The Sound of The Smiths

Compilation by The Smiths

Released 10 November 2008
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Tracklist

  • CD 1
  • 1
    Hand in Glove
    3:17
    4.0 ★
  • 2
    This Charming Man
    2:43
    3.8 ★
  • 3
    What Difference Does It Make? (Peel sessions version)
    3:13
  • 4
    Still Ill
    3:22
    4.4 ★
  • 5
    Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now
    3:35
    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
    2:09
    3.2 ★
  • 10
    Barbarism Begins at Home (7″ version)
    3:51
  • 11
    That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore
    3:52
    3.6 ★
  • 12
    The Headmaster Ritual
    4:54
    4.4 ★
  • 13
    The Boy With the Thorn in His Side
    3:18
    4.2 ★
  • 14
    Bigmouth Strikes Again
    3:14
    4.7 ★
  • 15
    There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
    4:05
    4.4 ★
  • 16
    Panic
    2:20
    4.6 ★
  • 17
    Ask
    3:17
  • 18
    You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet, Baby
    3:34
  • 19
    Shoplifters of the World Unite
    2:58
    3.6 ★
  • 20
    Sheila Take a Bow
    2:42
    3.9 ★
  • 21
    Girlfriend in a Coma
    2:03
    4.5 ★
  • 22
    I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish
    3:48
    4.7 ★
  • 23
    Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
    3:11
  • CD 2
  • 1
    Jeane
    3:06
  • 2
    Handsome Devil (live)
    2:56
  • 3
    This Charming Man (New York vocal)
    5:36
  • 4
    Wonderful Woman
    3:10
  • 5
    Back to the Old House
    3:05
    3.4 ★
  • 6
    These Things Take Time
    2:23
  • 7
    Girl Afraid
    2:46
    3.1 ★
  • 8
    Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
    1:52
    3.9 ★
  • 9
    Stretch Out and Wait
    2:45
    3.4 ★
  • 10
    Oscillate Wildly
    3:28
    3.0 ★
  • 11
    Meat Is Murder (live)
    5:39
  • 12
    Asleep
    4:10
    3.8 ★
  • 13
    Money Changes Everything
    4:41
    4.0 ★
  • 14
    The Queen Is Dead / Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty (medley)
    6:26
  • 15
    Vicar in a Tutu
    2:24
    3.5 ★
  • 16
    Cemetry Gates
    2:40
    4.0 ★
  • 17
    Half a Person
    3:36
    3.2 ★
  • 18
    Sweet and Tender Hooligan
    3:35
    4.0 ★
  • 19
    Pretty Girls Make Graves (Troy Tate demo)
    3:35
  • 20
    Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before
    3:33
    4.5 ★
  • 21
    What’s the World? (live)
    2:05
  • 22
    London (live)
    2:38

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Release credits

  • bass guitar [1.1-2, 1.4-6, 1.8-9, 1.11-16, 1.19-22, 2.5, 2.7-10, 2.12-13, 2.15-18, 2.20], cello [1.9, 2.10]
  • additional [14]
  • additional [1.16, 2.17], guitar [1.16, 2.17]
  • engineer [18]
  • remixer [3]
  • producer [2.7-8, 2.10, 2.18, 1.2, 1.4-7, 1.16], slide guitar [20]
  • guitar [2.5, 2.7-10, 2.12-13, 2.15-18, 2.20, 1.1-2, 1.4-6, 1.8-9, 1.11-16, 1.19-22], harmonica [2.5, 2.18, 1.2, 1.4], mandolin [8], piano [2.20, 1.8, 1.12, 1.21-22], producer [1.13-15, 1.19-23, 2.12-13, 2.15-17, 2.20], slide guitar [16]
  • drums (drum set) [1.1-2, 1.4-6, 1.8-9, 1.11-16, 1.19-22, 2.5, 2.7-10, 2.12-13, 2.15-18, 2.20]
  • lead vocals [1.1, 1.5-6, 1.9, 1.13-16, 1.19-20, 2.5, 2.7-9, 2.12, 2.15-18], producer [2.12-13, 2.15-17, 2.20, 1.13-15, 1.20-23], vocal [2.20, 1.2, 1.4, 1.8, 1.11-12, 1.21-22]
  • engineer [2, 4]
  • engineer [2, 4]
  • producer [5]
  • engineer [1.7-9, 1.12-15, 2.9, 2.15-16], producer [2.17, 2.20, 1.21-23]
  • assistant [1.21-22, 2.20]
  • engineer [5]
  • producer [1.1, 1.8-9, 1.11-12, 2.9-10, 2.17]
  • producer [1]

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