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Talk about flogging a dead horse (or should I say, an unlikely to be born horse), but here is my attempt to make sense of how you could re-compile The Smiths material once it has been carefully remastered. Here we go:
Unfortunately, reshuffling The Smiths discography in this way requires the jettisoning of the three contemporaneous compilations ’Hatful Of Hollow’, ‘The World Won’t Listen’ and ‘Louder Than Bombs’. However, new artwork will not be required to accompany the second discs of newly presented material as each ‘new’ disc will be packaged with an original album (‘The Smiths’, ‘Meat Is Murder, ‘The Queen Is Dead’, Strangeways, Here We Come’ and ‘Rank’).
What follows is one option of this ‘Deluxe’ template, and others are possible (such as copying the format of the recent Joy Division ‘Deluxe’ editions by packaging each original remastered disc with a live disc of a contemporaneous concert). However, how could non-album material be compiled without the tedious duplication shown in the original compilations? At least 2 new compilations would need to be made (i.e. ‘The Singles’, ‘The B-Sides’, etc.), with new artwork (unless you recycled the original artwork for a disc such as ‘Louder Than Bombs’, but then confusion between this ‘new’ Louder and the ‘original’ Louder would follow).
Of course, this is just an option for re-compiling existing (remastered) material (i.e. officially released stuff, except for the Troy Tate album and Oxford show)– it does not take into account any of the demos, alternative takes or unreleased songs that Johnny Marr has mentioned in interviews (and Simon Goddard in his book). How those would be compiled, I don’t know (packaged as bonus tracks to the original albums perhaps?).
The Smiths: 5x2CD set, available as ‘Deluxe’ 2CD versions or in a complete box-set.
Remastering supervised/approved by Johnny Marr
Artwork, booklets and lyrics supervised/approved by Morrissey
1: ‘The Smiths’
Disc 1: ‘The Smiths’
1. Reel Around The Fountain
2. You’ve Got Everything Now
3. Miserable Lie
4. Pretty Girls Make Graves
5. The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
6. This Charming Man [not on original album, could be jettisoned]
7. Still Ill
8. Hand In Glove
9. What Difference Does It Make?
10. I Don’t Owe You Anything
11. Suffer Little Children
Disc 2: ‘The Hand That Rocks The Cradle’: Troy Tate produced album with original running order.
1. Reel Around The Fountain
2. You’ve Got Everything Now
3. Miserable Lie
4. These Things Take Time
5. Wonderful Woman
6. Handsome Devil
7. Hand In Glove
8. What Difference Does It Make?
9. I Don’t Owe You Anything
10. Suffer Little Children
11. Pretty Girls Make Graves
12. The Hand That Rocks The Cradle [bonus track, not on original album]
13. Accept Yourself [bonus track, not on original album]
14. Jeane [bonus track, not on original album]
2: ‘Meat Is Murder’
Disc 1: ‘Meat Is Murder’
1. The Headmaster Ritual
2. Rusholme Ruffians
3. I Want The One I Can’t Have
4. What She Said
5. That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore
6. How Soon Is Now? [not on original album, could be jettisoned]
7. Nowhere Fast
8. Well I Wonder
9. Barbarism Begins At Home
10. Meat Is Murder
Disc 2: ‘The BBC Sessions’
1. What Difference Does It Make? [John Peel show, 31/05/03]
2. Miserable Lie [John Peel show, 31/05/03]
3. Reel Around The Fountain [John Peel show, 31/05/03]
4. Handsome Devil [John Peel show, 31/05/03]
5. You’ve Got Everything Now [David Jensen show, 04/07/83]
6. Wonderful Woman [David Jensen show, 04/07/83]
7. These Things Take Time [David Jensen show, 04/07/83]
8. I Don’t Owe You Anything [David Jensen show, 21/09/83]
9. Accept Yourself [David Jensen show, 21/09/83]
10. Pretty Girls Make Graves [David Jensen show, 21/09/83]
11. Reel Around The Fountain [David Jensen show, 21/09/83]
12. This Night Has Opened My Eyes [John Peel show, 21/09/83]
13. Still Ill [John Peel show, 21/09/83]
14. This Charming Man [John Peel show, 21/09/83]
15. Back To The Old House [John Peel show, 21/09/83]
16. William, It Was Really Nothing [[John Peel show, 09/08/84]
17. Nowhere Fast [John Peel show, 09/08/84]
18. Rusholme Ruffians [John Peel show, 09/08/84]
19. How Soon Is Now? [John Peel show, 09/08/84]
20. Is It Really So Strange? [John Peel Show, 17/12/86]
21. London [John Peel Show, 17/12/86]
22. Half A Person [John Peel Show, 17/12/86]
23. Sweet And Tender Hooligan [John Peel Show, 17/12/86]
3: ‘The Queen Is Dead’
Disc 1: ‘The Queen Is Dead’
1. The Queen Is Dead
2. Frankly Mr. Shankly
3. I Know It’s Over
4. Never Had No One Ever
5. Cemetery Gates
6. Bigmouth Strikes Again
7. The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
8. Vicar In A Tutu
9. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
10. Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
Disc 2: ‘The Singles’: 12” or album versions unless indicated (some duplication here, but I think it is necessary, as it shows the strengths of The Smiths as a singles band, plus many singles don’t show up on the original 4 studio albums).
1. Hand In Glove [single version] [different from the version found on ‘The Smiths’]
2. This Charming Man
3. What Difference Does It Make? [7” version]
4. Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now
5. William, It Was Really Nothing
6. How Soon Is Now?
7. Shakespeare’s Sister
8. That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore [7” version]
9. The Boy With The Thorn In His Side [single version] [different from the version found on ‘The Queen Is Dead’]
10. Bigmouth Strikes Again
11. Panic
12. Ask [single version] [different from the version found on ‘World’ or ‘Listen’]
13. Shoplifters Of The World Unite
14. Sheila Take A Bow
15. Girlfriend In A Coma
16. I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish
17. Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me [7” version]
Unfortunately, reshuffling The Smiths discography in this way requires the jettisoning of the three contemporaneous compilations ’Hatful Of Hollow’, ‘The World Won’t Listen’ and ‘Louder Than Bombs’. However, new artwork will not be required to accompany the second discs of newly presented material as each ‘new’ disc will be packaged with an original album (‘The Smiths’, ‘Meat Is Murder, ‘The Queen Is Dead’, Strangeways, Here We Come’ and ‘Rank’).
What follows is one option of this ‘Deluxe’ template, and others are possible (such as copying the format of the recent Joy Division ‘Deluxe’ editions by packaging each original remastered disc with a live disc of a contemporaneous concert). However, how could non-album material be compiled without the tedious duplication shown in the original compilations? At least 2 new compilations would need to be made (i.e. ‘The Singles’, ‘The B-Sides’, etc.), with new artwork (unless you recycled the original artwork for a disc such as ‘Louder Than Bombs’, but then confusion between this ‘new’ Louder and the ‘original’ Louder would follow).
Of course, this is just an option for re-compiling existing (remastered) material (i.e. officially released stuff, except for the Troy Tate album and Oxford show)– it does not take into account any of the demos, alternative takes or unreleased songs that Johnny Marr has mentioned in interviews (and Simon Goddard in his book). How those would be compiled, I don’t know (packaged as bonus tracks to the original albums perhaps?).
The Smiths: 5x2CD set, available as ‘Deluxe’ 2CD versions or in a complete box-set.
Remastering supervised/approved by Johnny Marr
Artwork, booklets and lyrics supervised/approved by Morrissey
1: ‘The Smiths’
Disc 1: ‘The Smiths’
1. Reel Around The Fountain
2. You’ve Got Everything Now
3. Miserable Lie
4. Pretty Girls Make Graves
5. The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
6. This Charming Man [not on original album, could be jettisoned]
7. Still Ill
8. Hand In Glove
9. What Difference Does It Make?
10. I Don’t Owe You Anything
11. Suffer Little Children
Disc 2: ‘The Hand That Rocks The Cradle’: Troy Tate produced album with original running order.
1. Reel Around The Fountain
2. You’ve Got Everything Now
3. Miserable Lie
4. These Things Take Time
5. Wonderful Woman
6. Handsome Devil
7. Hand In Glove
8. What Difference Does It Make?
9. I Don’t Owe You Anything
10. Suffer Little Children
11. Pretty Girls Make Graves
12. The Hand That Rocks The Cradle [bonus track, not on original album]
13. Accept Yourself [bonus track, not on original album]
14. Jeane [bonus track, not on original album]
2: ‘Meat Is Murder’
Disc 1: ‘Meat Is Murder’
1. The Headmaster Ritual
2. Rusholme Ruffians
3. I Want The One I Can’t Have
4. What She Said
5. That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore
6. How Soon Is Now? [not on original album, could be jettisoned]
7. Nowhere Fast
8. Well I Wonder
9. Barbarism Begins At Home
10. Meat Is Murder
Disc 2: ‘The BBC Sessions’
1. What Difference Does It Make? [John Peel show, 31/05/03]
2. Miserable Lie [John Peel show, 31/05/03]
3. Reel Around The Fountain [John Peel show, 31/05/03]
4. Handsome Devil [John Peel show, 31/05/03]
5. You’ve Got Everything Now [David Jensen show, 04/07/83]
6. Wonderful Woman [David Jensen show, 04/07/83]
7. These Things Take Time [David Jensen show, 04/07/83]
8. I Don’t Owe You Anything [David Jensen show, 21/09/83]
9. Accept Yourself [David Jensen show, 21/09/83]
10. Pretty Girls Make Graves [David Jensen show, 21/09/83]
11. Reel Around The Fountain [David Jensen show, 21/09/83]
12. This Night Has Opened My Eyes [John Peel show, 21/09/83]
13. Still Ill [John Peel show, 21/09/83]
14. This Charming Man [John Peel show, 21/09/83]
15. Back To The Old House [John Peel show, 21/09/83]
16. William, It Was Really Nothing [[John Peel show, 09/08/84]
17. Nowhere Fast [John Peel show, 09/08/84]
18. Rusholme Ruffians [John Peel show, 09/08/84]
19. How Soon Is Now? [John Peel show, 09/08/84]
20. Is It Really So Strange? [John Peel Show, 17/12/86]
21. London [John Peel Show, 17/12/86]
22. Half A Person [John Peel Show, 17/12/86]
23. Sweet And Tender Hooligan [John Peel Show, 17/12/86]
3: ‘The Queen Is Dead’
Disc 1: ‘The Queen Is Dead’
1. The Queen Is Dead
2. Frankly Mr. Shankly
3. I Know It’s Over
4. Never Had No One Ever
5. Cemetery Gates
6. Bigmouth Strikes Again
7. The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
8. Vicar In A Tutu
9. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
10. Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
Disc 2: ‘The Singles’: 12” or album versions unless indicated (some duplication here, but I think it is necessary, as it shows the strengths of The Smiths as a singles band, plus many singles don’t show up on the original 4 studio albums).
1. Hand In Glove [single version] [different from the version found on ‘The Smiths’]
2. This Charming Man
3. What Difference Does It Make? [7” version]
4. Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now
5. William, It Was Really Nothing
6. How Soon Is Now?
7. Shakespeare’s Sister
8. That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore [7” version]
9. The Boy With The Thorn In His Side [single version] [different from the version found on ‘The Queen Is Dead’]
10. Bigmouth Strikes Again
11. Panic
12. Ask [single version] [different from the version found on ‘World’ or ‘Listen’]
13. Shoplifters Of The World Unite
14. Sheila Take A Bow
15. Girlfriend In A Coma
16. I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish
17. Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me [7” version]
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