Smiths/Morrissey Politcal Song

[Rob Purcell]

I'm trying to make a themed mixed CD. What would you say is the best Smiths/Morrissey politically based song? Thanks a bunch

 

[Dallow Spicer]

> I'm trying to make a themed mixed CD. What would you say is the best
> Smiths/Morrissey politically based song? Thanks a bunch

well for your smith's choice you could go with the obvious queen is dead but that would be way too predictable. skip still ill and nowhere fast, and either put shoplifters of the world unite or panic.
and my morrissey solo pick, we'll let you know or the national front disco.

unless the only album you own is yatq....

 

[Codreanu]

> I'm trying to make a themed mixed CD. What would you say is the best
> Smiths/Morrissey politically based song? Thanks a bunch

Morrissey: 'Margaret on the Guillotine', 'Bengali in Platforms' or even 'He Knows I'd Love to See Him'.

As for The Smiths, I would avoid the obvious 'Queen is Dead' or 'Shoplifters...' in favour of something like 'I Want the One I can't Have': "A double bed/And a stalwart lover for sure/These are the riches of the poor", "A tough kid who sometimes swallows nails/Raised on Prisoner's Aid/ He killed a policeman when he was Thirteen/And somehow that really impressed Me..."

Understand?

 

[Codreanu]

> As for The Smiths, I would avoid the obvious 'Queen is Dead' or
> 'Shoplifters...' in favour of something like 'I Want the One I can't
> Have': "A double bed/And a stalwart lover for sure/These are the
> riches of the poor", "A tough kid who sometimes swallows
> nails/Raised on Prisoner's Aid/ He killed a policeman when he was
> Thirteen/And somehow that really impressed Me..."

> Understand?

On second thought, the psychosexualization of poverty and delinquency is perhaps TOO subtle a coherence for your theme.

 

[Never be mastered]

> I'm trying to make a themed mixed CD. What would you say is the best
> Smiths/Morrissey politically based song? Thanks a bunch

This is not your country.

 

[Martin Maher]

> I'm trying to make a themed mixed CD. What would you say is the best
> Smiths/Morrissey politically based song? Thanks a bunch

The Lazy Sunbathers. An underrated gem, that one.

 

[Theo van Gogh Martyrs Brigade]

> I'm trying to make a themed mixed CD. What would you say is the best
> Smiths/Morrissey politically based song? Thanks a bunch

The Smiths: "Vicar in a Tutu" - He's not strange, he just wants to live his lfie this way!

Solo: "Billy Budd" & "The National Front Disco"

More generally, I love the language of individualism prevalant in so many of his songs. "I am MINE" from "Hated for Loving" is said in a thousand different ways throughout his body of work. I also like the increase in his attacks on coppers, taxmen, and people who try and siphon all his dough.

 

[Dallow Spicer]

I bet in some little subtle unseen way all of the smiths/morrissey songs are political. similiar in the way that they are all about sex.

 

[~Bertie's back.;,......]

morrissey hates david tseng too, he's in good company, he sooooooed him lol

 

[lg]

Don't forget "Glamorous Glue", "Irish Blood, English Heart", "Bengali In Platforms" and "Margaret On The Guillotine", to name just a few.

 

[please]

> Don't forget "Glamorous Glue", "Irish Blood, English
> Heart", "Bengali In Platforms" and "Margaret On The
> Guillotine", to name just a few.

What's the difference between a political song and a social commentary?

I think Margaret on the Guillotine is more political than Bengali in Platforms. Maybe bengali in Platforms is much more of a social commentary?

 

[lg]

Yes, I guess you're right.

> What's the difference between a political song and a social commentary?

> I think Margaret on the Guillotine is more political than Bengali in
> Platforms. Maybe bengali in Platforms is much more of a social commentary?