You Are the Quarry

You Are the Quarry
Studio album by Morrissey
Released	17 May 2004
Recorded	Autumn 2003 at Hook End Manor, Oxfordshire, England; Conway Recording Studios, California, United States
Genre	Alternative rock, pop rock, indie rock
Length	47:20
Label	Sanctuary/Attack
Producer	Jerry Finn
Morrissey chronology
Maladjusted (1997) You Are the Quarry (2004) Ringleader of the Tormentors (2006)
Singles from You Are the Quarry
"Irish Blood, English Heart" Released: 10 May 2004 "First of the Gang to Die" Released: 12 July 2004 "Let Me Kiss You" Released: 11 October 2004 "I Have Forgiven Jesus" Released: 13 December 2004

You Are the Quarry is the seventh studio album by English alternative rock singer Morrissey. It was released on 17 May 2004 by record label Attack, and was his first album in seven years following 1997's Maladjusted.

Release

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	72/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Blender	[3]
Entertainment Weekly	A[4]
The Guardian	[5]
Los Angeles Times	[6]
Mojo	[7]
NME	8/10[8]
Pitchfork	8.9/10[9]
Q	[10]
Rolling Stone	[11]

The first single released to promote the album was "Irish Blood, English Heart", released on 10 May 2004 and reaching No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart. It also received significant airplay in the US, going to number 36 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. You Are the Quarry was released on 17 May 2004 by record label Attack. The album charted at number 2 in the UK, held off the top spot by Keane's debut album, which prompted Morrissey to joke in concert at the time, "With regard to the album You Are the Quarry, if your name is Keane then you better leave now." It became Morrissey's highest charting album in the US, reaching number 11.

Some versions of the packaging do not show the full frame on the cover, but only a crop of Morrissey's face, cropping out the machine gun.

Three more singles followed: "First of the Gang to Die" on 12 July, reaching No. 6; "Let Me Kiss You" on 11 October, reaching No. 8; and "I Have Forgiven Jesus" on 13 December, reaching No. 10. Nancy Sinatra recorded a version of "Let Me Kiss You", which was released as a single which performed well on the UK Singles Chart, prior to Morrissey's own single release of the song.

In October 2004, Attack repackaged and reissued You Are the Quarry as a two-disc deluxe edition with a DVD second disc. The second disc collected the nine B-sides from the album's first three singles, as well as music videos and live TV performances from the record, including Morrissey's live performances on American TV show The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"America Is Not the World"	Morrissey, Alain Whyte	4:03
2.	"Irish Blood, English Heart"	Morrissey, Whyte	2:37
3.	"I Have Forgiven Jesus"	Morrissey, Whyte	3:41
4.	"Come Back to Camden"	Morrissey, Boz Boorer	4:14
5.	"I'm Not Sorry"	Morrissey, Boorer	4:41
6.	"The World Is Full of Crashing Bores"	Morrissey, Boorer	3:51
7.	"How Can Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel?"	Morrissey, Whyte	3:25
8.	"First of the Gang to Die"	Morrissey, Whyte	3:38
9.	"Let Me Kiss You"	Morrissey, Whyte	3:30
10.	"All the Lazy Dykes"	Morrissey, Whyte	3:31
11.	"I Like You"	Morrissey, Boorer	4:11
12.	"You Know I Couldn't Last"	Morrissey, Whyte, Gary Day	5:51

Deluxe Edition bonus disc
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Don't Make Fun of Daddy's Voice"	Morrissey, Whyte	2:53
2.	"It's Hard to Walk Tall When You're Small"	Morrissey, Whyte	3:32
3.	"Teenage Dad on His Estate"	Morrissey, Whyte	4:08
4.	"Munich Air Disaster 1958"	Morrissey, Whyte	2:30
5.	"Friday Mourning"	Morrissey, Whyte	4:08
6.	"The Never-Played Symphonies"	Morrissey, Whyte	3:03
7.	"My Life Is a Succession of People Saying Goodbye"	Morrissey, Whyte	2:55
8.	"I Am Two People"	Morrissey, Whyte	3:55
9.	"Mexico"	Morrissey, Boorer, Day	4:06

Deluxe Edition bonus DVD

• "Irish Blood, English Heart" (promotional video)
• "First of the Gang to Die" (promotional video)
• "First of the Gang to Die" (from The Late Late Show, 22 July 2004)
• "I Have Forgiven Jesus" (from The Late Late Show, 22 July 2004)
• "Let Me Kiss You" (from The Late Late Show, 22 July 2004)

Personnel

• Morrissey – vocals
• Alain Whyte – guitar, backing vocals
• Boz Boorer – guitar
• Gary Day – bass guitar
• Dean Butterworth – drums
• Roger Manning – keyboards
• Jerry Finn – production

Charts

Album

Chart (2004)	Position
Austrian Albums	24[12]
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)	14[13]
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)	32[14]
Danish Albums	13[15]
Dutch Albums	30[16]
Finnish Albums	8[17]
French Albums	21[18]
German Albums	7[19]
Italian Albums	32[20]
New Zealand Albums	13[21]
Norwegian Albums	5[22]
Portuguese Albums	10[23]
Swedish Albums	1[24]
Swiss Albums	63[25]
UK Albums Chart	2[26]
US Billboard 200	11[27]

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External links

• You Are the Quarry at Discogs (list of releases)