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The Smiths – This Charming Man
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“This Charming Man” is The Smiths' second single of 1983, depicting the story of a poor boy coming in contact with an upper class man and feeling unwelcome due to his lack of
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The Smiths – This Night Has Opened My Eyes
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“This Night Has Opened My Eyes” is inspired by and retells the events of the play A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney, as Morrissey told interviewers at NME in the 7 June 1986
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The Smiths – Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
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This is a typical Morrissey song about a person who is upset or depressed, and doesn’t want to waste any more time on thoughtless people. It was released as a single backed with “
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The Smiths – William, It Was Really Nothing
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This song is about a love triangle between 2 men and a woman. Many believe it’s addressed to William Mackenzie, lead singer of the Associates. In 1993 Mackenzie wrote the song “
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The Smiths – How Soon Is Now?
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Sire Records chief Seymour Stein called it “the ‘Stairway to Heaven’ of the Eighties”, while co-writer Johnny Marr described it as “possibly our most enduring record. It’s most
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The Smiths – Pretty Girls Make Graves
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“Pretty Girls Make Graves” is about Morrissey’s view on sex expressed through an encounter with a lustful girl.
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The Smiths – Girl Afraid
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On “Girl Afraid” Morrisey plays with the word girlfriend as “girl afraid” and boyfriend as “boy afraid”. The song deals with mistaken assumptions in the relationship of said girl
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The Smiths – Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
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Perhaps the Smiths at their most delicate, “Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want” is a minimal, yet lush two minutes of almost otherworldly beauty.
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The Smiths – Rusholme Ruffians (Peel session, August 1984)
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[Verse 1] / The last night of the fair / By the big wheel generator / A boy is stabbed and his money is grabbed / And the air hangs heavy like a dulling wine / She is famous, she
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The Smiths – What Difference Does it Make? - Single Edit
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[Verse 1] / All men have secrets and here is mine / So let it be known / For we have been through hell and high tide / I can think I can rely on you / And yet you start to recoil
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The Smiths – The Draize Train
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[Instrumental]
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The Smiths – Suffer Little Children
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“Suffer Little Children” is the final track on The Smiths’s self-titled debut album. It is about the Moors murders, but only mentions one of the two murderers involved, namely Myra
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The Smiths – Reel Around The Fountain (Troy Tate Version)
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[Verse 1] / It's time the tale were told / Of how you took a child / And you made him old / It's time the tale were told / Of how you took a child / And you made him old / You made
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The Smiths – The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
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Please don't cry / For the ghost and the storm outside / Will not invade this sacred shrine / Nor infiltrate your mind / My life down I shall lie / If the bogey-man should try / To
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The Smiths – What Difference Does It Make?
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“What Difference Does It Make?” is the Smiths' third single in the UK, released on the 16th of January, 1984. The song peaked at #12 on the UK Singles Chart, being relevant in the
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The Smiths – You've Got Everything Now
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Morrissey expresses his bitterness towards a person whom he implies is only faking his happiness, because Morrissey believes that having a casual life isn’t enough.
Morrissey
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The Smiths – Bigmouth Strikes Again
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The lead single from The Queen Is Dead, “Bigmouth Strikes Again” reached 26 in the UK singles chart.
One of Moz’s most distinguishable features is his “Bigmouth” blabbering in the
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The Smiths – Reel Around the Fountain
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From The Smiths' eponymous first album. “Reel Around the Fountain” met with controversy, with some tabloid newspapers alleging the songs were suggestive of paedophilia, a claim
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The Smiths – Cemetry Gates
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Right after one of the bleakest songs in Smiths' history, we get this jangly, up-beat contradiction of a song that takes a frolicing tone through the cemetery.
This song recounts
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The Smiths – Half a Person
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This song is about adolescence and a crush that Morrissey used to have during his teen years but never said anything to, which he is addressing here.
This song shows everything
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The Smiths – The Headmaster Ritual
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It’s safe to say that nobody else, before or since, has opened a significant rock album by hammering the bejesus out of the capoed, open-tuned chord that begins “The Headmaster
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The Smiths – Rusholme Ruffians
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“Rusholme Ruffians”, with Johnny Marr’s rockabilly riff, is about Manchester and makes the city (home of much of the history of British feminism, socialism, vegetarianism and the
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The Smiths – I Know It's Over
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“I Know It’s Over” is a ballad for the desperate and lonely. It uses basic allusions to the idea of loneliness producing despair, but the attention to the speaker’s ego, and how it
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The Smiths – Panic
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This song was written by Morrissey and Johnny Marr and is the first song to be recorded with the new member at the time, Craig Gannon. The song is influenced by the T.Rex song “
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The Smiths – Vicar in a Tutu
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[Verse 1] / I was minding my business / Lifting some lead off / The roof of the Holy Name church / It was worthwhile living a laughable life / To set my eyes on the blistering
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The Smiths – Hand in Glove
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“Hand in Glove” was released in May 1983 as The Smiths' first single.
The song was later featured on the band’s first album, The Smiths, and also on their two compilation albums
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The Smiths – The Queen is Dead
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“The Queen is Dead” parodies media fascination with the royal family over bombastic guitar bursts and an aggressive bass line. Officially listed on physical tracklist as “The Queen
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The Smiths – Back to the Old House
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[Verse 1] / I would rather not go / Back to the old house / I would rather not go / Back to the old house / There's too many bad memories / Too many memories there / [Refrain] / Oh
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The Smiths – Oscillate Wildly
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[Instrumental]
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The Smiths – I Don't Owe You Anything
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“I Don’t Owe You Anything” tells the story of a person trying to charm someone over Johnny Marr’s smooth groove.
As stated in the book Mozipedia – The Encyclopedia of Morrissey
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The Smiths – These Things Take Time
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“These Things Take Time” is another upbeat Smiths' song with an homoerotic sexual undertone. It was originally released as a B-side to the maxi single version of “What Difference
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The Smiths – Still Ill
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“Still Ill” is a 1984 track by The Smiths, composed by lead singer Morrissey and guitarist Marr. The track premiered on the eponymous debut album The Smiths.
The song is primarily
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The Smiths – Stretch out and Wait
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“Stretch Out And Wait” is about how everyone in the world nowadays (1987) only thinks about getting laid, and how far people will go to find someone to achieve this with. It seems
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