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“Some Girls are Bigger Than Others” by The Smiths
From the album The Queen Is Dead (1986)
“Some Girls are Bigger Than Others” by The Smiths appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2003. It was first released in 1986 on the album The Queen Is Dead. Its best result is #1919 on the Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #7,331 alternative song of all time.
The Smiths cut "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others" in the autumn of 1985 and saved it for The Queen Is Dead, their third album, released on Rough Trade in June 1986. As on every Smiths original, Johnny Marr wrote the music and Morrissey the words, and the pair produced it themselves, with Marr on guitar, Andy Rourke on bass and Mike Joyce on drums.
Engineer Stephen Street gave it a curious entrance: he drenched the drums in reverb, faded the track in and away again, then brought it back dry, like a door opened, shut and opened again. Morrissey's lyric borrows from "Send Me the Pillow You Dream On", a country hit for Hank Locklin in 1949, and nods to life on the dole in a year when 3 million Britons were out of work. Germany got it as a single.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 1919 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
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