The Very Best of the Smiths | 
| Artist: The Smiths
Label: Warner Spec. Mkt. UK
Category: Music
List Price: $21.98
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Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 23656
Format: Import, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.8 x 0.4
MPN: 388948
UPC: 766487299527
EAN: 0685738894826
ASIN: B00005KB47
Release Date: June 11, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | Panic | | • | Boy With the Thorn in His Side | | • | Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now | | • | Ask | | • | Bigmouth Strikes Again | | • | How Soon Is Now? | | • | This Charming Man | | • | What Difference Does It Make? | | • | William, It Was Really Nothing | | • | Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others | | • | Girlfriend in a Coma | | • | Hand in Glove | | • | There Is a Light That Never Goes Out | | • | Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want | | • | That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore | | • | I Know It's Over | | • | Sheila Take a Bow | | • | I Started Something I Couldn't Finish | | • | Still Ill | | • | Shakespeare's Sister | | • | Shoplifters of the World Unite | | • | Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me | | • | Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before |
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Album Description
Import only 23 track collection. All tracks have been digitally remastered. Tracks, 'Panic', 'The Boy With The Thorn In His Side', 'Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now', 'Ask', 'Bigmouth Strikes Again', 'How Soon Is Now?', 'This Charming Man', 'What Difference Does It Make?', 'William, It Was Really Nothing', 'Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others', 'Girlfriend In A Coma', 'Hand In Glove', 'There Is A Light That Never Goes Out', 'Please Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want', 'That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore', 'I Know It's Over', 'Sheila Take A Bow', 'I Started Something I Couldn't Finish', 'Still Ill', 'Shakespeare's Sister', 'Shoplifters Of The World Unite', 'Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me' & 'Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before'.2001 release.
Album Details
The best selling British indie rock band of the 80's were the epitome of the adjectives 'definitive' and 'seminal'. Lead singer Morrissey was the idol of many a young, disenfranchised youth who found their voice through his songs and poetry. Here are 23 of their best, digitally remastered, sounding better than ever. After the Smiths, bedsit angst was never the same again.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 24 more reviews...
remastering is not a positive December 25, 2005
John Frame (Brisbane, Queensland Australia)
23 out of 24 found this review helpful
This is a great collection of songs by The Smiths - but the remastering has ruined the best aspects of the original recordings. For example "Hand In Glove", which for me had just about the snappiest and most memorable snare sound (courtesy of producer John Porter), but the remastered version reduces the snare to a soul-less dull thud. All the highs from the cymbals and guitar have gone too.
Perhaps the "Very Best Of.." producers were only interested in forming a unified sound to this whole album, but they've shown no regard for the integrity of the original recordings - and as good as the Smiths were, to me it was their original producers who made their music sound so appealing.
This compilation still gets 4 stars for the songs themselves, which are all winners, but I would recommend all of the original recordings as being far superior in both fidelity and style.
pay no attention... August 11, 2001
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
....to the rants by the hardcore, judgemental ,lockstep internet fans who have planted some of the above negative reviews. First off, This CD sounds about a million percent better than any of the previous issues of these tracks. How could someone not hear this? I guess that's what happens when you listen to music only on your PC! A big plus is the correct versions of some singles are finally used on CD! Second ,it is a pretty perfect selection and it is sequenced great. Thirdly,the mediocre cover and careless packaging are inexcusable but not fatal. It just makes a 5-star rating a 4-star... Buy it.
One star lost to the vampires February 4, 2005
Mason Williams (Mars)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
There are a lot of fans doing a lot of bellyaching over this comp and I don't get it. There are 3 post band break-up "hits" comps out there, none of them have been "OK'd" by Morrissey or Marr, this one has better sound and more songs. Every A side is here, as are 5 extra "shoulda been A-sides". Comparing the sound on this with the sound on "Singles" is like night and day. You can program this to play in the order the songs were released if you're really that cranky over the random order of the tunes. Until RHINO does a proper anthology this is the best single disc comp. out there. I knocked off one star because this is an unauthorized overview, but I have a pretty good hunch that this is pretty much the same CD that Marr n' Mozz would have thrown together themselves. Keep in mind that there are no "official" Smiths T-shirts out there either but everyone seems to have one. Fans, product, supply, demand, oldest story in the book.
 best representation of the smiths on one CD June 19, 2003
J. Sloan (Phila., PA United States)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
yeah, a lot of hardcore smiths fans trash this album, but its because they're insulted by the grotesque cover art and the mispelling of a couple song titles on the back (WTF?), and because the smiths' music has already been repackaged and rereleased so much. however, "Very Best Of" is the best album available to introduce new listeners to the smiths, or give casual fans a bunch of their best songs for cheap. Also, the argument that greatest hits collections aren't as good as "real" albums doesn't really apply to the smiths; they released their music over a period of only a couple years, and specialized in producing tons of great singles which stood on their own, which were then slapped together onto various albums. Its true that you'll eventually need to buy several more smiths albums since they have so many great songs scattered on different LPs, but this collection is a good place to start if you're not a hardcore fan yet.
Best Smiths collection, period. July 13, 2005
James Simon (New York, NY USA)
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
Warner Bros. did a lousy job splitting up the hits of the Smiths into two fairly short volumes. You should save your money and space on your shelf and just get this one. Any Smiths fan would be hard pressed to find a hit missing on this CD, although "Cemetary Gates" and "The Queen Is Dead" would have been welcomed. Even so, if you only had one album to represent the band, this is well worth the cash. Plus the remastering is excellent.
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