posted by davidt on Friday November 26 2010, @11:00AM
goinghome writes:
The Telegraph online has rounded up their list of 50 greatest album tracks: the hits that never were. Some, they say, were too long, some too strange, others hidden on albums that nobody bought.

Cemetry Gates figures in the top ten.

  - 8 The Smiths Cemetry Gates The Queen Is Dead, 1986

‘So we go inside and we gravely read the stones.’ Oh, you japesome punster, Morrissey. Though Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others is catchier, this sun-shunning, poetic-name-dropping, bedsit-angst-fest with its famously misspelt title is about as Smiths as you could ever get. -

50 greatest album tracks: the hits that never were - The Telegraph
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  • Arcade Fire.

    Stopped reading at this point.
    Anonymous -- Saturday November 27 2010, @04:47AM (#359408)
  • oh my (Score:1, Flamebait)

    it's end year's list time

    in 1989 Morrissey ended at VPRO song of the year
    at 25 with 'the last of the famous international
    playboys'

    for the ones who like to know the full list
    or nmbr

    vpro 3-voor-12 wensite which you can vote this
    years number and they look back a few times a week at another year

    The Pixies were 1 with Monkey gone to heaven

    [don't moderate of-topic or whateve I just posted
    on topic info just read at the 3-voor-12 website,
    about 1989]

    were you there?
    Celibate Cry <[email protected]> -- Saturday November 27 2010, @09:35AM (#359427)
    (User #220 Info)
    and the hills are alive with celibate cries
    • Re:oh my by Anonymous (Score:0) Sunday November 28 2010, @02:26PM
  • ...this was just a completely random selection to fill the article. Any real music fan would have selected There Is A Light That Never Goes Out, surely?
    Anonymous -- Monday November 29 2010, @03:54AM (#359479)


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