The Sound of The Smiths

Compilation by The Smiths

Released 10 November 2008
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Tracklist

  • 1
    Hand in Glove (single A-side mix)
    3:17
    4.0 ★
  • 2
    This Charming Man
    2:43
    3.8 ★
  • 3
    What Difference Does It Make? (John Peel session, 5/18/83)
    3:14
  • 4
    Still Ill
    3:23
    4.4 ★
  • 5
    Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now
    3:36
    3.8 ★
  • 6
    William, It Was Really Nothing
    2:12
    4.5 ★
  • 7
    How Soon Is Now? (12″ version)
    6:47
    4.8 ★
  • 8
    Nowhere Fast
    2:38
    4.0 ★
  • 9
    Shakespeare’s Sister
    2:10
    3.2 ★
  • 10
    Barbarism Begins at Home (single version)
    3:52
  • 11
    That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore (single version)
    3:53
    3.6 ★
  • 12
    The Headmaster Ritual
    4:55
    4.4 ★
  • 13
    The Boy With the Thorn in His Side (single A-side version)
    3:18
    4.2 ★
  • 14
    Rubber Ring
    3:46
    3.6 ★
  • 15
    Bigmouth Strikes Again
    3:14
    4.7 ★
  • 16
    There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
    4:05
    4.4 ★
  • 17
    Panic
    2:21
    4.6 ★
  • 18
    The Draize Train
    5:09
  • 19
    Ask (remix)
    3:17
  • 20
    You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet, Baby (US mix)
    3:35
  • 21
    Shoplifters of the World Unite
    2:59
    3.6 ★
  • 22
    Sheila Take a Bow
    2:43
    3.9 ★
  • 23
    Girlfriend in a Coma
    2:03
    4.5 ★
  • 24
    I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish
    3:49
    4.7 ★
  • 25
    Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me (single edit)
    3:11
  • 26
    Jeane
    3:06
  • 27
    Handsome Devil (live at the Haçienda, Manchester, 4/2/83)
    2:56
  • 28
    This Charming Man (New York vocal)
    5:36
  • 29
    Wonderful Woman
    3:10
  • 30
    Back to the Old House
    3:06
    3.4 ★
  • 31
    These Things Take Time
    2:24
    4.0 ★
  • 32
    Girl Afraid
    2:46
    3.1 ★
  • 33
    Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
    1:52
    3.9 ★
  • 34
    Stretch Out and Wait (alternate vocal version)
    2:46
    3.4 ★
  • 35
    Oscillate Wildly
    3:28
    3.0 ★
  • 36
    Meat Is Murder (live at Oxford Apollo, 18/3/85)
    5:40
  • 37
    Asleep
    4:10
    3.8 ★
  • 38
    Money Changes Everything
    4:41
    4.0 ★
  • 39
    The Queen Is Dead / Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty (medley)
    6:25
  • 40
    Vicar in a Tutu
    2:25
    3.5 ★
  • 41
    Cemetary Gates
    2:40
    4.0 ★
  • 42
    Half a Person
    3:38
    3.2 ★
  • 43
    Sweet and Tender Hooligan (John Peel session, 12/2/86)
    3:35
    4.0 ★
  • 44
    Pretty Girls Make Graves (Troy Tate demo)
    3:35
  • 45
    Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before
    3:34
    4.5 ★
  • 46
    What’s the World? (live at the Barrowlands, Glasgow, 25/9/85)
    2:06
  • 47
    London (live in London, 1986)
    2:40
  • 48
    The Queen Is Dead (A Film by Derek Jarman)
    12:49

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Release credits

  • bass guitar [1-2, 4-6, 8-9, 11-17, 21-24, 30, 32-35, 37-38, 40-43, 45], cello [9, 35]
  • additional [15]
  • additional [17, 42], guitar [17, 42]
  • producer [31]
  • engineer [43]
  • remixer [28]
  • producer [2, 4-7, 17, 32-33, 35, 43], slide guitar [22]
  • guitar [1-2, 4-6, 8-9, 11-17, 21-24, 30, 32-35, 37-38, 40-43, 45], harmonica [2, 4, 30, 43], mandolin [33], piano [8, 12, 23-24, 45], producer [13-16, 21-25, 37-38, 40-42, 45], slide guitar [17]
  • drums (drum set) [1-2, 4-6, 8-9, 11-17, 21-24, 30, 32-35, 37-38, 40-43, 45]
  • lead vocals [1, 5-6, 9, 13-17, 21-22, 30, 32-34, 37, 40-43], producer [13-16, 22-25, 37-38, 40-42, 45], vocal [2, 4, 8, 11-12, 23-24, 45]
  • engineer [2, 4]
  • engineer [2, 4]
  • producer [30]
  • engineer [7-9, 12-13, 15-16, 34, 40-41], producer [23-25, 42, 45]
  • assistant [23-24, 45]
  • engineer [30]
  • producer [1, 8-9, 11-12, 34-35, 42]
  • producer [26]

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