[Hip Priest]

Most exciting stuff. The long-rumoured Smiths boxset is expected in February 2007, according to sources. It's not absolutely concrete-official yet, but this is supposedly the tracklist...

THE SMITHS BOX SET

DISC ONE: THE SMITHS + (1983/1984)
1 Reel Around The Fountain 5.54
2 You've Got Everything Now 3.59
3 Miserable Lie 4.27
4 Pretty Girls Make Graves 3.41
5 The Hand That Rocks The Cradle 4.39
6 This Charming Man (Manchester) 2.41
7 Still Ill 3.19
8 Hand In Glove (remixed by John Porter) 3.23
9 What Difference Does It Make? 3.50
10 I Don't Owe You Anything 4.04
11 Suffer Little Children 5.27
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12 Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now 3.34
13 Jeane (from the Troy Tate sessions) 3.03
14 Accept Yourself 3.55
15 Wonderful Woman 3.07
16 Back To The Old House 3.04
17 These Things Take Time 2.20
18 Girl Afraid 2.46
19 Hand In Glove (single version) 3.12
20 This Charming Man (London) 2.45
21 What Difference Does It Make? (single edit) 3.10
22 Pretty Girls Make Graves (from the Troy Tate sessions) 3.35

DISC TWO: MEAT IS MURDER + (1984/1985)
1 The Headmaster Ritual 4.52
2 Rusholme Ruffians 4.19
3 I Want The One I Can't Have 3.13
4 What She Said 2.40
5 That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore (album version) 4.57
6 How Soon Is Now? (album version) 6.43
7 Nowhere Fast 2.35
8 Well I Wonder 4.00
9 Barbarism Begins At Home (album version) 6.55
10 Meat Is Murder 6.02
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11 William, It Was Really Nothing 2.10
12 Shakespeare's Sister 2.09
13 Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want 1.50
14 Oscillate Wildly 3.26
15 Stretch Out And Wait 2.37
16 How Soon Is Now? (fade-out version) 3.41
17 Barbarism Begins At Home (edit) 3.48
18 Stretch Out And Wait (different take) 2.44
19 How Soon Is Now? (unique alternate studio outtake) 7.06

DISC THREE: THE QUEEN IS DEAD + (1985/1986)
1 The Queen Is Dead/Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty 6.23
2 Frankly, Mr. Shankly 2.17
3 I Know It's Over 5.48
4 Never Had No One Ever 3.36
5 Cemetry Gates 2.39
6 Bigmouth Strikes Again 3.12
7 The Boy With The Thorn In His Side (album version) 3.17
8 Vicar In A Tutu 2.21
9 There Is A Light That Never Goes Out 4.02
10 Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others (album version) 3.14
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11 Panic 2.20
12 Rubber Ring 3.46
13 Asleep 4.09
14 Money Changes Everything 4.40
15 Unloveable 3.54
16 The Draize Train 5.08
17 The Boy With The Thorn In His Side (single version) 3.17
18 Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others (edited) 3.01
19 The Queen Is Dead (single version) 6.06
20 Rubber Ring/Asleep 7.56

DISC FOUR: STRANGEWAYS, HERE WE COME + (1986/1987)
1 A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours 3.00
2 I Started Something I Couldn't Finish 3.46
3 Death Of A Disco Dancer 5.25
4 Girlfriend In A Coma 2.02
5 Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before 3.32
6 Last Night I Dreamt Tht Somebody Loved Me (album version) 5.04
7 Unhappy Birthday 2.45
8 Paint A Vulgar Picture 5.35
9 Death At One's Elbow 1.58
10 I Won't Share You 2.49
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11 Ask (album version) 3.15
12 Shoplifters Of The World Unite 2.56
13 You Just Haven't Earned It Yet Baby 3.32
14 Sheila Take A Bow 2.40
15 Golden Lights 2.38
16 London 2.06
17 Half A Person 3.35
18 Work Is A Four Letter Word 2.45
19 I Keep Mine Hidden 1.57
20 Ask (single version) 2.59
21 You Just Haven't Earned It Yet Baby (version) 3.23
22 Work Is A Four Letter Word (edited) 2.09
23 Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me (edited) 3.09

DISC FIVE: RANK + (live 1983/1986)
SIX
----live at National Ballroom in Kilburn, 23rd October 1986----
1. The Queen Is Dead 4.13
2. Panic 3.06
3. Vicar In A Tutu 2.33
4. Ask 3.21
5. Rusholme Ruffians/(Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame 3.55
6. The Boy With The Thorn In His Side 3.48
7. What She Said/Rubber Ring 3.43
8. Is It Really So Strange? 3.44
9. Cemetry Gates 3.09
10. London 2.19
11. I Know It's Over 7.47
12. The Draize Train 5.08
13. Still Ill 4.10
14. Bigmouth Strikes Again 5.51
----live Manchester 4/2/83----
15. Handsome Devil 2.53
----live Oxford 18/03/85----
16. Nowhere Fast 2.31
17. Stretch Out And Wait 2.49
18. Shakespeare's Sister 2.12
19. Meat Is Murder 5.34
----live Glasgow 25/9/85----
20. What's The World? 2.05
----live London 12/12/86----
21. Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others 5.03

DISC SIX: RADIO SESSIONS + (1983/1986)
----31 May 1983 - John Peel Show----
1. Handsome Devil 2.46
2. Reel Around The Fountain 5.50
3. Miserable Lie 4.33
4. What Difference Does It Make? 3.10
----4 July 1983 - David Jensen Show----
5. These Things Take Time 2.23
6. You've Got Everything Now 3.59
----5 September 1983 - David Jensen Show----
7. Accept Yourself 4.02
----21 September 1983 - John Peel Show----
8. This Charming Man 2.42
9. Back To The Old House 3.03
10. This Night Has Opened My Eyes 3.40
11. Still Ill 3.36
----9 August 1984 - John Peel Show----
12. William It Was Really Nothing 2.04
13. Nowhere Fast 2.39
14. Rusholme Ruffians 4.04
----17 December 1986 - John Peel Show----
15. Is It Really So Strange? 3.04
16. Sweet And Tender Hooligan 3.34
----This Charming Man Remixes----
17. This Charming Man (New York) 5.33
18. This Charming Man (New York Instrumental) 4.17
19. This Charming Man (single remix) 2.44
----live London 29/6/83----
20. Hand In Glove 2.48

Mmmmmmm.

[the ikara cult]

sugar.
Ive been humming Still Ill to myself the last few days, the first one is the only album i own - though Meat is Murder was the number one album the day i was born, which is pretty cool. I kinda went "I love the Smiths" then didnt care for about 3 years and now im finding myself getting increasingly back into them and this sounds like just the thing for me.

[Hip Priest]

...and, just in case anyone missed this vital information-gathering exercise the first time around, a link to my ols Smiths 'best LP' poll, because I imagine you care about such things very deeply.: http://216.70.73.169/gossip/showthre...ghlight=Smiths

[Hip Priest]

Originally Posted by the ikara cult

sugar.
Ive been humming Still Ill to myself the last few days, the first one is the only album i own - though Meat is Murder was the number one album the day i was born, which is pretty cool. I kinda went "I love the Smiths" then didnt care for about 3 years and now im finding myself getting increasingly back into them and this sounds like just the thing for me.

Meat is Murder is my favourite of their LPs.

It looks like a very fine collection. I've never updated The Smiths to cd because they just seem to suit vinyl, but if this boxset thingy is reasonably priced then I'll go for it.

[the ikara cult]

Originally Posted by swa(y)

morrisey, what a silly bitch.

Yeah, i cant remember who it was but some Heavy Metal journalist in the 80s drove past thequeue outside a Morrissey gig in a big fuck off convertible and threw raw meat at the people in the Queue. Cruel but funny nonetheless.

[Rob Instigator]

this is excellent news!!!!!!!!

[fishmonkey]

hoow much is this gonna cost me?

Good thread, Hip Priest. The box set should come out later this year now, or so it states on one of Morrisey's websites. Just found out recently, that 'Suffer Little Children' originally had a piano coda at the end that later became 'Asleep'.

[Washing Machine]

can't wait...love The Smiths!

[evollove]

i just had an orgasm

[HaydenAsche]

I'll buy it.

[StevOK]

I wonder if this will be out before I go see Morrisey live next month...