Morrissey Songs Ranked

Steven Patrick Morrissey (born 22 May 1959), known professionally as Morrissey, is an English singer, songwriter, and author. He came to prominence as the frontman of the rock band the Smiths, who were active from 1982 to 1987. Since then, he has pursued a successful solo career. Morrissey’s music is characterized by his baritone voice and distinctive lyrics with recurring themes of emotional isolation, sexual longing, self-deprecating and dark humor, and anti-establishment stances. Highly influential, Morrissey has been credited as a seminal figure in the emergence of indie rock and Britpop. In a 2006 poll for the BBC’s Culture Show, Morrissey was voted the second-greatest living British cultural icon.^[5] His work has been the subject of academic study. He has been a controversial figure throughout his music career due to his forthright opinions and outspoken nature—endorsing vegetarianism and animal rights, criticizing royalty and prominent politicians, and defending a particular vision of English national identity while critiquing the effect of immigration on the UK. Here are all of Morrissey’s albums ranked.

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15. You Have Killed Me (Ringleader of the Tormentors, 2006)

“Like all the great Morrissey tracks, this one totally snuck up on me. I was quick to dismiss it – especially after seeing the goofy music video – but at some point that guitar part lodged itself in my brain and the Mozzer’s delicious croon switched from self-indulgent to totally endearing. “Piazza Cavour, what’s my life for?” What a mad genius.”

14. The More You Ignore Me the Closer I Get (Vauxhall and I, 1994)

“This is what hopeless romantics and guys who have watched too many Hollywood love stories sound like. I love this song, not because it portrays a likable person. It portrays an insecure, stalkerish freak, completely making the relationship the center of his world. I used to be like this. It’s cute and all, but I had to learn the hard way, that this never ever works. I love it because it’s honest and true.”

13. Speedway (Vauxhall and I, 1994)

“Okay I’m guessing this song is about him having an affair with a married man, and this other person who he has had a relationship with is so scared that Morrissey himself just might tell everyone about there sordid encounters, but for Morrissey it goes far deeper, he loves him in his own sick way, and would never say a word about it, but is so angry this person would think he would tell a soul.”

12. I Know It’s Gonna Happen Someday (Your Arsenal, 1992)

“This song is absolute perfection, when I listen to it, I get goosebumps every time I listen to it, even when reading it I am overrun by the same sensation, the utter bliss and sadness when listening to this song is mind boggling, It always makes me think, people I know and love are going to die someday, and there’s nothing I can do about it, but it’s not a bad thing because it will be alright, and in honesty I first listened to this song shortly after finding out about Morrissey’s reported cancer treatment, and it made me shed a tear, something that I do so very very infrequently. Day in day out, Morrissey saves me, there is nothing more that can be said.”

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11. The First of the Gang to Die (You Are the Quarry, 2004)

“When I listen to it I always get a gang subculture theme and the loyalty/emotional ties people have when being or growing up in gangs- that’s my impression anyway. I also love the beat to it, this song always gets stuck in my head.”

10. The World is Full of Crashing Bores (You Are the Quarry, 2004)

“I agree that this song is a swing at modern, manufactured popstars and authorities. Whereas some pop music can qualify as intelligent, most popular, radio friendly music is not – at least to me.”

9. November Spawned a Monster (Bona Drag, 1990)

“Incorrigible proof of the importance of Andy Rourke to the releases associated with Morrissey. It’s no coincidence that the injection of his bass into this single elevates a fairly middling song into something of real substance.”

8. I Like You (You Are the Quarry, 2004)

“i think the song’s basically about two folks, more than likely close friends who sort of joke with and about each other, and who know each other so well that they’re always “thinking the same line.” Moz is finally ready to admit his feelings. It’s really a nice song.”

7. The Girl Least Likely To (Viva Hate, 1988)

“This song makes Morrissey sound so sweet.. that fact that he’s being nice to this girl who’ll probably never make it…He seems concerned about her feelings.”

6. Irish Blood, English Heart (You Are the Quarry, 2004)

“Of course you’ve noticed that the very title “Irish Blood, English Heart” is about unity. That’s the way it strikes me when he sings the paragraph “I dream about the time when the English are sick to death with labor…” because I understand he’s pointing his finger against the fact that the people has been divided with endless bloodshed by the interests of politicians through the centuries.”

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5. Suedehead (Viva Hate, 1988)

“The burning issue of late 1987 and early 1988 was finally resolved. Yes, he could do it without Johnny Marr. OK, so not as good as The Smiths’ very best, but far better than one had any right to expect. “Hairdresser On Fire” would have made a super single in its own right – how very typical of Morrissey at that point to seemingly have material to burn. Sing it at the top of your voice in Sloane Square.”

4. In the Future When All’s Well (Ringleader of the Tormentors, 2006)

“I believe only Morrissey can write such songs. You go on and associate it with some sort of memory or feeling and every time you listen to it, it invokes this song and vice versa. Today’s pessimistic individual needs Morrissey to vocalize him.”

3. Hairdresser on Fire (Viva Hate, 1988)

“This song marks the beginning of Morrissey’s descent into whiny self-parody (he wrote a 3+ minute song just to complain about not getting an appointment for a haircut), but it’s got a good hook, and a chipper guitar sound, so I still kind of dig it.”

2. I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris (Years of Refusal, 2009)

“Jangly guitar, strong lyrics that could have something to do with Oscar Wilde, etc. But don’t let that put you off, while this is fairly standard Morrissey by the numbers, it is also Morrissey playing to his strengths. It’s a song for me that I can’t help but smile at, it just makes me happy. Even though the lyrics are about being unable to love anyone; that’s just the way Morrissey is, able to make you enjoy hearing about something that would otherwise be pretty depressing.”

1. Everyday is Like Sunday (Viva Hate, 1988)

“Stately, melancholy main feature. Those strings and guitar accents cut deep as Moz half-heartedly tempts armageddon. I’ve never lived, nor vacationed, in a coastal town during the off-season, but that one couplet puts me square on the empty pier, with cold waves and dark clouds asserting themselves. And yet, is that hope underneath it all?”