The Very Best of The Smiths

Type: Compilation
Released: 19 June 2001
Label: WEA
Country: United Kingdom
Length: 1:18:27
Community rating: 4.09/5 from 1 rating

by The Smiths

Artists on this release: Dan Hersch, Johnny Marr, Paul Slattery, John Porter, Morrissey, Paul Lester, Stephen Wright, Stephen Street, Steve Lillywhite, Bill Inglot

A single-disc summation of the Manchester band's five years, Morrissey and Marr's jangle pop reduced to its essential singles and album tracks.

Descriptors: alienation, melodic, jangly, guitars, literary

Panic (2:20)
The Boy With The Thorn In His Side (3:17)
Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now (3:36)
Ask (3:10)
Bigmouth Strikes Again (3:14)
How Soon Is Now? (6:46)
This Charming Man (2:43)
What Difference Does It Make? (3:52)
William, It Was Really Nothing (2:12)
Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others (3:17)
Girlfriend In A Coma (2:03)
Hand In Glove (3:25)
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (4:05)
Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want (1:53)
That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore (4:59)
I Know It's Over (5:50)
Sheila Take A Bow (2:42)
I Started Something I Couldn't Finish (3:48)
Still Ill (3:22)
Shakespeare's Sister (2:10)
Shoplifters Of The World Unite (2:58)
Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me (3:11)
Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before (3:34)