The Moz/Smiths Top 100, Part 32: DEAR GOD PLEASE HELP ME

How do you rate Dear God Please Help Me?


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    210

Houdini

Junior Member
While we wait for the new album to arrive, let us go about rating the songs we know, on a daily basis, and compile our own Morrissey/Smiths Top 100.
And instead of chronologically, let's do them alphabetically.

Song for Today: DEAR GOD PLEASE HELP ME

Voting should be something along these lines:
10: Classic, perfect
9: Near classic, brilliant
8: Really good Moz/Smiths song
7: Good Moz/Smiths song
6: Decent, OK, Nothing special
5: Uninspired
4: Poor
3: Bad
2: Should never have been released
1: He/They should be ashamed

The songs we've done so far (voting will remain open, click to vote):

Part 1: A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours
Part 2: A Song From Under The Floorboards
Part 3: A Swallow On My Neck
Part 4: Accept Yourself
Part 5: All The Lazy Dykes
Part 6: Alma Matters
Part 7: Alsatian Cousin
Part 8: Ambitious Outsiders
Part 9: America Is Not The World
Part 10: Ammunition
Part 11: Angel, Angel, Down We Go Together
Part 12: Asian Rut
Part 13: Ask
Part 14: Asleep
Part 15: At Amber
Part 16: At Last I Am Born
Part 17: Back To The Old House
Part 18: Barbarism Begins At Home
Part 19: Bengali In Platforms
Part 20: Best Friend On The Payroll
Part 21: Bigmouth Strikes Again
Part 22: Billy Budd
Part 23: Black-Eyed Susan
Part 24: Boxers
Part 25: Break Up The Family
Part 26: Cemetry Gates
Part 27: Certain People I Know
Part 28: Christian Dior
Part 29: Come Back To Camden
Part 30: Cosmic Dancer
Part 31: Dagenham Dave
 
A big massive 10!

"now im spreading your legs........
.........with mine in between"

Bring it on Morrissey baby!
 
This song could be a 6... maybe a 7... but the explosive kegs line makes it nearly unlistenable for me.
 
i don't understand why people object so much about the 'explosive kegs' business.
 
It made me cringe the first few times, thats all. I don't think I would play that if people were in. I love the kegs myself when no one is about. :p

good-o. how was your sleep?
 
This poll should have further breakdowns by the voter's age and religious background. Maybe those of us who rated it below 6 are a bit older and a bit more warped by Catholicism. I'm guilty on both counts, despite all my efforts to counter the latter.
 
It's much better live in my opinion. I never really liked the album version because it's a bit boring and seems to drag on forever. I was a bit disappointed when I read that it was in the setlist last year, but when I saw him in December I was really surprised how good it was. A year ago I would have given it a 5, now it's 8.
 
kegs and legs not great, but puts a smile on my face. As for the rest of the song...music and lyrics are beautifulllllllllll
 
'Dear God..' is dross, dross, dross. If this is how some people feel about "Come Back To Camden", then I have now just fully understood what it's like.
 
I gave it a six, it's not my fave song on the album, but it's ok.
 
I love this one. Used to be an 7- 8 but now is a 9 :)
 
It sounds better with head phones when you are just about to drift off to sleep. The song keeps growing on me.

Kyoko
 
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