The Moz/Smiths Top 100, Part 178: THE EDGES ARE NO LONGER PARALLEL

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

Song for Today: THE EDGES ARE NO LONGER PARALLEL

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: 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, click to vote):

Part 177: The Draize Train
Part 176: The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
Part 175: The Boy Racer
Part 174: That's Entertainment
Part 173: That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
Part 172: Teenage Dad On His Estate
Part 171: Sweetie Pie
Part 170: Sweet And Tender Hooligan
Part 169: Sunny
Part 168: Suffer Little Children
Part 167: Suedehead
Part 166: Such A Little Thing Makes Such A Big Difference
Part 165: Stretch Out And Wait
Part 164: Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
Part 163: Still Ill
Part 162: Spring-Heeled Jim
Part 161: Speedway
Part 160: Southpaw
Part 159: Sorrow Will Come In The End
Part 158: Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
Part 157: Slum Mums
Part 156: Skin Storm
Part 155: Sister, I'm A Poet
Part 154: Sing Your Life
Part 153: Shoplifters Of The World Unite
Part 152: Sheila Take A Bow
Part 151: Shakespeare's Sister
Part 150: Seasick Yet Still Docked
Part 149: Satan Rejected My Soul
Part 148: Rusholme Ruffians
Part 147: Rubber Ring
Part 146: Roy's Keen
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 Saying 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 (follow this link for first 40 songs).

A brooding, shimmering, atmospheric beauty!
It's on compositions like these that Alain Whyte shows he can create music which is as good as anything Johnny Marr ever used to come up with it. I think Alain used to name this song as his favourite.

Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous. Great build-up, great payoff, just brilliant all the way through.

Definitely one of his best b-sides. Shame it was marooned on a single no-one bought..

I've always found something a bit awkward in the melody of this song, especially in the way Morrissey sings the title. It's pretty minor by his b-side standards but there are still some good moments to it. I'll give it a 7.

It's like an exhausted epic. Like a great big, 24-hour-TV-miniseries of a song that just said, "enh," to itself and lay down to rest. I love that about it and gave it a 9. By all rights it should be a Moz classic.

--jeniphir

Vastly underrated, and criminally unknown.

Maurice E said:

A brooding, shimmering, atmospheric beauty!
It's on compositions like these that Alain Whyte shows he can create music which is as good as anything Johnny Marr ever used to come up with it. I think Alain used to name this song as his favourite.

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I never heard that. Well if so I'm glad Alain appreciates his own work.

withmyheadonthebar said:

Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous. Great build-up, great payoff, just brilliant all the way through.

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Exactly.

Not Right in the Head said:

Vastly underrated, and criminally unknown.

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Exactly.


A 10 of course. Perfect in every imaginable way. I don't know what to say about it specifically because I adore every note, every line, every little touch, and every second of it.

I love it and Lost. Amazing.

contender of the greatest song in the world..it has every single bulid up for something dramatic and tragic,

applebuttaz said:

contender of the greatest song in the world..it has every single bulid up for something dramatic and tragic,

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Agreed!

a 6

if I listen to Roy's maybe a few times a year, I click on STOP after
its over, so basicly I can't much tell about this song, I only listeded
to it a few times, so that means a 5.5, which is a 6 when I was in school.


[but he played it live, if I remember vaguely I have it on a boot, or did
I take the wrong pills again?]

celibate said:

[but he played it live, if I remember vaguely I have it on a boot, or did
I take the wrong pills again?]

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You're quite right. He played it in 1999 a few times; I have the Arizona show somewhere.

It would make an awesome, epic addition to the live set now (assuming there'll be another live set someday).

Not Right in the Head said:

You're quite right. He played it in 1999 a few times; I have the Arizona show somewhere.

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wow, upload it if you can, what a great setlist, i would love to hear this and break up the family

Sorry, not sure which show this is from
http://www.sendspace.com/file/3m259d
It was only played twice so it shouldn't be that hard to determine if this is from Arizona or not, though I recall it was also on the setlist for a later date in Germany but skipped, so I hope that means even if Moz didn't make it a regular like Lost, he didn't consider it a complete failure live.

thanks!