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

I somehow accidentally voted for "other" when I wanted to vote for the Vauxhall entry. Ugh.
 
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.
 
Re: Bookends poll: What combo of first song and last song of the 14 Smiths/Moz studio albums is best

Is there a way to delete my vote? This is going to bother me! haha
 
Re: Bookends poll: What combo of first song and last song of the 14 Smiths/Moz studio albums is best

A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours / I Won't Share You
 
Re: Bookends poll: What combo of first song and last song of the 14 Smiths/Moz studio albums is best

The first Smiths album certainly!
 
Re: Bookends poll: What combo of first song and last song of the 14 Smiths/Moz studio albums is best

Now My Heart Is Full/Speedway for me.
 
Re: Bookends poll: What combo of first song and last song of the 14 Smiths/Moz studio albums is best

They're all good. Tough poll.
 
Re: Bookends poll: What combo of first song and last song of the 14 Smiths/Moz studio albums is best

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

Very, very, complicated, I can't really chose between, The Queen is Dead, Strangeways and Vauxhall.
 
Re: Bookends poll: What combo of first song and last song of the 14 Smiths/Moz studio albums is best

The contenders for me were The Smiths, The Queen is Dead, Strangeways, and Vauxhall.

I ultimately went with Strangeways because of the brilliance of opening an album with "hello" and closing it with "bye." Clever, that Moz! Always something new to discover....
 
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Re: Bookends poll: What combo of first song and last song of the 14 Smiths/Moz studio albums is best

Good poll but very difficult to answer. Went with TQID but could have just easily chose YA or Strangeways.
 
Re: Bookends poll: What combo of first song and last song of the 14 Smiths/Moz studio albums is best

Easy choice for me... Many days, I feel 'Now My Heart Is Full' and 'Speedway' are the two very best songs Moz has written.
 
Re: Bookends poll: What combo of first song and last song of the 14 Smiths/Moz studio albums is best

This is an extremely hard poll, but I always go back to the first LP. Always. Because, for me, that's where it all started, so it's special.

Alsatian Cousin / Margaret on the Guillotine
 
Re: Bookends poll: What combo of first song and last song of the 14 Smiths/Moz studio albums is best


Nice idea for a poll, Ghoul.
It's an easy choice for me. SHWC.
Rush and a push, and I won't share you, are brilliant songs in their own right as well as being perfect album-openers/closers.
 
Re: Bookends poll: What combo of first song and last song of the 14 Smiths/Moz studio albums is best

Clearly Vauxhall and I.

Oddly enough, in looking at the options, Years of Refusal doesn't shape up too badly against the other options.
 
Re: Bookends poll: What combo of first song and last song of the 14 Smiths/Moz studio albums is best

The contenders for me were The Smiths, The Queen is Dead, Strangeways, and Vauxhall.

I ultimately went with Strangeways because of the brilliance of opening an album with "hello" and closing it with "bye." Clever, that Moz! Always something new to discover....

I like that.
 
Re: Bookends poll: What combo of first song and last song of the 14 Smiths/Moz studio albums is best

This is one of those times I'm inclined to be "that girl" and suggest Teachers/Southpaw is one of his best bookends even though the album is largely his least popular and there's so many other amazing choices, but those tracks are perhaps two of his strongest for reasons I can't explain.
 
Re: Bookends poll: What combo of first song and last song of the 14 Smiths/Moz studio albums is best

Good poll. But it's Now My Heart Is Full / Speedway by a country mile.
 
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.
 
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