Complete

by The Smiths

Complete cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 3 October 2011
  • Label: Rhino
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 6:34:02
  • Community rating: 4.51/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Remastering and assembling the entire legendary studio discography of the iconic Manchester quartet into a massive box set, this release serves as the ultimate testament to their brief, flawless run. It encapsulates the peerless songwriting partnership of Morrissey and Marr, preserving the immaculate jangle-pop guitar lines and fiercely literate, melancholic lyricism that permanently altered British independent music. It remains a staggering, self-contained canon of indie-pop perfection.

Genres

Descriptors: lgbtq, melodic, alienation, jangly, literate

Tracklist

  1. Reel Around the Fountain (5:59)
  2. You've Got Everything Now (3:59)
  3. Miserable Lie (4:27)
  4. Pretty Girls Make Graves (3:43)
  5. The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (4:37)
  6. This Charming Man (2:42)
  7. Still Ill (3:21)
  8. Hand in Glove (3:22)
  9. What Difference Does It Make? (3:49)
  10. I Don't Owe You Anything (4:04)
  11. Suffer Little Children (5:30)
  12. The Headmaster Ritual (4:55)
  13. Rusholme Ruffians (4:20)
  14. I Want the One I Can't Have (3:13)
  15. What She Said (2:42)
  16. That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore (4:57)
  17. Nowhere Fast (2:37)
  18. Well I Wonder (3:59)
  19. Barbarism Begins at Home (6:53)
  20. Meat Is Murder (6:13)
  21. The Queen Is Dead (6:27)
  22. Frankly, Mr. Shankly (2:18)
  23. I Know It's Over (5:49)
  24. Never Had No One Ever (3:38)
  25. Cemetry Gates (2:41)
  26. Bigmouth Strikes Again (3:13)
  27. The Boy with the Thorn in His Side (3:16)
  28. Vicar in a Tutu (2:24)
  29. There Is a Light That Never Goes Out (4:04)
  30. Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others (3:17)
  31. A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours (3:03)
  32. I Started Something I Couldn't Finish (3:47)
  33. Death of a Disco Dancer (5:26)
  34. Girlfriend in a Coma (2:02)
  35. Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before (3:35)
  36. Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me (5:05)
  37. Unhappy Birthday (2:45)
  38. Paint a Vulgar Picture (5:36)
  39. Death at One's Elbow (2:00)
  40. I Won't Share You (2:53)
  41. The Queen Is Dead - Live in London, 1986 (4:17)
  42. Panic - Live in London, 1986 (3:07)
  43. Vicar in a Tutu - Live in London, 1986 (2:32)
  44. Ask - Live in London, 1986 (3:22)
  45. His Latest Flame / Rusholme Ruffians - Live in London, 1986; Medley (3:55)
  46. The Boy with the Thorn in His Side - Live in London, 1986 (3:48)
  47. Rubber Ring / What She Said - Live in London, 1986 (3:49)
  48. Is It Really so Strange? - Live in London, 1986 (3:37)
  49. Cemetry Gates - Live in London, 1986 (2:51)
  50. London - Live in London, 1986 (2:38)
  51. I Know It's Over - Live in London, 1986; Extended Mix (7:46)
  52. The Draize Train - Live in London, 1986 (4:27)
  53. Still Ill - Live in London, 1986 (4:10)
  54. Bigmouth Strikes Again - Live in London, 1986 (5:54)
  55. William, It Was Really Nothing (2:11)
  56. What Difference Does It Make? - John Peel Session 18/05/83 (3:12)
  57. These Things Take Time - David Jensen Session 26/06/83 (2:33)
  58. This Charming Man - John Peel Session 14/09/83 (2:43)
  59. How Soon Is Now? (6:48)
  60. Handsome Devil - John Peel Session 18/05/83 (2:44)
  61. Hand in Glove (3:15)
  62. Still Ill - John Peel Session 14/09/83 (3:35)
  63. Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now (3:35)
  64. You've Got Everything Now - David Jensen Session 26/06/83 (4:14)
  65. Accept Yourself - David Jensen Session 25/08/83 (4:03)
  66. Girl Afraid (2:46)
  67. Back to the Old House - John Peel Session 14/09/83 (3:05)
  68. Reel Around the Fountain - John Peel Session 18/05/83 (5:50)
  69. Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want (1:52)
  70. Ask (3:18)
  71. London (2:07)
  72. Shakespeare's Sister (2:08)
  73. Money Changes Everything (4:42)
  74. Asleep (4:13)
  75. Unloveable (3:56)
  76. Stretch out and Wait (2:44)
  77. That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore (3:47)
  78. You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby (3:31)
  79. Golden Lights (2:41)
  80. Is It Really so Strange? - John Peel session, 12/2/86 (3:08)
  81. Sheila Take a Bow (2:42)
  82. Shoplifters of the World Unite (2:58)
  83. Sweet and Tender Hooligan - John Peel Session, 12/2/86 (3:36)
  84. Half a Person (3:38)
  85. Panic (2:20)
  86. You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby (3:33)
  87. Oscillate Wildly (3:28)
  88. These Things Take Time (2:23)
  89. Rubber Ring (3:48)
  90. Back to the Old House (3:06)
  91. Stretch out and Wait (2:39)
  92. This Night Has Opened My Eyes (3:41)
  93. Handsome Devil (2:56)
  94. Reel Around the Fountain (6:14)
  95. Jeane (3:04)
  96. What Difference Does It Make? (3:26)
  97. How Soon Is Now? (3:41)
  98. Barbarism Begins at Home (3:51)
  99. Shakespeare's Sister (2:09)
  100. Meat Is Murder - Live at Oxford Apollo 18/03/85 (5:40)
  101. The Draize Train (5:09)
  102. Work Is a Four-Letter Word (2:46)
  103. Pretty Girls Make Graves (3:35)
  104. Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me (3:13)
  105. Rusholme Ruffians (4:05)
  106. I Keep Mine Hidden (1:59)

Credits

  • The Smiths - primary artist
  • Frank Arkwright - remastered by
  • Johnny Marr - remastered by [assisted]

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