Tag: The Smiths

Morrissey's Top 10 favorite singles that feature Morrissey as lead vocalist

Morrissey’s Top 10 favorite singles that feature Morrissey as lead vocalist

Morrissey has followed up his Top 10 albums list by ranking his singles, again favoring recent output (‘First of the Gang to Die’ and ‘Irish Blood, English Heart’ top the list), while minimizing his Smiths contributions to just two entries (‘Panic’ at No. 5 and and “Girlfriend in a Coma” at No. 6).

The Week(s) in Rock: Dec. 18-31, 2011

The Week(s) in Rock: Dec. 18-31, 2011

Today we round up the last two weeks of Slicing Up Eyeballs headlines, including stories on Morrissey, New Order, Ministry, They Might Be Giants and more, plus the results of our readers poll, of which Duran Duran was the big winner.

Morrissey's Top 10 albums by Morrissey and The Smiths: The records 'of which I am most proud'

Morrissey’s Top 10 albums by Morrissey and The Smiths: The records ‘of which I am most proud’

Morrissey this week ranked his back catalog in a list that’s topped by his last three solo records — ‘Years of Refusal,’ ‘Ringleader of the Tormentors’ and ‘You Are the Quarry’ — and that relegates three latter-day works by The Smiths to Nos. 5 through 7.

Readers Poll 2011: Best compilations, box sets and live albums of the year

Readers Poll 2011: Best compilations, box sets and live albums of the year

As 2011 quickly winds to an end, we’re happy to roll out the first of four days’ worth of results from our second-annual Slicing Up Eyeballs Readers Poll, in which nearly 500 of you cast ballots for your favorite new, reissued and freshly compiled music of the year. First up: Your Top 10 compilations, box sets and/or live albums.

Free MP3: Johnny Marr & The Healers, 'Free Christmas' — brand-new holiday instrumental

Free MP3: Johnny Marr & The Healers, ‘Free Christmas’ — brand-new holiday instrumental

Having left The Cribs and reunited his early-2000s band The Healers, ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr today offers up a free holiday track recorded with his bandmates: the 3-minute-and-40-second instrumental ‘Free Christmas,’ which can be streamed and/or downloaded here.

The Week in Rock: Dec. 11-17, 2011

The Week in Rock: Dec. 11-17, 2011

This week’s Slicing Up Eyeballs headlines included items on Echo & The Bunnymen’s Ian McCulloch, New Order, R.E.M., PiL, The Housemartins, Bob Mould, Sinead O’Connor, Peter Gabriel and the Minutemen, plus the third installment of our Rhino ‘Just Can’t Get Enough — The ’80s’ Spotify playlist.