The Moz/Smiths Top 100, Part 50: GIRLFRIEND IN A COMA

How do you rate Girlfriend In A Coma?


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Houdini

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While we wait for the new album to arrive, let us go about rating the songs we know, on a daily basis, and compile our own Morrissey/Smiths Top 100.
And instead of chronologically, let's do them alphabetically.

Song for Today: GIRLFRIEND IN A COMA

Voting should be something along these lines:
10: Classic, perfect
9: Near classic, brilliant
8: Really good Moz/Smiths song
7: Good Moz/Smiths song
6: Decent, OK, Nothing special
5: Uninspired
4: Poor
3: Bad
2: Should never have been released
1: He/They should be ashamed

The songs we've done so far (voting will remain open, click to vote):

Part 1: A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours
Part 2: A Song From Under The Floorboards
Part 3: A Swallow On My Neck
Part 4: Accept Yourself
Part 5: All The Lazy Dykes
Part 6: Alma Matters
Part 7: Alsatian Cousin
Part 8: Ambitious Outsiders
Part 9: America Is Not The World
Part 10: Ammunition
Part 11: Angel, Angel, Down We Go Together
Part 12: Asian Rut
Part 13: Ask
Part 14: Asleep
Part 15: At Amber
Part 16: At Last I Am Born
Part 17: Back To The Old House
Part 18: Barbarism Begins At Home
Part 19: Bengali In Platforms
Part 20: Best Friend On The Payroll
Part 21: Bigmouth Strikes Again
Part 22: Billy Budd
Part 23: Black-Eyed Susan
Part 24: Boxers
Part 25: Break Up The Family
Part 26: Cemetry Gates
Part 27: Certain People I Know
Part 28: Christian Dior
Part 29: Come Back To Camden
Part 30: Cosmic Dancer
Part 31: Dagenham Dave
Part 32: Dear God Please Help Me
Part 33: Death At One's Elbow
Part 34: Death Of A Disco Dancer
Part 35: Dial-A-Cliche
Part 36: Disappointed
Part 37: Do Your Best And Don't Worry
Part 38: Don't Make Fun Of Daddy's Voice
Part 39: Driving Your Girlfriend Home
Part 40: East West
Part 41: Everyday Is Like Sunday
Part 42: First Of The Gang To Die
Part 43: Found Found Found
Part 44: Frankly Mr Shankly
Part 45: Friday Mourning
Part 46: Ganglord
Part 47: Get Off The Stage
Part 48: Girl Afraid
Part 49: Girl Least Likely To
 
10.
I have to recover from the last one.
Btw, I somehow always imagined it's a coma after a trauma, but it's probably drug induced (1987 interview)?
 
Used to Love it..but time has taught me that it is definitely not as good as Last Night I Dreamt Somebody Loved Me, Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before, or I Won't Share You

7 A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours
9 I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
8 Death Of A Disco Dancer
9 Girlfriend In A Coma
10 Stop Me
10 Last Night
7 Unhappy Birthday
9 Paint A Vulgar Picture
6 Death At One's Elbow
10 I Won't Share You
 
Got to be one of the funniest Smiths songs; if only because of that unbearably twee, cheesy acoustic guitar and Morrissey smily sarcastic vocals :D I remember in "The Importance.." docu where Bono said that he almost crashed his car laughing when he heard it on the radio. A 10
 
No kidding, I mean someone gave it a ONE? WTF? What kind of terrible drugs are they on and where can I get some?

-Vaux
 
Does any Morrissey/Smiths song deserve a 1?

The lowest I would score any Morrissey song would be a 4 for Harsh Truth Of The Camera Eye, All The Lazy Dykes, and The Slum Mums
 
I hope mspendl828 hasn't turned troll :(
 
I love it and and Morrissey voice sounds so great in it. 9
 
A 1?!! A 1!!??? That's not right!...the lowest anything of Moz's could be rated is a 4 for sure, as SNS22 brought out....
really for me, it would be a 5.

As for this song, I have heard it a million times, but still love it! Definite 10!!!!!!!!!!
One of my first favorite Smiths songs. :D
 
Strangeways, Here We Come
was one of the 1st albums i ever bought
& when this song came on my tape player
i was like
'oh my god! did he really say that?
how i luv this man!'
 
^^that's funny robby!

When I first heard this song, my mom was sitting right next to me, and I said how I really loved this song.....and she tells me, "What??! He's talking about someone in a coma...and you love it?"
:D :D :D :D
 
^^that's funny robby!

When I first heard this song, my mom was sitting right next to me, and I said how I really loved this song.....and she tells me, "What??! He's talking about someone in a coma...and you love it?"
:D :D :D :D

This one always takes me back to eight grade when I did a lipsynch to the song with some girl lying on a mattress in the background with a flower in the hands...only they annouced the song as "GOPHER in a coma"....idiots
 
^^that's funny robby!

When I first heard this song, my mom was sitting right next to me, and I said how I really loved this song.....and she tells me, "What??! He's talking about someone in a coma...and you love it?"

Why can't non-believers see the humour?
Why can't they see that every line is dripping with insolent sarcasm :p
 
This one always takes me back to eight grade when I did a lipsynch to the song with some girl lying on a mattress in the background with a flower in the hands...only they annouced the song as "GOPHER in a coma"....idiots

GOPHER in a coma!! that's really laughable...ahahahahaha hahahahaha hahahaha ooooh ooooh ooooh oohh!! :p Wow, such little they know. Or hear!
 
Why can't non-believers see the humour?
Why can't they see that every line is dripping with insolent sarcasm :p

Dunno...but my mom's reaction was funny to me....:D
When people don't know the meanings of the songs, and what they hear and what they think are two different things, it makes me laugh...:D
 
^^that's funny robby!

When I first heard this song, my mom was sitting right next to me, and I said how I really loved this song.....and she tells me, "What??! He's talking about someone in a coma...and you love it?"
:D :D :D :D
yeah, my mom hated it, which i alway thought was funny
since it makes my step dad laugh
and he came back from a long coma
so if anyone has the right to get pissed about it, he does...
 
GOPHER in a coma!! that's really laughable...ahahahahaha hahahahaha hahahaha ooooh ooooh ooooh oohh!! :p Wow, such little they know. Or hear!

This was 1988 when Girlfriend In A Coma was played all the time on KROQ....before that station went to hell about 1993
 
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