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Rank – Live LP

Release date: 1988, September

UK Chart: 2

Cover star:  Alexandra Bastedo, british actor. The picture was taken from Birds of Britain, a 1967 photo collection by John D. Green.  Alexandra Bastedo and Morrissey both are animal rights activists.

Etchings on the single’s matrix: none

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Live LP, 1988, september

Rank - The Smiths,1988, september

Rank
  1. The Queen Is Dead
  2. Panic
  3. Vicar In A Tutu
  4. Ask
  5. Rusholme Ruffians
  6. The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
  7. What She Said
  8. Is It Really So Strange?
  9. Cemetry Gates
  10. London
  11. I Know Its Over
  12. The Draize Train
  13. Still Ill
  14. Bigmouth Strikes Again

 

The world won’t listen

Release date: 1987, February

UK Chart: 2

Cover: Jürgen Vollmer’s photographs of Hamburg’s young Rock scene in the early 60s – most famously of the Beatles . The pictures were published in his 1981 book Rock’n'Roll Times to show  the style and spirit of the early Beatles and their first fans.

Etchings on the single’s matrix: none

Poster Available Here

 

The Smiths promo poster LP - 1987, February

The world won't listen - The Smithsposter, 1987, Feb

The world won’t listen

1. Panic

2. Ask

3. London

4. Bigmouth Strikes Again

5. Shakespeare’s Sister

6. There Is a Light That Never Goes Out

7. Shoplifters of the World Unite

8. The Boy with the Thorn in His Side

9. Money Changes Everything

10.Asleep

11.Unloveable

12.Half a Person

13.Stretch Out and Wait

14.That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore

15.Oscillate Wildly

16.You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet, Baby

17.Rubber Ring

Louder than bombs LP

Release date: 1987, March

UK Chart: 38

Cover Star:  Playwrighter Shelagh Delaney in Manchester, 1961, photographed by Arnold Newman one month before the film ‘A Taste of Honey’ (based on her play).
Louder than Bombs 2LP was first released in US only but later released in UK in order to avoid raising imports price.

Etchings on the single’s matrix: none

Poster Available Here

 

The Smiths promo poster LP - 1987, March

Louther than bombs – The Smiths poster, 1987, Mar

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Louder than Bombs

1. Is It Really So Strange?

2. Sheila Take a Bow

3. Shoplifters of the World Unite

4. Sweet and Tender Hooligan

5. Half a Person

6. London

7. Panic

8. Girl Afraid

9. Shakespeare’s Sister

10.William, It Was Really Nothing

11. You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet, Baby

12. Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now

13. Ask

14. Golden Lights

15. Oscillate Wildly

16. These Things Take Time

17. Rubber Ring

18. Back to the Old House

19. Hand in Glove

20. Stretch Out and Wait

21. Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want

22. This Night Has Opened My Eyes

23. Unloveable

24. Asleep

Strangeways, here we come

Release date: 1987, September

UK Chart: 2

Cover Star: Richard Davalos, in the movie East of Eden, the 1955 film directed by Elia Kazan.

Etchings on the single’s matrix: 1- GUY FAWKES WAS A GENIUS
*13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606, also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the Low Countries, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. He tried to destroy the Westminster Palace with some catholics more.

Poster Available Here

 

The Smiths single Poster, 1987, September

Strangeways here we come - The Smiths, 1987, Sept

Strangeways here we come

1. A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours

2. I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish

3. Death of a Disco Dancer

4. Girlfriend in a Coma

5. Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before

6. Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me

7. Unhappy Birthday

8. Paint a Vulgar Picture

9. Death at One’s Elbow

10. I Won’t Share You

 
 
 
 

Meat is murder

Release date: 1985, February

UK chart: 1

Cover star: Picture taken from the American documentary In the Year of the Pig, film about the origins of the Vietnam War, directed by Emile de Antonio in 1968. It was nominated for an Academy award for best documentary.

The words “Meat Is Murder” on the soldier’s helmet were originally “Make war not Love”

Etchings on the single’s matrix: 1- ILLNESS AS ART / 2- DOING THE WHYTENSHAWE WALTZ

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LP Promo poster - The Smiths,1985, February

Meat is murder LP- The Smiths,1985, February

Meat is murder

1. The Headmaster Ritual

2. Rusholme Ruffians

3. I Want the One I Can’t Have

4. What She Said

5. That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore

6. Nowhere Fast

7. Well I Wonder

8. Barbarism Begins at Home

9. Meat Is Murder

 
 
 
 
 

The Smiths LP

Release date: 1984, February

UK Chart: 2

Cover Star: Joe Dalessandro, American actor and sex symbol, the picture is a still from Flesh, a movie directed by Paul Morrissey in 1968.

Etchings on the single’s matrix: none

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The Smiths LP -1984, February

The Smiths LP -1984, February

The Smiths LP

1. Reel Around The Fountain

2. You’ve Got Everything Now

3. Miserable Lie

4. Pretty Girls Make Graves

5. The Hand That Rocks The Cradle

6. Still Ill

7. Hand In Glove

8. What Difference Does It Make

9. I Don’t Owe You Anything

10. Suffer Little Children

 
 

Hatful of Hollow LP

Release date: 1984, November

Uk Chart: 7

Cover star:  1983 photo taken by Gilles Decroix for Liberation french magazine  of a Jean Cocteau fan named Fabrice Colette sporting a Cocteau tattoo of a drawing seen in his ‘The White Book’. The image was published originally on a   french magazine special of 1983, Liberation, about  Cocteau where appeared the image of the model idolising him.

Etchings on the single’s matrix: 1- IMPOTENCE OF ERNEST

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LP Promo poster - The Smiths, 1984, Novembre

Hatful of hollow – The Smiths, 1984, Novembre

Hatful of Hollow

1. William, It Was Really Nothing

2. What Difference Does It Make?

3. These Things Take Time

4. This Charming Man

5. How Soon Is Now?

6. Handsome Devil

7. Hand In Glove

8. Still Ill

9. Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now

10. This Night Has Opened My Eyes

11. You’ve Got Everything Now

12. Accept Yourself

13. Girl Afraid

14. Back To The Old House

15. Reel Around The Fountain

16. Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want