DARLING...

My favorite Smiths’ songs generally grabbed me right upfront with one image made adhesive by its humor and/or audaciousness.

Here’s my top 5.

(1) Shoplifters of the World Unite
“But last night the plans of a future war
Was all I saw on Channel Four.”

(2) Ask
“Spending warm Summer days indoors
Writing frightening verse
To a buck-toothed girl in Luxembourg.”

(3) Panic
Not for a given lyric, but more for the general fin-de-something vibe.

(4) How Soon is Now?
And here, for the general fin-de-something vibrato…

(5) This Charming Man
“Punctured bicycle
On a hillside desolate…”