This is a great idea for a poll. Wow, I didn't realize that there were so many great Moz songs that didn't make the UK Top 20.
I voted for "Sunny." It's my favorite Morrissey song of all-time, and one of my top ten favorites by anyone. It's such a genuine song, I listened to it four times in a row while driving around yesterday. It's everything that I like in a song, it's sad, thoughtful, caring, beautiful, it's hard to put into words. I can't find the words to convey how much this song means to me. I read, a time or two, that this song is about boxer Sonny Liston. I don't know if that's true. When I listen to this song I think of all the Sunny's in the world, who are losing, or have lost the battle. And I think of the Morrissey's of the world (the first-person Moz that is presented in this song), who actually care, and who will stand with their friends or family members in life, and in death. " I cry, when I see where it's taken you. I'm here I won't move, I'm here I won't move, I'm here I will not move." It's odd, I also love the last few seconds of the song. The seconds after the vocals fade away. I know a song is extra special when it fades out like this, and for some reason, it jolts me back to the past when I felt much more alive and at peace with the world. It's very hard to put into words, but the only time I feel this way is when a wonderful song fades out like this. Alain Whyte, Johnny Marr, and Billy Corgan (of The Smashing Pumpkins, Zwan, solo) are amazing, in the way they often fade their songs out. Glenn Johannson (of Echobelly and calm of zero) is also quite amazing at doing this. It's odd, but when a song fades out like this it takes me back to the dusk of my youth. Those days were better days, and although I had bad moments, some really bad moments, I never remember them. In the quite outros of these beautiful songs, I only remember the good.