Public Enemy Number 72 welcomes you to a night to forget

Side A
Artist Song
The Smiths  Rusholme Ruffians  
The Smiths  This Charming Man  
The Smiths  Girl Afraid  
The Smiths  Still Ill  
The Smiths  Unhappy Birthday  
The Smiths  How Soon Is Now?  
The Smiths  You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby  
The Smiths  These Things Take Time  
The Smiths  London  
The Smiths  You've Got Everything Now  
The Smiths  Shakespeare's Sister  
The Smiths  The Boy With The Thorn In His Side  
The Smiths  Girlfriend In A Coma  
The Smiths  Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want  
The Smiths  Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me  
The Smiths  Rubber Ring  
The Smiths  I Keep Mine Hidden  
The Smiths  Stretch Out And Wait  
The Smiths  I Won't Share You  
The Smiths  There Is A Light That Never Goes Out  
The Smiths  Pretty Girls Make Graves  
The Smiths  Sweet And Tender Hooligan 
The Smiths  Handsome Devil 
The Smiths  Cemetry Gates  
Side B
ArtistSongBuy
Morrissey  Piccadilly Palare  
Morrissey  Suedehead  
Morrissey  Mute Witness  
Morrissey  We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful  
Morrissey  Lucky Lisp  
Morrissey  The Loop  
Morrissey  Black-Eyed Susan  
Morrissey  The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get  
Morrissey  All The Lazy Dykes  
Morrissey  Mexico  
Morrissey  Little Man, What Now?  
Morrissey  Jack The Ripper  
Morrissey  Speedway  
Morrissey  Don't Make Fun Of Daddy's Voice  
Morrissey  Break Up The Family  
Morrissey  Used To Be A Sweet Boy  
Morrissey  I've Changed My Plea To Guilty  
Morrissey  Driving Your Girlfriend Home  
Morrissey  The National Front Disco  
Morrissey  Irish Blood, English Heart  
Morrissey  Billy Budd  
Morrissey  Certain People I Know  
Morrissey  Sing Your Life  

Comment:

2 CDs - my first in a while and guess what? It's a Smiths mix! Because I've never done that before...This is for my friend who has recently been transplanted from Kansas to Glasgow, and said that she'd like to know more about The Smiths / Morrissey - this meant I could also do a Morrissey solo mix, something which I actually haven't done before. For that purpose, I also have to thank Laura very much indeed for the help with some of the B-sides I used.I really hope she enjoys it, and the best part is that the package she'll get will even have a Manchester postmark on it!The title is from a couple of Morrissey quotes. "Welcome to a night to forget" was how the audience was greeted at the Royal Albert Hall in 2002. Meanwhile, the other quote is from 1995: "The police recorded a conversation for an hour and searched the house for a guillotine. Curiously, they found one. They thought I was Public Enemy Number 72. And at the end of the grilling they asked me to sign various things for ailing nieces, which I thought was a bit perverted".
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Rob Conroy
Date: 11/3/2005
Lovely. It's hard to go wrong with this material...
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alma cogan
Date: 11/3/2005
As a natural born Manc myself I must speak frankly and though I applaud your selections on the whole I do feel compelled to take issue with Rush And A Push getting the chop. Are you quite sure? Mind you I feel an awful lot better having got that off my chest.
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Siobhan
Date: 11/3/2005
Ah yes, sorry, should have mentioned the ones that got the chop -it was a really difficult one, and in the end I figured that since I already had "Unhappy Birthday", "Last Night..." and "I Won't Share You" from Strangeways..., I didn't want the balance to shift too much in that direction. But it was honestly one of the last cut, along with "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" (that was painful), "Ask" and "The Headmaster Ritual". Maybe I'll do a volume 2. Bet she'd love me for that!
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musicgnome
Date: 11/3/2005
Really can't go wrong with the Smith (IMO)...some real nice, and savvy selections, on Disc Two.
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French Connection
Date: 11/3/2005
Finally after 22 years I'm able to listen to the Smiths again. Being constantly bombarded with em by an old housemate really turned me off em. Pleased to say I can now listen to them again without wanting to hurl the hifi out of the window.
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steelkillie
Date: 11/3/2005
Hard to beat.
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Dom1
Date: 11/3/2005
Bet you've been gagging to do this for a while...top stuff!
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alma cogan
Date: 11/4/2005
Hey Siobhan, the she is a he, I just chose alma as a nom de boom. And I didn't intend to criticise, heaven forbid - my haughty pedantry was absolutely tongue in chick. Like the good people say, you can't go wrong with Uncle Stephen. Looking forward to Volume 2.
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Siobhan
Date: 11/4/2005
Amen to that! Don't worry, I didn't take it as criticism at all - the "she" was referring to the person I made it for, so apologies if there was confusion there!
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DJ Karen Adams
Date: 3/27/2006
Girlfriend is still in a coma. Good collection is this.