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Best Rainy Day Smiths Song (suggested by Dagenham Dave)
Displaying poll results.
Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now   9% 415 / 9%
I Know It's Over   16% 749 / 16%
Back To The Old House   7% 321 / 7%
Half A Person   7% 324 / 7%
Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want   10% 467 / 10%
Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me   10% 497 / 10%
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out   13% 613 / 13%
Asleep   9% 442 / 9%
Unloveable   4% 214 / 4%
I Won't Share You   5% 231 / 5%
Other   6% 295 / 6%
4568 total votes.

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  • Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
  • Feel free to suggest poll ideas if you're feeling creative. I'd strongly suggest reading the past polls first.
  • This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.

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would it not hav made sense... (Score:3, Insightful)
to include "Well I Wonder" in this poll?
chrisarclark <clarkinatorclark@hotmail.com> -- Wednesday November 22 2006, @09:46AM (#240453)
(User #9259 Info)
 "I'm just passing through here on my way to somewhere civilized and maybe I'll even arrive, maybe I'll even arrive..."
Or William?!!! (Score:0)
The two most obvious are missing- the openeing line from "William" and as already mentioned, "Well I Wonder..." you know it does have the sound of rain throughout!!
Anonymous -- Wednesday November 22 2006, @10:12AM (#240457)
Those were the days (Score:1, Insightful)
Look at that list of songs. Then look at the current setlist. How the mighty have fallen!
Anonymous -- Wednesday November 22 2006, @10:41AM (#240465)
Well I Wonder...... (Score:0)
....Who on earth could leave "Well I Wonder" AND "William" out of a poll like this? The two songs literally LEAPT (leadped ?) to mind as I read the question!

Sheeeese......latelies!

-TTL
Anonymous -- Wednesday November 22 2006, @11:07AM (#240472)
Well I wonder (Score:1, Interesting)
where the ultimate rainy days song went?

From the gently chiming opening sequence, through the tenderly mocking vocal part, pitter-patter of the percussion, culminating in sampled (apparently) authentic Mancunian rain hitting slabs of grey pavement in some tip of a council estate, this one was written for every rainy day in history.

broken
Anonymous -- Wednesday November 22 2006, @02:20PM (#240515)
top 10 rainy days smiths/morrissey songs - add urs (Score:0)
1 Well I wonder
2 Please Let Me Get What I Want
3 I'd Love To
4 Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now (well ok but I like Carry On films on wet wednesdays too)
5 Disappointed
6 William, It Was Really Nothing
7 That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
8 Death of a Disco Dancer
9 Paint a Vulgar Picture
10 I'm Hated For Loving

not many of his latter day songs sound 'rainy' do they?

broken
Anonymous -- Wednesday November 22 2006, @02:26PM (#240518)
how about this? (Score:2, Insightful)
i could sleep like a pig in a rainy day, its so comforting whilst hear 'Asleep'

So, how about best hot n' dry day Smiths song by me..
- this charming man
- ask
- sheila take a bow
- handsome devil
- sweet and tender hooligan

just five of them, i guess

Peter Marr -- Wednesday November 22 2006, @09:15PM (#240558)
(User #17077 Info)
Never Had No One Ever (Score:0)
This one always takes me back to very rainy days.
Anonymous -- Wednesday November 22 2006, @10:21PM (#240561)
This night has opened my eyes. (Score:0)
It amazes me how this song is overlooked so often. The Smiths wouldn't have been half as intriguing to me without the inclusion of this song in their cannon. Yamaha
Anonymous -- Thursday November 23 2006, @01:06AM (#240568)
and... my top 10 'summer- morrissey songs (Score:0)
this should be the next poll topic - someone suggest it!

1 first of the gang to die
2 suedehead
3 late night maudlin street
4 america is not the world
5 hard to walk tall when you're small
6 this charming man (hatful version)
7 shakespeare's sister
8 TLOTFIPBs
9 the more you ignore me
10 GF in a Coma

broken
Anonymous -- Thursday November 23 2006, @02:03AM (#240573)
    What about (Score:0)
    WILLIAM???????????????????
    Thatīs definitely the best song for a bad mood. Right?
    Anonymous -- Thursday November 23 2006, @09:52AM (#240600)
      Rain is murder (Score:2, Interesting)
      The entire Meat is Murder album exudes the mood of a rainy day-- led by Well I Wonder.
      Yet not one song is given as a choice. Oops I just complained about lack of options tsk tsk.
      Anyway... 'Other'.
      keefer -- Thursday November 23 2006, @12:54PM (#240610)
      (User #2244 Info)
       *Reclined on an analysts couch*
        I won't share you! (Score:1)
        Love them all, but my choice is
        "I won't share you"
        I absolutely love it!

        Trevor -- Thursday November 23 2006, @02:29PM (#240619)
        (User #15889 Info)
          Voted 'other' (Score:1)
          Well I wonder

          beautiful
          carnal artist -- Thursday November 23 2006, @02:55PM (#240622)
          (User #7076 Info)
          duhhh (Score:0)
          well i wonder
          Anonymous -- Thursday November 23 2006, @10:59PM (#240647)
            William (Score:1, Interesting)
            William it was really nothing was always my fave rainy day song by the smiths.

            I think it stems from a time when i was about 15 and I was walking home in with my walkman on (shows how long ago that was!) and Just as the heavens opened "the rain falls hard on a humdrum town" launched in to my ears. I actually remember laughing out loud and then quickly checking around me to see if anyone had seen me laughing.

            I also recall that The queen is dead was on the same cassette and I found that amusing too as the rain most certainly did flatten my hair!

            Not sure anyone will be slightly interested in my life story there but hey. I shared it anyway.
            Anonymous -- Friday November 24 2006, @04:25AM (#240660)
            • Re:William by dbowie (Score:1) Monday November 27 2006, @04:02AM
              • Re:William by Anonymous (Score:0) Tuesday November 28 2006, @04:29AM
              The Reign Of The Rain (Score:2)
              Like so many others here, I would have to say that 'Well I Wonder' is without doubt the best 'rainy day' song, and also my favourite all-time Smiths song.

              I would really have loved to have seen him add this song to his current set-list for next weeks show at the SECC.
              The idea of the song ending, and the synthetic rain segueing from 'Well I Wonder' into 'Life Is A Pigsty' is truly mouth-watering.

              Such a tragedy it's unlikely to happen.

              One can but dream........
              Requiescant Inpacce * -- Friday November 24 2006, @12:48PM (#240706)
              (User #10687 Info)
               "You should not go to them...let them come to you...just like I do..."
                as usual, broken said it best... well i wonder (Score:0)
                where the ultimate rainy days song went?

                From the gently chiming opening sequence, through the tenderly mocking vocal part, pitter-patter of the percussion, culminating in sampled (apparently) authentic Mancunian rain hitting slabs of grey pavement in some tip of a council estate, this one was written for every rainy day in history.

                broken

                when someone can write so beautifully, why oh why are they hated so much?
                Anonymous -- Saturday November 25 2006, @05:35AM (#240738)
                you don't have to tell me (Score:1)
                My pick was obiously "unloveable", amazing song to listen to in both rainy and sunny days.
                It would have made sense to put "well i wonder", "i don't owe you anything" and "pretty girls make graves" as options, THOSE are rainy day songs.
                glamm -- Saturday November 25 2006, @03:22PM (#240788)
                (User #17421 Info)
                  half a persona. (Score:2, Insightful)
                  "half a person" is a beautiful song to listen to and
                  to look out the window and enjoy the melancholy rain.."i know it's over" is for people who want to kill themselves while watching said melancholy rain.wonderful pole dag dave."never had no one ever"
                  is for people walking in melancholy rain, eventually
                  slouching on ex-girlfriend's mailbox,staring up at her dim-lit window for hours at a time.
                  fassbinder -- Saturday November 25 2006, @10:59PM (#240813)
                  (User #16366 Info)
                    William (Score:1)
                    I'm obviously not the first to comment on the huge oversight of leaving William It Was Really Nothing off this poll. I'm also wondering about I Know It's Over being the frontrunner right now. Wouldn't that soil falling over his head be more like mud on a rainy day? Yeah, I'm taking it way too literally.
                    David Rich -- Sunday November 26 2006, @06:32PM (#240894)
                    (User #14929 Info | http://www.myspace.com/dtowndavidrich )
                      the answer is... (Score:1)
                      ...sunny.
                      inlovewiththepast -- Monday November 27 2006, @06:05AM (#240919)
                      (User #1028 Info)
                       truth rest your head there is more than a life at stake here..she may well sell sanctuary but she'll also sell your soul
                        William... (Score:0)
                        William, It Was Really Nothing. Obvious? Why, yes! Still true, though.
                        Anonymous -- Monday November 27 2006, @10:55AM (#240931)
                          Hauntingly sad (Score:0)
                          I am quite surprised that no one mentioned "Suffer Little Children". It is about children that were murdered in Manchester. Classic.
                          Anonymous -- Monday November 27 2006, @08:41PM (#240974)
                            What about... (Score:0)
                            Life Is A Pigsty?
                            Anonymous -- Tuesday November 28 2006, @01:42PM (#241023)
                            subject= Wait (Score:0)
                            i was thinking about the contemplate of writing my own 10th best list and compile to the number one song of what is the favorites, my sword swung for back in the days of yore. and forebold foretell about this great divinity known as at least the best list shall include Sunnny, because we're really missing you honestly, and i fill my time with wrap gap rap rags...

                                  1. alma matters
                            2. sunny
                            3. seasick yet still docked
                            4. tomorrow
                            3 ask
                            4 now my heart is full
                            5 well i wonder
                            5565 stretch out and wait
                            7 why don't you find out for yourself
                            8. paint a vulgar picture
                            speedway_wilde -- Wednesday November 29 2006, @02:07PM (#241086)
                            (User #1271 Info | http://www.johnfrusciante.com/ )
                             wild child full of grace, saviour of the human boy rac er
                              itsssss than parallellllllll (Score:1)
                              the edges are no longer than parallel.............i think,,,so best
                              soffimoz -- Wednesday November 29 2006, @09:24PM (#241098)
                              (User #17537 Info)
                                polls (Score:1)
                                Great poll topic, but someone please tell me when the mozer will be coming to the the bayarea?
                                    From some one who can't wait till he arrives by air or land..... To be continued
                                FONZIE JR -- Thursday November 30 2006, @04:41PM (#241155)
                                (User #17785 Info)
                                  Reel around the fountain (Score:1)
                                  What...no Reel around the fountain? Anyone agree? To get the full effect you must listen to it on vinyl...
                                  mozfan73 -- Friday December 01 2006, @05:08PM (#241240)
                                  (User #17795 Info)
                                    Troll poll cos no Well I Wonder (Score:0)
                                    For heaven's sake! Well I Wonder is the one Smiths record that actually has the sound effect of rain on the bloody record! And it's not in this poll!

                                    That's a bit like saying "Which Is The Best Vegetarian Smiths Track?" and not having Meat Is Murder.

                                    Silly.
                                    Anonymous -- Saturday December 02 2006, @03:44AM (#241255)
                                    apocalyspe now (Score:1)
                                    I always thought "Last Night I Dreamt" had something very apocalyptic to it, specially in vinyl, specially coming out of one of those wooden giant speakers I had from my bedroom with a big window facinng a tropical garden during a stormy night I spent alone, because I was so skinny and I was too white and had too much acne. Oh well, as you see, the comic is always siding with the pathetic.
                                    Mrs. Woolf -- Saturday December 02 2006, @07:35PM (#241329)
                                    (User #14157 Info)
                                    rain (Score:1)
                                    The entire output was very "rainy" for a considerable time

                                    and all the better for it
                                    drilltime -- Monday December 04 2006, @01:51AM (#241434)
                                    (User #15269 Info)
                                      Never had no ever, (Score:1)
                                      No, seriously, Ive never had no ever.
                                      memphis <stueynik@hotmail.com> -- Monday December 04 2006, @08:35AM (#241483)
                                      (User #2515 Info)
                                       'You don't know the power in what I'm saying' x
                                        Cold Rainy Day Coma! (Score:1)
                                        Girlfriend in a coma works for me....as to be upbeat on a rainy day is as deludedly brilliant as this song...neither should make me as happy as they do...for aren't both full of despair?
                                        defari -- Monday December 04 2006, @08:31PM (#241588)
                                        (User #10050 Info)
                                          That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore... (Score:0)
                                          This should have been suggested as well. It's a great rainy-day song (all year 'round).
                                          fuckfase -- Tuesday December 05 2006, @11:36PM (#241806)
                                          (User #4299 Info)
                                            A new Poll please (Score:0)
                                            This has been up far too long. Someone get another one going please!!
                                            Anonymous -- Wednesday December 06 2006, @02:37AM (#241831)
                                              and the winner is.... (Score:0)
                                              I think it's time for a new poll
                                              Anonymous -- Wednesday December 06 2006, @05:32AM (#241870)
                                                Heart breaker, dream maker. (Score:1)
                                                These are song for the aching heart. yuuuuuuuup.

                                                *sniff sniff*
                                                MozClassic -- Sunday January 14 2007, @12:08PM (#246209)
                                                (User #18107 Info)
                                                  Re:great poll good songs (Score:1, Insightful)
                                                  If you think "Please..." is the best song Moz has ever done, then you really need to listen to his other songs that aren't featured in movie soundtracks. Have you heard any of the songs that aren't singles? Are you even a fan? That's like saying your favorite Moz song ever is "Suedehead". Do your homework before you come on here talking your head off like you know something. You've been schooled!
                                                  Anonymous -- Wednesday November 22 2006, @03:31PM (#240528)
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