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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Rank - The Smiths,1988, september
Rank
- The Queen Is Dead
- Panic
- Vicar In A Tutu
- Ask
- Rusholme Ruffians
- The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
- What She Said
- Is It Really So Strange?
- Cemetry Gates
- London
- I Know Its Over
- The Draize Train
- Still Ill
- 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
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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
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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.
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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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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
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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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