WORST song by The Smiths

[Gregory2Smith1]

take your pick

 

[knocky1]

Ah, trick question.
Oh, Morrissey, if only everyone could be as clever as us and get the irony. Us Poets Corner people wake in the morning and the first thing we all say to each other is "Do we all still love the Smiths". We love the racist, fascist nutty singer so much that Shirley there cannot be a bad song.

Rant over. Deep breaths and count to 10.

 

[gazingdown]

I would like to nominate "Miserable Lie"

 

[KZNSeagull]

Hairdresser on Fire is a Moz solo effort, not The Smiths. And it has a decent bass line, which redeems it.

Has to be Golden Lights.

 

[vegster]

Too many to choose from, easier to choose the least worse.

 

[tinycowboy]

Golden Lights, but honorable mentions to Death At One's Elbow, Death of a Disco Dancer and Meat Is Murder (and I AM a vegetarian, maybe not a sanctimonious one though).

 

[Tricky Dicky]

For me it's a tight call between Hairdresser on Fire and Vicar in a Tutu.

I couldn't name a single track by them.

 

[MattBackHome]

Golden Lights

 

[Pogue Mahone]

I find it genuinely perplexing when people say they don't like The Smiths.

But yes, several people have nailed it. GL.

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

Cant decide but going Dagenham Dave on the solo front.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Cant decide but going Dagenham Dave on the solo front.

Dagenham Dave by The Stranglers though...great song.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Golden Lights, but honorable mentions to Death At One's Elbow, Death of a Disco Dancer and Meat Is Murder (and I AM a vegetarian, maybe not a sanctimonious one though).

Actually don't mind Death of a Disco Dancer.

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

Golden Lights doesn't even sound like The Smiths. Has to be the winner.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Golden Lights doesn't even sound like The Smiths. Has to be the winner.

It really is WANKY isn't it? Self indulgent and wanky. The very things that we spent our youth arguing that the band were NOT, when the non-believers knocked them. JM for one MUST have hated it, surely?

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

It really is WANKY isn't it? Self indulgent and wanky. The very things that we spent our youth arguing that the band were NOT, when the non-believers knocked them. JM for one MUST have hated it, surely?

You would like to think so. To their credit though it is the only truly bad song I can think of.

 

[Lower West Stander]

Greatest band in the history of the world ever.

But I can't stand Panic.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Greatest band in the history of the world ever.

But I can't stand Panic.

Panic is magnificent!

 

[OzMike]

All good for me.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

I find it genuinely perplexing when people say they don't like The Smiths.

But yes, several people have nailed it. GL.

I lived all through their time, but they never once came anywhere near my radar - in fact I'm not sure I'd even heard of them until quite recently.

 

[WATFORD zero]

I'm not saying it's all crap, but would you put up with a mate who was that whiny ?