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SAME
DAY AGAIN (CD) |
William, It Was Really Nothing, Nowhere Fast, What She Said, Hand In Glove, How Soon Is Now?, Stretch Out And Wait, That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore, Shakespeare's Sister, The Headmaster Ritual, Still Ill, Meat Is Murder, Miserable Lie, Barbarism Begins At Home, You've Got Everything Now. |
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This excellent
quality CD features the entire performance from the Oxford Apollo, March
18, 1985, thankfully minus the annoying pops and clicks which sullied
the Stealers CD. The only negative thing which can be said about
this stellar production (from the above-the-fray Italian "Big Music"
company) is the inexplicable absence of the amusing Morrissey line, "We're
the other funny Manchester group". (JR) |
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THE
SMITHS (LP) |
Hand In Glove, Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, Girl Afraid, This Charming Man, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Still Ill, Barbarism Begins At Home, This Night Has Opened My Eyes, You've Got Everything Now, Handsome Devil, What Difference Does It Make?, These Things Take Time, Barbarism Begins At Home. |
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An excellent
quality bootleg taken largely from The Smiths' performance at the Markthalle,
Hamburg on May 4, 1984, which was filmed for the television show Rockpalast.
(JR) |
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THE
SMITHS (7" EP) |
What Do You See In Him? (Wonderful Woman), Jeane (Hacienda 2/4/83); What's The World? |
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Released
in 1991, this three track single features two songs from the Hacienda
concert on February 4th, 1983 (erroneously dated as December 1982 on the
sleeve) and the James cover "What's The World?". Pressing was
a limited edition of 1,000. (JR) |
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SMITHSESSIONS
(2LP) |
Accept Yourself, I Don't Owe You Anything, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Reel Around The Fountain, This Charming Man, Still Ill, This Night Has Opened My Eyes, Back To The Old House, Handsome Devil, Reel Around The Fountain, Miserable Lie, These Things Take Time, What Difference Does It Make?, You've Got Everything Now, Hand In Glove, Wonderful Woman. |
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Excellent
quality recording of the John Peel and Kid Jensen sessions from 1983.
The candid interview of a very young Morrissey by David Jensen is excellent.(JR/SR) |
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SORROW'S
SON (LP) |
Handsome Devil, Still Ill, This Charming Man, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Reel Around The Fountain, What Difference Does It Make?, Miserable Lie, This Night Has Opened My Eyes, Hand In Glove, These Things Take Time, You've Got Everything Now. |
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An excellent
quality recording from The Old Grey Whistle Test television broadcast
from the Assembly Rooms, Derby (12/7/83).(JR) |
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SO
THIS IS AMERICA (2LP) |
How Soon Is Now?, Hand In Glove, I Want The One I Can't Have, Still Ill, Frankly Mr Shankly, Panic, Never Had No One Ever, Stretch Out And Wait, The Boy With The Thorn In His Side, Cemetry Gates, What She Said/Rubber Ring (Medley), Is It Really So Strange?, There Is A Light That Never Goes Out, That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore, The Queen Is Dead, Money Changes Everything, I Know It's Over, Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, Bigmouth Strikes Again (Great Woods, Mansfield, Massachusetts - 8/4/86); What She Said, Wire - U2 (NME 7" giveaway). |
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Good quality
recording from Great Woods, Mansfield, Massachusetts (8/4/86). This is
a fairly routine "Queen Is Dead" show, which features minimal
talking from Morrissey (the best quips are "You have good taste,
thank you..." - which foreshadows the "You have extremely good
taste" comment he made at the final Smiths concert in December -
and "Thank you, you're very kind, very clever") and suffers
from some truly atrocious drumming by Mike Joyce on "I Know It's
Over" (among other tracks). (Hmmm... maybe he didn't deserve those
millions after all...) "What She Said" and U2's "Wire"
are culled from an NME giveaway 7" which also featured tracks
from Bronski Beat and Cocteau Twins. (The version of "What She Said"
from this disk is from a 1985 show.) The packaging of the album is underwhelming
with no track listing on the sleeve and very erroneous track listings
on the labels. (Actually some of the errors are fairly amusing Smiths
titles that never were: "Wishes of the Poor", "Under the
Iron Bridge", "Condition I Have", and "Hang the D.J.".)
There is also an insert with a black and white photo of Morrissey and
the same erroneous track listing. A good recording but by no means essential.
(TM) |
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SPANISH
SUN LIVE MADRID 18 MAY 1985 (LP) |
How Soon Is Now?, Handsome Devil, That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore, Shakespeare's Sister, Rusholme Ruffians, Hand In Glove, Meat Is Murder, Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, Miserable Lie, Barbarism Begins At Home. |
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An Italian
bootleg of excellent quality taken from an FM broadcast of the concert.
(JR) Live In Madrid is by far a better quality recording of this show.
(BG) |
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STEALERS
(CD) |
William, It Was Really Nothing, Nowhere Fast, Hand In Glove, How Soon Is Now?, Stretch Out And Wait, That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore, Shakespeare's Sister, The Headmaster Ritual, What She Said, Still Ill, Meat Is Murder, Miserable Lie, You've Got Everything Now. |
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An excellent
quality CD reissue of the Oxford Apollo show on March 18, 1985. Audible
pops and clicks between tracks reveal the source of the CD to be the A
Kind Of Loving LP. "Barbarism Begins At Home" is listed
on the cover but is not included. One of the highlights is an enthusiastic
version of "You've Got Everything Now" in which Morrissey changes
the lyrics of the title to "No, I've never had a job because I've
never had an interview" and "...because I'm too sensible".
(JR/TM) |
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THANK
YOUR LUCKY STARS (CD) |
Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want, Still Ill, I Want The One I Can't Have, There Is A Light That Never Goes Out, How Soon Is Now?, Frankly Mr. Shankly, Panic, Stretch Out And Wait, The Boy With The Thorn In His Side, Is It Really So Strange?, Cemetry Gates, Never Had No One Ever, Rubber Ring/What She Said (Medley), That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore, Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, The Queen Is Dead, Money Changes Everything, I Know It's Over. |
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This is quite possibly the best Smiths bootleg yet made. This CD features an exceptional quality soundboard recording of The Smiths at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles on August 26, 1986. (The concert is nearly complete - only the concluding "Bigmouth Strikes Again" is absent.) The song selection is excellent, opening with "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want" and drifting through such highlights as "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out," "Stretch Out And Wait," and "That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore". Morrissey makes numerous comments between the songs and Johnny Marr is in fine form. The concert takes a dramatic turn towards the end, as Morrissey interrupts the tender second verse of "I Know It's Over" with a shout of "Jesus Christ! Don't be so stupid! Leave him alone, you stupid idiot, leave him!" directed at the "neanderthal" security guards who were making the fans miserable. All this puts a dramatic, dark overtone on an incredible concert. The packaging, by the wonderful Italian company Big Music, meets their usual high standards, with numerous excellent photos of the band, a picture disc, and a flawless track listing. An all-around exceptional product and a far better concert momento of the Queen Is Dead tour than the officially released Rank. (TM) |
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UNLOVEABLE
(CD) |
Miserable Lie (Peel Session); What Difference Does It Make?, This Night Has Opened My Eyes (Y.E.S., 2/9/84); Hand In Glove, Still Ill, Barbarism Begins At Home (The Tube, 3/16/84); Still Ill, This Charming Man, Hand In Glove (Datarun, 4/7/84); Jeane (featuring Sandie Shaw) (Splat!, 4/84); Bigmouth Strikes Again, Vicar In A Tutu (Whistle Test, 5/20/86); There Is A Light That Never Goes Out, Panic (The Eurotube, 7/5/86); Sheila Take A Bow, Shoplifters Of The World Unite (The Tube, 4/10/87); Hand In Glove, Rock 'n' Roll Part Two, Unloveable (#1), Unloveable (#2), There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (soundcheck, Inverness, 10/1/85). |
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An interesting
collection of television appearances and soundcheck material. Some of
the tracks culled from TV sources are of rather poor quality. "Sheila
Take A Bow" and "Shoplifters Of The World Unite" are from
The Smiths' last live performance on The Tube in April, 1987.
(TM) |
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UNRULY
BOYS (CD) |
William, It Was Really Nothing, Nowhere Fast, I Want The One I Can't Have, What She Said, How Soon Is Now?, Handsome Devil, That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore, Shakespeares Sister, Rusholme Ruffians, The Headmaster Ritual, Hand In Glove, Still Ill, Meat Is Murder, Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, Miserable Lie, Barbarism Begins At Home, This Charming Man, You've Got Everything Now (Madrid - May 18, 1985). |
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A very well-packaged
CD-R re-release of the "Spanish Sun"/"Live In Madrid"
bootleg. The recording is good quality but it is sadly sped up, so that
Morrissey bears a strong vocal resemblance to Alvin Chipmunk. This show
contains the classic Morrissey bullfighting reference, "We have seen
your national sport and it's not very kind" prior to "Meat Is
Murder". (TM) |
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VERY
WELL MANNERED (CD-R) |
Panic, Still Ill, I Want The One I Can't Have, Vicar In A Tutu, Frankly Mr Shankly, Cemetry Gates, Rubber Ring/What She Said, There Is A Light That Never Goes Out, That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore, Nowhere Fast, Stretch Out And Wait, Ask, William, It Was Really Nothing, How Soon Is Now?, Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, The Queen Is Dead, The Draize Train, Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want, Bigmouth Strikes Again, Hand In Glove, Meat Is Murder (Centennial Hall, London, Ontario - July 30, 1986). |
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This recording, of the first North American Smiths gig of the Queen Is Dead tour, is a fair quality audience recording that is unfortunately severely sullied by the lazy bootlegger's obnoxious silence between each song that chops some comments up and generally distracts from the flow of the concert. (It's a real pity too because Morrissey talks quite a lot during this show.) Musically, this recording contains an interesting version of "Still Ill", where Johnny Marr's intricate picking is hidden during the first verse, so that Craig Gannon's rhythm guitar carries the song: a very different effect. Morrissey's best quip provides the CD-R's title: "You're very well mannered. So are we." The packaging is reasonably decent for a CD-R, but the "Maladjusted" tour image of Moz on the disk itself is an annoyance and the song titles are often incorrect ("Nowhere Fast" is entitled "Rusholm Ruffians" [sic] and "The Draize Train" is entitled "Oscillate Wildly"). A shortened version of "Bigmouth..." is performed without Morrissey on vocals - chances are he was off being mauled by fans, as per usual. Regarding the quality: my copy of the CD-R skipped in several places, but this of course does not necessarily indicate a recurring problem. Just a faulty disk... and a personal annoyance. |
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WILDE
ABOUT MORRISSEY (LP) |
These Things Take Time, What Difference Does It Make?, The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, Handsome Devil, Jeane, What Do You See In Him? (Wonderful Woman), Hand In Glove, Miserable Lie, I Don't Owe You Anything (featuring Sandie Shaw), Reel Around The Fountain, You've Got Everything Now, These Things Take Time, This Charming Man, Still Ill, Pretty Girls Make Graves. |
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Good quality
recording taken from two sources: Hacienda (2/4/83, not "December,
1982" as it states on the cover) and Hammersmith Palais (not "various
London concerts") (3/12/84). Nice full color graphics, including
several prime shots of the band, but less desirable than other boots of
these shows because of the truncation of "Miserable Lie" from
the Hacienda show and the shortened and jumbled Hammersmith set.(TM) |
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WONDERFUL
WOMAN (CD) |
What's The World (Glasgow, 9/25/85); Half A Person, Sweet And Tender Hooligan, Is It Really So Strange?, London (Peel Session); What Difference Does It Make?, Accept Yourself, Wonderful Woman (Troy Tate Sessions); Reel Around The Fountain, What Difference Does It Make?, Wonderful Woman, These Things Take Time, I Don't Owe You Anything, Hand In Glove, Miserable Lie, Accept Yourself, Hand In Glove (Rockgarden, London 7/7/83); You've Got Everything Now (De Meervaart Hall, Amsterdam 4/21/84). |
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Another mish-mash
of tracks from various sources, highlighted by the July 7, 1983 show at
the Rockgarden in London. (TM/SD) |
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YOUR
FULL OF SMITH (LP) |
William, It Was Really Nothing, Nowhere Fast, I Want The One I Can't Have, What She Said, Hand In Glove, How Soon Is Now?, Still Ill, Meat Is Murder, Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, Barbarism Begins At Home, Miserable Lie. |
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A live recording from the Royal Court, Liverpool (3/27/85). The sleeve wrongly credits several songs. (JR) |
