The Very Best of The Smiths

Tracklist

• 1
  Panic
  2:20
  4.6 ★
• 2
  The Boy With the Thorn in His Side
  3:17
  4.2 ★
• 3
  Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now
  3:36
  3.8 ★
• 4
  Ask
  3:10
  3.8 ★
• 5
  Bigmouth Strikes Again
  3:14
  4.7 ★
• 6
  How Soon Is Now?
  6:46
  4.8 ★
• 7
  This Charming Man
  2:43
  3.8 ★
• 8
  What Difference Does It Make?
  3:52
  3.9 ★
• 9
  William, It Was Really Nothing
  2:12
  4.5 ★
• 10
  Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
  3:17
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Girlfriend in a Coma
  2:03
  4.5 ★
• 12
  Hand in Glove
  3:25
  4.0 ★
• 13
  There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
  4:05
  4.4 ★
• 14
  Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want
  1:53
  3.9 ★
• 15
  That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore
  4:59
  4.0 ★
• 16
  I Know It’s Over
  5:50
  4.1 ★
• 17
  Sheila Take a Bow
  2:42
  3.9 ★
• 18
  I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish
  3:48
  4.7 ★
• 19
  Still Ill
  3:22
  4.4 ★
• 20
  Shakespeare’s Sister
  2:10
  3.2 ★
• 21
  Shoplifters of the World Unite
  2:58
  3.6 ★
• 22
  Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
  3:11
• 23
  Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before
  3:34
  4.5 ★

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Release credits

• Andy Rourke
  bass [10], bass guitar [1-5, 7-21, 23], cello [20]
• Ann Coates
  additional [5]
• Craig Gannon
  additional [1, 4], guitar [1, 4]
• John Porter
  producer [1, 3-4, 6-9, 12, 14, 19], remixer [12], slide guitar [17]
• Johnny Marr
  guitar [1-5, 7-21, 23], harmonica [7-8, 12, 19], mandolin [14], piano [11, 15, 18, 23], producer [2, 5, 10-11, 13, 16-18, 21-23], slide guitar [1]
• Kirsty MacColl
  additional [4]
• Mike Joyce
  drums (drum set) [1-5, 7-21, 23]
• Morrissey
  lead vocals [1-5, 9-10, 13-14, 16-17, 20-21], producer [2, 5, 10-11, 13, 16-18, 22-23], vocal [7-8, 11-12, 15, 18-19, 23]
• Neill King
  engineer [7-8, 12, 19]
• Phil Bush
  engineer [7-8, 12, 19]
• Stephen Street
  engineer [2, 5-6, 10, 13, 15-16, 20], producer [11, 18, 22-23]
• Steve Lillywhite
  mix [4]
• Steve Williams
  assistant [11, 18, 23]
• The Smiths
  producer [15, 20]

Issues

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  T
  The Very Best of The Smiths

  CD
  4 June 2001
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  T
  The Very Best of the Smiths

  CD (2nd Edition)
  2001