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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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The Smiths – Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others (Live)
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[Verse 1] / From the ice age to the dole age / There is just one concern / And I have just discovered: / [Chorus] / Some girls' are bigger than others / Some girls' are bigger than
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Supergrass – Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
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From the ice-age to the dole-age there is but one concern / That I have just discovered some girls are bigger than others / Some girls are bigger than others / Some girl's mothers
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The Smiths – Girlfriend in a Coma
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An instance when Johnny Marr’s music and Morrissey’s lyrics' trademark incongruity (see “Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others”) works, with Marr adding a strangely cheery backing to a
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Tanya Donelly (Ft. Dylan in the Movies) – Shoplifters of the World Unite
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[Verse 1] / Learn to love me, assemble the ways / Now, today, tomorrow and always / My only weakness is a listed crime / My only weakness is- well, never mind, never mind, oh / [
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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 – The Draize Train
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C'est La Mort – Girl Afraid
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[Verse 1] / Girl afraid / Where do his intentions lay? / Or does he even have any? / She says / "He never really looks at me / I give him every opportunity / In the room downstairs
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Kitten – Panic
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[Verse 1] / Panic on the streets of London / Panic on the streets of Birmingham / I wonder to myself... / Could life ever be sane again? / The Leeds side-streets that you slip down
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William Fitzsimmons – Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
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Good times for a change / See the luck I've had / Could make a good man turn bad / So please, please, please / Let me, let me, let me / Let me get what I want / This time / Haven't
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The Smiths – Pretty Girls Make Graves (Troy Tate Version)
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[Verse 1: Morrissey] / Upon the sand, upon the bay / "There is a quick and easy way" you say / Before you illustrate / I'd rather state / I'm not the man you think I am / I'm not
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Telekinesis – Sheila Take A Bow
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[Verse 1] / Is it wrong to want to live on your own? / No, it's not wrong, but I must know / How can someone so young sing words so sad? / [Chorus] / Sheila take a, Sheila take a
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Girl in a Coma – Rubber Ring
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A sad fact widely known / The most impassionate song / To a lonely soul / Is so easily outgrown / But don't forget the songs / That made you smile / And the songs that made you cry
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The Rest (band) – Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
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[Chorus] / Stop me, oh, stop me / Stop me if you think that you've heard this one before / Stop me, oh, stop me / Stop me if you think that you've heard this one before / Nothing's
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Hank Locklin – Send Me The Pillow You Dream On
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Send me the pillow that you dream on don't you know that I still care for you / Send me the pillow that you dream on so darling I can dream on it too / Each night while I'm
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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.
https://genius.com/3859698
Calling all scholars of The Smiths!
@ankitsethi @acerrr @YoungCocoaButter @huf @Fina
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Sara Lov – Well I Wonder
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Well, I wonder / Do you hear me when you sleep? / I hoarsely cry / Well, I wonder / Do you see me when we pass? / I half die / Please, keep me in mind / Please, keep me in mind
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The Smiths – I Keep Mine Hidden
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“I Keep Mine Hidden” was the last song The Smiths recorded together. It was released as a B-side to “Girlfriend In A Coma.”
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Solvents (band) – Is It Really So Strange?
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[Verse 1] / I left the North, I travelled South / I found a tiny house and I can't help the way I feel / Oh yes, you can kick me, and you can punch me / And you can break my face
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Trespassers William – There is a light that never goes out
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There Is A Light That Never Goes Out / 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
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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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Sixpence None the Richer – I Won't Share You
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[Chorus 1] / I won't share you, no / I won't share you / With the drive / And ambition / The zeal I feel / This is my time / [Verse 1] / The note I wrote / As she read, she said
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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 – Handsome Devil (Live in Manchester)
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[Verse 1] / All the streets are crammed with things eager to be held / I know what hands are for, and I'd like to help myself / You ask me the time, but I sense something more
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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 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 – 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 – Work Is a Four-Letter Word
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“Work Is A Four Letter-Word” is one of the songs recorded in The Smith’s last session together. It is a cover of a Cilla Black’s song.
Johnny Marr hated the song so much that it
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