Morrissey MTV Unplugged Setlist (hypothetical)

[SweetnTenderYorkshireman]

Morrissey sits down and performs a MTV Unplugged style set, what’s on the setlist?
It could be of any era, mine just happened to be mostly pre-2000 stuff, and I suppose the 90s being the era of Unplugged sessions makes sense.

Deep cuts, dream cover versions and acoustic interpretations of hits all welcome!

1. My Love Life
2. Boxers
3. The Girl of My Best Friend (Elvis Presley Cover)
4. I Am Hated For Loving
5. Michael’s Bones
6. I’ll Keep It With Mine (Bob Dylan/Nico Cover)
7. Hold On To Your Friends
8. A Swallow On My Neck
9. Lost
10. Subway Train / Everyday is Like Sunday (New York Dolls Intro)
11. Late Night, Maudlin Street
12. Sunny
13. We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful
14. Now My Heart is Full

 

[The.Boy.Racer]

Here's my list!

1. Why Don't You Find Out For Yourself?
2. I've Changed My Plea To Guilty
3. Half A Person
4. Trouble Loves Me
5. Boxers
6. Come Back To Camden
7. Seasick, Yet Still Docked
8. Wonderful Woman
9. Dear God Please Help Me
10. Julie In The Weeds
11. The Never-Played Symphonies
12. Yes, I Am Blind
13. Driving Your Girlfriend Home
14.There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
15. Back To The Old House
16. I Have Forgiven Jesus

 

[ZOOM FROM GLOOM]

We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful
Our Frank
Suedehead
Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
Alma Matters
Half A Person
I Wish You Lonely
Let Me Kiss You
How Soon Is Now?
Girlfriend In A Coma
Darling, I Hug A Pillow
The Loop
The Night Pop Dropped
Sure Enough, The Telephone Rings
Irish Blood, English Heart
Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want
Everyday Is Like Sunday
Jack The Ripper
Speedway

 

[Lucifer Sam]

I've included several from the late era because I think would be nice to have a live studio recording of some of those very good songs without the J.C. bombast or, in the case of Rebels, the Watt autotune. I'm also assuming a line-up including Boz Boorer (for clarinet and oboe) and Gustavo Manzur (for accordian and mariachi guitar).

• The Bullfighter Dies
• Rebels Without Applause / Cemetry Gates outro
• Valentine's Day is over (Billy Bragg cover)
• (I'm) The End of the Family Line
• Julie in the Weeds
• The Girl From Tel-Aviv Who Wouldn't Kneel
• What kind of people live in these houses?
• Kick the Bride Down the Aisle
• Yes, I Am Blind
• All the Lazy Dykes
• Friday Mourning
• Seasick, Yet Still Docked
• The Autumn Stone (Small Faces cover)
• Saint in a Stained-Glass Window
• Mountjoy

 

[ZOOM FROM GLOOM]

Bragg?!

Actually, it would be interesting if M started covering artists that clearly dislike him.

 

[Lucifer Sam]

Bragg?!

Actually, it would be interesting if M started covering artists that clearly dislike him.

Well, half of it is that I do love Billy Bragg as a songwriter, and the other half would be having Morrissey serenely take the moral high ground: art over sniping.

 

[JM🇬🇧]

1. Every day is like sunday (sorry)
2. The end of the family line
3. That’s entertainment
4. Jack the ripper
4. I am hated for loving
5. The boy racer
6. He cried
7. I’m not sorry
8. In the future when all’s well
9. Don’t interrupt the sorrow
10. Skin storm
11. I know very well how I got my name
12. Lost

 

[ZOOM FROM GLOOM]

Well, half of it is that I do love Billy Bragg as a songwriter, and the other half would be having Morrissey serenely take the moral high ground: art over sniping.

Nah, you just want Morrissey to sing Bragg’s lyrics because as you and everyone knows, Bragg is one of the worst singers ever. Sounds like he’s yelling through a stuffed up nose.

And the ‘but Dylan doesn’t have a great voice’ argument doesn’t work here.

Anyway, as you can see, I’m not a fan, never was.




Edit: though I agree, Morrissey could save this song.

 

[Lucifer Sam]

Nah, you just want Morrissey to sing Bragg’s lyrics because as you and everyone knows, Bragg is one of the worst singers ever. Sounds like he’s yelling through a stuffed up nose.

Morrissey has the better voice for ballads, but Bragg has the better voice for "bash-'em-out" songs. I would never have Morrissey cover Help Save the Youth of America. I think Judy Is A Punk is one of Morrissey's worst covers, but Bragg's voice would suit it very well.

 

[ZOOM FROM GLOOM]

Morrissey has the better voice for ballads, but Bragg has the better voice for "bash-'em-out" songs. I would never have Morrissey cover Help Save the Youth of America. I think Judy Is A Punk is one of Morrissey's worst covers, but Bragg's voice would suit it very well.

yeah, there’s a bit of a bricklayer in Bragg. I also don’t care for Dempsey, though he has better range. Anyway, they just don’t resonate with me.

Yeah, not all of Morrissey’s covers work. But it doesn’t matter, because I think it’s so adorable when he sings songs of his favorite artist. He can never be them, but for a few minutes, he can pretend he’s someone else, someone ‘bad’. It’s kind of like he’s ‘slumming it’.

 

[SweetnTenderYorkshireman]

I've included several from the late era because I think would be nice to have a live studio recording of some of those very good songs without the J.C. bombast or, in the case of Rebels, the Watt autotune. I'm also assuming a line-up including Boz Boorer (for clarinet and oboe) and Gustavo Manzur (for accordian and mariachi guitar).

• The Bullfighter Dies
• Rebels Without Applause / Cemetry Gates outro
• Valentine's Day is over (Billy Bragg cover)
• (I'm) The End of the Family Line
• Julie in the Weeds
• The Girl From Tel-Aviv Who Wouldn't Kneel
• What kind of people live in these houses?
• Kick the Bride Down the Aisle
• Yes, I Am Blind
• All the Lazy Dykes
• Friday Mourning
• Seasick, Yet Still Docked
• The Autumn Stone (Small Faces cover)
• Saint in a Stained-Glass Window
• Mountjoy

Nice choice with the Bragg cover, think it would suit M well, especially lyrically
“Valentines Day is over, if you want to talk about it, well… you know where the phone is”

 

[Ryan]

A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours
Ammunition
I’m Not Sorry
Christian Dior
You Should Have Been Nice To Me
The Edges Are No Longer Parallel
My Dearest Love
Well I Wonder
Once I Saw The River Clean
You Were Good In Your Time
Southpaw
My Hurling Days Are Done
Saint In A Stained Glass Window
Asleep
I Know It’s Over
//
Life Is A Pigsty
I Won’t Share You

 

[William Fisher]

I Am Veronica
Rebels Without Applause
Kerouc’s Crack
Ha Ha Harlem
I Live In Oblivion
Bonfire of Teenagers
My Funeral
Diana Dors
I Ex-Love You
Sure Enough, The Telephone Rings
Saint In A Stained Glass Window
The Night Pop Dropped
Zoom Zoom The Little Boy
Boulevard
Headache
Without Music The World Dies
Suspicious Minds
Notre Dame
Many Icebergs Ago
Happy New Tears
The Monsters of Pig Alley