If you could release one more single from each album...

[thewarroom]

...what would they be? You may include b-sides or even unreleased tracks from each session if you like.

My picks would be:

Smiths - Still Ill
Meat is Murder - I Want the One I Can't Have
The Queen is Dead - The Queen is Dead (edit)
Strangeways - I Won't Share You (I don't include Stop Me because, had the Hungerford massacre not taken place, it would have been released)

Viva Hate - I Don't Mind if You Forget Me
Kill Uncle - That's Entertainment (I know he never would but I think it would have gotten a lot of airplay)
Your Arsenal - You're Gonna Need Someone On Your Side
Vauxhall and I - Billy Budd
Southpaw - Honey You Know Where to Find Me (didn't fit the album but would have been a great a-side to something)
Maladjusted - I Can Have Both
YATQ - I Like You
ROTT - If You Don't Like Me, Don't Look At Me*

*Hear me out on this. Most will say "Pigsty", but you just can't release a 7-minute single and the song would lose way too much if it were edited down to, say, even 4 minutes.

 

[Not Right in the Head]

Smiths - "I Don't Owe You Anything"
MIM - "Meat Is Murder" (live version from the "That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore"--far superior to the studio version)
QID - "Asleep"
Strangeways - "I Won't Share You," although the out-of-tune mandolin drives me nuts

VH - "Hairdresser on Fire"
KU - live "There's a Place in Hell" from KROQ
YA - "The National Front Disco"
VI - "Speedway"
Southpaw - "Nobody Loves Us"
Maladjusted - "The Edges Are No Longer Parallel"
YATQ - "I Like You"
ROTT - the first half of "Pigsty"; if that's unacceptable, then "No One Can Hold a Candle to You"

Can you tell that I'm a fan of live versions?

 

[Oscar Wilde]

Most of these would be AWFUL singles. Just because Moz fans like most of these songs doesn't mean they'd make great singles. In fact, a few of these are hardly decent b-sides...

 

[thewarroom]

Well do you have any suggestions then?

 

[SNS22]

Most of these would be AWFUL singles. Just because Moz fans like most of these songs doesn't mean they'd make great singles. In fact, a few of these are hardly decent b-sides...

Most of Morrissey's best work has been hidden on B-sides...

Case In point:
The Smiths
Handsome Devil
Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
HOW SOON IS NOW (was rereleased as an A-Side)
Asleep
Unloveable
Half A Person

Solo
Disappointed
Will Never Marry
Hairdresser On Fire
Sister I'm A Poet
(All Arguabably as good as anything on Viva Hate)
Such A Little Thing Makes A Big Difference
Yes, I Am Blind
I've Changed My Plea To Guilty
Jack The Ripper
Nobody Loves Us
Lost
The Never Played Symphonies
Friday Mourning

Need I say more?

My Picks
The Smiths-Still Ill
Meat Is Murder-The Headmaster Ritual
The Queen Is Dead-The Queen Is Dead (There Is A Light already released)
Strangeways, Here We Come-Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before

Viva Hate-I Don't Mind If You Forget Me
Kill Uncle-Harsh Truth Of The Camera Eye (JOKING, Mute Witness LIVE)
Your Arsenal-You're Gonna Need Someone On Your Side (Tomorrow US Single)
Vauxall & I-Speedway (Now My Heart Is Full a US Single)
Maladjusted-Trouble Loves Me (might have cracked US Top 40)
You Are The Quarry-The World Is Full Of Crashing Bores
Ringleader Of The Tormentors-I Will See You In Far Off Places (here's hoping he releases a LIVE Album from the tour, with this as the single)

 

[the judge]

The Smiths, I Don't Owe You Anything
Meat Is Murder, Nowhere Fast

Viva Hate, Hairdresser On Fire

 

[Kewpie]

Kuiper also asked the same question earlier:

http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=64803

 

[Trill]

Kuiper also asked the same question earlier:

http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=64803

Is this all you ever do?

 

[Kewpie]

Is this all you ever do?

You might disagree with, but it would be interesting to comparing ideas and opinions from earlier thread and this new one.

 

[Life_Is_A_Pigsty]

The Smiths - Still Ill
Meat Is Murder - The Headmaster Ritual
The Queen is Dead - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
Strangeways - Stop Me If You Think Youve Heard This One Before

Viva Hate - Alsatian Cousin
Kill Uncle - Mute Witness
Your Arsenal - The National Front Disco
Vauxhall & I - Now My Heart Is Full
Southpaw - Reader Meet Author
Maladjusted - Trouble Loves Me
Quarry - I Like You
Ringleader - Life Is A Pigsty

 

[Robert Neville]

Smiths - Miserable Lie
Meat is Murder - What She Said
The Queen is Dead - Vicar In A Tutu
Strangeways - Death Of A Disco Dancer

Viva Hate - Pashernate Love
Kill Uncle - Mute Witness
Your Arsenal - The National Front Disco
Vauxhall and I - Now My Heart Is Full
Southpaw - Best Friend On The Payrole
Maladjusted - Maladjusted
YATQ - no-one can hold a candle to you
ROTT - sweetie pie

 

[The Youngest]

The Smiths
The Smiths - Pretty Girls Make Graves
Meat Is Murder - Rusholme Ruffians
The Queen Is Dead - I Know It's Over
Strangeways, Here We Come - A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours

Morrissey
Viva Hate - Alsatian Cousin
Kill Uncle - Found Found Found
Your Arsenal - Glamarous Glue
Vauxhall And I - Spring-Heeled Jim
Southpaw Grammar - The Operation (Edit)
Maladjusted - Trouble Loves Me
You Are The Quarry - How Can Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel?
Ringleader Of The Tormentors - The Father Who Must Be Killed

 

[Spineless Swine]

honey you know where to find me a single?!?!?! It didnt even make it as a b-side

Some obvious suggestions, some laughable ones quite Frankly. I think some of you are mixing up good songs with good singles, they dont go hand in hand, I Wont Share you is a case in point.

Singles that Should have been...

I want the One...
There is a Light
Reader Meet Author
Stop me...
Half of the Viva Hate B-Sides
I Know Its Gonna Happen
Trouble Loves Me (Maybe a bit too Long tho)

 

[Spineless Swine]

I assume "The Youngest" is mixing this thread up with "Songs that you definatley wouldn't release as a single"

Sorry but c'mon!!

 

[thewarroom]

Honey You Know Where to Find Me was not on the album for two reasons:

1. All that exists is a demo, it was never recorded proper.
2. Much like "Swallow on My Neck," it was never intended to be released anyway. Both songs Moz deemed "too personal," but Swallow was released anyway on the "Sunny' single because EMI released it around the time that Southpaw was released on RCA. I don't think that Morrissey had any say in the matter.

I think that Honey is a great song. Short, sharp pop, would have made a MUCH better single than, say, Dagenham Dave in my opinion.

 

[The Youngest]

I assume "The Youngest" is mixing this thread up with "Songs that you definatley wouldn't release as a single"

Sorry but c'mon!!

Nope, they're some of my favourite Morrissey/Smiths songs.

At least I didn't put the "not-even-worthy-of-z-side Sweetie-Pie". I hate that song. It should have never been released.

 

[Spineless Swine]

a song was too personal for release??

on that basis Morrissey would never have released half of his back catalogue.

 

[Vauxhall95]

Southpaw - "Nobody Loves Us" (WHY THE HELL DID THIS NOT MAKE THE ALBUM?!?!?!)
Maladjusted - "Lost"
YATQ - "Don't Make Fun of Daddy's Voice"
ROTT - "Life Is A Pigsty"

 

[thewarroom]

a song was too personal for release??

on that basis Morrissey would never have released half of his back catalogue.

I believe (and i'm not 100% on this) that Mr. Reynolds was the first to post Honey a long time ago and was asked to remove it by someone from Morrissey's camp for "personal reasons." My guess is that it is probably his most personal "Jake" song and just didn't want it getting out.

 

[SNS22]

I believe (and i'm not 100% on this) that Mr. Reynolds was the first to post Honey a long time ago and was asked to remove it by someone from Morrissey's camp for "personal reasons." My guess is that it is probably his most personal "Jake" song and just didn't want it getting out.

I have an instrumental version...is the vocal version no longer be circulated due to that?