My Top 1000 Songs #466: How Soon Is Now?

[I've been writing up my Top 1000 songs on a daily basis--you can see them all in descending order by hitting the All My Favorite Songs tag.]

The 1984 b-side (later included on different LPs depending on which side of the pond you live in) is inarguably one of the Smiths' most definitive songs, while also their least Smiths-sounding song. Johnny Marr's trademark jangly arpeggios, probably my favorite part of the band, are replaced with a swampy guitar loop with a vague Bo Diddley rhythm, relentle...