The Moz/Smiths Top 100, Part 225: YOU HAVE KILLED ME

[Houdini]

Let's compile a Morrissey/Smiths Top 100 by rating all 232 officially released Moz/Smiths-songs.

Song for Today: YOU HAVE KILLED ME

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

The songs so far (voting is still open, click to vote):

Part 224: Yes, I Am Blind (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=82456)
Part 223: Work Is A Four-Letter Word (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=82390)
Part 222: Wonderful Woman (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=82320)
Part 221: William, It Was Really Nothing (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=82282)
Part 220: Will Never Marry (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=82212)
Part 219: Wide To Receive (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=82180)
Part 218: Why Don't You Find Out For Yourself? (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=82151)
Part 217: Whatever Happens, I Love You (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=82084)
Part 216: What's The World (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=82040)
Part 215: What She Said (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=81993)
part 214: What Difference Does It Make? (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=81956)
Part 213: Well I Wonder (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=81910)
Part 212: We'll Let You Know (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=81848)
Part 211: We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=81792)
Part 210: Vicar In A Tutu (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=81763)
Part 209: Used To Be A Sweet Boy (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=81716)
Part 208: Unloveable (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=81681)
Part 207: Unhappy Birthday (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=81632)
Part 206: Trouble Loves Me (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=81564)
Part 205: Tony The Pony (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=81527)
Part 204: Tomorrow (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=81464)
Part 203: To Me You Are A Work Of Art (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=81426)
Part 202: This Night Has Opened My Eyes (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=81386)
Part 201: This Is Not Your Country (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=81341)
Part 200: This Charming Man (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=81281)
Part 199: These Things Take Time (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=81236)
Part 198: There's A Place In Hell For Me And My Friends (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=81193)
Part 197: There Speaks A True Friend (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=81156)
Part 196: There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=81117)
Part 195: The Youngest Was The Most Loved (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=81083)
Part 194: The World Is Full Of Crashing Bores (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=81052)
Part 193: The Teachers Are Afraid Of The Pupils (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=80995)
Part 192: The Queen Is Dead (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=80923)
Part 191: The Public Image (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=80811)
Part 190: The Ordinary Boys (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=80771)
Part 189: The Operation (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=80745)
Part 188: The Never Played Symphonies (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=80634)
Part 187: The National Front Disco (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=80545)
Part 186: The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=80496)
Part 185: The Loop (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=80450)
Part 184: The Lazy Sunbathers (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=80409)
Part 183: The Last Of The Famous International Playboys (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=80300)
Part 182: The Headmaster Ritual (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=80348)
Part 181: The Harsh Truth Of The Camera Eye (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=80260)
Part 180: The Hand That Rocks The Cradle (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=80225)
Part 179: The Father Who Must Be Killed (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=80203)
Part 178: The Edges Are No Longer Parallel (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=80143)
Part 177: The Draize Train (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=80111)
Part 176: The Boy With The Thorn In His Side (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=80071),(follow this link to first 175 songs).

Best performing songs, parts 1 to 175 (click to vote):

Part 173: That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=79972)
Part 167: Suedehead (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=79575)
Part 164: Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=79377)
Part 163: Still Ill (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=79252)
Part 161: Speedway (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=79159)
Part 155: Sister, I'm A Poet (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=78857)
Part 153: Shoplifters Of The World Unite (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=78770)
Part 150: Seasick Yet Still Docked (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=78609)
Part 147: Rubber Ring (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=78444)
Part 145: Reel Around The Fountain (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=78386)
Part 140: Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=78163)
Part 136: Panic (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=78042)
Part 135: Paint A Vulgar Picture (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=77981)
Part 128: Now My Heart Is Full (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=77664)
Part 126: November Spawned A Monster (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=77601)
Part 124: Nobody Loves Us (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=77524)
Part 104: Life Is A Pigsty (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=76672)
Part 101: Late Night, Maudlin Street (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=76554)
Part 100: Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=76504),
Part 96: Jack The Ripper (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=76326)
Part 93: Irish Blood, English Heart (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=76176)
Part 88: I've Changed My Plea To Guilty (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=75911)
Part 83: I Won't Share You (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=75641)
Part 81: I Want The One I Can't Have (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=75545)
Part 77: I Know It's Over (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=75303)
Part 65: How Soon Is Now? (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=74712)
Part 61: Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=74491)
Part 57: Handsome Devil (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=74213)
Part 56: Hand In Glove (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=74150)
Part 55: Half A Person (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=74076)
Part 54: Hairdresser On Fire (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=74018)
Part 50: Girlfriend In A Coma (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=73727)
Part 42: First Of The Gang To Die (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=73179)
Part 41: Everyday Is Like Sunday (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=73130)
Part 36: Disappointed (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=72819)
Part 26: Cemetry Gates (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=72311)
Part 21: Bigmouth Strikes Again (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=72045)
Part 14: Asleep (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=71665)
Part 1: A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=71058)

[dzhemini]

This song made me a Morrissey fan, in April 2006 :)

[fredhenson]

This song made me a Morrissey fan, in April 2006 :)

Me too. And about a million years too late.

[mozmal]

One of the stronger efforts on ROTT. 8.

[Assassin]

I'll give at 9...I like the spirit of the song.

[vicarinatutugal]

Me too. And about a million years too late.

never late, just in time I think. :)

[dzhemini]

Me too. And about a million years too late.

Well, it's better late than never? ;)

[Chartres]

When I first heard this one I never thought it would be a grower but it has proven to be a strong card live with all it's brilliant and witty lyric changes.

:guitar:

[Radio Berlin]

If I could only listen to one song for the rest of my life it would be this song. I like everything about it.
10 http://www.smileyvillage.com/smilies/love0033.gif http://www.smileyvillage.com/smilies/love0033.gif http://www.smileyvillage.com/smilies/love0033.gif

[meat_is_murder19]

One of the better tracks on ringleader :D

[Corrissey]

I'll give it an 8.

I like the spirit of the song.
^^ And there is no point saying this again ;)

I like how the ending music & lyrics 'always I do forgive you' seems like an exhale after all that spent energy.

I have that shirt -chalk outline of Moz on front, You Have Killed Me on the back- and get a lot of strange looks & questions when I wear it :cool: And my daughter told me recently, when she got bored in school, she started singing this -to herself ~whew- ... should I be 'concerned'?! :D lol

[the judge]

6. no more, no less.
I think the lyric "you have killed me" is very banal

[Skinner]

I still don't understand why this is my bf's favorite. What a weirdo.
I give it a 7. Catchy but not the best. But it is Moz so I do love it. :guitar:

[Amy]

If I could only listen to one song for the rest of my life it would be this song. I like everything about it.
10 http://www.smileyvillage.com/smilies/love0033.gif http://www.smileyvillage.com/smilies/love0033.gif http://www.smileyvillage.com/smilies/love0033.gif



You're mad :p

Decent music, poor lyrics by Moz' standards. A 5

[the judge]

You're mad :p

Decent music, poor lyrics by Moz' standards. A 5

Yes, poor lyrics. Good evening Amy, haven't talked to you in a while... How are you?

[oscillate wildly]

This song made me a Morrissey fan, in April 2006 :)

no wayyy, haha same!
sadly, i somehow forgot it after a while, haha but then two months later i found The Smiths so i was soon reminded. ;)

it's going to be a weird when these polls are over..i've been looking at them each time i came since i joined here. ;p

[ruffi]

i give it a 9 :D

the second best track on ringleader, after "life is a pigsty"

[lightupvirginmary]

If I could only listen to one song for the rest of my life it would be this song. I like everything about it.
10 http://www.smileyvillage.com/smilies/love0033.gif http://www.smileyvillage.com/smilies/love0033.gif http://www.smileyvillage.com/smilies/love0033.gif

blimey.

[hatfull]

one of the best tracks from ROTT. 7 for me, which is as high as I'd give any song on this album.

[the beast]

this track is a beast:guitar:

[Evil Legal Eagle]

Great song, great video! 8

[nugz]

i cant believe how many people are saying they love this song. it's just average. blah. its just there.

[triumphs&charms]

I will never understand Morrissey fans. Some of his most facile, trite and lazy lyrics are hailed as 'genius' and 'poetry', yet this is derided as an average lyric when it is so impressively inspired...

"Accattone you’ll be" - Pasolini's first film, therefore Morrissey's first love. Brilliant!

Love killing Morrissey metaphorically, as in all that Morrissey is and represents has no foundation is love. A million miles better than the vast majority of the rubbish hailed as great.

[celibate]

a 7.5 but made it a 7

why cause still my overall feeling of ROTT is mediocre
I liked this single when it was released, but was just as fast bored with it,
like '' haven't we heard that before" [which is my overall criticism of ROTT,
and the child choir and arabic influences are just too little to lead or
change the album

you have killed me, I'm afraid it will go down in history as Dagenham Dave
did

head in the clouds with a mouthfull of pie:sleeping:

[Walkers Crisp]

The best single A side off ROTT. 8.

[justme]

well I gave it a 9. I like the song and the lyrics :D

I remember the first time I heard Pasolini is me ... Ijust couldn't stop smiling :D I just loved it right away :guitar:

[Girl Unafraid]

I love it, it has so much grandiose or something, and I love the opening lines, and the "I forgive you" bit too :D I once walked through a Piazza Cavour as well...a different one though, but still...:p

[HIM]

fucking nonsense.

[Paulc]

10 for me - its a brilliant and clever pop song which is up there with anything from the past 3 years - IBEH, Pigsty and Fotgtd.

I love the occasional live Lyric change: "Morrissey is me"

I was hoping this would do better in this poll because i would have liked to have seen it in the top 50 but i dont think its gonna make it.

[Not Right in the Head]

fucking nonsense.

Almost total crap. It's catchy, but if I want an empty pop song from Moz, I'll listen to "First of the Gang to Die."

[Radio Berlin]

I'm so happy that I'm not alone loving this song.
It's just something about the sound that I can't explain.
It fits the simple but beautiful lyrics.

[Not Right in the Head]

It should be called "You Have Killed Meh."

[Houdini]

I was hoping this would do better in this poll because i would have liked to have seen it in the top 50 but i dont think its gonna make it.

With its current average rating of 8.13 it could just make the Top 100, which means that it would make the Morrissey Top 50.

AND it is the second best performing 2006 song.

[justme]

It should be called "You Have Killed Meh."

In your opinion :) - others (such as myself) seem to think differently :D so... NEXT SONG PLEASE! :guitar:

[Well I Wonder]

7/10. Nothing Special.

[HIM]

Almost total crap. It's catchy, but if I want an empty pop song from Moz, I'll listen to "First of the Gang to Die."

it's really bad, but it's not that bad.

[Not Right in the Head]

it's really bad, but it's not that bad.

I was just waiting for you to say something like that.