SMITHS BEST SONG

nlgbbbblth

notnumber wrote: »

Anyone else thinking a poll might be in order?

only if you can include every Smiths track.

otherwise no.

notnumber

nlgbbbblth wrote: »

only if you can include every Smiths track.

otherwise no.

Accept Yourself
Ask
Asleep
Back To The Old House
Barbarism Begins At Home
Bigmouth Strikes Again
Boy With The Thorn In His Side, The
Cemetry Gates
Death At One's Elbow
Death Of A Disco Dancer
Don't Blow Your Own Horn
Draize Train, The
Frankly, Mr. Shankly
Girl Afraid
Girlfriend In A Coma
Golden Lights
Half A Person
Hand In Glove
Hand That Rocks The Cradle
Handsome Devil
Headmaster Ritual, The
Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
How Soon Is Now?
I Don't Owe You Anything
I Keep Mine Hidden
I Know It's Over
I Misses You
I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
I Want A Boy For My Birthday
I Want The One I Can't Have
I Won't Share You
Is It Really So Strange?
Jeane
Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
London
(Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame
Matter Of Opinion, A
Meat Is Murder
Miserable Lie
Money Changes Everything
Never Had No One Ever
(Now And Then There's) A Fool Such As I
Nowhere Fast
Oscillate Wildly
Paint A Vulgar Picture
Panic
Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
Pretty Girls Make Graves
The Queen Is Dead
Reel Around The Fountain
Rubber Ring
Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours, A
Rusholme Ruffians
Shakespeare's Sister
Sheila Take A Bow
Shoplifters Of The World Unite
Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
Still Ill
Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
Stretch Out And Wait
Suffer Little Children
Sweet And Tender Hooligan
That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
These Things Take Time
This Charming Man
This Night Has Opened My Eyes
Unhappy Birthday
Unloveable
Vicar In A Tutu
Well I Wonder
What Difference Does It Make?
What Do You See In Him?
What She Said
What's The World
William It Was Really Nothing
Wonderful Woman
Work Is A Four Letter Word
You Just Haven't Earned It Yet Baby
You've Got Everything Now

Is that them all?

LeBash

Big mouth strikes again.

notnumber

Matter Of Opinion, A

nlgbbbblth

Yes, notnumber.

nlgbbbblth

This is ace. The best way to hear these two songs - on the b-side of RT191 12".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCtCxSiMAdc

mikehammer67

Barbarism Begins At Home

must be one of the best-amazing guitar as always

6am7f9zxrsjvnb

mikehammer67 wrote: »

Barbarism Begins At Home

must be one of the best-amazing guitar as always

it`s all about the bass on that one

Swiper the fox

Most of the most popular Smiths songs may suffer from a bit of overkill for me,
For that reason I will nominate Stretch out and wait and Paint a vulgar picture.
I know it's over is absolutely beautiful

His latest flame/rusholme ruffians from Rank is superb.

buyer95

Asleep, There is a light that never goes out and Cemetry Gates

biko

What difference does it make

ultrasonic

that joke isn't funny anymore

Table Top Joe

1.How Soon Is Now?
2.I Know Its Over
3.There Is A Light...
4.This Charming Man
5.Rubber Ring
6.Maries The Name/Rusholme Ruffians
7.What Difference Does It Make?
8.The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
9.I want The One I Cant Have
10.Panic


There you go....


While im at it


Meat Is Murder
The Queen Is Dead
The Smiths
Strangeways


Hatful is probably my favourite.....but being a compilation Ill leave it out

nlgbbbblth

Table Top Joe wrote: »

1.How Soon Is Now?
2.I Know Its Over
3.There Is A Light...
4.This Charming Man
5.Rubber Ring
6.Maries The Name/Rusholme Ruffians
7.What Difference Does It Make?
8.The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
9.I want The One I Cant Have
10.Panic


There you go....


While im at it


Meat Is Murder
The Queen Is Dead
The Smiths
Strangeways


Hatful is probably my favourite.....but being a compilation Ill leave it out

Ok

Songs
01 Suffer Little Children
02 The Headmaster Ritual
03 There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
04 How Soon Is Now?
05 Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
06 William It Was Really Nothing
07 Rubber Ring
08 Paint A Vulgar Picture
09 Rusholme Ruffians
10 This Charming Man

LPs
01 The Queen Is Dead
02 Meat Is Murder
03 Strangeways Here We Come
04 The Smiths

Swiper the fox

Interesting one, I was reading a feature in the English Independent today where musicians were asked to name the song that changed their lives. Brandon Flowers (the Killers) chose Sing your life from Morrissey, I thought it was a strange choice.

Fave album is a toss up between Strangeways and the Queen is dead. your Arsenal and Vauxhall and I are fantastic solo albums.

6am7f9zxrsjvnb

Swiper the fox wrote: »

Interesting one, I was reading a feature in the English Independent today where musicians were asked to name the song that changed their lives. Brandon Flowers (the Killers) chose Sing your life from Morrissey, I thought it was a strange choice.

Fave album is a toss up between Strangeways and the Queen is dead. your Arsenal and Vauxhall and I are fantastic solo albums.

Spot on with your choices for his best solo album.Kill Uncle and Maladjusted are the only low points,although there are a few gems on both...I have a soft spot for the much maligned Southpaw Grammar-The teachers are afraid of the pupils never outstays its 11 minute welcome.

nlgbbbblth

My favourite solo LPs are

1 Southpaw Grammar
2 Vauxhall and I
3 Your Arsenal

Swiper the fox

nlgbbbblth wrote: »

My favourite solo LPs are

1 Southpaw Grammar
2 Vauxhall and I
3 Your Arsenal

The one I listen to most is Beethoven is deaf, live from Paris, National Front Disco is absolutely unbelievable on it.

nlgbbbblth

Swiper the fox wrote: »

The one I listen to most is Beethoven is deaf, live from Paris, National Front Disco is absolutely unbelievable on it.

Very enjoyable live record. I love the We Hate ...

20 years old this week

Swiper the fox

nlgbbbblth wrote: »

Very enjoyable live record. I love the We Hate ...

20 years old this week

And Moz's dreadful attempts at banter with the French crowd,
Such a little thing was great also, in fact the whole record was but for me National Front Disco really stands out,

bullpost

The Queen is dead for the intro alone.

mikehammer67

You Are the Quarry was pretty good like...........


queen is dead best intro ever?.............

paulmcgrath

I quite like Frankly Mr Shankly.

But Queen is dead is one best albums ever put together.

Morgans

I was always a Queen is Dead fan but I think the more Ive listened to the Smiths, Im now convinced that Meat is Murder is The Smiths at their best.

I was tempted to put THE SMITHS in caps for meat is murder. It is young musical geniuses, confident, sure of what they want to say, not giving one ****e what anyone else thinks, you are with us or against us, but we are coming, certain that everything they do in the band is great (and it was). For me, if you can bottle what the Smiths had at the time of Meat is Murder, its what every band aims for.

The Headmaster Ritual sums up the Smiths at their peak. 100% certain of where they were going. You can hear the youth and the rebellion in it. Every member of the band playing its part - the drums, the lead guitar, the lyrics. Smiths at their best.

I think Queen is Dead was more work for them and the beginning of the cracks are appearing. Anyway, envough daydreaming.

take everything

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18GrFywPkXE

Second half of this is close to perfection.
Rank performance of I know it's over.
The exquisite arpeggios from around 3:40 (i think it's Craig Gannon who's responsible for that oddly enough), the way Marr is facing Joyce towards the end, Morrissey's intensity (just the way he gets lost in the song).
The whole thing has to be one of the best performances of probably my favourite Smiths song.

Honourable mentions to Still Ill, This night has opened my eyes.

take everything

^Ah screw it, i'm just gonna make my my ringtone "Mother i can hear the soil falling over my head" and be done with it. :pac:
Odd looks or not.

RikkFlair

Girlfriend In A Coma. If only it was a minute or 2 longer.

Andrew81

Girlfriend in a coma????

Mick Murdock

One of my favourite bands of all time. They're not everybody's cup of tea, but for those who get it they were so good. Incredibly prolific too.

There is a Light That Never Goes Out, How Soon is Now, What Difference Does it Make and That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore I would consider some of their best, but I like almost everything they made.

jossys_giants

Bigmouth Strikes Again / There is a Light / William.....

trashcan

nlgbbbblth wrote: »

the one about the "darkened underpants".

Ha ha, thought it was just me who changed that lyric in my head.

As for my list, probably This Charming Man tops it for the sublime guitar artistry. Also like Bigmouth.., Boy With the Thorn in His Sde and What Difference Does it Make.

These Things Take Time92

Obviously 'There Is A Light That Never Goes Out' will always stand out alone because it's just a beautiful song. But I would have to vouch For 'I Don't Owe You Anything' but then i could also say 'You've Got Everything now because of it's sheer humorous lyrical content and the fun they had whenever they played it live or even 'This Night Has Opened My Eyes', 'Unlovable', 'Barbarism Begins At Home', Andy and Johnny Killed it on that track but i'm going to have to say 'Well I Wonder' for the simple fact it's a Hauntingly Beautiful song a real tearjerker. A Rare Rare gem that has never been played live by them or Moz.

PGE1970

Bigmouth, Asleep, Headmaster Ritual and Please, Please, let me get .........

My 14 year old daughter loves There is a light and Please please....!!

sham69

Never really went for the popular ones...

shakespeares sister
Stretch out and wait
Cemetary gates
Vicar in a tutu
Frankly Mr Shankly (or the whole Queen is dead album)
Reel around the fountain.
Sheila take a bow..

I could go on and on.

Has any other band had such an impact in such a short time?

bullpost

For anyone who needs a fix , get along to the IFI if in Dublin next week:

http://www.ifi.ie/film/morrissey-25-live/

FizzleSticks

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pico84

This Charming man - by a country mile

Frankly mister shankly - underrated

theUbiq

I couldn't pick a single song so I'll nominate Hatful of Hollow because I love it all...

marsn

All of them. They are all phenomenal. Well, maybe except for Golden Lights, parts of Strangeways... and am I missing some salient point in the lyrics of Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others? But it would be a tragedy to reduce The Smiths to a best song.

"People cannot trivialise The Smiths and people cannot trivialise anything we do."
-MORRISSEY

SilverScreen

marsn wrote: »

... and am I missing some salient point in the lyrics of Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others?

He's pointing out that some girls are bigger than others. It's meant to be humourous.

marsn

Yes, I got that I was just saying - is that the whole song? (other than Marr's fantastic guitar work of course)

SilverScreen

marsn wrote: »

Yes, I got that I was just saying - is that the whole song? (other than Marr's fantastic guitar work of course)

Yep, that's what makes it funny.

Swiper the fox

To be honest I would say that the most important message to be taken from that song is that some girls mothers are bigger than other girls mothers, this to me is the crux of the issue.

Wildlife Actor

Swiper the fox wrote: »

To be honest I would say that the most important message to be taken from that song is that some girls mothers are bigger than other girls mothers, this to me is the crux of the issue.

Perhaps, but what made it significant at the time was the hitherto unpublished research demonstrating, after decades of controversy and centuries of speculation, that Mark Antony had indisputably said to Cleopatra that some girls were bigger than others.

SilverScreen

Love nor Money wrote: »

Perhaps, but what made it significant at the time was the hitherto unpublished research demonstrating, after decades of controversy and centuries of speculation, that Mark Antony had indisputably said to Cleopatra that some girls were bigger than others.

There was also a report outlining the concerns of individuals dating as far back as the Iceage right up to the 1980's, where it was revealed that both cavemen and dole stragglers alike were primarily concerned with some girls being bigger than others.

Swiper the fox

Fair play lads, we could be accused of flogging a dead horse but I've had a really good chuckle:pac:

lukesmom

Suffer little children

Wildlife Actor

^^^^^^
Well, that's the end of the chuckles...

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

IamtheWalrus wrote: »

You just haven't earned it yet baby.

That's Eamon Dunphy's favourite song too.

maynoothlizard

I Started Something I Couldn't Finish, just for the panto dame growl Morrissey does between "I grabbed you by the gilded beams" and "That's what tradition means."