Louder Than Bombs
The Smiths
Louder Than Bombs
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Tracklist
| Track | Duration | Listeners | ||||
| 1 | Sheila Take a Bow | 2:41 | 139,043 | |||
| 2 | Shoplifters of the World Unite | 2:57 | 150,123 | |||
| 3 | Half a Person | 3:34 | 109,711 | |||
| 4 | London | 2:06 | 80,941 | |||
| 5 | Panic | 2:19 | 209,000 | |||
| 6 | Girl Afraid | 2:48 | 113,468 | |||
| 7 | Shakespeare's Sister | 2:08 | 136,438 | |||
| 8 | William, It Was Really Nothing | 2:10 | 186,197 | |||
| 9 | You Just Haven't Earned It Yet Baby | 3:22 | 26,143 | |||
| 10 | Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now | 3:33 | 203,142 | |||
| 11 | Ask | 3:11 | 179,268 | |||
| 12 | Golden Lights | 2:39 | 63,727 | |||
| 13 | Oscillate Wildly | 3:27 | 85,959 | |||
| 14 | These Things Take Time | 2:22 | 102,473 | |||
| 15 | Rubber Ring | 3:48 | 88,410 | |||
| 16 | Back to the Old House | 3:03 | 93,434 | |||
| 17 | Hand in Glove | 3:22 | 207,758 | |||
| 18 | Stretch Out and Wait | 2:37 | 78,750 | |||
| 19 | Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want | 1:53 | 88,966 | |||
| 20 | Unloveable | 3:55 | 78,260 | |||
| 21 | Asleep | 4:09 | 113,163 |
About this album
Louder Than Bombs is a compilation album by The Smiths. It was released as a double album in March 1987 by their American record company, Sire Records. Its highest chart position was number 63. Popular demand prompted their British record company, Rough Trade, to issue the album domestically as well. Upon its release in the UK in May 1987, it reached number 38 on the British charts. In 2003, the album was ranked number 365 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA in 1990.
The album was released as the American counterpart to their recent British compilation The World Won’t Listen and consisted of all singles and nearly all b-sides that had not at that point been available in the States, either on single or album, with a few other tracks added. The title is borrowed from a line in Elizabeth Smart’s extended prose poem “By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept.”
The album was intended to substitute for both The World Won’t Listen and their 1984 compilation Hatful of Hollow as these had not been released in the United States. This is why the non-single track “This Night Has Opened My Eyes” from Hatful of Hollow was included. (Single a-sides “This Charming Man” and “How Soon Is Now?” had already been released in the U.S. as bonus cuts on the LPs The Smiths and Meat Is Murder, respectively.)
As with The World Won’t Listen, this compilation includes the scrapped single “You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet, Baby” (passed over in favour of “Shoplifters of the World Unite”), albeit in a different mix.
The album was released as the American counterpart to their recent British compilation The World Won’t Listen and consisted of all singles and nearly all b-sides that had not at that point been available in the States, either on single or album, with a few other tracks added. The title is borrowed from a line in Elizabeth Smart’s extended prose poem “By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept.”
The album was intended to substitute for both The World Won’t Listen and their 1984 compilation Hatful of Hollow as these had not been released in the United States. This is why the non-single track “This Night Has Opened My Eyes” from Hatful of Hollow was included. (Single a-sides “This Charming Man” and “How Soon Is Now?” had already been released in the U.S. as bonus cuts on the LPs The Smiths and Meat Is Murder, respectively.)
As with The World Won’t Listen, this compilation includes the scrapped single “You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet, Baby” (passed over in favour of “Shoplifters of the World Unite”), albeit in a different mix.
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Shouts
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dominic_john wrote:
my favourite by them even though it excludes so many classics.
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Raffaelll wrote:
Half a person é sensacional.
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GiuseppeCunha wrote:
If I had to chose one album to be burried with me, this would be it.
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Clionado wrote:
Awesome Smiths compilation
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OptionalToaster wrote:
My first introduction to the Smiths. I know it front to back.
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Corblimeyguvnor wrote:
The worst of their comps in that it lacks the flow that both HoH and TWWL have. It does have Sheila though.
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LetDownHTDC wrote:
This is an excellent compilation but i'd like it more if it had still ill, nowhere fast and last night I dreamt.... along with suffer little children
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AUTO_DEFIANCE wrote:
Was always dissapointed "Stop me . . ." didn't make this compilation. It's in The Smiths top 5 songs IMHO. We cover it!
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randomdarling wrote:
I fully agree with starve
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hawk1984-3 wrote:
get it streamable!!
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sternoski wrote:
An interesting blog at http://drawmorrissey.blogspot.com (morrissey drawings etc.)
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starve wrote:
THE best Smiths compilation.
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aCoZz wrote:
From all the compilations this is probably my favourite, not a bad track on it.
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yvettejeanette wrote:
From begging to End....This album was and is King
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i_eat_brains wrote:
i wouldn't have got into the smiths without this album, every song is a hit in my book
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ncrln81 wrote:
hahahaha!
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void__ wrote:
the first cd i bought was spice girls. how trendy are u!
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emertont wrote:
This was the 1st CD I ever bought, and I still love it, despite a couple of "duffers". Even the worst of The Smiths is better than the best of some groups output !
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Forget_this wrote:
Compilation parfaite de A a Z, même la pochette est superbe.
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OneSalient wrote:
Now listen here.
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