The Moz/Smiths Top 100, FINAL RESULTS, 101-234

[Houdini]

Over the past 9 months we have been rating and assessing every 234 Morrissey and Smiths-song released over the past 25 years, from Hand In Glove (april 1983) to That's How People Grow Up (February 2008).

An amazing 30.683 votes have been cast with an average song-score of 7,95.
Thanks all for voting and for commenting!

Tomorrow the Top 100 will be presented.

Here are positions 101-234:

101) Interesting Drug
102) Shakespeare’s Sister
103) Whatever Happens, I Love You
104) Angel, Angel, Down We Go Together
105) Never Had No One Ever
106) We Hate It When Our Friends Become Succesful
107) Boxers
108) No One Can Hold A Candle To You
109) The Loop
110) You Have Killed Me
111) Reader Meet Author
112) The World Is Full Of Crashing Bores
113) I Don’t Owe You Anything
114) Vicar In A Tutu
115) I Don’t Mind If You Forget Me
116) Wonderful Woman
117) Glamorous Glue
118) Death Of A Disco Dancer
119) Lucky Lisp
120) You Know I Couldn’t Last
121) Sing Your Life
122) Meat Is Murder
123) The Boy Racer
124) All You Need Is Me
125) Ganglord
126) Alma Matters
127) I Can Have Both
128) Yes, I Am Blind
129) Satan Rejected My Soul
130) I’m Not Sorry
131) Certain People I Know
132) I Like You
133) Used To Be A Sweet Boy
134) There’s A Place In Hell For Me And My Friends
135) The Edges Are No Longer Parallel
136) Girl Least Likely To
137) Miserable Lie
138) The Lazy Sunbathers
139) It’s Hard To Walk Tall When You’re Small
140) I’m the End Of The Family Line
141) Ouija Board, Ouija Board
142) Our Frank
143) Billy Budd
144) Little Man, What Now?
145) You Must Please Remember
146) Mute Witness
147) Dear God, Please Help Me
148) Driving Your Girlfriend Home
149) In The Future When All’s Well
150) A Swallow On My Neck
151) The Teachers Are Afraid Of The Pupils
152) I Will See You In Far Off Places
153) I’ll Never Be Anybody’s Hero Now
154) Unhappy Birthday
155) Break Up The Family
156) Oscillate Wildly
157) If You Don’t Like Me, Don’t Look At Me
158) He Knows I’d Love To See Him
159) Accept Yourself
160) My Life Is A Succession Of People Saying Goodbye
161) To Me You Are A Work Of Art
162) The Ordinary Boys
163) You’re The One For Me Fatty
164) Have-A-Go Merchant
165) That’s How People Grow Up
166) Munich Air Disaster 1958
167) I Knew I Was Next
168) Pregnant For The Last Time
169) Oh Well I’ll Never Learn
170) The Operation
171) Wide To Receive
172) Good Looking Man About Town
173) King Leer
174) How Can Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel?
175) The Youngest Was The Most Loved
176) Do Your Best and Don’t Worry
177) Skin Storm
178) A Song From Under The Floorboards
179) Let The Right One Slip In
180) I Keep Mine Hidden
181) Teenage Dad On His Estate
182) Human Being
183) Interlude
184) That’s Entertainment
185) Michael’s Bones
186) I Am Two People
187) I Just Want To See The Boy Happy
188) Don’t Make Fun Of Daddy’s Voice
189) Bengali In Platforms
190) This Is Not Your Country
191) Now I Am A Was
192) On The Streets I Ran
193) Pashernate Love
194) Heir Apparent
195) Redondo Beach
196) Dial-A-Cliche
197) Christian Dior
198) Roy’s Keen
199) At Amber
200) Dagenham Dave
201) The Public Image
202) Ammunition
203) The Draize Train
204) Moonriver
205) At Last I Am Born
206) Margaret On The Guillotine
207) Mexico
208) Cosmic Dancer
209) Best Friend On The Payroll
210) Black Eyed Susan
211) The Father Who Must Be Killed
212) East West
213) Work Is A Four Letter Word
214) America Is Not The World
215) Death At One’s Elbow
216) Money Changes Everything
217) Ambitious Outsiders
218) There Speaks A True Friend
219) Asian Rut
220) He Cried
221) You’ve Had Her
222) What’s The World
223) All The Lazy Dykes
224) Slum Mums
225) Tony The Pony
226) Get Off The Stage
227) Noise Is The Best Revenge
228) Found Found Found
229) The Harsh Truth Of The Camera Eye
230) Sweetie Pie
231) Sorrow Will Come In The End
232) Papa Jack
233) Golden Lights
234) Journalists Who Lie

 

[Paulc]

Houdini you are a wondferful human being, gratitude doesnt come close.
Well done on this project, it has been hugely interesting and entertaining for the whole 9 months.

 

[dicartwright]

Congratulations on the hard work, thank you and... I hpe you're ready to hear us roar with the results, we'll all have something to shout about

For instance, I love The harsh.....

 

[Orson Swells]

Ah... I really like He Cried, Lazy Dykes and Noise. But I'm surprised at how high the scores are. Technically, over a six is above average. So only seven songs in the entire canon are deemed below average...

But The Harsh Truth should be bottom!

 

[Nikita]

I will never understand the dyke(s) bashing

 

[Shaw]

Sad to see Slums Mums so low, probably one of my favourite songs

Thanks for this Houdini, i think i managed to vote on every song

 

[Houdini]

Thanks all, but (without wanting to give anything away) the pleasure and privilige was entirely mine!

 

[Houdini]

Ah... I really like He Cried, Lazy Dykes and Noise. But I'm surprised at how high the scores are. Technically, over a six is above average. So only seven songs in the entire canon are deemed below average...

Well, this is a fan's forum, so the law of averages is a bit off here.

Actually, the average song score is 7,95, so anything under 7 is way below average.

The average Smiths song score is 8,56.
The average Moz song score is 7,68.

 

[Orson Swells]

Well, this is a fan's forum, so the law of averages is a bit off here.

Actually, the average song score is 7,95, so anything under 7 is way below average.

The average Smiths song score is 8,56.
The average Moz song score is 7,68.

Yes, but there are, ahem, no law of averages here: 7.95 is average for a Morrissey song. Which just goes to show that an average Morrissey song is actually very good! The way I voted, if I thought it was average, I gave it a 6. So anything above a 6 is above my conception of average, unless people voted a different way. Now as for a Smiths song being 8.56 and a Moz solo song being 7.68... I'm starting to get a headache.

 

[Mel_Torment]

Thanks, Houdini! It's been very interesting.

Curiously, your results come out as the Greatest Hits are due. La Commie made the sage comment that if Moz wanted to do a proper Greatest Hits, all he would've had to do was wait and consult this very poll!

 

[the judge]

Papa Jack is not a 1994 song, is it?

 

[lottie]

Has it really been NINE months?
blimey....
how time flies... LOL

 

[the judge]

Has it really been NINE months?
blimey....
how time flies... LOL

yes... I was a newbie back then

 

[Bad Bunny]

Thanks for all the hard work, Houdini. It's really interesting to see what the general opinion is, confirming I don't agree with everyone all the time - but then I knew that already.

 

[the judge]

I didn't even thank Houdini.
Thank you.
For posting the threads every day and all the calculation job.

 

[Chartres]

Thanks Houdini, I love statistics!

 

[King Leer]

Great job on keeping this going over the past nine months, Houdini. I hope your results get reprinted somewhere and you get credited. Aside from all the interesting statistics, it also serves as an archived message thread for every song in the catalogue!

 

[Nikita]

I should not read this, it is too much pain in the ass - Satan rejected my soul better than Certain people I know ... I'd rather die

 

[Paulc]

It says a hell of alot about the quality of the artist when classics like Meat is Murder, Shakespears Sister, The Loop, You have killed me, Never had no one ever, Death of a disco dancer and Glamorous Glue (and many more) dont even make the top 100.

Incredible back catalogue.

Thanks again Houdini - how come you took off the dates?

 

[suparni]

ahhh mute witness so robbed!