Morrissey-solo Poll

Main

What Is Your favourite Smiths song NOT released as a single? (suggested by dave underwood)

Displaying poll results.

I Know Its Over

735 / 21%

Well I Wonder

516 / 15%

Suffer Little Children

102 / 3%

Death Of A Disco Dancer

163 / 4%

Oscillate Wildly

49 / 1%

Money Changes Everything

13 / 0%

London

110 / 3%

Reel Around The Fountain

244 / 7%

Still Ill

460 / 13%

Barbarism Begins At Home

116 / 3%

The Draize Train

22 / 0%

Never Had No One Ever

49 / 1%

Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want

556 / 16%

other

114 / 3%

All of the above

110 / 3%

3359 total votes.

[ Voting Booth | Other Polls | Back Home ]

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.

This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.

What Is Your favourite Smiths song NOT released as a single? (suggested by dave underwood) | Log in/Create an Account | Top | 73 comments | Search Discussion

The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

Death. . . (Score:0)

And if you think peace is a common goal,
that goes to show how little you know.
MSB
Nantucket Island

Anonymous -- Tuesday November 16 2010, @11:34AM (#358993)

Re:Death. . . by Kate2828 (Score:1) Tuesday November 16 2010, @11:41AM
- Re:Death. . . by Anonymous (Score:0) Tuesday November 16 2010, @01:41PM
  - Re:Death. . . by Anonymous (Score:0) Tuesday November 16 2010, @04:52PM
    - Re:Death. . . by Kate2828 (Score:0) Tuesday November 16 2010, @05:44PM
      - Re:Death. . . by Macca93 (Score:1) Wednesday November 17 2010, @04:38PM
        Re:Death. . . by Anonymous (Score:0) Monday November 22 2010, @09:38PM

i don't get it.... (Score:2, Informative)

technically "well i wonder" and "money changes everything" Were released on singles as b-sides. does that not count?

Brian Colin -- Tuesday November 16 2010, @11:37AM (#358994)
(User #2606 Info | http://www.myspace.com/youmeandmorrissey )
plagiarism begins at home

Re:i don't get it.... (Score:2, Informative)

"oscillate wildly" and "draize train" were b-sides as well, to be 100% accurate.

Brian Colin -- Tuesday November 16 2010, @12:19PM (#358997)
(User #2606 Info | http://www.myspace.com/youmeandmorrissey )
plagiarism begins at home

[ Parent ]

Re:i don't get it.... by Kate2828 (Score:1) Tuesday November 16 2010, @12:37PM

Missed opportunity (Score:1, Interesting)

Oscillate Wildly could've made #1. The Great British Public love a slice of pun-based piano loopage.

That, or Joe Dolce's "Shaddup Your Face".

~~The Gimp~~

Anonymous -- Tuesday November 16 2010, @11:38AM (#358995)

Lord knows it would be the first time (Score:1)

Cue mandolin. One of the most beautiful moments in music.

Mozzersgirl -- Tuesday November 16 2010, @04:06PM (#359023)
(User #14229 Info)
"There's more evil in the charts than in an al-Qaeda suggestion box" - Bill Bailey

Re:Lord knows it would be the first time by Anonymous (Score:0) Tuesday November 16 2010, @05:11PM

Well (Score:1)

Please Please all the way

Macca93 -- Tuesday November 16 2010, @05:12PM (#359031)
(User #22988 Info)
Feck it

Sweet and Tender Hooligan (Score:0)

of course he won't.....not until the next time

Anonymous -- Wednesday November 17 2010, @06:27AM (#359068)

Re:Sweet and Tender Hooligan by bored (Score:1) Wednesday December 01 2010, @01:41PM

Well I Wonder (Score:1)

Always takes me back to my rainy childhood in Hants. Which is odd as I'm actually from Salford and have never been that far South in all my life.

But still.

ManAlive -- Wednesday November 17 2010, @06:43AM (#359071)
(User #4261 Info)
Thirty? I didn't think you'd make it to Thursday!

Re:Well I Wonder by Celibate Cry (Score:1) Wednesday November 17 2010, @09:26AM
Hey! by Anonymous (Score:0) Monday November 22 2010, @05:38AM

Nowhere Fast (Score:1)

catchy tune

nuff said

Celibate Cry <vauxhall@mail2uk.com> -- Wednesday November 17 2010, @09:12AM (#359078)
(User #220 Info)
and the hills are alive with celibate cries

Re:Nowhere Fast (& Barbarism) by Cashews (Score:1) Wednesday November 17 2010, @09:46AM
Re:Nowhere Fast by Sandie Shaw (Score:1) Friday November 19 2010, @09:10PM
1 reply beneath your current threshold.

Still ill (Score:1)

"And if you must go to work, tomorrow. Well if I were you I wouldn't bother. For there are brighter sides to life and I should know because I've seen them, but not very often."

This is the greatest line ever written. Period.

Some Old Queen -- Wednesday November 17 2010, @10:16AM (#359086)
(User #10320 Info)
She said, "I know you and you cannot sing!" I said, "That's nothing, you should hear me play piano."

Re:Still ill by Anonymous (Score:0) Wednesday November 17 2010, @11:57AM
Re:Still ill by Sandie Shaw (Score:1) Friday November 19 2010, @09:03PM
- Re:Still ill by Anonymous (Score:0) Monday November 29 2010, @09:25AM

The real question here (Score:0)

is which song the prince and queen katie will choose as their wedding dance

please please wins by far anyway

Anonymous -- Wednesday November 17 2010, @06:23PM (#359115)

Re:The real question here by Sandie Shaw (Score:1) Friday November 19 2010, @09:06PM
- Re:The real question here by Anonymous (Score:0) Monday November 29 2010, @09:21AM
Re:The real question here by Anonymous (Score:1) Saturday November 27 2010, @02:37PM
Re:The real question here by Anonymous (Score:0) Monday November 29 2010, @07:26PM

I know it's over (Score:1)

sad veiled bride please be happy

tqid -- Thursday November 18 2010, @01:22AM (#359119)
(User #5900 Info)

Re:I know it's over by Sandie Shaw (Score:1) Friday November 19 2010, @08:57PM

2nd other (Score:1)

William it was really nothing

same as Nowhere Fast a typical short catchy tune
with made the Smiths so special, including the songproducer Johnny Marr, Lyricist and untouchable Legend Morrissey, the rythm twins
Rourke and Joyce

those were the days, emptyness I've never seen
them live, but at those days it was totally
different concerning media, and getting updated news about the Smiths outside the UK

[not saying anything more about pictures, seems someone having a go at me about the slc pic on
TQID, shame cause we had a lovely poll about sleeves, only female on Smiths [single] sleeves, I hopethe male ones come around sometime soon]

sorry being OT

Celibate Cry <vauxhall@mail2uk.com> -- Thursday November 18 2010, @09:29AM (#359142)
(User #220 Info)
and the hills are alive with celibate cries

Re:2nd other by Anonymous (Score:0) Thursday November 18 2010, @10:26AM
- Senseless Insults by Cashews (Score:1) Thursday November 18 2010, @02:41PM
  - Re:Senseless Insults by Celibate Cry (Score:1) Friday November 19 2010, @09:30AM
    - Re:Senseless Insults by jessesamuel (Score:1) Friday November 19 2010, @07:31PM

Nomination null and void by Anonymous (Score:0) Saturday November 20 2010, @12:13PM

Re:Nomination null and void (Score:2, Informative)

I was too hasty, and didn't check, indeed was
William a single though not on a studio album,
as more are.

Celibate Cry <vauxhall@mail2uk.com> -- Monday November 22 2010, @01:14AM (#359294)
(User #220 Info)
and the hills are alive with celibate cries

[ Parent ]

Re:Nomination null and void by Anonymous (Score:0) Friday November 26 2010, @11:19AM

Unloveable (Score:0)

I can't describe the way this song made me feel when I first heard it and the way it still makes me feel. That guitar makes me ache, and the lyrics make me ache just as much. It spoke to me like I had never been spoken to before.

Anonymous -- Friday November 19 2010, @10:51AM (#359216)

Re:Unloveable by Sandie Shaw (Score:1) Friday November 19 2010, @08:59PM
Re:Unloveable by Dagenham Dave (Score:1) Wednesday December 01 2010, @08:26AM

Still Ill (Score:0)

I'm sure I used to own Still Ill on vinyl - or did I imagine that?... Anyone know?

Anonymous -- Friday November 19 2010, @12:12PM (#359224)

Re:Still Ill by fastpulseboy (Score:0) Friday November 26 2010, @03:14AM

Aaaaaa Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours! (Score:1)

Shoulda been a contenda.

jessesamuel -- Friday November 19 2010, @07:29PM (#359254)
(User #1984 Info)
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure. -O.W.

you must suffer and cry for a longer time.... (Score:0)

Interesting that no one's mentioned "You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby", as that was considered to be a great lost single back in the day. The band went with "Shoplifters of the World Unite" instead.

Anonymous -- Saturday November 20 2010, @12:18PM (#359277)

Pretty hard (Score:1)

but I picked I know it's over. It's just a masterpiece

orestes3009 -- Sunday November 21 2010, @12:19PM (#359290)
(User #21090 Info)

There is a light (Score:1)

There is a light ...

starless -- Tuesday November 23 2010, @08:31AM (#359324)
(User #19741 Info)

I Know It's Over (Score:2, Interesting)

Masterpiece, indeed... I just recently purchased The Queen Is Dead for a friend who's never heard of The Smiths and they emailed me in the middle of the night explaining how their life has changed because of the song "I Know It's Over".

In my humble opinion, that is the pinnacle of Morrissey's career. Maybe not Marr's, but, to me, Morrissey has never done better than "I Know It's Over".

dewdrop -- Tuesday November 23 2010, @05:32PM (#359332)
(User #2326 Info)

Re:I Know It's Over (Score:2, Funny)

"...they emailed me in the middle of the night explaining how their life has changed because of the song..."

Where does your friend live? Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital?

Eric Hartman -- Thursday November 25 2010, @07:39AM (#359362)
(User #5103 Info | http://www.patcondell.net/ )
It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.

[ Parent ]

Re:I Know It's Over by Anonymous (Score:0) Thursday November 25 2010, @05:15PM

Re:I Know It's Over (Score:2, Insightful)

What's wrong with that?

I know my life changed when Morrissey's music struck me.

Georgissey <m0zc0re@yahoo.co.uk> -- Friday November 26 2010, @12:52PM (#359387)
(User #22903 Info)

[ Parent ]

I Know It's Over (Score:0)

B.

Just remember the tears.

Anonymous -- Thursday November 25 2010, @04:52AM (#359361)

life is never kind.... (Score:0)

dubious poll this, who in their right mind could possibly overlook any of the following...

i. I Want The One I Can't Have
ii. Nowhere Fast
iii. These Things Take Time
iv. This Night Has Opened My Eyes
v. Accept Yourself
vi. I Don't Owe You Anything

glad to see The Draize Train included - that Rank version rocks my world!! Pinkie x

Anonymous -- Friday November 26 2010, @06:36AM (#359377)

Re:life is never kind.... by Anonymous (Score:0) Tuesday November 30 2010, @03:42AM

For 2 mins ~ (Score:0)

Nothing beat London !

markmustb1 -- Tuesday November 30 2010, @09:07PM (#359534)
(User #13161 Info)
cos no one ever turns to me to say ...

Then again, on a softer side (Score:0)

for 2 mins of masterpiece that will be treasured
forever its 'please please '

markmustb1 -- Tuesday November 30 2010, @09:11PM (#359535)
(User #13161 Info)
cos no one ever turns to me to say ...

Re:Then again, on a softer side by Anonymous (Score:0) Tuesday November 30 2010, @09:27PM

My first comment... (Score:0)

Still Ill,Well I wonder and Please,Please...But The Smiths are always perfect!My favourite song is always the one I'm listening to at the moment,so...Love you,guys.

Anonymous -- Wednesday December 01 2010, @10:14AM (#359541)

A Year later and nothing to report by Anonymous (Score:0) Wednesday December 01 2010, @11:28AM

Headmaster Ritual (Score:0)

That one.

Anonymous -- Wednesday December 01 2010, @12:05PM (#359545)

Re:Headmaster Ritual by Celibate Cry (Score:1) Sunday December 12 2010, @09:35AM

My Top Ten (Score:1)

1/ I Want The One I Can't Have
2/ The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
3/ The Queen Is Dead
4/ Rusholme Ruffians
5/ Frankly, Mr Shankly
6/ Well I Wonder
7/ Paint A Vulgar Picture
8/ Reel Around The Fountain
9/ Cemetry Gates
10/ Stop Me If You Think You've Started Something I Couldn't Finish

crumlin bruiser -- Friday December 03 2010, @03:08AM (#359645)
(User #18100 Info)

The Headmaster Ritual.... (Score:1)

my favourite Smiths track, never really seems to get a mention and yet it's the best album opener of them all!

Mozzmarr -- Saturday December 04 2010, @02:31AM (#359689)
(User #10721 Info)

Re:The Headmaster Ritual.... by Celibate Cry (Score:1) Sunday December 12 2010, @09:44AM
- Re:The Headmaster Ritual.... by Anonymous (Score:0) Sunday December 12 2010, @10:46AM

"Other" (Score:1)

I would have voted for I know It's Over but then I thought that, along with the rest the songs listed, they are just too special to be "A" sides... and deserve to be buried so they can be discovered like the true gems they are :-)

Missing Link -- Monday December 06 2010, @02:50PM (#359890)
(User #3503 Info)

Re:"Other" by Anonymous (Score:0) Thursday December 09 2010, @01:35AM

I Know It's Over (Score:0)

I voted for 'I Know it's Over', which is my favourite Smiths song of all. However, as much as I love it, it would have made for an appalling single.

Anonymous -- Tuesday December 07 2010, @06:07PM (#359947)

Rusholme Ruffians!!! (Score:0)

I cannot believe more people have not said "Rusholme Ruffians".
One of, simply, the very best.

Anonymous -- Wednesday December 08 2010, @08:04PM (#360008)