Your 10 least favourite Morrissey tracks

[gordyboy9]

I don’t mind if you forget me
The harsh truth of the camera eye
We’ll let you know
All the lazy dykes
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The only songs I like and still listen to from his last four albums are Istanbul and River Clean. The rest is awful.

so out of 40 songs you like 2,that sounds a ridiculous statement to me,but thats just me.

as for me i like everything,there iv said it.

 

[William Fisher]

The Kid’s A Looker
Papa Jack
He Cried
Journalists Who Lie
I Bury the Living
Who Will Protect Us From the Police?
You Know I Couldn’t Last
Lover-To-Be
This Song Doesn’t End When It’s Over
Sorrow Will Come In the End

 

[Nikita]

By year, the one I dislike (and the one I prefer):

1988: The Ordinary Boys (Everyday is Like Sunday)
1989: East West (Such A Little Thing Makes A Big Difference)
1990: At Amber (November Spawned a Monster)
1991: Journalists Who Lie (Driving Your Girlfriend Home)
1992: You're The One For Me Fatty (We'll Let You Know)
1994: The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get (Speedway)
1995: Do Your Best and Don't Worry (Nobody Loves Us)
1997: a lot to chose from, probably Sorrow Will Come in The End (Trouble Loves Me)
2004: Slum Mums (First of the Gang to Die)
2006: To Me You are a Work of Art (Life is a Pigsty)
2008:That's How People Grow Up (My Dearest Love)
2009: Black Cloud or You Were Good in Your Time, can't decide myself (When Last I Spoke to Carol)
2014: The Bullfighter Dies (Kiss Me a Lot (No, it is not a joke, I love it))
2017: Who Will Protect Us From the Police? (When You Open Your Legs)
2019: When You Close Your Eyes (Some Say I Got Devil)
2020: What Kind of People Live in These Houses? (Bobby, Don't You Think They Know?)

 

[Roman Holiday]

1991: Journalists Who Lie

I must've forgotten about this stinker when I made my list. Just awful. I guess I'll switch out All the Young People Must Fall in Love and put in Journalists Who Lie.

 

[Art-Hound]

I think I've come to terms with the fact that Morrissey isn't the song writer he once was. While I am forever hopeful of a return to form, the quality of songs since World Peace (and, to a lesser extent, Refusal) have generally been subpar, and I don't imagine we will ever return to the heights of Vauxhall or Bona Drag.

There are some songs pre-World Peace which I pass over or am not overly fond of, but they're still okay; since World Peace, however, there have been some truly terrible, sometimes unlistenable, songs. I think the first time I heard "Who Will Protect Us From the Police", I couldn't listen to it the whole way through, and the same is true of most of Low in High School. That said, on the whole, I do like Dog as an album, even if I don't return to the songs very often.

 

[gashonthenail]

I think I've come to terms with the fact that Morrissey isn't the song writer he once was. While I am forever hopeful of a return to form, the quality of songs since World Peace (and, to a lesser extent, Refusal) have generally been subpar, and I don't imagine we will ever return to the heights of Vauxhall or Bona Drag.

There are some songs pre-World Peace which I pass over or am not overly fond of, but they're still okay; since World Peace, however, there have been some truly terrible, sometimes unlistenable, songs. I think the first time I heard "Who Will Protect Us From the Police", I couldn't listen to it the whole way through, and the same is true of most of Low in High School. That said, on the whole, I do like Dog as an album, even if I don't return to the songs very often.

Some might point out that the dip in quality began with Alain leaving and Jesse Tobias arriving? That definitely marked a noticeable change in the Morrissey sound, for good or ill.

 

[Art-Hound]

Some might point out that the dip in quality began with Alain leaving and Jesse Tobias arriving? That definitely marked a noticeable change in the Morrissey sound, for good or ill.

To some extent, I agree, but I don't think it's simply a change in the musical style/cowriter; that is, Morrissey's lyrics are far less interesting and insightful now.

 

[gashonthenail]

To some extent, I agree, but I don't think it's simply a change in the musical style/cowriter; that is, Morrissey's lyrics are far less interesting and insightful now.

A good lyricist though needs good music? Isn't Morrissey's usual 'modus operandi' to receive some music from his co-writer, and then write some lyrics to go with that music? I imagine sometimes it's the other way round, lyrics first and then the music, but music first is what he has mentioned in several interviews. If the music he receives is not great, then maybe the lyrics won't be great either?

 

[Roman Holiday]

A good lyricist though needs good music? Isn't Morrissey's usual 'modus operandi' to receive some music from his co-writer, and then write some lyrics to go with that music? I imagine sometimes it's the other way round, lyrics first and then the music, but music first is what he has mentioned in several interviews. If the music he receives is not great, then maybe the lyrics won't be great either?

I think somewhere he was questioned about his process, and he said he's "always writing"—snippets, lines, observations, &c. So it might be that he gets the music, and then puts lyrics (already written) to that. It's known that Bengali In Platforms and Home Is A Question Mark went through different co-writers.

In two songs on Bonfire, the not-great lyrics have decent music. Kerouac's Crack is reminiscent of the Sunny/Boxers mold, and I Ex-Love You is a nice homage to cute 60s Mersey-pop. In both cases I think the lyric is the weakest aspect of the song (appallingly so with Kerouac's Crack).

 

[ZOOM FROM GLOOM]

Even my least favorites are great because they have their moments, moments that only an artist like Morrissey can bring to a pop song.

TL;DR … not a bad one in the bunch.

 

[ZOOM FROM GLOOM]

I think somewhere he was questioned about his process, and he said he's "always writing"—snippets, lines, observations, &c. So it might be that he gets the music, and then puts lyrics (already written) to that. It's known that Bengali In Platforms and Home Is A Question Mark went through different co-writers.

In two songs on Bonfire, the not-great lyrics have decent music. Kerouac's Crack is reminiscent of the Sunny/Boxers mold, and I Ex-Love You is a nice homage to cute 60s Mersey-pop. In both cases I think the lyric is the weakest aspect of the song (appalling so with Kerouac's Crack).

Yeah. Speculating, he probably writes bits and half’s of songs, then a piece of music sets the mood and inspires him to put it all together. Sometimes waiting for the right music to come along.

Morrissey during a show called Veronica not really songwriting but more of a brain sneeze, or his brain sneezing.

So I think he’s fully aware and doesn’t mind at this point in his life that his songs are no longer going to change the world, or save people’s lives, etc.

 

[Ryan]

By year, the one I dislike (and the one I prefer):

1988: The Ordinary Boys (Everyday is Like Sunday)
1989: East West (Such A Little Thing Makes A Big Difference)
1990: At Amber (November Spawned a Monster)
1991: Journalists Who Lie (Driving Your Girlfriend Home)
1992: You're The One For Me Fatty (We'll Let You Know)
1994: The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get (Speedway)
1995: Do Your Best and Don't Worry (Nobody Loves Us)
1997: a lot to chose from, probably Sorrow Will Come in The End (Trouble Loves Me)
2004: Slum Mums (First of the Gang to Die)
2006: To Me You are a Work of Art (Life is a Pigsty)
2008:That's How People Grow Up (My Dearest Love)
2009: Black Cloud or You Were Good in Your Time, can't decide myself (When Last I Spoke to Carol)
2014: The Bullfighter Dies (Kiss Me a Lot (No, it is not a joke, I love it))
2017: Who Will Protect Us From the Police? (When You Open Your Legs)
2019: When You Close Your Eyes (Some Say I Got Devil)
2020: What Kind of People Live in These Houses? (Bobby, Don't You Think They Know?)

Hating “When You Close Your Eyes” but loving “When You Open Your Legs” sounds like a line lifted from List Of The Lost.