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The Smiths – Frankly, Mr. Shankly
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“Frankly, Mr. Shankly” is a lark, an ambitious gofer’s resignation set to a light melody reminiscent of the Kinks. While referencing a real-life disagreement, this also calls back
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The Smiths – Frankly, Mr Shankly (Demo)
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[Verse 1] / Frankly, Mr. Shankly, this position I've held / It pays my way, and it corrodes my soul / I want to leave, you will not miss me / I want to go down in musical history
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The High Llamas – Frankly, Mr. Shankly
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[Chorus] / Frankly, Mr. Shankly, this position I've held / It pays my way, and it corrodes my soul / [Verse 1] / I want to leave, you will not miss me / I want to go down in
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Classic Album of the Week #9: The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
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Welcome to the classic album of the week. Every week we’ll be promoting a “classic” album that falls under Rock Genius. The idea is to let the active users in the forum know ahead of time so we can spend the week cleaning the album up. This will help bring some shine to the great albums of old and help to get some eyes on the back catalogue of Rock Genius. The best new annotation on the album will be featured when next week’s album is revealed on Monday.
The Smiths / The Queen is Dead
Almost everyone’s favorite Smiths record. Fitting transition from last week because of the beef between Smith and Morrissey. Whose side do you take?
What are your favorite lyrics on the album?
What is lacking in the annotations that already exist?
Other thoughts on the album?
What should the next album be?
S/o to @5bankaccounts3ounces2vehicles for helping out on Disintegration last week.
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The Smiths – How Soon Is Now? (Live in Boston)
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse] / I am the son and the heir / Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar / I am the son and heir / Of nothing in particular / [Chorus] / You shut your
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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 – The Boy With The Thorn In His Side (Demo Mix)
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[Chorus] / The boy with the thorn in his side / Behind the hatred there lies / A murderous desire / For love / [Verse 1] / How can they look into my eyes / And still they don't
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The Smiths – There Is a Light That Never Goes Out (Live in Boston)
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[Verse 1] / Take me out tonight / Where there's music and there's people / And they're young and alive / Driving in your car / I never, never want to go home / Because I haven't
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The Smiths – Never Had No One Ever (Demo)
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[Verse 1] / When you walk without ease / On these / Streets where you were raised / I had a really bad dream / It lasted 20 years, 7 months, and 27 days / And I doh-doh-don't / [
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The Smiths – Stretch out and Wait (Live in Boston)
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[Verse 1] / All the lies that you make up / What's at the back of your mind? / Oh, your face I can see and it's desperately kind / But what's at the back of your mind? / Two icy-
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The Smiths – I Want the One I Can't Have (Live in Boston)
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[Intro] / On the day that your mentality / Decides to try to catch up with your biology / Come round / [Chorus] / Cause I want the one I can't have / And it's driving me mad / It's
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The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead (Live in Boston)
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[Verse 1] / (Farewell) To this land's cheerless marshes / Hemmed in like a boar between archers / Her very Lowness with her head in a sling / But it sounds like a wonderful thing
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The Smiths – Cemetry Gates (Live in Boston)
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[Chorus] / A dreaded sunny day / So I meet you at the cemetry gates / Keats and Yeats are on your side / A dreaded sunny day / So I meet you at the cemetry gates / Keats and Yeats
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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 – Bigmouth Strikes Again (Demo)
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[Verse] / Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking when I said / I'd like to smash every tooth in your head / Oh-oh, sweetness, sweetness, I was only joking when I said / By rights
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The Smiths – There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
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“There Is a Light That Never Goes Out” is a sacred Smiths classic by now, one that makes fans across the globe join hands and mope together. To some it is a depressive anthem, to
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The Smiths – Never Had No One Ever
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“Never Had No One Ever” is the Smiths at their bleakest – like listening to the birth of a depression. Morrissey writes about having the nagging feeling of being an outsider his
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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 – Rubber Ring / What She Said / Rubber Ring (Live in Boston)
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[Intro - Rubber Ring] / [Instrumental] / [Part 2: What She Said] / [Verse 1] / What she said / "How come someone hasn't noticed that I'm dead / And decided to bury me? God knows, I
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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 – The Boy with the Thorn in His Side
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[Chorus] / The boy with the thorn in his side / Behind the hatred there lies / A murderous desire / For love / [Verse 1] / How can they look into my eyes / And still they don't
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The Smiths – The Draize Train
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[Instrumental]
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The Smiths – There Is a Light That Never Goes Out (Take 1)
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[Verse 1] / Take me out tonight / Where there's music and there's people / And they're young and alive / Driving in your car / I never, never want to go home / Because I haven't
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The Smiths – I Know It's Over (Live in Boston)
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[Verse 1] / I can feel the soil falling over my head / And as I climb into an empty bed / Oh well, enough said / [Chorus] / I know it's over, still I cling / I don't know where
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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 – Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
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For those unwilling to accept this is about breasts – or at least sexual shapes, at the 1986 Queen Is Dead tour Artists Against Apartheid concert, the only time The Smiths
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Therapy? (Band) – 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 – The Queen Is Dead (Full Version)
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[Intro] / I don't bless them / [Verse 1] / (Farewell) To this land's cheerless marshes / Hemmed in like a boar between archers / Her very Lowness with her head in a sling / I'm
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The Divine Comedy – There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
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Take me out tonight / Where there's music and there's people who are young and alive / Driving in your car / I never never want to go home, because I haven't got one anymore / Take
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The Frank and Walters – Cemetry Gates
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[Chorus] / A dreaded sunny day / So I meet you at the cemetry gates / Keats and Yeats are on your side / A dreaded sunny day / So I meet you at the cemetry gates / Keats and Yeats
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