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MORRISSEY song
Name	The Ordinary Boys
Album/single	Viva Hate
Length	3:10
Writer/composer	Morrissey / Stephen Street
Producer	Stephen Street
Release	March 1988
Recorded	Autumn-Winter 1987

Information

The Ordinary Boys is a song that appears on Morrissey's debut album, Viva Hate. It was co-written and produced by Stephen Street.

Lyrics

Ordinary boys
Happy knowing nothing
Happy being no one but themselves

Ordinary girls
Supermarket clothes
Who think it's very clever to be cruel to you

For you were so different
You stood all alone
And you knew that it had to be so
Avoiding...

Ordinary boys
Happy going nowhere
Just around here in their rattling cars

Ordinary girls
Never seeing further
than the cold, small streets that trap them

But you were so different
You had to say no
When those empty fools
Tried to change you and claim you
For the lair of their ordinary world

Where they feel so lucky
So lucky, so lucky
With their lives laid out before them
They're lucky, so lucky
So lucky, so lucky
So...

Live History

Play count (Morrissey concert): 0

Appears On

Viva Hate

Mentioned In

Songs To Save Your Life: CD compiled by Morrissey - Release Information (July 12, 2004)

Related Forum Threads

Morrissey A-Z: "(The) Ordinary Boys" - Morrissey-solo (Jul 11, 2021)

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 | Album = [[Viva Hate]]
 | Length = 3:10
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 | Recorded = Autumn-Winter 1987
 | Release = March 1988
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 ==Information==
 '''The Ordinary Boys''' is a song that appears on [[Morrissey|Morrissey's]] debut album, ''[[Viva Hate]]''. It was co-written and produced by [[Stephen Street]].
-===Recording===
-Recording for ''Viva Hate'' commenced at The Wool Hall studios in Bath, England in early October and would last until late December. Street recruited Durutti Column guitarist [[Vini Reilly]] and session drummer [[Andrew Paresi]] to back Morrissey, with Street himself taking over bass duties.
-===Release===
-''Viva Hate'' was was released on 14 March 1988 by HMV Records and debuted at #1 on the UK charts.
-===Re-releases===
-EMI, in celebration of their 100th anniversary, released a special edition of ''Viva Hate'' in the UK in 1997. In addition to featuring brand new artwork, including a new cover shot by Eamonn McCabe, the Centenary Edition features 8 bonus tracks — only one of which was contemporaneous with the album. Surprisingly, "[[Hairdresser On Fire]]" does not appear on this version despite originally appearing on the North American version of the album as a bonus track.
-On 02 April 2012, a newly remastered special edition of ''Viva Hate'', supervised by Stephen Street, was released. Controversially, Morrissey chose to omit one of the album's original tracks, "[[The Ordinary Boys]]," and include the session demo "[[Treat Me Like A Human Being]]." In addition to the track list changes, the intro and extended fadeout of "[[Late Night, Maudlin Street]]" has been edited. The original album artwork was restored for this release, however, the typeface font on the front cover has been changed, as was the case with the 2011 [[Bona Drag]] remaster.
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 So...
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