Alma Matters

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"Alma Matters"

Single by Morrissey
from the album Maladjusted
Released	21st July 1997 (UK), 5th August 1997 (USA)
Format	7", 12", CD, cassette
Genre	Rock
Length	4:48
Label	Island (UK)
Writer(s)	Morrissey, Alain Whyte
Producer(s)	Steve Lillywhite
Chart positions
#16 (UK)
Morrissey singles chronology
"Sunny" (1995)	"Alma Matters" (1997)	"Roy's Keen" (1997)

"Alma Matters"

Song by Morrissey
from the album Maladjusted
Released	August 11, 1997
Recorded	1997
Genre	Rock
Length	4:48
Label	Island (UK)
Writer(s)	Morrissey/Whyte
Producer(s)	Steve Lillywhite
Maladjusted track listing
"Maladjusted" "Alma Matters" "Ambitious Outsiders" "Trouble Loves Me" "Papa Jack" "Ammunition" "Wide To Receive" "Roy's Keen" "He Cried" "Sorrow Will Come In The End " "Satan Rejected My Soul"

"Alma Matters" was a single by Morrissey released in July 1997. It was the fist single to be taken from the Maladjusted album and was released one week before it's parent album.

The single reached number 16 in the UK singles chart, becoming Morrissey's first top twenty hit since "The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get" in 1994. The song was also notable for seeing Morrissey reference the film A Taste of Honey for the first time since his early days in The Smiths in the line "it's my life to ruin my own way".