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The Smiths Songs You May Be Missing, Part 6: Charting It All

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on January 25, 2012 | 5 Comments »

Here, as promised, is a chart detailing where every version of every Smiths song ended up (in regards to official releases).

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The Smiths Songs You May Be Missing, Part 5: Miscellaneous Uncollected

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on January 19, 2012 | 3 Comments »

Greetings once again! Since we’re doing this, we may as well be thorough. There are a bunch of Smiths songs (and versions of Smiths songs) that were never included on any of their official records (The Smiths; Hatful of Hollow; Meat Is Murder; The Queen Is Dead; Strangeways, Here We Come; Louder Than Bombs; Singles). [...]

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The Smiths Songs You May Be Missing, Part 4: “Hatful of Hollow”

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on January 17, 2012 | 4 Comments »

Late last year, we were looking at the lesser-listened-to Smiths albums—The Smiths, Meat Is Murder, and Strangeways, Here We Come—assembling a playlist of songs not collected on either Singles or Louder Than Bombs. Today we’ll conclude with HATFUL OF HOLLOW (1984) …which is admittedly getting somewhat obscure. Many of the songs on this compilation can [...]

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The Smiths Songs You May Be Missing, Part 3: “Strangeways, Here We Come”

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on October 27, 2011 | 8 Comments »

We continue listening through the somewhat-less-famous Smiths albums, gleaning their better tracks for our ultimate deep cuts playlist. (Already covered: “The Smiths” & “Meat Is Murder.”) Today let’s look at: STRANGEWAYS, HERE WE COME (1987) Now, I won’t go as far as to agree with Morrissey and Marr—what do they know?—that this is “the best [...]

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The Smiths Songs You May Be Missing, Part 2: “Meat Is Murder”

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on October 25, 2011 | 6 Comments »

So we’re listening through the Smiths albums that aren’t the three essential ones—The Queen Is Dead, Singles, Louder Than Bombs—looking for standout tracks. Yesterday we combed through The Smiths, and today beings us to: MEAT IS MURDER (1985) Whatever your dietary politics are, we might agree that this one is, alas, the Smiths’ weakest—just like [...]

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The Smiths Songs You May Be Missing, part 1: “The Smiths”

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , on October 24, 2011 | 5 Comments »

It’s true what folks say: if you own The Queen Is Dead, Singles, and Louder Than Bombs, then you own most of “the best songs” by The Smiths (the greatest band of all time). But there are still reasons to hunt down copies of their other records—the studio albums The Smiths, Meat Is Murder, and [...]

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