Your top 10 Morrissey solo songs of all time

Okay, in for a penny as they say...

So, in a kind of order:

I've Changed My Plea To Guilty
Life Is A Pigsty
Sunny
Come Back To Camden
It's Hard To Walk Tall When You're Small
I'm Okay By Myself
Now My Heart Is Full
First Of The Gang To Die
Tony The Pony....(don't laugh!!)
Late Night Maudlin Street

Least Favourite: Sweetie Pie
Most Loved New(ish) Song That Will Probably Replace One Of The Above One Day(but not Tony The Pony!!): My Hurling Days Are Done
 
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Requiescant said:
Okay, in for a penny as they say...

So, in a kind of order:

I've Changed My Plea To Guilty
Life Is A Pigsty
Sunny
Come Back To Camden
It's Hard To Walk Tall When You're Small
I'm Okay By Myself
Now My Heart Is Full
First Of The Gang To Die
Tony The Pony....(don't laugh!!)
Late Night Maudlin Street
Southpaw

Least Favourite: Sweetie Pie
Most Loved New(ish) Song That Will Probably Replace One Of The Above One Day(but not Tony The Pony!!): My Hurling Days Are Done
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sorry, that’s 11. Try again.
 
In Alphabetical order I would say today they are:

  1. Everyday Is Like Sunday
  2. Glamorous Glue
  3. Home Is A Question Mark
  4. I'm Not A Man
  5. Jack The Ripper
  6. Life Is A Pigsty
  7. My Love Life
  8. Seasick, Yet Still Docked
  9. Speedway
  10. Suedhead
 
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In No Particular Oder...

Late Night, Maudlin Street

Piccadilly Palare (Remaster version)

Jack the Ripper (Live Version)

Hold on To Your Friends

Speedway

Last of the Famous International Playboys

This World is Full of Crashing Bores

It’s Not Your Birthday Anymore

Home is a Question Mark

Jim Jim Falls

Honourable Mentions!

Sing Your Life

Life is a Pigsty

What Kind of People Live in these Houses?

I Know Very Well How I Got My Name

King Leer
 
This was incredibly hard, but in no particular order, apart from "Now" which is my all time favourite Morrissey song, here's my top ten:

Now My Heart is Full
November Spawned a Monster
Jack the Ripper (live)
A Swallow on My Neck
Southpaw
Sunny
My Love Life
The Last of the Famous International Playboys
Life is a Pigsty
I've Changed My Plea To Guilty
 
Alphabetical Order:
1. Art Hounds
2. Friday Mourning
3. Late Night Maudlin Street
4. Lost
5. My Dearest Love
6. Speedway
7. The Edges Are No Longer Parallel
8. Why Don't You Find Out For Yourself
9. Wide To Receive
10. Will Never Marry (Long Version)
 
MORRISSEY SOLO
1. I Don't Mind if You Forget Me
2. There's a Place in Hell (KROQ)
3. Jack the Ripper (live)
4. Now My Heart is Full
5. Come Back to Camden
6. Drive-in Saturday (live)
7. You Have Killed Me (25Live)
8. Back on the Chain Gang
9. Blue Dreamers Eyes
10. My Hurling Days are Done (Zappa reference!)

THE SMITHS
1. Jeane
2. These Things Take Time
3. Miserable Lie
4. Rusholme Ruffians
5. I Want the One I Can't Have
6. What She Said
7. The Boy With the Thorn in His Side
8. Rubber Ring
9. Cemetry Gates
10. London
 
Art-Hound said:
A Swallow on My Neck
Sunny
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Good shout on these two. There's a period in the mid-90s that seems to get ignored, both by Morrissey playing live, and by the fans in general. Other songs from this period that really need re-evaluating include Black Eyed Susan, Nobody Loves Us, You Must Please Remember, and Interlude.
I saw him perform A Swallow On My Neck at the Barrowlands in 1999, but I don't think he played it many times after that, and as far as I know nobody recorded it. It's got a really beautiful vocal melody👍
 
Requiescant said:
Good shout on these two. There's a period in the mid-90s that seems to get ignored, both by Morrissey playing live, and by the fans in general. Other songs from this period that really need re-evaluating include Black Eyed Susan, Nobody Loves Us, You Must Please Remember, and Interlude.
I saw him perform A Swallow On My Neck at the Barrowlands in 1999, but I don't think he played it many times after that, and as far as I know nobody recorded it. It's got a really beautiful vocal melody👍
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I’d probably say it’s my favourite period for Morrissey songs, and to hear “A Swallow” live would be a dream; “Sunny”, too. These lines are everything:

Oh, with your jean belt wrapped around your arm/Oh, Sunny, my heart goes out to you/And with a needle pressed onto tight skin/Sunny, I cry when I see where it's taken you

It might not be Glasgow, but here’s a live version, for you, from the same tour:

 
Art-Hound said:
I’d probably say it’s my favourite period for Morrissey songs, and to hear “A Swallow” live would be a dream; “Sunny”, too. These lines are everything:

Oh, with your jean belt wrapped around your arm/Oh, Sunny, my heart goes out to you/And with a needle pressed onto tight skin/Sunny, I cry when I see where it's taken you.
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When he played 'Swallow' at the Barras, he said to the audience "You all look so shocked". I think half the audience didn't know it, and the other half couldn't believe he'd played it.

Those very lyrics you've quoted are exactly why I love Sunny. I lost a dear friend to heroin, and those lines always remind me of her. The first time I heard the song, I burst out laughing because I couldn't believe Morrissey had encapsulated the situation so perfectly.

I wish Morrissey would focus a little of his live set on that era for a change. Think how often he's had Throwing My Arms Around Paris, or IBEH in the set over the last decade or so. That period of his music just seems to get ignored.

I'll be downloading the audio from the Swallow YouTube clip, so thanks for that👍👍
 
Now my heart is full
Speedway
Why don't you find out...
Lost
Alma Matters
Reader meet author
Picadilly palare
You have kill me
Everyday is like sunday
 
Too many, I can't choose, but I want to signal an underrated gem, a song I think among his very best for sure:

I wish you lonely
 
Jim Jim Falls, A Swallow On My Neck, Seasick Yet Still Docked, Once I Saw The River Clean, Days Of Decision, Saint In A Stained Glass Window, Our Frank, Kerouac's Crack, Driving Your Girlfriend Home, I'd Love To
 
I can't remember if I've already replied to this but my picks would always change anywho! No particular order

Swallow on your neck
Sweetie Pie (Farrell's mix)
Dial-a-Cliché
Mama Lay Softly
Certain people I know
When you close your eyes (Cover)
The Operation
Nobody Loves Us
I Like you
Our Frank
 
Lionsy said:
I can't remember if I've already replied to this but my picks would always change anywho! No particular order

Swallow on your neck
Sweetie Pie (Farrell's mix)
Dial-a-Cliché
Mama Lay Softly
Certain people I know
When you close your eyes (Cover)
The Operation
Nobody Loves Us
I Like you
Our Frank
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Amazing selection
 
Hello, my top 10 solo songs are:
1. Girl least likely to
2. Disappointed
3. Piccadilly Palare (long version)
4. Speedway
5. The loop
6. Reader meets author
7. I know it´s gonna happen someday
8. I wish you lonely
9. How could anybody possibly know how i feel?
10. Oh phoney.

That´s my top 10 today, but it´s always changing. I think Sister i´m a poet could be on the list, but i don´t know wich one of the 10 songs could be out.
 
Christian Dior
Ammunition
Once I Saw The River Clean
I'm Not Sorry
You Were Good In Your Time
My Dearest Love
I'd Love To
Southpaw
I'll Never Be Anybody's Hero Now
One Of Our Own
 

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