The Moz/Smiths Top 100, Part 14: ASLEEP

[Houdini]

While we wait for the new album to arrive, let us go about rating the songs we know, on a daily basis, and compile our own Morrissey/Smiths Top 100.

And instead of chronologically, let's do them alphabetically.

Song for Today: ASLEEP

Voting should be something along these lines:
10: Classic
9: Near classic, fucking brilliant anyway
8: Really good Moz/Smiths song
7: Good Moz/Smiths song
6: Decent, OK, Nothing special
5: Uninspired
4: Poor
3: Bad
2: Should never have been released
1: He/They should be ashamed

The top-13 so far (voting will remain open, click to vote):

1) A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=71058), rating so far: 8,85
2) Angel, Angel, Down We Go Together (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=71501), rating: 8,56
3) Ask (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=71626), rating: 8,44
4) Alsatian Cousin (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=71329), rating: 8,33
5) A Swallow On My Neck (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=71148), rating: 7,80
6) Alma Matters (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=71293), rating: 7,75
7) Accept Yourself (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=71204), rating: 7,45
8) A Song From Under The Floorboards (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=71098), rating: 7,17
9) Asian Rut (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=71591), rating: 6,76
10) Ambitious Outsiders (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=71370), rating: 6,71
11) Ammunition (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=71473), rating 6,64
12) America Is Not The World (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=71434), rating: 6,59
13) All The Lazy Dykes (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=71259), rating: 6,17

[nocturn0wl]

this is my FAVORITE Smiths song. I can't believe no one has commented yet.

[vicarinatutugal]

Amazing...

[Houdini]

this is my FAVORITE Smiths song. I can't believe no one has commented yet.

With a current average of more than 9 it looks like it will be our new number 1, so you are not alone...

[Bluebirds]

I'm tired and I want to go bed........

10.

Its quite uncanny how Morrissey managed to capture the very essence of M.E. in this song!

[Tbevie]

I love this song. I especially love the line “Don’t feel bad for me” because leading up to that line that’s exactly what you are feeling. I also love the Auld Lang Syne music box effect at the end.

[Still Tired]

I listen to this song far too much and love it to death. (Unintended pun there ;) )

[Spineless Swine]

breathtakingly beautiful...

although i cant bear to listen to it that often, its so sad

[the judge]

I don't like it, for now.

[MindlessRuffian]

8

So sad...yet so beautiful.

DXS

[Albion]

Amazingly powerful song. 10 from me

[hatfull]

I listened to this one day and sobbed for about an hour. Heartbreaking.

[FlickanMedTörnen]

10 for me no doubt!

[FlickanMedTörnen]

right, another thing..


I love this song. I especially love the line “Don’t feel bad for me” because leading up to that line that’s exactly what you are feeling. I also love the Auld Lang Syne music box effect at the end.
I do too but I'd like to know, how do others interpret it? why auld lang syne? I don't really have a relationship with that song, the history etc.. or is it just because it fits?
it's a very beautiful effect anyway, kind of eerie..

[DAnn Coulter]

10

This is one of my very favorite Smiths songs.

[gentle kind]

It's a 9 from me which is very good as i'm a bit tight with my marking

[underdog99]

if you give this song something less than 10 your insane

an exceptionally beautiful, and awe-inspiring song

[chrisarclark]

9

wouldve given it a 10 a few years ago when iwas living it.

[Camilla]

A 10....I don't listen to it that often...makes me really sad and depress.

[DAnn Coulter]

A 10....I don't listen to it that often...makes me really sad and depress.

I know :(

But it's truely lovely... I wanna die listening to this song.... it's all I ask.


PS: Whoever voted 1 should be hit over the head with a baseball bat. :cool:

[JoyDiv007]

I know :(

But it's truely lovely... I wanna die listening to this song.... it's all I ask.


PS: Whoever voted 1 should be hit over the head with a baseball bat. :cool:

I totally agree.

[DAnn Coulter]

I totally agree.

:)

Who the hell is Tom Riddle? ......this person is obviouly in some serious need of psychological help. no other way to explain his vote

[JoyDiv007]

Yeah I think your right, or maybe they voted that way to annoy us on purpose.

[Camilla]

Haha...he got his name after Lord Voldemort:D. I agree DAnn about listening to this song before dying and hitting that brat with a baseball bat.

[Depeche609]

10.

Not a song I listen to often, but when I do it's worth it.
I'm a sucker for his sad songs. It makes me want to take care of him
(I have a uterus, so don't blame me)

[Comtesse]

A beautiful song that is best heard with Rubber Ring as a B-side of The Boy With The Thorn In His Side. The way that the "You are sleeping / You do not want to believe" ending of Rubber Ring blends into the windswept, melancholy piano opening of "Asleep" is easily one of the greatest moments on a Smiths recording. Sends a chill down my spine everytime. They really botched it when they released Louder Than Bombs and separated the two songs.

Here it is, for those of you who have never heard the medley:
Rubber Ring/Asleep (http://arcaneoldwardrobe.com/files/Rubber%20Ring%20-%20Asleep.mp3)

[Comtesse]

:)

Who the hell is Tom Riddle? ......this person is obviouly in some serious need of psychological help. no other way to explain his vote

That's funny, I feel the same way about you whenever I look at your sig. ;)

[Viva Tom]

please bring this to Camden.
it would make my year.

[*EqualOpportunityHater*]

I HATE anyone who doesn't give this song a 10 :cool:

[mozmal]

Beautiful and haunting and brilliant. 10.

[dzhemini]

One of the saddest songs ever made...

[Kilt Uncle]

Perfect 10!

I play it to cheer myself up! And yes, things are really THAT bad...:)

[Amy]

This is going to sound blasphemous but...come on. This song is awful. Haunting yes, suicidal yes, emotional yes. But so are "I Know It's Over", "That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore", "Well I Wonder" and "Back to the Old House", all a thousand times better than this droning, monotonous rubbish. A 3.


Edit: SHIT I appear to have given it a 6 by mistake. It's still terrible in my books. A mess, boys.

[vicarinatutugal]

This is going to sound blasphemous but...come on. This song is awful. Haunting yes, suicidal yes, emotional yes. But so are "I Know It's Over", "That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore", "Well I Wonder" and "Back to the Old House", all a thousand times better than this droning, monotonous rubbish. A 3.


Edit: SHIT I appear to have given it a 6 by mistake. It's still terrible in my books. A mess, boys.

jesus christ woman! get a grip on yourself, this song is a triumph!

[Amy]

jesus christ woman! get a grip on yourself, this song is a triumph!

*rofl* but I already have a grip on myself, this song is dirge!

[vicarinatutugal]

*rofl* but I already have a grip on myself, this song is dirge!

there there, nursey will give you your medicine soon, just sit there quiet like a good girl.

[Amy]

there there, nursey will give you your medicine soon, just sit there quiet like a good girl.

Ah, ok, well she's playing "Asleep" in the background to soothe me, so I should be unconscious by the time she injects the needle anyway.

[*EqualOpportunityHater*]

This is going to sound blasphemous but...come on. This song is awful. Haunting yes, suicidal yes, emotional yes. But so are "I Know It's Over", "That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore", "Well I Wonder" and "Back to the Old House", all a thousand times better than this droning, monotonous rubbish. A 3.


Edit: SHIT I appear to have given it a 6 by mistake. It's still terrible in my books. A mess, boys.

YOU

ASKED

FOR

IT.......


I HATE YOU!! :cool:

[Amy]

YOU

ASKED

FOR

IT.......


I HATE YOU!! :cool:

How rational of you :rolleyes: :p

[vicarinatutugal]

How rational of you :rolleyes: :p

that medication is useless. :rolleyes:

[Amy]

that medication is useless. :rolleyes:

It did work; I was out cold for 3 minutes or so, but then 'Boy with the Thorn' came on and I was revived :)

[*EqualOpportunityHater*]

How rational of you :rolleyes: :p

Don't worry, I HATE TomRiddle more, he gave it a 1 :eek:

[the judge]

I don't like it, for now.

How clever am I. :cool:

I thought it was poor. It's great. Now I would give it 9 or 10.