The Smiths - The Sound Of The Smiths (Deluxe) (2008, FLAC) [88]

The Smiths

The Sound Of The Smiths (Deluxe) (2008)

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Depending on your count, The Sound of the Smiths is the third or fourth posthumous Smiths compilation -- a number that may be a bit excessive considering the group's rather concise catalog, containing just four studio albums and singles rounded up on three singles compilations (and two of those covered the same essential territory, too). That's a lot of repetition but whether it's taken in either its single-disc or double-disc deluxe editions, The Sound of the Smiths is the best of these posthumous overviews. The single-disc -- which is the first disc of the deluxe set -- is the hits disc, containing every cut from the 18-track 1995 compilation Singles and expanding it with five cuts all dating from the mid-'80s: "Still Ill," "Nowhere Fast," "Barbarism Begins at Home," "The Headmaster Ritual," and "You Just Haven't Earned It Yet Baby." As a Smiths-basics goes, it's first-rate, an introduction and summary that's compulsively listenable. The second disc on the deluxe The Sound of the Smiths splits the difference between a rarities compilation and a "more of the best" collection of album tracks, rounding up non-LP singles and B-sides like "Jeane," "Wonderful Woman," "Money Changes Everything," and the New York Vocal version of "This Charming Man," live versions of "Handsome Devil," "Meat Is Murder," "What's the World?" and "London," the Troy Tate demo of "Pretty Girls Make Graves," and a bunch of great Smiths songs including a hefty chunk of The Queen Is Dead. It falls short of being the long-awaited collection of Smiths rarities, the absence of which remains a mystery, but it's the best stab at one to date and a pretty entertaining listen in its own right.



Tracklist:



Disc 1



01 -Hand In Glove

02 -This Charming Man

03 -What Difference Does It Make (Peel Sessions Version)

04 -Still Ill

05 -Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now

06 -William, It Was Really Nothing

07 -How Soon Is Now (12" Version)

08 -Nowhere Fast

09 -Shakespeare's Sister

10 -Barbarism Begins At Home (7" Version)

11 -That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore

12 -The Headmaster Ritual

13 -The Boy With The Thorn In His Side

14 -Bigmouth Strikes Again

15 -There Is A Light That Never Goes Out

16 -Panic

17 -Ask

18 -You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby

19 -Shoplifters Of The World Unite

20 -Sheila Take A Bow

21 -Girlfriend In A Coma

22 -I Started Something I Couldn't Finish

23 -Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me



Disc 2



01 -Jeane

02 -Handsome Devil (Live)

03 -This Charming Man (New York Vocal)

04 -Wonderful Woman

05 -Back To The Old House

06 -These Things Take Time

07 -Girl Afraid

08 -Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want

09 -Stretch Out And Wait

10 -Oscillate Wildly

11 -Meat Is Murder (Live)

12 -Asleep

13 -Money Changes Everything

14 -The Queen Is Dead/Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty (Medley)

15 -Vicar In A Tutu

16 -Cemetry Gates

17 -Half A Person

18 -Sweet And Tender Hooligan

19 -Pretty Girls Make Graves (Troy Tate Demo)

20 -Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before

21 -What's The World (Live)

22 -London (Live)





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