The Miracle of the Smiths

Was that not John Lewis as well?

prob.

yes, this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EosFNm78hGg

xxxxpost "Paint a Vulgar Picture" (You could've said no if you'd wanted to...)

shoplifters of the world unite.

"Hang the tinsel, hang the tinsel/Hang the tinsel, hang the tinsel/Hang the tinsel hang the tinsel hang the tinsel" etc.

"There have been better bands than the Smiths"

outrageous.

OUTRAGEOUS

" There have been better bands than the Smiths, but there has never been a more perfect band, in the sense of having a distinct, deliberate, powerful aesthetic shaped by the tensions of collaboration, combined with the ability to articulate that aesthetic."

Context, dude!

hm. can't get past outrageousness of the first part.

"Hang the tinsel, hang the tinsel/Hang the tinsel, hang the tinsel/Hang the tinsel hang the tinsel hang the tinsel" etc.

― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, November 15, 2011 6:31 PM (3 days ago)

^ May never get this out of my head.

That's a really good review by Douglas Wolk. I've always liked his reviews of James Brown's singles volumes for P4k and his review of The Fall's Peel Sessions (for Believer) was great.

Kind of shocked that they didn't include 'Jeane' in the complete box set. That's insane.

ha, it really is. wonder if there's some kinda rarities comp in the works?

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.