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 warning Feb 20, 2009
This is the abbreviated version of You Are the Quarry. The full version has 21 songs and 4 videos. This has the first 10 songs and 1 video.
 Crashing Mar 05, 2007
Its worth $20 just for "The World Is Full Of Crashing Bores" C'Mon people, get with it!
1 of 3 found the following review helpful:
We Knew That He Could Last Jul 05, 2006
Having been truant - despite the Herculean efforts of my best friend - from the Smiths fan club until about three years ago (2003), I was not personally affected by Morrissey's 7-year extended hiatus following the somewhat lackluster Maladjusted. This effort (if it may be called that) and its predecessor, Southpaw Grammar, left many longtime followers believing that the Mozzer's career had ended with a whimper. Granted, droves of fans would still fill venues when he would do the occasional tour or one-off show, but the chances of him returning to his former glory seemed as slim as a reunion of his former band.
Then came May 2004, and Morrissey was back, sounding typically glorious. The warmth of his voice still filled a room as fully and evenly as it ever did. You Are the Quarry was not just his only album in seven years, but his best one in a decade. Although it may not overtake the standard set by Viva Hate, Your Arsenal or Vauxhall and I, it certainly not too far behind them. Several of the songs are first-rate, such as "Come Back To Camden", "I'm Not Sorry", "Let Me Kiss You", and "I Like You", and almost all of the others are at least pretty good, including the hard-rocking "Irish Blood, English Heart". But it is "First of the Gang to Die" that instantly ranks right up with "Everyday is Like Sunday" among certified Morrissey classics. While some of the tracks may pass by a bit quietly on the first few listens, this one will have you reaching for the repeat button years after you have first heard it, and maybe even digging the CD out again to begin with. This was one of the best songs of 2004.
Granted, a character like Morrissey will always teeter on the brink of self-parody, and "How Can Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel?" brings him dangerously close to the precipice. But Moz fans young and new will forgive him for this, and chalk it up to the fact that this just isn't one of the disc's better songs. Other tracks find him in a not too atypical mode of hyperbole and megalomania. On "I Have Forgiven Jesus", Morrissey switches places with the son of the Christian God, acting as both His accuser and absolver. On "The World is Full of Crashing Bores", Morrissey finds solace in the fact that he is one of them himself only by the standards of the hordes of crashing bores who deem him to be such. Finally, "You Know I Couldn't Last" provides an ironic but poignant bit of closure.
You Are the Quarry is not a breakthrough for Morrissey, but it doesn't need to be. A very good Morrissey album specifically is a very good album generally. He has nothing to prove, and has long since staked out the musical territory that he has decided to mine. He doesn't need to break any new ground, any more that Bob Dylan needs to record a hip-hop record. Whatever debate there may be over whether You Are the Quarry is a comeback or merely a return is a futile one. Of course it is a comeback. What else do you call one of an artist's best CDs being released after a decade of creative fallowness? The follow-up to YATQ, 2006's Ringleader of the Tormentors, shows that this was no fluke, and that he still has momentum to spare.
So now we know that Morrissey was capable of restoring his former glory. Now what about the reunion of that former band of his? Well, to quote the Mozzer himself, "The Smiths will end in murder".
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
IT'S HARD TO BE GOOD Mar 09, 2005
I'm a Smiths fan since my teen years (now I'm 37)and after they split-up I continued to follow Morrissey's work with interest. I still listen to The Smiths music: although I'm not a rabid fan, I simply didn't "grow out of it" as some might expect because it was relevant for my formative years and STILL IS, and I think Morrissey is still holding the torch, and always fought bravely not to let it die away. I simply marvel at the harshness of some critics in denouncing the "sillyness" of some songs here, or the fact that his new record isn't "ground breaking" there. Please, understand my point: I'm not saying that Morrissey is beyond critics (in fact, I believe an important part of his personal history was marked by failure, misunderstanding and criticism), but, in a time when we see the complete mediocrity of what's in the music charts... give me a break!! The more I see these nobodies hailed as relevant, ground-breaking, revelation, etc. I can only look back to groups like the Smiths and thank God for Morrissey being still active and creative. He makes mistakes? Surely yes, who doesn't? But then again, how many is faring really better? Being REALLY relevant to anyone? Britney Spears? Eminen? Snoopy whatsoever? one of those stupid boys bands? Think about it!
2 of 13 found the following review helpful:
 A Step Down Feb 18, 2005
Bottom line: love the Smiths, love Morrissey, but this one is a bit of a stinker. Very boring and I actually had to turn it off because it was getting on my nerves. Mozzer, you can do better.
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