(Vinyl Love is a series of posts that quite simply lists, describes, and displays the pieces in my growing vinyl collection. You can bet that each record was given a spin during the drafting of each corresponding post.)
Artist: The Smiths
Album Title: The world won’t listen
Year released: 1987
Year reissued: 2011
Details: Remastered, double LP, part of box set that includes booklet and poster
The skinny: Happy Sunday! Are you getting tired of seeing pictures of the pieces from this box set yet? Patience. Just a couple installments to go. This compilation, whose title is an expression of Morrissey’s frustration at the band’s lack of exposure, gathers together a bunch of the band’s singles and their b-sides, released between 1985 and 1987. As a record, it’s one that doesn’t see the platter often because of the compilation that was originally released a mere months after this one and that one will be featured next week. That other one is a big favourite of mine and the song featured below is one of only two songs from this one not available there.
Standout track: “The boy with the thorn in his side”
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4 replies on “Vinyl love: The Smiths “The world won’t listen””
Their discography is kind of annoying – I think there are songs like Money Changes Everything that are here and nowhere else.
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It kinda is, yeah. That’s why this “Complete” box set was almost a must for my collection.
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I have all the patience in the world for these posts – it’s a complete box set, These Things Take Time!
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