I liked this list better than most of the "Greatest Songs of The Smiths" lists that I've seen in the past. I realize that there really aren't any "right or wrong" answers on a list like this. Every fan has their favorites. That being written, the three songs on the list I'm not excited to see are, "London," "Back to the Old House," and "The Queen is Dead."
-"London" is cool, but I hardly ever listen to it. To me it's reminiscent of a lot of the songs by The Who. Just noise. I like Noonday Underground's song, also entitled "London," literally five times as much.
-"Back to the Old House" is beautiful. Beautiful and boring. That's just my take.
-"The Queen is Dead" thunders on with its musical repetiveness. Morrissey delivers an energetic vocal, and provides great lyrics, but the music just drones on for me.
Gladly, there were four songs I was surprised to see on the list. "Half a Person," "This Night Has Opened My Eyes," "Barbarism Begins at Home," and "Girl Afraid" are great selections. "Barbarism Begins at Home" is one of my all-time favorite songs to blast out of my car as I drive around. I know a lot of people think it's lame to blast songs out of your car but, I don't care. My car stereo's volume goes up to 41, and when I'm blasting this song its always at 41. Phenomenal song. There are many days when "Half A Person" is my favorite Smiths song. Many days.
"Whatculture" writes that "musically they covered a ridiculous amount of genres.....and heavy metal to name a few." Are they considering "London" to be a heavy metal song? Which Smiths song is it that they believe could be placed in the heavy metal genre? I know this isn't all that important and I'm too lazy to email them to ask my question. I just found it odd.