Bookends poll: What combo of first song and last song of the 14 Smiths/Moz studio albums is best ?

Bookends poll: What combo of first song and last song of the 14 Smiths/Moz studio albums is best ?

  • Our Frank / There's a Place in Hell for Me and My Friends

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • I Will See You in Far-Off Places / At Last I Am Born

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Something Is Squeezing My Skull / I'm OK by Myself

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    54
Re: Bookends poll: What combo of first song and last song of the 14 Smiths/Moz studio albums is best

Scanning the list of album end tracks and the amount of bleakness contrasting a little hope seems to recur quite endlessly. That triplet back to back to back of Tomorrow - Speedway - Southpaw is incredible.

The first of each would make an awesome album. Also the last of each. Make a playlist and tell me I'm wrong.
 
Re: Bookends poll: What combo of first song and last song of the 14 Smiths/Moz studio albums is best

Maladjusted / Satan Rejected My Soul (best song in the history of music)
 
Re: Bookends poll: What combo of first song and last song of the 14 Smiths/Moz studio albums is best

I still stand by my vote of "other"....(no I dont)
 
Re: Bookends poll: What combo of first song and last song of the 14 Smiths/Moz studio albums is best

i went strangeways or tomorrow
 
Re: Bookends poll: What combo of first song and last song of the 14 Smiths/Moz studio albums is best

I suspect this poll will come as close to consensus as the site ever will. But there are many good choices when you see them side by side.
 
Re: Bookends poll: What combo of first song and last song of the 14 Smiths/Moz studio albums is best

Tough call between Strangeways and Vauxhall, but I went with the latter.

Yeah.. that my only dilemma in answering the poll.. but I went with V&I
 
Re: Bookends poll: What combo of first song and last song of the 14 Smiths/Moz studio albums is best

You Know I Couldn't Last is an excellent closer. So, America Is Not the World must be...fecal matter?
 
Re: Bookends poll: What combo of first song and last song of the 14 Smiths/Moz studio albums is best

Meat is Murder still makes me shiver and the Headmaster Ritual was one of the first Smiths songs I ever heard.

I found the lack of votes for that choice surprising, for the quality of both songs, and the message of MIM.
 
Re: Bookends poll: What combo of first song and last song of the 14 Smiths/Moz studio albums is best

I found the lack of votes for that choice surprising, for the quality of both songs, and the message of MIM.

Musically, both songs are incredibly strong...even extraordinary. Lyrically, they don't quite cover the territory in which Morrissey excels, in my opinion.
 
Re: Bookends poll: What combo of first song and last song of the 14 Smiths/Moz studio albums is best

Musically, both songs are incredibly strong...even extraordinary. Lyrically, they don't quite cover the territory in which Morrissey excels, in my opinion.

I agree with you about one (MIM), but not about another (Headmaster), but I'm biased...
 
Re: Bookends poll: What combo of first song and last song of the 14 Smiths/Moz studio albums is best

The Queen Is Dead followed by Strangeways. The album version of Meat is Murder never made much sense to me, a death for no reason isn't murder. If he'd used the words that he did at say Glasto a couple of years ago I'd have gone for Meat Is Murder.
 
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