10 Great Smiths Songs

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10 Great Smiths Songs

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1. This Charming Man
2. Reel Around the Fountain
3. Death of a Disco Dancer
4. The Queen is Dead
5. How Soon is Now?
6. Meat is Murder
7. What Difference Does It Make
8. There is a Light
9. Shoplifters
10. I Know It's Over
Genuine Old Frontier Gibberish

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The same but different...

1. How Soon is Now?
2. This Charming Man
3. The Queen is Dead
4. That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
5. What She Said

...and after intermission...

6. The Headmaster Ritual

7. Death of a Disco Dancer
8. Shoplifters of the World Unite
9. Vicar in a Tutu
10. Meat is Murder

...1st encore...

a. Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
b. Bigmouth Strikes Again
c. Hand in Glove

...so I cheated, but Greatest "10"? C'mon :wink:

PS: Andy Rourke is a black man wearing a white guy's skin...the funkiest mofo this side of Bootsy

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What about some girls are bigger than others?
Slowy wrote: That's the problem; everything rewarding is just such hard work. Regret takes much less effort.

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All of the above plus for the second encore:

The Headmaster Ritual
I Know It's Over
Cemetry Gates
Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours

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jeremyb wrote:What about some girls are bigger than others?
:lol:

That Morrisey is one of the funniest lyricists going...
"eh, I know you and you cannot sing"
I said, "that's nothing. You should hear me play piano".

...2nd encore...

d. Frankly, Mr. Shankly
e. Bigmouth Strikes Again
f. You Just haven't Earned it Yet, Baby
g. Paint a Vulgar Picture

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...and the epic, telecaster-tastic, finale encore...

h. What Difference Does it Make?

...and not a lead-break in sight. :thumbup:

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Suffer Little Children
Panic
Girlfriend in a Coma
The Draize Train
Still Ill
Genuine Old Frontier Gibberish

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Probably, out of all the dozens of songs they wrote/recorded, it may be quicker/shorter to list the 10 Shitest Smiths Songs or this thread could just keep blowing out :)

Mind you, Top 10 lists are fun...

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The Tube TV Show
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"Barbarism Begins At Home".
I quite liked this.
Genuine Old Frontier Gibberish

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