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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

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Suggested by Tim from Fife and Tim in East Yorkshire

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

3665. The Smiths – Well I Wonder

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Suggested by Clint in Oldham

A wonder link…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXZUEx9M188

3443. The Smiths – What Difference Does It Make?

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Suggested by Bill in Calne, Wiltshire

From The Butterfly Collector to a single that used a photograph of Terence Stamp from the film ‘The Collector’ on its sleeve…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5DE8UQnM5Y

3337. The Smiths – You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet, Baby

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Suggested by Jay in Dollar, Clackmannanshire

From B.A.B.Y. to baby…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf1g00qbv10

Bonus video – Jay Scally playing ‘Oh Dolly’:

3225. The Smiths – Hand in Glove

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Suggested by Elvis from Mars

From Patti Smith to The Smiths…

3176. The Smiths – Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want

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Suggested by Amanda in Royston, Herts

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

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Suggested by Mark in Cheltenham

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

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Suggested by Tanya Sweet-Hyde at Bristol Parkway station

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

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Suggested by Paddy in Belfast

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

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Suggested by Martyn in Croydon

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

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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

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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

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A coma link…

2454. The Smiths – The Headmaster Ritual

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From ‘Big Sur’ to a ‘Big Sir’, a headmaster…

2324. The Smiths – Bigmouth Strikes Again

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Suggested by Johnathan Peacock

And her Walkman started to melt’ is a lyric from the next song…

2227. The Smiths – Still Ill

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Suggested by phil from failsworth in manchester

You’d see a doctor if you were ill…

2182. The Smiths – Shoplifters Of The World Unite

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Suggested by Colin in Barnsley

From one kind of theft to another…

2065. The Smiths – Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me

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Suggested by Alison in Poole, Dorset

Staying with dreaming…

1964. The Smiths – Frankly Mr Shankly

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Suggested by Frank on the Wirral

And because Bob Paisley was Liverpool’s football manager after Bill Shankly…

1808. The Smiths – Sweet And Tender Hooligan

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From etcetera in the title to a song with etcetera in the lyrics…

1707. The Smiths – Sheila Take A Bow

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The last song featured Johnny Marr on guitar… he was also in…

1562. The Smiths – How Soon Is Now?

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Suggested by Colin in Barnsley

From a Smith to The Smiths…

1536. The Smiths – Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now

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Continuing the misery theme…

1492. The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead

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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

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From one famous vegetarian to another…

1233. The Smiths – Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before

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From one Stop! to another…

1125. The Smiths – Panic

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The DJ in The Smiths’ song ‘Panic’ is going to be hanged! Blimey…

910. The Smiths – There Is A Light That Never Goes Out

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Nancy and Morrissey collaborated on a single. Therefore…

806. The Smiths – Vicar In A Tutu

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From Desmond Dekker to Desmond Tutu…

703. The Smiths – Cemetry Gates

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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

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The next song was rumoured to be about Billy MacKenzie of The Associates…

458. The Smiths – The Boy With The Thorn In His Side

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A thorn? In his side? That’s got to hurt…

282. The Smiths – This Charming Man

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The lyrics to Mrs Robinson and This Charming Man both contain the word ‘pantry’…

219. The Smiths – Jeane

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From one Gene to another…

19. The Smiths – Rusholme Ruffians

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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…

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