The CD Singles '88-91'

by Morrissey

The CD Singles '88-91' cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 19 June 2000
  • Label: EMI
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:54:21
  • Community rating: 4.2/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A boxed set reproducing Morrissey's first ten solo singles for HMV and EMI as replica CD singles, B-sides included, beginning with 'Suedehead' in 1988. The sequence documents his post-Smiths repositioning as a solo artist, the singles charting his movement from jangle pop toward rockabilly and glam inflections.

Genres

Descriptors: male-vocals, crooning, witty, jangly, storytelling

Tracklist

  1. Suedehead (3:56)
  2. I Know Very Well How I Got My Name (2:00)
  3. Hairdresser On Fire (3:52)
  4. Oh Well, I'll Never Learn (2:00)
  5. Everyday Is Like Sunday (3:44)
  6. Sister I'm A Poet (2:24)
  7. Disappointed (3:03)
  8. Will Never Marry (3:38)
  9. The Last Of The Famous International Playboys (3:40)
  10. Lucky Lisp (2:51)
  11. Michael's Bones (3:08)
  12. Interesting Drug (3:27)
  13. Such A Little Thing Makes Such A Big Difference (2:51)
  14. Sweet And Tender Hooligan (Live) (3:58)
  15. Ouija Board, Ouija Board (4:25)
  16. Yes I'm Blind (3:43)
  17. East West (2:34)
  18. November Spawned A Monster (5:26)
  19. He Knows I'd Love To See Him (3:06)
  20. Girl Least Likely To (4:50)
  21. Piccadilly Palare (3:27)
  22. Get Off The Stage (3:04)
  23. At Amber (2:43)
  24. Our Frank (3:24)
  25. Journalists Who Lie (4:08)
  26. Tony The Pony (4:11)
  27. Sing Your Life (3:25)
  28. That's Entertainment (3:54)
  29. The Loop (4:15)
  30. Pregnant For The Last Time (2:40)
  31. Skin Storm (2:58)
  32. Cosmic Dancer (Live) (4:12)
  33. Disappointed (Live) (3:24)

Credits

  • Morrissey - primary artist, voice, words by, written-by
  • Andy Rourke - bass guitar, written-by
  • Mark Bedford - bass [basses]
  • Rachel Maguire - cello, strings [string section], cello
  • Robert Woollard - cello, strings [string section], cello
  • Mike Joyce - drums [the drums]
  • Craig Gannon - guitar [guitars]
  • Kevin Armstrong - guitar [guitars], written-by
  • Steve Williams - engineer [assistant engineer], engineer [engineered by]
  • Danton Supple - engineer [assistant engineer]
  • Stewart Day - engineer [assistant engineer]
  • Paul Mortimer - engineer [assistant engineers]
  • Simon Metcalfe - engineer [assistant engineers]
  • Peter Thomas - engineer [engineered by]
  • Tim Young - mastered by
  • Clive Langer & Alan Winstanley - producer [produced by]
  • Clive Langer - written-by
  • Johnny Marr - written-by
  • Graham Gouldman - written-by
  • Paul Weller - written-by
  • Ian Michael Hodgson - written-by
  • Marc Bolan - written-by

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