SMITHS STRANGEWAYS POLL

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DEATH OF A DISCO DANCER

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before 20
Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me 9
Girlfriend In A Coma 9
A Rush And A Push And the Land Is Ours 8
Death of a Disco Dancer 5
Paint A Vulgar Picture 5
I Won't Share You4
Unhappy Birthday 3
I Started Something I Couldn't Finish 2
Death At One's Elbow 2


Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Monday, 14 April 2008 00:58 (seventeen years ago)

Stop Me uh uh oh Stop Me...

Joe, Monday, 14 April 2008 01:08 (seventeen years ago)

"Stop Me" just for Marr's solo.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 14 April 2008 01:10 (seventeen years ago)

DEATH OF A DISCO DANCER

Preview of the Matrix 12, Monday, 14 April 2008 01:16 (seventeen years ago)

I Won't Share You, but what a great record. So many good songs.

Daniel, Esq., Monday, 14 April 2008 01:23 (seventeen years ago)

I'm not sure it's full of great songs, but it's full of good ideas for songs (harpsichord! Moz on piano!). The album's a lyrical regression in a couple of cases. Oh -- I hate the drum sound.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 14 April 2008 01:28 (seventeen years ago)

that font's gotta go, too.

nerve_pylon, Monday, 14 April 2008 02:57 (seventeen years ago)

i voted for a rush and a push and other stuff.

Creeztophair, Monday, 14 April 2008 02:59 (seventeen years ago)

Death at One's Elbow

Mark C, Monday, 14 April 2008 17:40 (seventeen years ago)

Unhappy Birthday is a gem

Chelvis, Monday, 14 April 2008 17:41 (seventeen years ago)

Tough one - I'll pick a Rush and A Push and Etc. Etc.

I remember feeling great joy when good 'ol USA Today listed the songs that would be in the Friday Miami Vice episode in the Life Section - especially when 'Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me' graced its listing.

BlackIronPrison, Monday, 14 April 2008 18:06 (seventeen years ago)

I voted Girlfriend in a Coma to annoy the purists but actually I think my favorite is Paint a Vulgar Picture

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 14 April 2008 18:14 (seventeen years ago)

rush and a push

M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 14 April 2008 18:15 (seventeen years ago)

this is surprisingly difficult

i think i have to go w/ paint a vulgar picture, even though in many ways its the least quintessentially smiths/moz/marr song on the album -- thats its only real downside yeah? top-notch structure + lyrics + climax (song about star griping about stardom becomes song about about kid longing for it)

deeznuts, Monday, 14 April 2008 18:26 (seventeen years ago)

Paint A Vulgar Picture, but I could've gone for any except Death at One's Elbow and Stop Me.

DavidM, Monday, 14 April 2008 18:27 (seventeen years ago)

Stop Me over Last Night I Dreamt for that great phrase Marr drops to take us into the chorus.

rogermexico., Monday, 14 April 2008 20:34 (seventeen years ago)

"A Rush and A Push...", but hoping to see serious showing by "Girlfriend in a Coma".

Euler, Monday, 14 April 2008 21:45 (seventeen years ago)

"last night ..."

</emo>

grimly fiendish, Monday, 14 April 2008 21:49 (seventeen years ago)

i think "stop me..." is leagues above everything else on the record. i loathe "girlfriend in a coma".

jed_, Monday, 14 April 2008 22:46 (seventeen years ago)

this was the first smiths album with songs I actively hated (girlfriend in a coma, unhappy birthday)

Bob Six, Monday, 14 April 2008 22:49 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

ILX System, Friday, 18 April 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

I could easily vote for 5-6 of these, but picked "Unhappy Birthday" cause it's gonna need some love, methinks

stephen, Saturday, 19 April 2008 00:23 (seventeen years ago)

I vote with Shakey and the Googlers.

James Redd and the Blecchs, Saturday, 19 April 2008 01:04 (seventeen years ago)

I had a dream that Death of A Disco Dancer won this poll. Ha!

Bimble, Saturday, 19 April 2008 02:55 (seventeen years ago)

I thought it would be impossible to choose between the best four tracks until I listened to the album again this morning. It's 'Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before' by a mile, isn't it? It's the best tune, has most beautiful production of any of their records (those bridges are gorgeous), and has the cleverest and least arch lyrics, and the singing is great too. It's probably the closest they got to writing a proper standard - I can't imagine anyone covering 'The Queen Is Dead' or 'Panic' (mostly because of the lyrics I suppose). I wonder how it'd have done if they'd been able to release it as a single?

Then again, my iTunes tells me I listen to 'Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me' the most, so what do I know?

Ismael Klata, Saturday, 19 April 2008 11:49 (seventeen years ago)

Horrible sleeve, though.

Ismael Klata, Saturday, 19 April 2008 11:50 (seventeen years ago)

I always thought that, from the title on down, "Stop Me" was an admission from Morrissey that after five years, three albums and a stack of singles, that he was beginning to repeat himself.
Not only that but the song's lyrics seemed to be made up of random jottings and half-finished lyric ideas that he had cobbled together.

DavidM, Saturday, 19 April 2008 13:44 (seventeen years ago)

That's some nice close-reading there, Lou.

Noodle Vague, Saturday, 19 April 2008 13:45 (seventeen years ago)

"Last Night I Dreamt..."

Alex in NYC, Saturday, 19 April 2008 15:56 (seventeen years ago)

Stop Me over Last Night I Dreamt for that great phrase Marr drops to take us into the chorus.

iawtc

davie, Saturday, 19 April 2008 18:49 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

ILX System, Saturday, 19 April 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

By an overwhelming majority!

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 19 April 2008 23:11 (seventeen years ago)

HAHAHAHHAa

Bimble, Saturday, 19 April 2008 23:12 (seventeen years ago)

But "Last Night.." was #2! I mean wow what the fuck is up with that? Not that I'm complaining but isn't that the one everyone complains is too long?

Bimble, Saturday, 19 April 2008 23:13 (seventeen years ago)

"I started something" wuz robbed -- one of Marr's best riffs. A go-to song if you need to explain to someone how the Smiths actually *rock*.

kenan, Saturday, 19 April 2008 23:16 (seventeen years ago)

seven months pass...

I WON'T SHARE YOU

Kitchens of Distraction (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Sunday, 23 November 2008 22:13 (sixteen years ago)

five years pass...

At the time of it's release I felt it was a total letdown but I just listened to it for the first time in years and like it alot more but still don't love it. Maybe it's the sense of repitition observed upthread, or maybe Morrissey was just getting tired (as some of the lyrics seem prophetic of the breakup). Marr's guitar lines are the best part.

Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 17 December 2013 23:37 (eleven years ago)

Too many half-assed songs for me to think it's their best, but the good songs suggest their next album woulda been killer.

the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 23:53 (eleven years ago)

I still think it's tremendous that this album starts with a song that doesn't feature Johnny Marr on guitar.

brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 17 December 2013 23:57 (eleven years ago)

I was thinking about posting 'Strangeways Here We Come' to the Album titles that are already admissions of defeat thread! Also, part of a mini-canon of weary sounding final albums by bands on the verge of splitting up that are compelling because of how downbeat they are

wooting does not count as being active (soref), Wednesday, 18 December 2013 00:10 (eleven years ago)

I thought the story of how Johnny found the autoharp on the wall Wool Hall and came up with I Won't Share You was pretty cool.

brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 18 December 2013 00:25 (eleven years ago)


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