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Morrissey
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.1784
Morrissey Album Rankings
1
Being suicidal never felt so good...After the implosion of The Smiths in the mid-'80s, members of the band started to filter off into their own side projects.
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2
"Trudging back over pebbles and sand". Sometimes an artist needs a different mind-set in order to appreciate them. A different approach.
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3
While it isn't a gutsy rock & roll record likeYour Arsenal,Vauxhall and Iis equally impressive.
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4
If there is any one single Morrissey solo record with the chance to appeal to as many people as possible, even those strange happy people who don't usually like Morrissey, it's this.
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5
Ringleader Of The Tormentors is the sound a man with a new sense of purpose, and in this extraordinary record he's produced a masterpiece.
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6
A set of irresistible tracks both danceable and desolate
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7
Morrissey begins his third solo album, Kill Uncle (Sire/Reprise; CD, tape, bonus track on CD; 13), ready to throw up.
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8
Explode[s] with musical vitality
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9
Blur, Pulp, the London Suede.
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10
God, are the opening two songs here completely awful.
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11
As any Mozzer fan knows, his catalog is cluttered with compilations -- some good, some middling, many unnecessary.
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12
Morrissey is feeling miserable. That shouldn't surprise anyone. But what may surprise some is that Morrissey's new album,Southpaw Grammar, is his most powerful solo outing to date.
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13
First things first. This is the very first copy protected CD that won't play on my computer at all.
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14
Critics are contractually obliged to nitpick the tracklisting of compilations like this, but even by Morrissey ’s standards of perversity, Greatest Hits feels like a rum do.
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15
Eight songs, two of them over ten minutes long each, and another opening with a two minute drum solo. So, not good then? Well, having long songs doesn't mean those songs can't be good of course.
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18
The first of his solo releases not produced by Stephen Street, Ouija Board finds Morrissey allying himself with the crack production team of Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley.
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19
Recorded on the English Your Arsenal tour, the 16-track album Beethoven Was Deaf is an effective argument for Morrissey's capabilities as a live performer.
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20
Keeping guitarist Kevin Armstrong and semi-regular drummer Andrew Paresi from Ouija Board and reuniting one last time with Smiths bassist Andy Rourke, Morrissey again works with the Langer/Winstanley
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23
The first release as part of his brief musical partnership with Fairground Attraction guitarist Mark Nevin, Our Frank finds Morrissey at something of a crossroads.
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25
A moody, percussion-driven number from Kill Uncle, "Sing Your Life" itself is one of Morrissey's subtler pieces, and also one with a more upbeat and straightforward message than most.
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26
The final Langer/Winstanley production and Mark Nevin songwriting collaboration also turned up another of Morrissey's odd vocal guest appearances: in this case, Pretenders lead figure and longtime Mo
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35
In place of the okay but not knock-'em-dead "Hold on to Your Friends," Morrissey released this as the follow-up single to "The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get.
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37
Released as a stand-alone single, all three songs ended up on the World of Morrissey compilation a few months later, rendering it something of a curiosity quickly enough.
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41
While everyone remembers the glory days of The Smiths, history often overlooks, or is too embarrassed to mention, that frontman Morrissey had his own pre-grunge solo moment in the alternative-rock sun
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42
As any Mozzer fan knows, his catalog is cluttered with compilations -- some good, some middling, many unnecessary.
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