top 5 songs of ... The Smiths

Been playing some Smiths' stuff today. Massively under-rated band. Here's some more classic material:

Smiths:

Reel Around The Fountain
The Queen Is Dead
I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
Girlfrind In A Coma
Sheila take A Bow

Mozza:

November Spawned A Monster
Ouija Board
Last Of The Famous International Playboys
Last of The Gang To Die
Irish Blood, English Heart


Johnny Marr:

Good Morning Beatiful (The The)
Armageddon Days Are Here Again (The The)
The Beaten Generation (The The)
Get The Message (Electronic)
Fly Trapped In A Jar (Modest Mouse)

"Let me get my hands
on your mammory glands,
and let me get your head
on the conjugal bed"

would have to go for:

1. Wannabe A Smurf Star
2. Smurfs Get Upside Your Head
3. Smurf It Up
4. Smurfs Are Coming Home
5. Keep On Smurfing

Oh!!! you meant The Smiths.... he he ;-) would be a cool duo tho, popa smurf and morissey, bit like bing crosby and david bowie.

How has Handsome Devil not been mentioned?
Tut tut.

Smiths:
There is light....
Half a person
Still ill
Paint a Vulgar Picture
Asleep

(couldve picked 50 others....)

Moz:
National Front Disco
Suedehead
Everyday is like Sunday
Lost
Now my heart is full

(as above)

Obviously, they're miserable and boring blah blah blah

[cite]Posted By: falconwood_1[/cite]

[cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]Err....


Twice in two days I've agreed with Brunello. Worrying ; - )

I'm delighted you don't like The Smiths.

Phew.

I know people who know say you are slow but even so, two years?

I was there and I saw them:

Bigmouth Strikes Again
Reel Around The Fountain
I Started Something
Girlfriend In A Coma
A Rush AND a Push and the land that was yours and mine...

[cite]Posted By: Cardinal Sin[/cite]The Smiths are very hard to cover. Marr too good and Morrissey so difficult. Count me in though.

Hatful of Hollow - the most exciting album I've ever heard. Every track is a throbbing masterpiece.

I'm not aware of that many Smith's songs being covered, but this one sprang to mind for some reason:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmJ_hGOVebs&feature=related

Haha, when I clicked on the link I was wondering if it was the TaTu version of How Soon is Now... and it was.

I'm a big Smiths fan, and How soon is now is one of my favourite songs, but I don't think that's a terrible cover. It is what it is, and you get the sense they're not really sure why they're singing it, but an OK song in its own right. Probably because it's a majority-Marr song - the music matters more than the vocals, and even though the music is a bit OTT in the TaTu version, it's fine.

I managed to find a Cd version of Meat is Murder in a charity shop the other day (makes a change from all the Take That solo crap and other dire plastic pop shite that generally appears in charity shops), it's battered as fook but plays perfectly and it's an original 1985 Rough Trade issue rather than a modern Wea issue- very happy with that! My old Lp was getting a bit worse for wear (but still plays), great album. The Smiths- True Class!

1) What difference does it make?
2) Bigmouth strikes again
3) How soon is now?
4) Rusholme ruffians
5) The queen is dead

Definately my favourite band, unique and awesome.

1)Ask
2)I know it's over
3)Asleep
4)I want the one I can't have
5)Still Ill
Favourite lyric : " I wear black on the outside 'cause black is how i feel on the inside, and if i seem a little strange then that's because i am." Unloveable
Now where's that link to the "Morrissey genius or twat?" thread?