Most remarkable, ground-breaking and original moments!

[Musley]

This Night Has Opened My Eyes, amazing lyrics. Sometimes we are too busy listening to the song as a whole that we forget the intensity of the lyrics. What other artist writes songs with such force and emotion. Even Noel Gallagher said Morrissey was the best lyricist he had ever heard!

 

[NovemberJesus]

Life is a Pigsty - an anthem!

An anthem indeed.. It is incredible how He can make such painful songs. And its the same for My Dearest Love... (speechless)

 

[Mclenarr]

Bump

Isn't a bump when you do without a reason...maybe they just wanted to post something and it just so happened....

 

[starless]

There are a few in each and every song but off the top of my head:

Trouble Loves Me: when you think this song can't get any better, he sings "Then at midnight I / Can't get you out of my head"

Lifeguard Sleeping: the eeriest song ever? effortlessly brilliant. "The sky became marked with stars / As an out-stretched arm slowly / Disappears"

Seasick, Yet Still Docked: Sheer poetry: "You must be such a fool / To pass me by"

 

[Orson Swells]

Seasick, Yet Still Docked: Sheer poetry: "You must be such a fool / To pass me by"

I am a poor wayfaring stranger
Traveling through all these highs and lows
I heard there was no sickness
And no toil or danger
Just mercy and plenty
Where peaceful waters flow
Where peaceful waters flow

Come all you fair and tender school girls
Be careful now-when you court young men
They are like the stars
On a summer morning
They sparkle up the night
And they're gone again
Daybreak-gone again

If I'd only seen through the silky veils of ardor
What a killing crime this love can be
I would have locked up my heart
In a golden sheath of armor
And kept its crazy beating
Under strictest secrecy
High security

I wish I had the wings
Of Noah's pretty little white dove
So I could fly this raging river
To reach the one I love
But I have no wings
And the water is so wide
We'll have to row a little harder
It's just in dreams we fly
In my dreams we fly!

 

[raincoated lover]

Morrissey's delacacy and devotion to beauty is what makes his words so poignant and elegant - for me at least, and it is this coupled with his fantastic capability to present vital, romantic and beautiful situations and tales within his songs that makes his work so vibrant - the stories themselves being intreguing, sometimes challenging, always provocative and never stale.

 

[sistasheila]

bump...

 

[Girl-with-the-Thorn]

1. 'Now My Heart Is Full' needs no explanation whatsoever. It just is.

2. 'The Queen Is Dead'- shocking, blunt and funny.

3. 'The Father Who Must Be Killed' is possibly the Morrissey song that surprised me the most when I first heard it. It's extremely intense, but quite brilliant.

4. I agree with 'Reel Around the Fountain' as well, it is intensely beautiful and a remarkable opener to the first album, but am I the only person who thinks that it was never necessarily about paedophilia?

5. 'Maladjusted' for reasons already explained. And, well, I just love it.

 

[tigergolf06]

2. 'The Queen Is Dead'- shocking, blunt and funny.

Brilliant, amazing song. I love when the tom-tom drums come in after the initial sample in the beginning-- totally awesome and pumping!

 

[Girl_Drowning]

Seasick, Yet Still Docked: Sheer poetry: "You must be such a fool / To pass me by"

Absolutely agree, 'My love is as sharp as a needle in your eye', gets me everytime.

I've Changed My Plea to Guilty is another of those Morrissey songs I find so intense, love the line 'emotional air raid exhausted my heart' and adore this live version because you can see just that : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB-CQvEWmkw

 

[Raphael Lambach]

Now My Heart is full from Introducing.