nogodsnomasters85
Not Stirred
Maladjusted by a mile.
Maladjusted is better. In My opinion the best recording he has done production wise, not too slick like Quarry or too thin like Ringleader. Just perfect.
Southpaw Grammar is excellent, I don't get why people don't like it- there's only so many soppy little Vauxhall & I-ish songs you can listen to before you need a good f***ing bit of heavy, loud guitar music. The only song I don't like on it is The Teachers Are Afraid...
Maladjusted by a mile.
I think Southpaw is my favourite out of the two. It may very well be my favourite Morrissey album.
Maladjusted is pretty good. It's not spectacular but it's solid. Decent. And I certainly think the it's best he & his band could've done at the time.
That said, I think Dagenham Dave is a great tune that Morrissey's lyrics simply ruin. And Ambitious Outsiders is one of only two Moz solo songs that I absoutely despise.
Also, I'm not keen on the revised track listing for Southpaw. I like to play the album as a whole in one go & the new version doesn't do it for me in that respect.
So based on original versions, I prefer Southpaw to Maladjusted.
If the only versions I ever knew were the new ones, it would be the other way round.
Hahaha with the Maladjusted reissue, you're left wondering why Morrissey couldn't have just done that in the first place
Southpaw I think is his weakest - partly because of the songs with slight or non-existent lyrics (Dave, Racer, Best Friend) and partly because the two epics sound like unfinished backing tracks for some Boorer & White instrumental album, dressed up with equally unfinished Moz lyrics.
(Imagine if the band had attempted their own particular Long Hello - now that would be something!)
Maladjusted I think is a more satisfying album, overall, than Quarry. Even the lightweights are better IMHO - I'd sooner listen to Alma and Roy than How Could and I Like. But the reissue - (he punches the wall) - I don't care who they are, artists who try to rewrite history by erasing the parts they don't like can go 'n eat shit.