Mr. Jackpots
Clutch.
What do you feel were the strongest singles (not as in songs but as in total packages; i.e. A-side, B-side(s), art, etc.?
My votes:
-Smiths era
"William, It Was Really Nothing"
b/w Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want and How Soon Is Now
For my money, these three songs sum up everything Morrissey has ever been about. Plus, all three songs are perfect.
Solo? This is tough. There are way more choices and I actually prefer the Alain-led solo output to The Smiths.
If threatened with a blowtorch?
"Sunny" b/w Black Eyed Susan and A Swallow on My Neck
Even though I love both of the albums that preceded the Boxers and Sunny singles, the post-Vauxhall/pre-Southpaw stuff is, to me, the best output of his solo career. This is the fully-realized post-Smiths Morrissey at his peak...neither dependent on the past nor ashamed of it. This batch of songs sounds like the natural progression of the Morrissey that wrote Stretch Out And Wait, Cemet'ry Gates, and That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore. He never sounded more organic or effortless.
My votes:
-Smiths era
"William, It Was Really Nothing"
b/w Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want and How Soon Is Now
For my money, these three songs sum up everything Morrissey has ever been about. Plus, all three songs are perfect.
Solo? This is tough. There are way more choices and I actually prefer the Alain-led solo output to The Smiths.
If threatened with a blowtorch?
"Sunny" b/w Black Eyed Susan and A Swallow on My Neck
Even though I love both of the albums that preceded the Boxers and Sunny singles, the post-Vauxhall/pre-Southpaw stuff is, to me, the best output of his solo career. This is the fully-realized post-Smiths Morrissey at his peak...neither dependent on the past nor ashamed of it. This batch of songs sounds like the natural progression of the Morrissey that wrote Stretch Out And Wait, Cemet'ry Gates, and That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore. He never sounded more organic or effortless.