Tag Archives: The Smiths

3946. The Smiths – The Hand that Rocks the Cradle

Love Me Do features a harmonica intro, so to another song with a harmonica intro, Still Ill by The Smiths which we’ve had, so to another track from the same album…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq19VsaqIZg

3693. The Smiths – Meat is Murder

Slaughter describes what you do to the poor ickle lambs and other animals as the first stage of getting meat from them. You say slaughter, Morrissey says murder, let’s call the whole thing off…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xacRTqk5QFM

3120. The Smiths – Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others

In the 1980s you had to fill out a UB40 form if you were unemployed and wanted to receive unemployment benefit. The slang term for unemployment benefit is ‘the dole’, so to a song that begins ‘From the ice age to the dole age…

703. The Smiths – Cemetry Gates

Oscar Wilde said he could resist anything, except temptation. Wilde appears in this Smiths song…

17 May 2013: corrected song title to incorrect spelling (cemetry instead of cemetery) used by The Smiths.

19. The Smiths – Rusholme Ruffians

Johnny Marr never denied borrowing the riff from ‘His Latest Flame’ for The Smiths’ ‘Rusholme Ruffians’. In concert they used to segue from one to the other…