TRACKS:
There Is A Light That Never Goes OutThat Joke Isn't Funny AnymoreHow Soon Is Now?What Difference Does It Make?Bigmouth Strikes AgainThe Boy with the Thorn in His SideWilliam, It Was Really NothingThis Night Has Opened My EyesThe Headmaster RitualThis Charming ManHeaven Knows I’m Miserable NowShakespeare's SisterSheila Take A BowPlease, Please, Please Let Me Get What I WantYou Just Haven't Earned It Yet, BabyAsleepHalf A PersonPretty Girls Make GravesRubber RingPanic
ALBUMS:
SinglesLouder Than BombsMeat Is MurderThe Queen Is DeadThe Smiths
― micro brewbio (crüt), Monday, 7 March 2016 16:52 (eight years ago) link
1. You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby2. London3. I Started Something That I Couldn't Finish4. There is a Light That Never Goes Out5. This Charming Man6. Sweet and Tender Hooligan7. Ask8. Some Girls Are Bigger...9. Cemetery Gates10. Barbarism Begins at Home11. The Queen is Dead12. I Won't Share You13. Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before14. Bigmouth Strikes Again15. Half a Person16. Is It Really So Strange?17. Back to the Old House18. Panic19. I Know It's Over20. What Difference Does It Make?
ALBUMS
LOUDER THAN BOMBSTHE QUEEN IS DEADMEAT IS MURDERSTRANGEWAYS HERE WE COMETHE SINGLES
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 March 2016 17:14 (eight years ago) link
"Hatful of Hollow" really seems like the great divider--somebody upthread posted a ballot with literally nothing from that record;I would struggle to find more than half a dozen songs I care about that AREN'T on it...
― Swag Heathen (theStalePrince), Monday, 7 March 2016 17:22 (eight years ago) link
Yeah my basic conception of The Smiths is Hatful/Bombs/TQID
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Monday, 7 March 2016 17:24 (eight years ago) link
I've never heard Hatful of Hollow
― micro brewbio (crüt), Monday, 7 March 2016 17:25 (eight years ago) link
A Rush and a Push and the Land Is OursStill Ill [Hatful of Hollow version]Please Please Please Let Me Get What I WantThere Is a Light That Never Goes OutI Know It's OverLondonOscillate WildlyAsleepGirlfriend in a ComaJeaneUnloveableReel Around the Fountain [Hatful of Hollow version]The Boy with a Thorn in his SideSweet and Tender HooliganYou Just Haven't Earned It Yet, BabyI Want the One I Can't HaveVicar in a TutuUnhappy BirthdayCemetry GatesThis Charming Man
albumsLouder Than BombsThe Queen Is DeadHatful of HollowStrangeways, Here We ComeThe Smiths
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 7 March 2016 17:29 (eight years ago) link
Hatful of Hollow was the last Smiths' album I bought, so I had already heard all the songs on it except for Handsome Devil and Accept Yourself. Some of the versions are different, but it still never meant too much to me.
― sacral intercourse conducive to vegetal luxuriance (askance johnson), Monday, 7 March 2016 17:54 (eight years ago) link
"Panic" is still a ton of fun to sing but growing up with the rise of hip-hop and then learning more about the origins of techno combined with the "turn" his lyrics and public persona took makes it really, really hard for me (especially as an African-American) to not hear that song as a racist lynching anthem.― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Monday, 7 March 2016 16:41 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Monday, 7 March 2016 16:41 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
if it helps, the song that prompted this was Wham's "I'm your man", so it would be that sort of thing..
― Mark G, Monday, 7 March 2016 18:09 (eight years ago) link
and I thought they got on so well after their TV interview too
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 March 2016 18:11 (eight years ago) link
It was because BBC Radio One DJ Steve Wright played "I'm Your Man" straight after a news report about Chernobyl.
― // 58,000 W A N K E R S // LOVE (Turrican), Monday, 7 March 2016 18:24 (eight years ago) link
Instead of playing the Smiths.
― Thomas of Britain (Tom D.), Monday, 7 March 2016 18:25 (eight years ago) link
Ha! Yeah, possibly... but mostly because Moz/Marr felt it was so inappropriate. Kinda like playing a U2 song after coming out of a story about some fuckin' dog dying.
― // 58,000 W A N K E R S // LOVE (Turrican), Monday, 7 March 2016 18:29 (eight years ago) link
Pure indie snobbishness however you slice it though.
― Thomas of Britain (Tom D.), Monday, 7 March 2016 18:32 (eight years ago) link
morrissey always hated the greeks
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 7 March 2016 18:35 (eight years ago) link
"Rembetika is vile"
― Thomas of Britain (Tom D.), Monday, 7 March 2016 18:37 (eight years ago) link
these guys are from England and who gives a shithttp://i.imgur.com/ByCnnyr.jpg
― micro brewbio (crüt), Monday, 7 March 2016 18:44 (eight years ago) link
See, when you come out of those nuclear goddamn disaster stories, man, it's impossible to make those transitions.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 7 March 2016 18:46 (eight years ago) link
Diddly shit! Diddly shit!
― // 58,000 W A N K E R S // LOVE (Turrican), Monday, 7 March 2016 18:47 (eight years ago) link
Moz sings like a person who has never seen and has no interest in mammary glands.― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)people who were bottle fed sing differently?― sarahell
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)
people who were bottle fed sing differently?
― sarahell
LOLOLOL
― Maximum big surprise! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Monday, 7 March 2016 19:08 (eight years ago) link
Imagine how things might have turned out had the band been called Smiths!
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 March 2016 19:09 (eight years ago) link
Could totally imagine Moz in a "Choose Life" shirt, though.
xxp he's interested in protecting the mammary glands of cattle from mechanized human molestation
― micro brewbio (crüt), Monday, 7 March 2016 19:10 (eight years ago) link
I say I say I say
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Monday, 7 March 2016 19:11 (eight years ago) link
Would love if the song were actually about milking a cow.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 March 2016 19:13 (eight years ago) link
http://i2.wp.com/contentdope.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/vegetarian-thanksgiving.jpg"Let me get my paddles on your wobbly waddles ..."
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 March 2016 19:15 (eight years ago) link
Re-listening to 'The Boy With The Thorn In His Side' again, I love it how Morrissey begins singing on the second chord in the chord progression, as opposed to the first chord where you'd expect the singing to start.
― // 166,000 W A N K E R S // LOVE (Turrican), Monday, 7 March 2016 20:47 (eight years ago) link
wasn't able to participate in this but thanks for organizing! I'm on tracks 77-75 and they are already awesome.
― skip, Monday, 7 March 2016 20:58 (eight years ago) link
Tracks 50-48 I mean
― skip, Monday, 7 March 2016 20:59 (eight years ago) link
ugh
i missed this
never got used to the fact that how soon is now is so loved, likewise with ask
son list would like thusly
20 miserable lie (peel sessions)last night i dreamtthis nightwhat difference (hatful)this charming man (hatful)barbarismboy with the thornheadmasterstop merusholmenowhere fasthandsome devil (hatful)londonrubber ringsome girlsstill ill (hatful)bigmouthi know it's overasleep1 there is a light
and out of the albums/comps
hatful of hollow is probably my fave, followed by queen is dead and meat is murder
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 01:01 (eight years ago) link
song*/look*
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 01:02 (eight years ago) link
Just noticed that the Smiths' Complete, which I bought as mp3s and assumed was... complete, doesn't include a few songs! I just heard "Wonderful Woman" for the first time and it's a very pretty song. Maybe not top 20, but certainly top 50
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 04:29 (eight years ago) link
Here is my very consenus-y ballot.
This Charming ManAskWilliam, It Was Really NothingPanicThe Boy With a Thorn In His SidePlease Please Please Let Me Get What I WantReel Around the FountainBigmouth Strikes AgainHand in GloveThere Is A Light That Never Goes OutHeaven Knows I'm Miserable NowIs It Really So StrangeHow Soon is Now?Cemetry GatesWhat Difference Does It Make?Girlfriend in a ComaSome Girls Are Bigger Than OthersGirl AfraidFrankly Mr. ShanklyStop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 14:15 (eight years ago) link
While waiting for the kettle to boil earlier I realised the main riff from What Difference Does It Make is the theme tune from HOW with the beat on a different place in bar.
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 15:10 (eight years ago) link
What is HOW?
― Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 16:17 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XK0RImTvh0
Now soon, is HOW!
― Mark G, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 16:20 (eight years ago) link
Oh wait, it's come back to me now! Haven't thought about that programme for 30+ years!
― Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 16:23 (eight years ago) link
Fred Dineage is our local news report presenter, so I get to think about HOW! fairly often.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 16:27 (eight years ago) link
I missed this. People don't like Strangeways nearly enough - I'm with Morrissey and Marr in thinking Last Night I Dreamt is their best song - but god bless Euler for putting A Rush and a Push at #1.
― impossible raver (Re-Make/Re-Model), Monday, 14 March 2016 18:21 (eight years ago) link
1. Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others2. I Know It’s Over3. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out4. Rubber Rin5. Asleep6. Shoplifters Of The World Unite7. Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want8. Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Know9. This Charming Man10. How Soon Is Now11. Panic12. Ask13. Bigmouth Strikes Again14. A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours15. The Queen Is Dead16. William, It Was Really Nothing17. Girlfriend In A Coma18. Nowhere Fast19. Oscillate Wildly20. London
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 18 March 2016 09:07 (eight years ago) link
Can anyone recommend some good Smiths live shows from the MiM and QiD tours? Also, were they known as a particularly good live act? Never saw them although I was a fan at the time, regret it now.
― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 22:44 (eight years ago) link
Nevermind, I got it (Thank Your Lucky Stars, LA 1986; Madrid, 1985)
― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 23:42 (eight years ago) link
I think there's a proshot video of that Madrid show on YouTube.
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 02:37 (eight years ago) link
Thanks, brother
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 03:19 (eight years ago) link
I have been listening to the Spotify playlist constantly at work since this countdown and think it's driving me a little batty :)
― skip, Saturday, 16 April 2016 00:06 (eight years ago) link
Coyness is nice!
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 15 September 2018 02:29 (five years ago) link
And do you think you've made the right decision this time?
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 August 2019 00:49 (four years ago) link