Louder Than Bombs

by

The Smiths

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If you own all four of the Smiths albums..."The Smiths", "Meat Is Murder", "The Queen Is Dead" and "Strangeways, Here We Come"...the album "Louder Than Bombs" is like the Beatles "Past Masters 1 & 2" collection but not as complete. This album does collect a nice piece of The Smiths songs not released on the four albums though. With "Louder Than Bombs", you have all of The Smiths non-album singles along with most of the B-Sides but not all of them...

"Louder Than Bombs" scrapes up the following songs...

Non-Album Singles:

Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now - 3:34 (1984 non-Album UK Single)

William, It Was Really Nothing - 2:11 (1984 non-Album UK Single)

Shakespeare's Sister 2:08 (1985 non-Album UK Single)

Panic - 2:20 (1986 non-Album UK Single)

Ask - 3:12 (1986 non-Album UK Single)

Shoplifters Of The World Unite - 2:58 (1987 non-Album UK Single)

Sheila Take A Bow - 3:02 (1987 non-Album UK Single)

B-Sides:

Back To The Old House - 3:04 (1984 B-Side of "What Difference Does It Make")

These Things Take Time - 2:23 (1984 B-Side of "What Difference Does It Make")

Girl Afraid - 2:49 (1984 B-Side of "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now")

Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want - 1:52 (1984 B-Side of "William, It Was Really Nothing")

Oscillate Wildly - 3:25 (1985 B-Side of "How Soon Is Now")

Stretch Out And Wait - 2:46 (1985 B-Side of "Shakespeare's Sister")

Asleep - 4:11 (1985 B-Side of "The Boy With The Thorn In His Side")

Rubber Ring - 3:48 (1985 B-Side of "The Boy With The Thorn In His Side")

Unloveable - 3:56 (1986 B-Side of "Bigmouth Strikes Again")

Golden Lights - 2:43 (1986 B-Side of "Ask")

London - 2:08 (1987 B-Side of "Shoplifters Of The World Unite")

Half A Person - 3:36 (1987 B-Side of "Shoplifters Of The World Unite")

Is It Really So Strange? - 2:42 (John Peel Session) (1987 B-Side of "Sheila Take A Bow")

Sweet And Tender Hooligan (John Peel Session) - 3:33 (1987 B-Side of "Sheila Take A Bow")

The other 3 songs on the album are:

Hand In Glove - 3:15 (Single Version)

You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby - 3:33 (Taken from mispressings of the "Shoplifters Of The World Unite" single)

This Night Has Opened My Eyes (John Peel Session) - 3:40 (Also can be found on "Hateful Of Hollow")

The CD booklet that comes with the album has the lyrics to all 24 songs featured across 10 pages with about 2 or 3 songs per page.

On another note, there are only a handful of songs you don't have with this collection and the four albums released by the band. Below are the remaining 9 songs and where you can get them on CD...

"The World Won't Listen" album:

Money Changes Everything

"Hateful Of Hollow" album:

Accept Yourself

Handsome Devil

"Rank" Live album:

The Draize Train (Live)

"Sweet And Tender Hooligan" single:

I Keep Mine Hidden

Work Is A Four Letter Word

What's The World

and now the last and hardest of the songs to get...

"This Charming Man" Single:

Jeane

Wonderful Woman

...Not all releases of "This Charming Man" has "Jeane" & "Wonderful Woman". You have to find a copy made before the 1992 re-release. There are many different versions but just make sure it has the two songs above on it. There are also two CD Maxi-Singles of "This Charming Man" that are easy to get that were released in 1990...You have to buy both of these to get the two songs "Jeane" and "Wonderful Woman"...

The first CD Maxi-Single features:

1.This Charming Man (Manchester)

2.Jeane

3.Accept Yourself

The second CD Maxi-Single features

1.This Charming Man (Manchester)

2.This Charming Man (London)

3.This Charming Man (New York Vocal)

4.This Charming Man (New York Instrumental)

5.This Charming Man (Peel Session)

6.This Charming Man (Single Version)

7.This Charming Man (Original Single Version)

8.Wonderful Woman