You Are the Quarry

Unfortunately I kinda liked it

His voice is beautiful. I enjoyed the upfront subject matter. Not everything needs to be a Shakespearean allegory....Apparently he's a jerk now, but I liked the album.

So the whole time listening to this I kept thinking, "if this was not Morrissey would I like it better?" and I think the answer was yes pretty much every time. But the guy's just such a self important dick. I’m calling this a 3.5/5 but rounding down because Morrissey.

The music is pretty good, Morrissey seems to know his way around instrumentation. But the guy also writes songs like a 14 year-old 4chan user, and it's all a bit cringe. So much so that it becomes funny at times, and a part of me believes it's all parodic, but I know it isn't, and the guy really believes that he's some kind of rebel martyr that nobody understands.

Still pretty enjoyable music, unfortunately. I wish I could hate it.

Shout out to that bit about Americans being "big fat pigs" with their "hamburgers". Truly poetic.

Déjà écouté avant.

Sans doute le dernier album véritablement notable du Moz, qui, par la suite, va devenir progressivement la pire caricature de lui-même, une espèce de vieux crooner protofasciste geignard... Bien loin des sommets atteints avec les Smiths, Morrissey se contente ici d'un bon album de pop rock rétro, étonnamment musclé, où sa voix fait souvent des merveilles et qui contient d'authentiques grands morceaux. Malheureusement, les ferments de son futur naufrage sont déjà en partie présents sur You Are the Quarry, notamment dans certains textes lourds et patauds, et dans cette prétention sans borne qui peut devenir irritante. Quelle tristesse, quand même...

Top : How Can Anybody Possibly Now How I Feel?
Flop : America Is Not the World

Mozza had lost it by now. The lyrics are churlish the music unimaginative.

Not sure what to even say about this... There are moments where he gets personal and even somewhat introspective, but I’m guessing they’d land harder with someone who’s more familiar with Morrissey and his background. He touches on his unashamedly inflated ego on a few songs, and in a way it reminded me of Kanye - a similarly controversial name that I can at least connect to more. Drawing that parallel, and from that perspective, I could see how fans of Morrissey’s music could regard this album highly. Could this perhaps be his own MBDTF?
... Maybe if it was more musically impressive. As genuinely listenable as this is, it isn’t reinventing the wheel, and it certainly isn’t making me crave more Morrissey.

Standouts: How Can Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel? • I Like You

Morrissey singing in 2004 about how the US "president is never black" might prove that he's not a wise seer. Overall the lyrics are a bit shit, but it's still alright musically. This is my second Morrissey already, and I do have to wonder if he really needed to have four albums in this book (+ The Smiths ones too).

Also, that cover art is atrocious.

Listening to this I'm reminded of what Tchaikovsky said about Brahms.

"What a giftless bastard!"

I didn't want to enjoy it but it was actually alright. I ate some yummy chicken afterwards.

Several flying scissor of a fight on this album, but after much thinking, I’ll give it a four for the rest of the album

Better than Coldplay

"You Are the Quarry" resembles the Smith's music if they added more instruments than the guitar and lost the reverb. It's just like Morrissey to make 2000s guitar rock sound theatrical, which doesn't really pair well for me. This is probably one of the first times I paid a little more attention to his lyrics because they come off as whiny and embittered. This resulted in a bit of disconnect for me where simple rock hooks clash with the "woe-is-me" mood.

Amo The Smiths y amo la voz de Morrisey, pero este álbum no mas no la dio (para mí). Ya sé que sus letras son muy buenas y profundas, y esto desde The Smiths, y es lo que rescato del disco, pero fuera del sencillo no me encantan el resto de las canciones.

I liked it. 3.5/5. Raising to 4.

I find it difficult to rate Morrissey’s *You Are The Quarry* because the mix of pretty good rock songs and cringeworthy ballads doesn’t give me a consistent impression. I could just give it three stars, but I’ll try a different approach first. Here are the rating criteria:
The songs: for the reasons mentioned, they don’t help much.
The production: good arrangements, professional sound—but that means less for an album released in 2004 than it does for recordings from the ’60s.
The vocals: I somehow remembered them being better from The Smiths.
The lyrics: dark humor is certainly something special, but Lou Reed definitely could have done that better.
Hmm, so still mediocre after all.

I was so ready to just absolutely dread this album. I'd heard about Morrissey and I thought he was some crazed alt-right nutjob. And I was kiiinda right. But to be honest, I did some reading before listening to this album, and a lot of the quotes I read were very tame. Sometimes he's deliberately obtuse or contrarian, but the vibe I got from him wasn't "crazy Trumpie uncle." It was more "that one kid in my class in high school that said really stupid shit but it made sense to him and he was genuinely confused as to why everyone was laughing at him." Looking at you, Max.

So that's not why I disliked You Are The Quarry. It was mostly because, well, the songs just aren't good. They should've been! All of the instrumentals here are well-produced, they're pretty, they're rockin' and they just sound good. I liked them. I did not like Morrissey's lyrics at all. His voice is fine, but for every single song, it sounds like he wrote the lyrics without ever hearing the accompaniment, and then forced himself to apply his lyrics to the song unchanged. They just don't mesh whatsoever. It sounds very awkward, especially when Morrissey is singing the least subtle lyrics known to man.

And oh my god, why won't be shut up about how single he is? Every other song, he's complaining about how unloved or unloveable he is. Maybe if he stops bitching about it, he'll find someone. He even blames Jesus for it in track 3. He seems to blame everyone except himself. What a loser.

I really didn't like it, but at least the instrumentals were serviceable. I'm giving it 2 stars because I know it can get worse.

3
'Morrissey Sings His Reddit Post History'

Once again, Morrissey makes an ok album. It’s not bad, but I wouldn’t listen again. Also, some of the songs on here are edgelord-y. Jesus I forgive you? Just comes off as try-hard, like look how shocking I can be. And the America song, while not baseless, was as subtle as a brick to the back.

wtf is this?