Ultimate Mix Tape: Morrissey
[The essential jams.]
by Scott Collura

February 29, 2008 - Welcome to IGN Music's Ultimate Mix Tape, a new semi-regular column that revisits some of our favorite bands and musical artists and creates what we see as the definitive playlists for those acts. What's the difference between a mix tape and a playlist, you ask? Well, for one thing you can't hit random on a mix tape. And for another, no one actually listens to tapes anymore -- except for your grandma.

Still, there's something about a mix tape that the more modern playlist can't quite capture… A mix tape always held a finite amount of space, which meant you had to pick your 15 or so songs carefully. And for the mix masters out there, the order the songs were included in on the tape could be important as well, with each tracking playing off the previous one, leading to an overall cumulative sonic experience.

For our first installment of IGN's Ultimate Mix Tape, we're going with none other than the former Smiths frontman himself, Morrissey. It was recently announced that [Morrissey] will be releasing a Greatest Hits on March 25th that will span his 20-year solo career, and hard as it is to believe that it's already been 20 years since The Smiths broke up, this news also got us thinking about what Morrissey has truly accomplished in those two decades… and whether or not said musical deeds could make up a great mix tape. Read on for the answer to that question and find out if we were truly disappointed or if our Morrissey mix turned out to be an interesting drug…

Go to the website link to see the song list.