Your favorite tracks that go unappreciated?

[Mozzer1980]

By albums :

Dial-a-Cliché
Mute Witness
We'll Let You Know
The Lazy Sunbathers
Southpaw (A masterpiece that seems somehow underrated )
Trouble Loves Me ( same as Southpaw )
How Can Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel?
I Just Want To See The Boy Happy
All You Need Is Me
I'm Not A Man
My Love, I'd Do Anything For You ( outstanding opener !!! )
Only A Pawn In Their Game ( great interpretation of Dylan's timeless classic )
I Am Not A Dog On A Chain ( I'm surprised to myself that I haven't been able to appreciate this great track, for a very long time )

 

[gashonthenail]

By albums :

Dial-a-Cliché
Mute Witness
We'll Let You Know
The Lazy Sunbathers
Southpaw (A masterpiece that seems somehow underrated )
Trouble Loves Me ( same as Southpaw )
How Can Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel?
I Just Want To See The Boy Happy
All You Need Is Me
I'm Not A Man
My Love, I'd Do Anything For You ( outstanding opener !!! )
Only A Pawn In Their Game ( great interpretation of Dylan's timeless classic )
I Am Not A Dog On A Chain ( I'm surprised to myself that I haven't been able to appreciate this great track for a very long time )

Agree about Southpaw. That line - you ran back to ma - always gets me.
Agree too about Only A Pawn.

 

[Phranc & Open]

Lifeguard Sleeping, Girl Drowning

I never hear anybody talk about this song and yet it's my favorite.

It should have been the last The Smiths flip. Love it.

 

[FactChecker]

in chronological order:

I Don't Mind If You Forget Me
Tony The Pony
Pashernate Love
You Must Please Remember
Honey You Know Where To Find Me
Fantastic Bird
I Can Have Both
Happy Lovers Reunited
Something Is Squeezing My Skull
Jacky's Always Happy

 

[spiritual atom bomb]

Wide to receive is on my "always play" list, still makes me smile when I listen to it

The operation too.

My favourite song (swallow on my neck) is never on anyone's top ten list so maybe that's unappreciated too

I love swallow on my neck -- but even I forgot it :")

 

[WinstanleyFan1649]

Tony the Pony

 

[brody]

Mountjoy.

 

[brody]

Also never got the disdain towards Blue Dreamers’ Eyes. Assuming that it was recorded during the LIHS sessions, the fact that it didn’t make the deluxe version is absolutely mind boggling. It’s better than most of that album.

 

[brody]

“I’ll never be anybody’s hero now” has his best ever vocal methinks

 

[skull]

The first ones that come to mind:

Wide to receive
I wish you lonely
I bury the living
I am not a man
I am not a dog on a chain

 

[bob-first]

Part of the problem with these songs is that it would seem Morrissey himself didn't appreciate them or care about them enough to ever play them live. I think there are probably a lot of newer fans who have not even heard some of the songs mentioned. For me Michael's Bones and Lucky Lisp come to mind. If I could handcuff someone who isn't a fan to a chair and play those two songs until they acknowledged their brilliance, I would.

 

[bob-first]

The first ones that come to mind:

Wide to receive
I wish you lonely
I bury the living
I am not a man
I am not a dog on a chain

From the most recent material, these all check the box for me too. Some of them are tough to get to love like "I bury the living" but its a brilliant song lyrically. Jim Jim Falls and What Kind of People would be added to that list.

 

[Johnny]

You Must Please Remember
Happy Lovers at Last United
Safe, Warm, Lancashire Home

 

[BlkMOZfan]

--At Amber
--Happy Lovers United
--Pregnant for the Last Time
--Roy's Keen

 

[BrokenFrame]

Hairdresser on fire. I love the lyrics.
Oh, and Munich Air Disaster.

I wish I'd gone down
Gone down with them
To where Mother Nature makes their bed

 

[Jamie]

I'm glad Alain has taken to performing Southpaw live. It's perhaps the one tragic oversight of M's live canon. But the performance seems hermetically sealed with that year, that line-up - which HMV as much as suggested in the 2009 reissue liner notes.

It's hard to quantify what underscores "underrated" when some of these are so vociferously loved in our quarters. But I propose the following as my top five:

There's a Place In Hell For Me And My Friends - IMO, a missed opportunity to not ever play this back to back with Satan Rejected My Soul ; talk about a cosmic "ba-dum-BUM"
My Love Life - long overdue for a live revisitation; simple and simply put, a genuine question but with a wink
I Am Hated For Loving - so atmospheric and spot-on in every regard; a riff JM would envy piped in from a radio station just out of phase
Whatever Happens, I Love You - a singular sounding timeless sonic journey with one of the most chillingly evocative lines he ever sang ("We stole each other's clothes" shivers my spine every time)
A Swallow on my Neck - an A-side in others' canons. The defiant secrecy of a deep love - you can picture the manic energy welling up in the protagonist as he trundles out of the boozer (the sentiment seems echoed in When You Open Your Legs)
Wide To Receive - the internet was still a babe in swaddling clothes and M nailed the disconcerting emptiness of its "connections"; high marks for Alain's lovely harmonies and initials BB's weary clarinet solo - I love Lost, but I think this is Spenny's best with M

 

[DatclassicRockfan42]

Hairdresser on fire. I love the lyrics.
Oh, and Munich Air Disaster.

I wish I'd gone down
Gone down with them
To where Mother Nature makes their bed

Hairdresser On Fire is definitely my fav Moz solo song

 

[nicky wire's legs]

It's not your birthday anymore!

 

[gordyboy9]

kit,a song no-one ever mentions,poor kit hes going through a rough patch.
a swallow on my neck,full of bluff and ardour from a well known funeral parlour.
striptease with a difference,his funniest song ever.

 

[gashonthenail]

I do love this song. Could quite happily listen to a whole album of Moz singing only accompanied by an acoustic guitar. The song has never been 'performed' live. The lyrics, like many of his songs, could be viewed as descriptive of his career woes. Straying into subjects and topics from which it might be wiser to 'keep away'. And so in he ran. He'll never learn.

Looking up at the sign
It said, "Please keep away"
And so in I ran
You see
I'll never learn
Oh, I'll never learn...