as an introductory CD for them?
Mine is this list. taken from my blog.
This is my old Moz/the Smiths Myx CD I usually share to my chosen friends (please take note of the word “chosen”; it’s an, ehem, honor) whenever I feel the need for them to grow up, or to be generous with my music taste. LOL. But as I said, I’m planning to update it with some newly discovered Smiths and Moz songs that would make you regret why you haven’t heard of the Smiths in the first place. Here they are:
First of the gang to die. The 2nd single off the you are the quarry’s album… considered by many fans to be his best single ever as a solo artist post-Vauxhall and I album… a familiar, old theme: about hooligans, this time, set in his present sanctuary, Los Angeles, and starring his newest crop of fans, the Latinos… but I prefer Irish Blood, English Heart.
I have forgiven jesus. The audacity to forgive JC! It is the voice which one must really look for in this track… the 4th single from last year’s comeback album.
Please, please, please let me get I want. In the last track, he was forgiving Jesus, but when he was still younger, in his Smiths heyday, he was pleading God to give him his desire… this is one of the most melancholic two-minute songs you will ever hear in your life.
Stretch out and wait. Moz is a pondering, lazy type of man… he dreams, he complains, he writes, he rants, and he does nothing… this song is about that.
Ask… “shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life you’ve want to”… the introvert, shy moz explains the intricacy of shyness in a bashful piece of pop music.
Girlfriend in a coma. His girlfriend may be in coma, yet he still can put on a smiling face, deliver superb wit, and be serious all at the same time.
Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me. The soundtrack of “morrissey and my lovelife” essay, it is the perfect soul mate song. 7 minutes of sheer loneliness and desperate optimism…
Work is a four letter word. Johnny marr blamed this for the band’s eventual demise, but I feel this is one of their best songs, albeit a covered one.
Asleep. A sad, sad song that latently fuels the idea of suicide… I love this ballad!
Dagenham dave. The single of the southpaw grammar LP… very fast, very plain, very pop, yet no one was amazed… but still a favorite of mine.
Driving your girlfriend home. A narrative of a repressed and almost regretful emotion told in a third person’s POV…
East west. A cover of herman’s hermit’s 60’s song…
Hairdresser on fire. This song is simply about a barber who can make our day bright or miserable… imagine making a song for a trivial topic such as this.
The last of famous international playboy. His tribute to the Kray Brothers. It sounded like a Smiths record actually.
The more you ignore me the closer I get. MTV supported this, and was one of his most mainstream singles ever.
Rubber ring. A song about his influence on his fans... read the lyrics.
Seasick yet sill docked. The blueprint for Radiohead’s morose songs.
Skin storm. A sex song, as one fan ably describes it. A great covered song, I say.
You just haven’t earned it yet baby. Sarcastic… Bitter... Full of hatred... But still rockingly funny.
Mine is this list. taken from my blog.
This is my old Moz/the Smiths Myx CD I usually share to my chosen friends (please take note of the word “chosen”; it’s an, ehem, honor) whenever I feel the need for them to grow up, or to be generous with my music taste. LOL. But as I said, I’m planning to update it with some newly discovered Smiths and Moz songs that would make you regret why you haven’t heard of the Smiths in the first place. Here they are:
First of the gang to die. The 2nd single off the you are the quarry’s album… considered by many fans to be his best single ever as a solo artist post-Vauxhall and I album… a familiar, old theme: about hooligans, this time, set in his present sanctuary, Los Angeles, and starring his newest crop of fans, the Latinos… but I prefer Irish Blood, English Heart.
I have forgiven jesus. The audacity to forgive JC! It is the voice which one must really look for in this track… the 4th single from last year’s comeback album.
Please, please, please let me get I want. In the last track, he was forgiving Jesus, but when he was still younger, in his Smiths heyday, he was pleading God to give him his desire… this is one of the most melancholic two-minute songs you will ever hear in your life.
Stretch out and wait. Moz is a pondering, lazy type of man… he dreams, he complains, he writes, he rants, and he does nothing… this song is about that.
Ask… “shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life you’ve want to”… the introvert, shy moz explains the intricacy of shyness in a bashful piece of pop music.
Girlfriend in a coma. His girlfriend may be in coma, yet he still can put on a smiling face, deliver superb wit, and be serious all at the same time.
Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me. The soundtrack of “morrissey and my lovelife” essay, it is the perfect soul mate song. 7 minutes of sheer loneliness and desperate optimism…
Work is a four letter word. Johnny marr blamed this for the band’s eventual demise, but I feel this is one of their best songs, albeit a covered one.
Asleep. A sad, sad song that latently fuels the idea of suicide… I love this ballad!
Dagenham dave. The single of the southpaw grammar LP… very fast, very plain, very pop, yet no one was amazed… but still a favorite of mine.
Driving your girlfriend home. A narrative of a repressed and almost regretful emotion told in a third person’s POV…
East west. A cover of herman’s hermit’s 60’s song…
Hairdresser on fire. This song is simply about a barber who can make our day bright or miserable… imagine making a song for a trivial topic such as this.
The last of famous international playboy. His tribute to the Kray Brothers. It sounded like a Smiths record actually.
The more you ignore me the closer I get. MTV supported this, and was one of his most mainstream singles ever.
Rubber ring. A song about his influence on his fans... read the lyrics.
Seasick yet sill docked. The blueprint for Radiohead’s morose songs.
Skin storm. A sex song, as one fan ably describes it. A great covered song, I say.
You just haven’t earned it yet baby. Sarcastic… Bitter... Full of hatred... But still rockingly funny.
