Mine pretty much change all the time. At first I was really into Sheila Take A Bow, but right now I'm really digging What Difference Does it Make. What are your favorite Smiths songs?
Suffer Little Children, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, This Night Has Opened My Eyes, The Boy With The Thorn In His Side...all of them, really.
This Charming Man Oscillate Wildly There Is a Light That Never Goes Out Well I Wonder the Draize Train
It is definately a classic. I still love Reel around the fountain, unhappy birthday, and a rush and a push and this land is ours. really, i can't think of any i dislike. But, anything/everything off of strangeways stands out to me actually. A lot of people didn't dig it. But i thought it was their best moment.
I could literally be in this thread all day, but anyway. Here are my top 18, in no particular order (numbered so that I'd stop at 18), sort of the CD I would make if I had a choice. 1. Pretty Girls Make Graves 2. Hand that rocks the cradle 3. Suffer little children 4. Reel around the fountain 5. Heaven knows I'm miserable now 6. Half a person 7. Stretch out and wait 8. Panic 9. Please, please, please... 10. This charming man 11. The boy with a thorn in his side 12. Girlfriend in a Coma 13. Hand in Glove 14. Nowhere fast 15. Some Girls are bigger than others 16. Well I wonder 17. Rush and a Push and the land is ours 18. There is a light that never goes out And of course I could make a B side to that with Still Ill, Stop me if you think you've heard this one before, Frankly Mr Shankly, Paint a vulgar picture, bigmouth strikes again, you've got everything now, I know it's over, this night has opened my eyes and others. I will say "How soon is now?" is my least favorite song. I've started to hate it less, but it is the one I always think of when asked which one's I don't like. Occassionally people ask me about them and say the typical "Do they sing any songs I would know?", to which I usually reply "No." A 50 something beatles fan once asked me that, and I just made her a CD (titled "smile for the machine guns") instead of getting into it. Other than the guitar riff from HSIN? proliferating Nissan commercials, they'd have to be an astute fan of Ferris Bueller's day off to catch a smiths song, and have an encyclopedic memory of the movie. Or they could steal my cd walkman, as I usually listen to them 4-5 days a week. As they aren't on the radio (aside from WLIR), I can't really explain their music to most people in a way that they'd understand. You can't sing lines like "In a river the colour of lead emerse a baby's head wrap her up in the News Of The World dump her on a doorstep, girl", "hand in glove, the sun shines out of our behinds" or "What she said: 'How come someone hasn't noticed that I'm dead and decided to bury me God knows, I'm ready' " and have people "get" it. I was watching I love the 80s and they brought up the Smiths and Morrissey and it got basically panned by Mo Rocca and Wayne from "The Wonder Years" with brilliant observations like "I could never understand what he was so upset about". I missed the memo where they'd taken over music reviews at Rolling Stone, but whatever. My basic deal with their music is that if you can't control feeling better, sometimes contolling how bad you feel feels good enough. Their music has picked me up, brought me down and saved me from myself and others in a literal sense too many times to count. I just wish they could have stayed around longer.
Ask There Is a Light That Never Goes Out This Night Has Opened My Eyes Asleep Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
Tons of possibilities. Here's a few: "The Queen is Dead" "How Soon is Now?" "William, It Was Really Nothing" "Panic" "Cemetery Gates" "Hand in Glove" "I Know It's Over" - hide the knives! "London"
How about: Headmaster Ritual What She Said Bigmouth Strikes Again Panic Rush and a push and the land is ours Unhappy Birthday Death at one's Elbow What Difference Does it Make? Death of a Disco Dancer Girlfirend in a Coma Stop Me if you've heard this one before Paint a Vulgar Picture Cemetry Gates Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now How Soon Is Now? That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore Morrissey Solo: Everyday is like sunday Billy Budd Spring Heeled Jim Hold on to your friends The Last of the Famous International Playboys Suedehead You're the One for Me, Fatty Jack the Ripper The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get
That's the song I couldn't think of. Panic is also kind of perfect. I was just listening to the album "If You're Feeling Sinister" the other day. It's an album I've wanted for a while, but only recently bought. And I was thinking how B+S really picked up the lyrical reins from Morrissey -- both content and phrasing wise.
When I got that album in college I thought the exact same thing. And then they sorta fell apart. I really disliked the stuff post - boy with arab strap. But I do like the new one, so go figure. Also, gotta hand it to jamison for having one of the best posts of the year up above. Has any read "Severed Alliance" the biography on Morrissey and Marr?
I dunno - I'm still *trying* to let Dear Catastrophe Waitress sick in, but so far to no avail. Which means I just don't like it very much, as compared to their other gems. (BTW I thought Fold Your Hands Child was their best album...) But to get back on the Smiths agenda, I'd nominate just about every song from Hatful of Hollow.
Continuum Books has launched "33 1/3" "...a new series of short books about critically acclaimed and much-loved albums of the last 40 years. " Among the first titles is a book on "Meat is Murder" by Joe Pernice of The Pernice Brothers / Scud Mountain Boys (yes, I'm obsessive about these guys). Haven't seen it in the stores yet, but I'm on the lookout. Much shortened list of other current titles in the series: >Zanes, Warren -- Dusty Springfield's Dusty in Memphis >Hultkrans, Andrew -- Love's Forever Changes >Matos, Michaelangelo -- Prince's Sign O' the Times >Keenan, David -- My Bloody Valentine's Loveless Full list at Continuum Books: http://www.continuumbooks.com/series_details.cgi?sid=311 A longer article on the Pernice book and the project in general: http://www.townonline.com/arts_lifestyle/tv_music_radio/art_artabooksjwas10152003.htm
"THe Queen Is Dead" -- She said I know you and you cannot sing/I said that's nothing/ You should hear me play piano. COunt me as a fan of HOw Soon Is Now. Anyone who hates it has never been on a dance floor when it was played.
Agreed. I remember it as an underground club hit for years. Something along the lines of "Bizarre Love Triangle" by New Order. Maybe not the best Smith's song, but one of the most danceable.
sheila take a bow please,please,please... work is a four letter word how soon is now is it really so strange girlfriend in a coma
Pretty much the whole Louder than Bombs album. I really like to sing along to Hang the DJ. I was in my car driving somewhere, hadn't listened to the Smiths for a while, and totally just belted out that song, the chorus has like 30 people singing anyway. By the way, there was that remake of How Soon as Now that came out with some crap movie (they played the song during the ads, it might have been for a TV show) a while back. I just wanted to shoot whatever band butchered that one. Anyone know?
I think it was in 'the craft'....... yep, Just looked it up on IMDB......love spit love did the remake.
There are worst bands that could cover how soon is now than love spit love....they do have ex-furs frontman richard butler leading the way ya know.