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Ladies...Gents...Chanters...Miscreants...the time has come when we finally put another long-running competition to bed.
What is The Smiths greatest song?
The Final -
The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?
Released - 28th January 1985
Written by - Morrisey/Marr
Album - Hatful of Hollow
Chart Position - 24 (UK)
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The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
Released - 16th June 1986
Written by - Morrissey/Marr
Album - The Queen Is Dead
Chart Position - 25 (UK)
VOTING CLOSES LATER TODAY (TUESDAY 28th March) at 10PM
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Tracks Through Round 1 -
1.Please,Please,Please,Let Me Get What I Want (S)
2.Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
3.Bigmouth Strikes Again (S)
4.Shakespeare's Sister
5.The Headmaster Ritual (S)
6.Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
7.What Difference Does It Make? (S)
8.Panic
9.This Night Has Opened My Eyes (S)
10.Hand In Glove
11.William It Was Really Nothing (S)
12.I Want The One I Can't Have
13.How Soon Is Now? (S)
14.The Queen Is Dead
15.Cemetry Gates (S)
16.Meat Is Murder
17.The Boy With The Thorn In His Side (S)
18.Nowhere Fast
19.I Know It's Over (S)
20.Barbarism Begins At Home
21.Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now (S)
22.Sheila Take A Bow
23.Ask (S)
24.Sweet And Tender Hooligan
25.This Charming Man (S)
26.You've Got Everything Now
27.The Draize Train (S)
28.Oscillate Wildly
29.Shoplifters of the World Unite (S)
30.Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
31.There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (S)
32.Asleep
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Tracks Eliminated in Round 1 -
1.Handsome Devil
2.That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
3.Death of a Disco Dancer
4.Stretch Out And Wait
5.Back To The Old House
6.Unloveable
7.I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
8.Wonderful Woman
9.Unhappy Birthday
10.Pretty Girls Make Graves
11.Well I Wonder
12.These Things Take Time
13.Girl Afraid
14.A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours
15.Never Had No-One Ever
16.I Won't Share You
17.Accept Yourself
18.Rubber Ring
19.Is It Really So Strange?
20.The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
21.Frankly, Mr Shankly
22.Girlfriend In A Coma
23.Paint A Vulgar Picture
24.Reel Around The Fountain
25.What She Said
26.Death At One's Elbow
27.London
28.Rusholme Ruffians
29.Vicar In A Tutu
30.You Just Haven't Earned It Yet Baby
31.Half A Person
32.Still Ill
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Round 2 Results -
1.How Soon Is Now? 6-1 Meat Is Murder
2.What Difference Does It Make? 5-1 Shakespeare's Sister
3.This Night Has Opened My Eyes 4-5 The Queen Is Dead
4.Cemetry Gates 6-1 You've Got Everything Now
5.Please,Please,Please,Let Me Get What I Want 5-3 Sweet And Tender Hooligan
6.The Draize Train 2-5 Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
7.There Is A Light That Never Goes Out 8-0 Hand In Glove
8.The Boy With The Thorn In His Side 1-6 Panic
9.This Charming Man 7-2 Barbarism Begins At Home
10.The Headmaster Ritual 7-0 Oscillate Wildly
11.I Know It's Over 7-2 Nowhere Fast
12.William, It Was Really Nothing 1-5 Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
13.Shoplifters of the World Unite 4-5 I Want The One I Can't Have
14.Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now 5-2 Asleep
15.Ask 5-4 Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
16.Bigmouth Strikes Again 3-5 Sheila Take A Bow
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Round 3 Results -
1.Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now 4-3 This Charming Man
2.Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before 1-6 How Soon Is Now?
3.I Know It's Over 4-4 The Headmaster Ritual ('I Know It's Over' progresses after winning a coin toss)
4.Cemetry Gates 3-4 The Queen Is Dead
5.Sheila Take A Bow 4-3 Please,Please,Please,Let Me Get What I Want
6.Panic 4-4 What Difference Does It Make? ('Panic' progresses after winning coin toss)
7.There Is A Light That Never Goes Out 5-2 Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
8.I Want The One I Can't Have 4-5 Ask
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Quarter Final Results -
1.The Queen Is Dead 4-3 Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
2.Ask 4-5 Sheila Take A Bow
3.I Know It's Over 3-6 How Soon Is Now?
4.There Is A Light That Never Goes Out 5-1 Panic
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Semi Final Results -
1.How Soon Is Now? 5-2 Sheila Take A Bow
2.There Is A Light That Never Goes Out 6-2 The Queen Is Dead
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Having trouble deciding which track to pick?
Listen to a few of these.
Might help you make a conclusive decision.
The case for 'How Soon Is Now?'
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The case for 'There Is A Light That Never Goes Out'.
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On ah given day it could be either of them.
I'll go with TIALTNGO
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aaaaaargh
there is a light....
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Nightmare choice! How Soon is Now?
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How Soon Is Now?, please Tek.
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There Is a Light
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There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
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There is a light
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There Is A Light
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Full Time -
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out - 6
How Soon Is Now? - 2
Tracks Through Round 1 -
1.Please,Please,Please,Let Me Get What I Want (S)
2.Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
3.Bigmouth Strikes Again (S)
4.Shakespeare's Sister
5.The Headmaster Ritual (S)
6.Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
7.What Difference Does It Make? (S)
8.Panic
9.This Night Has Opened My Eyes (S)
10.Hand In Glove
11.William It Was Really Nothing (S)
12.I Want The One I Can't Have
13.How Soon Is Now? (S)
14.The Queen Is Dead
15.Cemetry Gates (S)
16.Meat Is Murder
17.The Boy With The Thorn In His Side (S)
18.Nowhere Fast
19.I Know It's Over (S)
20.Barbarism Begins At Home
21.Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now (S)
22.Sheila Take A Bow
23.Ask (S)
24.Sweet And Tender Hooligan
25.This Charming Man (S)
26.You've Got Everything Now
27.The Draize Train (S)
28.Oscillate Wildly
29.Shoplifters of the World Unite (S)
30.Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
31.There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (S)
32.Asleep
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Tracks Eliminated in Round 1 -
1.Handsome Devil
2.That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
3.Death of a Disco Dancer
4.Stretch Out And Wait
5.Back To The Old House
6.Unloveable
7.I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
8.Wonderful Woman
9.Unhappy Birthday
10.Pretty Girls Make Graves
11.Well I Wonder
12.These Things Take Time
13.Girl Afraid
14.A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours
15.Never Had No-One Ever
16.I Won't Share You
17.Accept Yourself
18.Rubber Ring
19.Is It Really So Strange?
20.The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
21.Frankly, Mr Shankly
22.Girlfriend In A Coma
23.Paint A Vulgar Picture
24.Reel Around The Fountain
25.What She Said
26.Death At One's Elbow
27.London
28.Rusholme Ruffians
29.Vicar In A Tutu
30.You Just Haven't Earned It Yet Baby
31.Half A Person
32.Still Ill
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Round 2 Results -
1.How Soon Is Now? 6-1 Meat Is Murder
2.What Difference Does It Make? 5-1 Shakespeare's Sister
3.This Night Has Opened My Eyes 4-5 The Queen Is Dead
4.Cemetry Gates 6-1 You've Got Everything Now
5.Please,Please,Please,Let Me Get What I Want 5-3 Sweet And Tender Hooligan
6.The Draize Train 2-5 Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
7.There Is A Light That Never Goes Out 8-0 Hand In Glove
8.The Boy With The Thorn In His Side 1-6 Panic
9.This Charming Man 7-2 Barbarism Begins At Home
10.The Headmaster Ritual 7-0 Oscillate Wildly
11.I Know It's Over 7-2 Nowhere Fast
12.William, It Was Really Nothing 1-5 Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
13.Shoplifters of the World Unite 4-5 I Want The One I Can't Have
14.Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now 5-2 Asleep
15.Ask 5-4 Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
16.Bigmouth Strikes Again 3-5 Sheila Take A Bow
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Round 3 Results -
1.Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now 4-3 This Charming Man
2.Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before 1-6 How Soon Is Now?
3.I Know It's Over 4-4 The Headmaster Ritual ('I Know It's Over' progresses after winning a coin toss)
4.Cemetry Gates 3-4 The Queen Is Dead
5.Sheila Take A Bow 4-3 Please,Please,Please,Let Me Get What I Want
6.Panic 4-4 What Difference Does It Make? ('Panic' progresses after winning coin toss)
7.There Is A Light That Never Goes Out 5-2 Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
8.I Want The One I Can't Have 4-5 Ask
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Quarter Final Results -
1.The Queen Is Dead 4-3 Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
2.Ask 4-5 Sheila Take A Bow
3.I Know It's Over 3-6 How Soon Is Now?
4.There Is A Light That Never Goes Out 5-1 Panic
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Semi Final Results -
1.How Soon Is Now? 5-2 Sheila Take A Bow
2.There Is A Light That Never Goes Out 6-2 The Queen Is Dead
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The Final -
1.There Is A Light That Never Goes Out 6-2 How Soon Is Now?
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There is a light that never goes out.
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Well done Tek, for having the fortitude and patience to run such a competition for us all once more.
The queen is actually dead, mind you, her light has gone out.
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Headmaster ritual losing on a coin toss in round 3 is a fucking travesty.