j-r-n:

This Saturday (if everything goes to plan) I will be seeing Morrissey in concert for the fifth time. These are the fifteen songs I would most like for him to play, in order of preference:

1. Alma Matters
2. I Know Very Well How I Got My Name
3. Trouble Loves Me
4. Hairdresser on Fire
5. Such a Little Thing Makes Such a Big Difference
6. One of Our Own
7. Sing Your Life
8. Picadilly Palare
9. Southpaw
10. I Know It’s Gonna Happen Someday
11. Mama Lay Softly on the Riverbed
12. Life is a Pigsty
13. Certain People I Know
14. Art-Hounds
15. You Have Killed Me

I could check the set lists from earlier stops on this tour to see if he’s doing any of these, but I definitely won’t do that. As it stands the only ones that seem remotely likely to appear on the setlist are “Alma Matters” and “You Have Killed Me”, and due to inborn pessimism I regard the latter as far more likely than the former.

On the plus side, he could do none of these and still put on a great show. 

If I were to make this list again from scratch, “Mountjoy” would definitely be on there somewhere. And, on the other end of the Morrissey emotional spectrum, “Roy’s Keen”. And maybe “Our Frank” too. I’d probably have to make it 20.