^ A fountain link…
Tag Archives: The Smiths
7164. The Smiths – Nowhere Fast
^ A Nowhere link…
7030. The Smiths – Rubber Ring
^ From a song supposedly inspired by an encounter with Morrissey to The Smiths…
6509. The Smiths – Death At One’s Elbow
^ From Black Angel’s Death Song to Death At One’s Elbow…
6070. The Smiths – I Know It’s Over
^ From It’s All Over Now to I Know It’s Over…
5915. The Smiths – Unhappy Birthday
^ From Best Wishes to (un)Happy Birthday…
5778. The Smiths – Half a Person
^ From Women of the World take over to Shoplifters of the World Unite and the b-side Half a Person…
5548. The Smiths – This Night Has Opened My Eyes
^ Honey link: From Simply Thrilled Honey to a song that includes a line from A Taste of Honey “The dream has gone but the baby is real”…
5320. The Smiths – A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours
^ A rush link…
5129. The Smiths – Stretch Out and Wait
^ From I Can’t Wait to Stretch out and Wait…
5012. The Smiths – Oscillate Wildly
^ From one instrumental to another…
4551. The Smiths – Death of a Disco Dancer
From deth to death…
4381. The Smiths – Girl Afraid
A girl link…
4195. The Smiths – I Want the One I Can’t Have
From lamb chop (yum yum) to the album ‘Meat is Murder’ (that’s put a bit of a downer on my lamb chop now) and this track from it…
4179. The Smiths – London
‘Anxious’ was on the album ‘London 0 Hull 4’, so sticking with London…
4048. The Smiths – Handsome Devil
Another halloween link: from pumpkins to devil…
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…
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…
3665. The Smiths – Well I Wonder
A wonder link…
3443. The Smiths – What Difference Does It Make?
From The Butterfly Collector to a single that used a photograph of Terence Stamp from the film ‘The Collector’ on its sleeve…
3337. The Smiths – You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet, Baby
From B.A.B.Y. to baby…
Bonus video – Jay Scally playing ‘Oh Dolly’:
3225. The Smiths – Hand in Glove
From Patti Smith to The Smiths…
3176. The Smiths – Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want
Zooey Deschanel (She of She & Him) covered the next song for the soundtrack of the excellent film ‘(500) Days of Summer‘…
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…‘
3007. The Smiths – Asleep
Double link alert:
- From lullaby to asleep
- From Robert Smith, singer in The Cure, to The Smiths
Tenuous third link alert:
- From The Cure to The Smiths
2974. The Smiths – Barbarism Begins at Home
From a bang on the ear to a crack on the head, which is what you get for not asking and for asking, according to the next song…
2952. The Smiths – I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish
The opening line to ‘Cellphone’s Dead’ is “Strange ways coming today” which leads to The Smiths’ album ‘Strangeways, Here We Come’ and this track from it…
2883. The Smiths – Shakespeare’s Sister
Billy Bragg is a famous protest singer. The song ‘Shakespeare’s Sister’ contains the lyrics: “Then it meant that you were a protest singer”…
2786. The Smiths – That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore
KORT features Kurt Wagner from Lambchop. Lamb is a type of meat and that leads to ‘Meat Is Murder’ from which this song is from…
2763. The Smiths – Girlfriend In A Coma
A coma link…
2454. The Smiths – The Headmaster Ritual
From ‘Big Sur’ to a ‘Big Sir’, a headmaster…
2324. The Smiths – Bigmouth Strikes Again
And her Walkman started to melt’ is a lyric from the next song…
2227. The Smiths – Still Ill
You’d see a doctor if you were ill…
2182. The Smiths – Shoplifters Of The World Unite
From one kind of theft to another…
2065. The Smiths – Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
Staying with dreaming…
1964. The Smiths – Frankly Mr Shankly
And because Bob Paisley was Liverpool’s football manager after Bill Shankly…
1808. The Smiths – Sweet And Tender Hooligan
From etcetera in the title to a song with etcetera in the lyrics…
1707. The Smiths – Sheila Take A Bow
The last song featured Johnny Marr on guitar… he was also in…
1562. The Smiths – How Soon Is Now?
From a Smith to The Smiths…
1536. The Smiths – Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now
Continuing the misery theme…
1492. The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead
A picture of Elvis appeared on the front cover of a Smiths single (Shoplifters of the World Unite), taking us to a Smiths track…
1285. The Smiths – Ask
From one famous vegetarian to another…
1233. The Smiths – Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before
From one Stop! to another…
1125. The Smiths – Panic
The DJ in The Smiths’ song ‘Panic’ is going to be hanged! Blimey…
910. The Smiths – There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
Nancy and Morrissey collaborated on a single. Therefore…
806. The Smiths – Vicar In A Tutu
From Desmond Dekker to Desmond Tutu…
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.
668. The Smiths – William It Was Really Nothing
The next song was rumoured to be about Billy MacKenzie of The Associates…
458. The Smiths – The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
A thorn? In his side? That’s got to hurt…
282. The Smiths – This Charming Man
The lyrics to Mrs Robinson and This Charming Man both contain the word ‘pantry’…
219. The Smiths – Jeane
From one Gene to another…
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…