13 Morrissey studio albums ranking

Original UK version (without Sorrow) is perhaps the most rewarding, for me.

For me, it vies with Achtung Baby for the best studio album of the 90s. I also think it’s better than any of The Smiths’ long players.
That seems fair. I didn’t like Achtung Baby on first listen. So different. But boy did it grow on me! Very good. For me, favorite 90’s albums are Vauxhall, OK Computer (don’t listen to it now as much), Achtung Baby, and Different Class. Also Wish.
 
1 - Vauxhall
2 - Maladjusted
3 - Your Arsenal
4 - Viva Hate
5 - Kill Uncle
6 - You are the Quarry
7 - Ringleaders
8 - I am not a dog on a chain
9 - Southpaw
10 - Low in High School
11 - California Son
12 - Years of Refusal
13 - World Peace
 
Original material only

1 - Vauxhall and I
2 Your Arsenal
3 Viva Hate
4 You Are the Quarry
5 World Peace is......
6 Ringleaders of the ....
7 I am Not a Dog on a Chain
8 Years of Refusal
9 Maladjusted
10 Low in High School
10 Southpaw Grammar
12 Kill Uncle
 
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If a majority of the songs are in a musical style that makes you nauseous, how many times should one listen in order to "let it bed in"? It's dance-electro-techno-rave-pop. Boppy beeps and bloops. Repeated listens would amount to psychological self-torture. I never thought I'd say that about 2/3rds of a Morrissey album, but there it is.

It's not exactly the Prodigy is it.
 
If I was going to a desert island, it’s the LP I’d take. It strangely sounds slightly different and slightly better every time I hear it.

Though it doesn’t have the seamless quality of V&I it really does keep giving in every sense: given the opportunity to address the problem of the sleeve art with the rerelease, Morrissey blessed us with a cover equally odd.

And it has arguably his greatest ever song in Trouble Loves Me, and perhaps his two oddest in Roy’s Keen and Sorrow Will Come.

I was working abroad at the time, but I would’ve loved to have attended the Battersea gig c.1997. Was Ammunition not played there?

Nope, it’s not debuted live at all yet. Here’s hoping!
 
1 viva hate
2 your arsenal
3 dog on a string
4 Vauxhall and I
5 world peace
6 years of refusal
= 7 kill uncle/maladjusted
9 low high school
10 ringleader
11 who ate me curry?
12 southpaw grammar
 
LEADERBOARD (Update)

1) Vauxhall And I - 377 pts
2) Your Arsenal - 348 pts
3) Viva Hate - 345 pts
4) You Are The Quarry - 268 pts
5) I Am Not A Dog On A Chain - 237 pts
6) Maladjusted - 200.5 pts
7) World Peace Is None Of Your Business - 198 pts
8) Southpaw Grammar - 196 pts
9) Ringleader Of The Tormentors - 177 pts
10) Kill Uncle - 166.5 pts
11) Years Of Refusal - 165 pts
12) Low In High School - 136 pts
13) California Son - 92 pts
 
Original material only

1 - Vauxhall and I
2 Your Arsenal
3 Viva Hate
4 You Are the Quarry
5 World Peace is......
6 Ringleaders of the ....
7 I am Not a Dog on a Chain
8 Years of Refusal
9 Maladjusted
10 Low in High School
10 Southpaw Grammar
12 Kill Uncle
Southpaw below Low in High School?

DavidT: do something.
 
LEADERBOARD (Update)

1) Vauxhall And I - 377 pts
2) Your Arsenal - 348 pts
3) Viva Hate - 345 pts
4) You Are The Quarry - 268 pts
5) I Am Not A Dog On A Chain - 237 pts
6) Maladjusted - 200.5 pts
7) World Peace Is None Of Your Business - 198 pts
8) Southpaw Grammar - 195.5 pts
9) Ringleader Of The Tormentors - 177 pts
10) Kill Uncle - 165.5 pts
11) Years Of Refusal - 165 pts
12) Low In High School - 137.5 pts
13) California Son - 92 pts
 
LEADERBOARD (Update)

1) Vauxhall And I - 377 pts
2) Your Arsenal - 348 pts
3) Viva Hate - 345 pts
4) You Are The Quarry - 268 pts
5) I Am Not A Dog On A Chain - 237 pts
6) Maladjusted - 200.5 pts
7) World Peace Is None Of Your Business - 198 pts
8) Southpaw Grammar - 196 pts
9) Ringleader Of The Tormentors - 177 pts
10) Kill Uncle - 166.5 pts
11) Years Of Refusal - 165 pts
12) Low In High School - 136 pts
13) California Son - 92 pts
Shocked how high World Peace is. Ugh.
 
1.Vauxhall & I
2. Viva Hate
3. Your Arsenal
4. Ringleader of the Tormentors
5. You Are The Quarry
6. World Peace Is None Of Your Business
7. Years of Refusal
8. Maladjusted
9. Southpaw Grammar
10. Low In High School
11. California Son
12. Kill Uncle
13. I Am Not A Dog On A Chain
 
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