The Moz/Smiths Top 100, Part 146: ROY'S KEEN

How do you rate Roy's Keen?


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Houdini

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Let's compile our own Morrissey/Smiths Top 100 by rating all 232 Moz/Smiths-songs.

Song for Today: ROY'S KEEN

Voting should be something along these lines:
10: Perfection
9: Near perfect, 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 so far (voting is still open):

Part 145: Reel Around The Fountain
Part 144: Redondo Beach
Part 143: Reader Meet Author
Part 142: Pretty Girls Make Graves
Part 141: Pregnant For The Last Time
Part 140: Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
Part 139: Piccadilly Palare
Part 138: Pashernate Love
Part 137: Papa Jack
Part 136: Panic
Part 135: Paint A Vulgar Picture
Part 134: Our Frank
Part 133: Ouija Board, Ouija Board
Part 132: Oscillate Wildly
Part 131: On The Streets I Ran
Part 130: Oh Well, I'll Never Learn
Part 129: Nowhere Fast
Part 128: Now My Heart Is Full
Part 127: Now I Am A Was
Part 126: November Spawned A Monster
Part 125: Noise Is The Best Revenge
Part 124: Nobody Loves Us
Part 123: No One Can Hold A Candle To You
Part 122: Never Had No One Ever
Part 121: My Love Life
Part 120: My Life Is A Succession Of People Goodbye
Part 119: Mute Witness
Part 118: Munich Air Disaster 1958
Part 117: Moonriver
Part 116: Money Changes Everything
Part 115: Miserable Lie
Part 114: Michael's Bones
Part 113: Mexico
Part 112: Meat Is Murder
Part 111: Margaret On The Guillotine
Part 110: Maladjusted
Part 109: Lucky Lisp
Part 108: Lost
Part 107: London
Part 106: Little Man, What Now?
Part 105: Lifeguard Sleeping, Girl Drowning
Part 104: Life Is A Pigsty
Part 103: Let the Right One Slip In
Part 102: Let Me Kiss You
Part 101: Late Night, Maudlin Street
Part 100: Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
Part 99: King Leer
Part 98: Journalists Who Lie
Part 97: Jeane
Part 96: Jack The Ripper
Part 95: It's Hard To Walk Tall When You're Small
Part 94: Is It Really So Strange?
Part 93: Irish Blood, English Heart
Part 92: Interlude
Part 91: Interesting Drug
Part 90: In The Future When All's Well
Part 89: If You Don't Like Me, Don't Look At Me
Part 88: I've Changed My Plea To Guilty
Part 87: (I'm) The End Of The Family Line
Part 86: I'm Not Sorry
Part 85: I'll Never Be Anybody's Hero Now
Part 84: I'd Love To
Part 83: I Won't Share You
Part 82: I Will See You In Far Off Places
Part 81: I Want The One I Can't Have
Part 80: I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
Part 79: I Like You
Part 78: I Know Very Well How I Got My Name
Part 77: I Know It's Over
Part 76: I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday
Part 75: I Knew I Was Next
Part 74: I Keep Mine Hidden
Part 73: I Just Want To See The Boy Happy
Part 72: I Have Forgiven Jesus
Part 71: I Don't Owe You Anything
Part 70: I Don't Mind If You Forget Me
Part 69: I Can Have Both
Part 68: I Am Two People
Part 67: I Am Hated For Loving
Part 66: Human Being
Part 65: How Soon Is Now?
Part 64: How Can Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel?
Part 63: Hold On To Your Friends
Part 62: Heir Apparent
Part 61: Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
Part 60: He Knows I'd Love To See Him
Part 59: He Cried
Part 58: Have-A-Go Merchant
Part 57: Handsome Devil
Part 56: Hand In Glove
Part 55: Half A Person
Part 54: Hairdresser On Fire
Part 53: Good Looking Man About Town
Part 52: Golden Lights
Part 51: Glamorous Glue
Part 50: Girlfriend In A Coma
Part 49: Girl Least Likely To
Part 48: Girl Afraid
Part 47: Get Off The Stage
Part 46: Ganglord
Part 45: Friday Mourning
Part 44: Frankly Mr Shankly
Part 43: Found Found Found
Part 42: First Of The Gang To Die
Part 41: Everyday Is Like Sunday
Part 40: East West
Part 39: Driving Your Girlfriend Home
Part 38: Don't Make Fun Of Daddy's Voice
Part 37: Do Your Best And Don't Worry
Part 36: Disappointed
Part 35: Dial-A-Cliche
Part 34: Death Of A Disco Dancer
Part 33: Death At One's Elbow
Part 32: Dear God Please Help Me
Part 31: Dagenham Dave
Part 30: Cosmic Dancer
Part 29: Come Back To Camden
Part 28: Christian Dior
Part 27: Certain People I Know
Part 26: Cemetry Gates
Part 25: Break Up The Family
Part 24: Boxers
Part 23: Black-Eyed Susan
Part 22: Billy Budd
Part 21: Bigmouth Strikes Again
Part 20: Best Friend On The Payroll
Part 19: Bengali In Platforms
Part 18: Barbarism Begins At Home
Part 17: Back To The Old House
Part 16: At Last I Am Born
Part 15: At Amber
Part 14: Asleep
Part 13: Ask
Part 12: Asian Rut
Part 11: Angel, Angel, Down We Go Together
Part 10: Ammunition
Part 9: America Is Not The World
Part 8: Ambitious Outsiders
Part 7: Alsatian Cousin
Part 6: Alma Matters
Part 5: All The Lazy Dykes
Part 4: Accept Yourself
Part 3: A Swallow On My Neck
Part 2: A Song From Under The Floorboards
Part 1: A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours
 
Perfect musically, lyrically, in every way. Very clever and funny lyrics, and a very interesting sound and style to this song, it's so unique and has very clever arrangements. Even the subtlest things to the composition I find perfect. I especially like the "don't say you'll hold it steady" verse that as I recall they always skipped live (except on that radio session). Definitely one of my absolute top favorites.
 
Perfect musically, lyrically, in every way. Very clever and funny lyrics, and a very interesting sound and style to this song, it's so unique and has very clever arrangements. Even the subtlest things to the composition I find perfect....

Are you taking the piss? This song is embarrassing in it's pub-singalong mediocrity.
 
Perfect musically, lyrically, in every way. Very clever and funny lyrics, and a very interesting sound and style to this song, it's so unique and has very clever arrangements. Even the subtlest things to the composition I find perfect. I especially like the "don't say you'll hold it steady" verse that as I recall they always skipped live (except on that radio session). Definitely one of my absolute top favorites.

That's really laughable, for IMHO it's among five worst songs.
If I should ever call a song cringe-worthy, then this is the one.
Skip-worthy by all means too.
 
Are you taking the piss? This song is embarrassing in it's pub-singalong mediocrity.

Maybe to you it is, but I love it. :D Since I'm not taking the piss I wouldn't know if it is a pub-singalong, in fact I'm a teetotaler.
 
Maybe to you it is, but I love it. :D Since I'm not taking the piss I wouldn't know if it is a pub-singalong, in fact I'm a teetotaler.

lol.......f-f-fair enuffffffff.....
 
i like this song
 
Can someone explain to me just how this song could be construed as "clever", beyond the painfully obvious play-on-words of the song title? Am I missing the brilliance of "We've never seen a keener window-cleaner"?
 
I cannot help thinking that Trouble Loves Me would've made a better choice of single than this self-consciously knockabout tosh.

His absolute nadir of 'Carry On' humour. 3.
 
His second worse single. It's bad but nowhere near as awful as Dagenham Dave.
The heartbreaking thing is that Moz was getting loads of radio support back in 97. Would you believe that Radio 1 put Roy's Keen on their A list?!
He had great songs around this time like Trouble Loves Me and Lost but he chose to put out rubbish like this.
The biggest tragedy of the Morrissey solo career is that Morrissey alone chooses the singles. At least with the Smiths, he and Marr would discuss the decision with Marr contributing the much-needed second opinion. This meant that, with very few exceptions, the Smiths' singles were absolutely flipping brilliant...
 
This is one of my Mozzer guilty pleasures. Sure, it's silly and lightweight and frivolous, but it's so much fun! Wish he'd do this one live again. I give it an 8.
 
I LOVE IT!!!

It's one of my guilty pleasures along with:

King Leer
Dagenham Dave
Pregnant For The Last Time
Oh Phoney!
Golden Lights
Work Is A Four Letter Word
Pashernate Love
 
One of the songs that led to my disenchantment of Morrissey

Poor poor poor "the ladder's a planet" ???!!!

Though ,having said that,i do like it when Football Focus play it to accompany that rather intimidating Irishman
 
It is kinda corny but very catchy. I love those 4 silly words...Back Up The Ladder...and I don't know why =o) 'sides, have you ever heard the word 'chamois' in another song!? :cool:

The stage is a planet, Moz is a star and I am a satellite, but that's alright.
 
Weakest single...without a doubt...

Would have been better if the song was about Roy Keane
 
This is one of my Mozzer guilty pleasures. Sure, it's silly and lightweight and frivolous, but it's so much fun! Wish he'd do this one live again. I give it an 8.

Yes! Comtesse, you said it perfectly. I seriously love this song. All songs don't have to have deep meaningful lyrics. It is in my top three after Maudlin Street and Jack the Ripper.

Weakest single...without a doubt...

Would have been better if the song was about Roy Keane

The name of the song is a play on his name. I guess when he sang it live he used to say "keener midfielder"
 
a 6

2nd single from MALADJUSTED, it can't compete with Alma Matters, it's
an upbeat song, where they [producers, song writer] wanted to play
save...and they did, it's that mediocre that there's nothing to say about
it.

I never liked it much, and skip it lots

next!
 
better than papa jack. thats not saying much. i skip through half of maladjusted. i usually only make it through half this song. i say.....4.
 
It's by no means great, but I do like it. It is one of the better songs on the very dull 'Maladjusted. 6.
 
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