Ultimate Mozzer

[Colonel Blimp]

Hullo

I am sure this will have been done, and done to death, here already but I appear to have missed it.

An "ultimate" Morrissey album.

There are rules however;

1) No more than 14 tracks

2) There must be at least one track from each of the official studio releases (for me this means Viva Hate, Kill Uncle, Your Arsenal, Vauxhall and I, Southpaw Grammar, Maladjusted, You Are The Quarry and Ringleader of the Tormentors...I know, I know; "Where's "Bona Drag" but given it is, essentially, an early "best of" I'm not including it and I don't want to force people to include something from "World of Morrissey" or "Beethoven Was Deaf" either)

3) A maximum of 4 singles (this means officially released singles and not just tracks you would release as singles from your album)

4) A title

I await your contributions...mine will be along when I can settle on it!

Colonel Blimp

 

[Kewpie]

Yep, Johan hosted series of polls last year:

Best Morrissey songs
http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=63208

Best Smiths songs
http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=64185

Final of Final Best Smiths/Morrissey songs
http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=65214

as you see, polls haven't closed yet, keep voting!

 

[Colonel Blimp]

Yep, Johan hosted series of polls last year:

Best Morrissey songs
http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=63208

Best Smiths songs
http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=64185

Final of Final Best Smiths/Morrissey songs
http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=65214

as you see, polls haven't closed yet, keep voting!

Yes, but, darling heart, none of those polls addresses the challenge I have set.

As you can see...if you read more carefully.

I can only imagine how silly you will feel having gone to all the effort of finding those polls only to realise that none of them has any relevance to the thread I have started.

Oooops.

Colonel Blimp

 

[Kuiper]

I must say Colonel Blimp this is a very good idea. The darling miss Kewpie must have forgotten an old thread that had much fewer rules about just assembling any twelve songs as an ultimate album. You rules you came up are similar to a thread I saw on another band's forum, so I understand the concept.

1: You're Gonna Need Someone on Your Side
2: Interesting Drug
3: Sing Your Life
4: I Like You
5: The Operation
6: The National Front Disco
7: Late Night, Maudlin Street
8: The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get
9: Now My Heart is Full
10: Everyday is Like Sunday
11: Ammunition
12: On the Streets I Ran
13: You Must Please Remember
14: Speedway

Now I'm just gotta come up with a title, give me a moment...

 

[Kewpie]

I never feel being silly for digging out old threads.

Good luck to your thread.

 

[Colonel Blimp]

Morrissey

"Empire Youth"

A Side

1) The Edges Are No Longer Parallel (b side Roys Keen)

2) Irish Blood, English Heart (single/You Are The Quarry)

3) The Boy Racer (single/Southpaw Grammar))

4) The Ordinary Boys (Viva Hate)

5) Sing Your Life (single/Kill Uncle)

6) Trouble Loves Me (Maladjusted)

7) Speedway (Vauxhall and I)

B Side

8) Life Is A Pigsty (Ringleader of the Tormentors)

9) Everyday is Like Sunday (single/Viva Hate)

10) Billy Budd (Vauxhall and I)

11) The National Front Disco (Your Arsenal)

12) The Operation (Southpaw Grammar)

13) Nobody Loves Us (b-side Dagenham Dave)

14) I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday (Your Arsenal)

The End.

Colonel Blimp

 

[unruly boy]

Right, don't give a f*** if it's been done before, i'll have a bash.

Title: Don't Rake Up My Mistakes... Best of Morrissey.

1) Suedehead
2) Alsatian Cousin
3) We'll Let You Know
4) Everyday Is Like Sunday
5) Driving Your Girlfriend Home
6) National Front Disco
7) Now My Heart Is Full
8) Why Don't You Find Out For Yourself?
9) Speedway
10) Satan Rejected My Soul
11) Irish Blood, English Heart
12) First Of The Gang To Die
13) In The Future When All's Well
14) Life Is A Pigsty

Tracks that narrowly missed the cut: Late Nigt, Maudlin Street, Asian Rut, I Will See You In Far Off Places, The Youngest Was The Most Loved, Intersting Drug.

I put WLYK in twice, and missed out the last track!

 

[Colonel Blimp]

Right, don't give a f*** if it's been done before, i'll have a bash.

Title: Don't Rake Up My Mistakes... Best of Morrissey.

1) Suedehead
2) Alsatian Cousin
3) We'll Let You Know
4) Everyday Is Like Sunday
5) Driving Your Girlfriend Home
6) National Front Disco
7) Now My Heart Is Full
8) Why Don't You Find Out For Yourself?
9) Speedway
10) Satan Rejected My Soul
11) Irish Blood, English Heart
12) First Of The Gang To Die
13) In The Future When All's Well
14) Life Is A Pigsty

Tracks that narrowly missed the cut: Late Nigt, Maudlin Street, Asian Rut, I Will See You In Far Off Places, The Youngest Was The Most Loved, Intersting Drug.

I put WLYK in twice, and missed out the last track!

Unruly boy...you haven't followed the rules!

You are only allowed 4 singles...you have, I think, 7!

You need to lose some of the singles.

You also don't have anything from "Southpaw Grammar"

You need something from each of the "studio" albums!

Come on now...you can do better!

That aside...it's a nice album!

Colonel Blimp

 

[Robert Neville]

Title - OMG, i have testicles and there not practical jokes..

1) Angel Angel, Down We Go Together
2) Friday Mourning
3) Mute Witness
4) Come Back To Camden
4) Ammunition
5) Maladjusted
6) Boy Racer
7) Billy Budd
8) Reader Meet Author
9) Roys Keen
10) I Have Forgiven Jesus
11) Hold On To Your Friends
12) Intresting Drug
13) My Love Life
14) The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get

 

[thewarroom]

Title- "Questionable"

1. Maladjusted
2. Alsatian Cousin
3. The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get
4. Suedehead
5. Boy Racer
6. Come Back to Camden
7. Jack the Ripper
8. To Me You Are A Work of Art
9. There's a Place in Hell for Me and My Friends
10. Seasick, Yet Still Docked
11. Last of the Famous International Playboys
12. Whatever Happens, I Love You
13. I Like You
14. Southpaw

 

[Colonel Blimp]

Title - OMG, i have testicles and there not practical jokes..

1) Angel Angel, Down We Go Together
2) Friday Mourning
3) Mute Witness
4) Come Back To Camden
4) Ammunition
5) Maladjusted
6) Boy Racer
7) Billy Budd
8) Reader Meet Author
9) Roys Keen
10) I Have Forgiven Jesus
11) Hold On To Your Friends
12) Intresting Drug
13) My Love Life
14) The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get

Robert

like another poster you have too many singles there...at least 6 I count!

You are only allowed 4.

Cut 2.

Colonel Blimp

 

[Young And Alive]

First of the Gang to Die
Sister I’m A Poet
The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get
Whatever Happens, I Love You
Suedehead
Let Me Kiss You
National Front Disco
King Leer
Billy Budd
Trouble Loves Me

 

[Colonel Blimp]

First of the Gang to Die
Sister I’m A Poet
The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get
Whatever Happens, I Love You
Suedehead
Let Me Kiss You
National Front Disco
King Leer
Billy Budd
Trouble Loves Me

Nothing from ROTT there?

Got to have at least one from each album.

Also need to have 14 tracks.

Colonel Blimp

 

[Ryan]

Morrissey - Now I Am A Was

01 - I'm Not Sorry
02 - Late Night, Maudlin Street
03 - Let Me Kiss You
04 - I Am Hated For Loving
05 - I'll Never Be Anybody's Hero Now
06 - Seasick, Yet Still Docked
07 - Do Your Best And Don't Worry
08 - Munich Air Disaster 1958
09 - There's A Place In Hell For Me And My Friends
10 - Satan Rejected My Soul
11 - Christian Dior
12 - I Have Forgiven Jesus
13 - You Have Killed Me
14 - Life Is a Pigsty

 

[Colonel Blimp]

Morrissey - Now I Am A Was

01 - I'm Not Sorry
02 - Late Night, Maudlin Street
03 - Let Me Kiss You
04 - I Am Hated For Loving
05 - I'll Never Be Anybody's Hero Now
06 - Seasick, Yet Still Docked
07 - Do Your Best And Don't Worry
08 - Munich Air Disaster 1958
09 - There's A Place In Hell For Me And My Friends
10 - Satan Rejected My Soul
11 - Christian Dior
12 - I Have Forgiven Jesus
13 - You Have Killed Me
14 - Life Is a Pigsty

A lovely contribution Ryan.

I likes it.

Colonel Blimp

 

[nightandday]

Morrissey - Devious, Truculent and Unreliable

01 You're Gonna Need Someone On Your Side
02 Suedehead
03 November Spawned A Monster
04 Seasick, Yet Still Docked
05 Jack The Ripper
06 Driving Your Girlfriend Home
07 Alsatian Cousin
08 Late Night, Maudlin Street
09 Maladjusted
10 Lifeguard Sleeping, Girl Drowning
11 Southpaw
12 You Must Please Remember
13 Irish Blood, English Heart
14 Life Is A Pigsty

So hard to keep it down at 14 tracks, I had to leave out some of my favourites, such as I'd Love To, I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday, Whatever Happens, I love You, or I Have Forgiven Jesus!

but...if it's possible, put I'd Love To as bonus track

 

[Young And Alive]

Nothing from ROTT there?

Got to have at least one from each album.

Also need to have 14 tracks.

Colonel Blimp

I thought it was a MAXIMUM of 14 tracks.

 

[Psychedelia]

The Mancunian Condition

1.Angel, Angel we both go down together
2.Little Man What Now
3.King Lear
4.National Front Disco
5.Seasick yet still docked
6.Why Dont You Find Out For Yourself
7.Speedway
8.Teachers are Afraid of the Pupils
9.Trouble Loves Me
10.Irish Blood, English Heart
11.You Know I couldn't Last
12.Life Is a Pigsty
13.You Have Killed Me
14.Friday Mourning

 

[unruly boy]

Southpaw, not a lover of the album. Put it this way, nothing of the album would displace ANYTHING on my list.

As for B-sides, I rarely buy singles so i'm largely unfamiliar with most Morrissey B-Sides.

I should have followed the rules, but I think limiting the singles is a crap rule.

Sorry. I like my list

 

[Evil Legal Eagle]

Doesn't quite comply with the rules, but I recently burned a CD which I call my 'Maudlin Street Mix' and which I never tire of listening to. I have burned the CD in chronological order, although I usually pay it in "Shuffle" mode.

The tracklisting is:

1. I Know It's Over
2. Death of a Disco Dancer
3. Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
4. Late Night Maudlin Street
5. I've Changed My Plea to Guilty
6. I Know It's Gonna Happen Some Day
7. Now My Heart Is Full
8. Speedway
9. Nobody Loves Us
10. Trouble Loves Me
11. The Edges Are No Longer Parallel
12. Come Back to Camden
13. Friday Mourning
14. Dear God, Please Help Me
15. Life is a Pigsty

Truly life affirming!