The Miracle of the Smiths

less insane to leave shit out than to include some stuff twice and not remaster all of it

3 new entries on tacky badge up btw

mostly on account of that blog i think the smiths are my most listened to band this year. that single version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (prolly my fave tune of theirs) is flippin' brilliant

8.1? get tae fuck.

yeah, the rating is a joke. never trust ratings, esp. from s&p and pitchfork. the article is good though.

i'm finding the drums and other percussive elements on some tracks of these remasters a little hard to take. far too foregrounded for my taste, i think i'll stick with my old versions.

many updates on the smiths 'extra track and a tacky badge' blog since we last revived this
http://smithsrecycle.blogspot.com/
they've still got a fair few singles to go mind..

more updates.

yep!

these make a great listen as a whole

Xpost*2 - It looks to me they only have one single left to do.

well, that makes six at the time pisces said it.

Oh right.

They've been 'becalmed' for ages, fair enough.

http://www.vice.com/read/chunklet-to-go-go-the-smiths

terrible piece

The last single was posted earlier, the next recycled project is REM! Excited for that one!

The Nitzer Ebb singles one sounds cool too.

hmmm
http://www.music-news.com/shownews.asp?H=The-Smiths-to-reform&nItemID=51298

crisply denied by Marr

http://www.discountmugs.com/discountmugs/upload/cliparts/images/smithsreuniontemplate_1301415865.jpg

It is never going to happen.

seems like the best anyone could hope for is a marr/morrissey collab sometime in the future. but even that is unlikely, I think.

in the long run all bands reunite one day...

in the berlin program magazine tip there was a page announcing concerts of bands where i didn't even know that they still had living members. like bad company, mötley crüe, beach boys, blue öyster cult, lynyrd skynyrd, bachman turner overdrive. i was also surprised to hear that roger chapman and james taylor still have to tour...

But... The Smiths reunion with a Morrissey hologram! $$$$ £££ amirite?

in the long run all bands reunite one day...

Yeah that Beatles tour was something.

the beatles would have toured if only there hadn't been this crazy psychopath...

Ringo?

the one that shot john lennon, i meant.

I know, sorry :-(

i know that you knew, so that's ok ;-)

I appreciate the bands that reunite every once in a while but don't tour, like zep.

Ccr hasn't reunited yet, but could. Same with husker du, but they're far less likely than Smiths.

still baffled that the so called Complete box set is missing not only 5 of the original non album single tracks but that there is STILL after 3 decades no complete BBC/ Peel session stuff available. it's the 21st century, The Smiths are regarded as the 2nd best UK band since The Beatles yet there's a Smiths *Peel session* of How Soon Is Now that isn't on CD. i mean.. words fail me.

What are the 5 tracks?

Wonderful Woman
Work Is A Four Letter Word
Jeanne
I Keep Mine Hidden
The Draize Train

plus if one wanted a *complete* catalogue in the box you really ought to have the Kervorkian 'New York Mix' of This Charming Man, the live James cover of What's The World (from the B side of the CD EP of I Started Something..) and the alt version of Accept Yourself.

"Jeane", "Wonderful Woman", and the NY "This Charming Man" are on the deluxe The Sound Of The Smiths, along with "You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby" at its original speed.

indeed. remastered too. makes the exclusion even more baffling.

the only things I possibly do not know from this are

alt 'accept yourself'
Peel 'how soon is now?' - I don't think I had any idea that existed.

but I have feeling there might be one or two other Peel tracks?

once you start including live tracks, well how about
the very early 'handsome devil'
the late 'some girls are bigger than others' with alt lyrics
the Oxford Road Show tracks from 'that joke'

and what was it they contributed to that NME tape in 1985 ... was it just a live take of 'nowhere fast' or something?

According to Discogs they didn't contribute to an NME tape but a live version of 'What She Said ' featured on a 7" EP which was given away with poll winners issue.

The Peel session versions of London and Half A Person are better than the studio versions, and (as far as I know) are unreleased.

yeah the Peel London *flattens* the original and that's unreleased. the Nowhere Fast BBC sesh is also killer
there's a pretty neat summing up of all the Jensen/ Peel sessions, which ones were released and the differences between them on the Hatful.. Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatful_of_Hollow

there was also this if we're getting *mega* completist re sessions; the Sandie Shaw BBC sesh of Jeanne and I Don't Owe You Anythng which i don't even think i've ever heard
http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1408587/a/Cool+About+You%3A+Bbc+Sessions.htm
amazing that somehow *that* is on CD and some Smiths ones aren't.

Has anyone ever found anything much to redeem 'Never Nad No-One Ever'?

Dods, yes, I have that 7-inch - it also has a U2 'Wire' remix

It's best to think of it as a parody of a Smiths song. xp

it's a highly enjoyable prime slab of desperate melodrama served with just a hint of stalkery horseradish

Yeah, but sequenced right after the similarly paced (and far superior) "I Know It's Over," it really stops that album dead in its tracks.

it's starts again when you flip it over ;)

although i don't like cemetry gates much either. actually considering what a formative record this was for me there are rather a lot of songs that i dislike.

Never Had No One Ever is not really a song, it's basically a vamp. Its position immediately after I Know It's Over is usually considered a sequencing mistake, but I think it's probably deliberate - the similarity of keys and tempos mean I hear it as I Know It's Over's looser, offhand coda. In this way, it has the same function as the similarly paced (and similarly placed) ending to Death of a Disco Dancer on Strangeways. I enjoy myself listening to it, but I am easily pleased by this kind of thing (I could listen to someone going between Am and Dm all day).

While I'm here, I want to mention another good Smiths site that I haven't seen mentioned here; Smiths on Guitar. Here is the page for Never Had No One Ever. For some songs, the site has little more than the chords scanned from the sheet music, but for others it has some fascinating videos and quotes.

reunion is GO! .. allegedly.

first heard this from a pretty reliable source some months back, raised a quizzical eyebrow. seems like it could be on the cards after all (no Mike Joyce though).

hmmm...

There was a Rockpalast show broadcast on SkyArts recently but I watched skinny young ,orrissey dancing like a fawn in front of his admiring audience and thought to myself, he's not that guy anymore.

Johnny is still Johnny, sure.

but.

no mike joyce no creditbility

here it says yes joyce, no rourke
http://www.digitalspy.com/music/news/a409472/the-smiths-reunion-new-rumors-emerge-of-glastonbury-2013-comeback.html