The Ordinary Boys (song)

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"The Ordinary Boys"
"The Ordinary Boys" cover
Song by Morrissey
from the album Viva Hate
Released March 22, 1988
Recorded Winter 1987
Genre Rock
Length 3:55
Label HMV
Writer(s) Morrissey/Street
Producer(s) Stephen Street
Viva Hate track listing
Side one
  1. "Alsatian Cousin"
  2. "Little Man, What Now?"
  3. "Everyday Is Like Sunday"
  4. "Bengali In Platforms"
  5. "Angel, Angel Down We Got Together"
  6. "Late Night, Maudlin Street"
Side two
  1. "Suedehead"
  2. "Break Up the Family"
  3. "The Ordinary Boys"
  4. "I Don't Mind If You Forget Me"
  5. "Dial A Cliche"
  6. "Margaret On The Guillotine"

"The Ordinary Boys" is a song performed by Morrissey on his album Viva Hate. It was written by Morrissey and his producer Stephen Street.

In this song Morrissey sings of his own inability as a child and teenager to escape what he felt was the stifling ordinaryness of Manchester life and looks at those vacous boys and heartless "supermarket girls" who are able to find happiness in spite of their 'ordinary' lifes.

The idea of being isolated and trying not to be dragged down by the mediocracy around you is used along with almost a jealous feeling of the 'ordinary' boys and girls, espeically in the line "With their lives laid out before them they are lucky" which may not be as ironic as it first appears.

The title of the song was later adopted by the band The Ordinary Boys, the singer of which also decided to only go by his surname. The band are probably now best known for Samuel Preston's appearance on Celebrity Big Brother in 2006.

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