Truth in Advertising: The 425th Greatest Song of All Time

 

A little background info might be helpful to understand how we've gotten to this point.

For the "500 Greatest Songs..." series of posts here at Almost the Truth, I've been using the Rolling Stone magazine list as published at web.archive.org. They've got the list of titles and if you click on one of them, it takes you to a separate page with about two paragraphs of information about that song.

Usually.

Two things about today's musical wonderment:

     1)  "William, It Was Really Nothing" by The Smiths, is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a great song. The vocalist is dull, the melody is tepid, and the lyrics are rude to William! I quote: "William, it was really nothing. It was your life." Wow...quite the eulogy. "Your life was meaningless, Bill!"

     2)  The descriptive info page seems to say it all:

No joke, Jack.