remember them being pretty upset when 'Kick The Bride Down The Aisle' came out
What's with all the Morrissey threads lately.
>>66378720
The Queen is Dead
>>66384711
(500) Days of Summer.
>>66385882
/pol/ was right
again
>>66378720
Strangeways
>>66385513
>>66385882
From The SoLow forums
>>66384711
Through "The Perks Of Being A Wallflower"
>>66386663
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2lLoSNkYos&ab_channel=IsraelMacedoSerna
>>66386754
>She just wants a slave To break his back in pursuit of a living wage So that she can laze and graze For the rest of her days
Just listen to the queen is dead. It's one of the my favorite records of all time and by far the best of the smiths discography.
>>66371808
I can accept this.
>>66386196
Because a lot of people want to talk about him.
the boy with the meat in his mouth
>>66384711
I just listened to the queen is dead and loved it the first time I listened through it.
I think spotify put me onto it by the weekly playlist thing.
>>66387041
Your Meat is Murdering my ass.
>>66387075
when ur meat is getting murdered
>>66384711
Through a songs to kill yourself to playlist.
the cure is still better
>And below their belt is shriveled and small it knows a thousand woes
What did he mean by this?
>>66387213
tiny dicc
>>66359372
>you have backwards land opinions, so you probably would* like the smiths.
FTFY
>>66387186
Also that photo is photoshopped before you ask the original photo has James Dean in the frame.
>You made me feel less alone
>You made me feel not quite so deformed, uninformed and hunchbacked
>Time takes all breath away you were good in your time and we thank you
Morrissey will most likely die within our life times.
>>66387543
You Were Good In Your Time is one of my favorite songs of all time and easily of the most underrated.
>>66387610
Truly amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ncs0dYMFun8&ab_channel=Morrissey-Topic
havent heard the smiths yet dont like them
hmm
nobody should be posting in this thread
>>66387610
Years of Refusal as a whole is very underrated.
>>66387660
Reminds me of Rubber Ring.
>>66384711
Through a Spotify artist recommendation playlist.
>>66386663
>>66384711
Through Fifa 05 they had Irish Blood English Heart in there.
>TFW you realize you'll never rest your hand on his sacred head
Why even live boys?
>>66388284
He's so perfect.
>>66388469
And Sexy.
>>66387722
God you have awful music taste.
>>66384711
As a teenager I fell into liking the Toronto-based indie bands that centre around Broken Social Scene. They all listed the Smiths as their major influence, so that's where I heard of them. Then I saw them come up on tv so I left it on and soon enough I'd listened to all of their albums and made them my favourite band
>>66384711
Through Pretty In Pink.
>>66371808
Swap Strangeways with Meat Is Murder and I agree
I LOVE MORRISSEY
>>66378720
S/T
>>66388284
>>TFW you realize you'll never rest your hand on his sacred head
that's right, I'd reach for his head, but I'd just grab a giant glob of pomade
>>66359286
yes you should listen to the smiths the fuck man are you kidding me? one of the 5 greatest bands of all time.
>>66384711
Through friends.
>>66378720
Meat is Murder
>>66359286
How long did it take you, anon? Did you just listen straight through or take your time?
OP just listen to The Queen is Dead, I don't give a shit if you didn't like the singles just do it.
What are the gayest Morrissey/The smiths songs
>>66391797
Reel Around the Fountain
>>66384711
That scene in the original MTV Jackass show where Chris Pontious is rollerblading around London in a dress to The Smiths song "Panic"
>>66387075
that's like listening to david byrne's discography before listening to talking heads. you dun goofed.
>>66390871
About a 10 days
>>66391797
Best Friend On The Payroll because it's actually about a gay relationship.
>>66394192
Well Morrissey's solo stuff is better than The Smiths so.
VH1's failed effort to reunite The Smiths.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5THePswGwQ&ab_channel=JosueDominguez
This thread is still going
>>66397626
/mu/ loves morrissey
"His Most underrated" who else would agree with that.
>>66397674
Kill Uncle takes that.
>>66397674
I'd agree.
>>66397674
Eh Ringleader of The Tormentors is.
What albums would /MU/ recommend to get into Morrissey's solo stuff
>>66398588
Viva Hate or
Bona Drag
>>66398588
Vauxhall And I is his best
>>66397674
moz probably
he really likes those two albums, a lot more than the solo stuff that came before. their lukewarm reception coupled with the smiths trial is probably why he disappeared for like 7 years after maladjusted
i'm all for reissuing albums with new stuff but the morrissey camp really screwed up with his solo records; reordering, removing and adding songs, different edits and mixes. just a mess in general. like removing roy's keen, wasn't that deemed good enough to become a single at one point?
maybe it's just me but unless your albums were fucked over for non-artistic reasons like label interference or in-studio incompetence (heartbreakers L.A.M.F. for example) you can't go around presenting 'new' or 'definitive' versions of them, because then it's bound to happen in perpetuity
and while southpaw got a nice cover, this artwork is far from 'stunning'
>>66399023
>>66399929
Thanks guys i'll give those a try.
>>66398588
this
or if you're an autist about it: bona drag
>>66399964
The Vauxhall And I and Your Arsenal had good reissues, just straight remasters and a bonus disc of a concert.
>>66400014
Ok i'll give that one a try also.
>>66399964
Well Roy's Keen and Papa Jack are quite shit songs, so i don't really miss them and the Rare Tracks are better then the main album tracks except Alma Matters and Trouble Loves Me.
>>66399964
Well Southpaw Grammar only remastered the tracks, shuffled the order of the songs and added 4 songs.
>>66400019
yeah i agree, it's a shame they straightened them up so late though
on the other hand i'm glad they did, because true horror would be moz deciding to replace now my heart is full with fucking moonriver or have-a-go merchant or something
>>66400131
well regardless of song quality i think it's a shit practice. morrissey's discography just became an ever bigger mess than it already is
>>66400332
that one didn't sting as much, sure, but would it be okay to reissue, say, abbey road with a different track order, add a couple of songs, switch out polythene pam and the end with the anthology versions and put it out like pic related? i dunno man
>>66400598
Well Southpaw had a botched release on purpose because Morrissey didn't want to resign with Sony and the Melody is one song and Southpaw doesn't really have a good flow to it anyway.
>>66400598
Not really a mess just buy
Viva Hate [Standard]
Bona Drag [Standard]
Kill Uncle [Standard]
Your Arsenal [Remastered]
Vauxhall And I [Remastered]
Revelation
Southpaw Grammar [Expanded]
Maladjusted [Standard]
Rare Tracks
My Early Burglary Years
You Are The Quarry [Standard]
Ringleader of The Tormentors
Years of Refusal
Swords
WPINOYB [Deluxe]
>>66400860
that is the definition of a mess my man
and even with that you're still missing out on some stuff
>>66400904
The only song worthwhile being missed out are
Pregnant For The Last Time
Mexico
I Am Two People
Human Being
I Know Very Well How I Got My Name
Morrissey's solo work is true patrician.
>>66401473
this is correct
