Your favourite track: "That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore", just ahead of "Well I Wonder" and "Rusholme Ruffians". It's just a stunning, beautiful piece of music, and Morrissey's lyrics are so evocative. Funnily enough, this is the only album without any one particular song that I would class as one of my very favourites, but "That Joke ..." is my favourite on the album.
Your worst track:
Probably "Barbarism Begins At Home" - it just goes on for two minutes longer than it should. I actually quite like "Meat is Murder" - it gets points its boldness, and I like Morrissey's vocals.
Best lyric:
I can't pick just one, so I'll go with:
The last night of the fair
From a seat on a whirling waltzer
Her skirt ascends for a watching eye
It's a hideous trait (on her mother's side)
What she read
All heady books
She'd sit and prophesise
(It took a tattooed boy from
Birkenhead
To really really open her eyes)
I've seen this happen in other people's
Lives
And now it's happening in mine
I'd like to drop my trousers to the Queen
Every sensible child will know what this means
The poor and the needy
Are selfish and greedy on her terms
The last one in particular I like - the silly comedy combined perfectly with the clever, poetic wordplay making a political point. Pure Morrissey.
Song/lyric/line you relate to most/has relevance to you:
If we count "How Soon is Now" as part of Meat is Murder, then possibly that - although I wouldn't even have gone to the club in the first place. Other than that, "Well I Wonder" beautifully describes the feeling of unrequited love - not even realistically hoping for a relationship, just that the person knows you exist - and it brings back memories of my school years.
Overall opinion of album, how it compares to others, etc.: Meat is Murder is one that's really grown on me the more I've heard it. At the start there weren't any particular songs that really stood out to me in the way they did on other albums. But they've definitely grown on me, and as a whole, as an album, it's probably worked its way up to second, behind The Queen is Dead - the songs just fit together perfectly and beautifully. It really needs to be listened to as an album, in that order (minus "How Soon is Now").