This joke isn’t funny anymore, god damn it*.
We’ve already got all these songs and if we don’t there’s about three other compilations we can get them on. But here we go again, Warner trots out another Smiths package and spins some junk about it being the ‘very best’ of the Smiths, or the ‘essential’ Smiths. Bullocks. This is the ‘oh, you lost your Singles collection? Damn, you better get this’ Smiths trough.
Somewhere, Morrissey is rolling in his bed of unmarked bills.
*Best Smiths-pun wins a prize.
Hang the DJ: The Very Best of the Smiths
Disc 1:
“Hand in Glove”
“Reel Around the Fountain”
“This Charming Man”
“What Difference Does It Make”
“Still Ill”
“Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now”
“William, It Was Really Nothing”
“How Soon Is Now?”
“Shakespeare’s Sister”
“Barbarism Begins at Home”
“That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore”
“The Headmaster Ritual”
“The Boy With the Thorn in His Side”
“Bigmouth Strikes Again”
“There Is a Light That Never Goes Out”
“Panic”
“Ask”
“You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet Baby”
“Shoplifters of the World Unite”
“Sheila Take a Bow”
“Girlfriend in a Coma”
“I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish”
“Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me”
Disc 2:
“Handsome Devil: (Live)
“Jeane:
“This Charming Man: (New York vocal)
“Back to the Old House”
“These Things Take Time”
“Girl Afraid”
“Please, Please Please Let Me Get What I Want”
“Oscillate Wildly”
“Stretch Out and Wait”
“Meat Is Murder” (Live in Oxford)
“Asleep”
“Money Changes Everything”
“The Queen Is Dead”
“Vicar in a Tutu”
“Cemetry Gates”
“Half a Person”
“Sweet and Tender Hooligan”
“I Keep Mine Hidden”
“Pretty Girls Make Graves” (Troy Tate version)
“Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before”
“What’s the World” (Live in Glasgow)
