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Louder Than Bombs - Remastered - Sealed

THE SMITHS Louder Than Bombs (UK/EU limited edition 24-track remastered double album 2-LP pressed on heavyweight black vinyl, the excellent compilation of singles, B-sides, album tracks and BBC Sessions that was originally assembled for the American market and first released in 1987. Orange gatefold picture sleeve featuring cover star Shelagh Delaney, factory sealed. Recommended)
#Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time

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Release Year 2021 - 3 years ago
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Format 2-LP vinyl record set (Double LP Album)
Record Label Sire
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Product Catalogue No 2564665877
Music Genre 80's Pop, Indie
Country Comes from UK Comes from 'UK'
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Tracklisting & More Information

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 United 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 be a 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 US 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, shorter mix. However, this shorter version of the song was replaced when Bombs was reissued in 2011. Additionally, the Louder Than Bombs version of "Stretch Out and Wait" is the version from the B-side of "Shakespeare's Sister", which features slightly different lyrics. Also of note is the fact that "Ask" appears on both Louder Than Bombs and The World Won't Listen in a slightly different and longer mix than its single version.

Due to the album offering many B-sides (and the "Sheila Take a Bow" single) that had never been collected onto an album before, Louder Than Bombs became very popular on import with fans in the UK. To avoid high import prices being paid, the Smiths' domestic record company, Rough Trade, decided to release the compilation as well.

The cover art for Louder Than Bombs, designed by Morrissey, features British playwright Shelagh Delaney of Salford, Greater Manchester. The photograph was originally published in the Saturday Evening Post after Delaney, at the age of 19, made her literary debut with the play A Taste of Honey. The play inspired many early lyrics written by Morrissey, and the song "This Night Has Opened My Eyes" (included here) is based on the plight of the play's heroine, Jo, an unwed mother.

LP1:
Side One
1. Is It Really So Strange?
2. Sheila Take A Bow
3. Shoplifters Of The World Unite
4. Sweet And Tender Hooligan
5. Half A Person
6. London

Side Two
7. Panic
8. Girl Afraid
9. Shakespeare's Sister
10. William It Was Really Nothing
11. You Just Haven't Earned It Yet Baby
12. Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now

LP2:
Side Three
13. Ask
14. Golden Lights
15. Oscillate Wildly
16. These Things Take Time
17. Rubber Ring
18. Back To The Old House

Side Four
19. Hand In Glove
20. Stretch Out And Wait
21. Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
22. This Night Has Opened My Eyes
23. Unloveable
24. Asleep


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DOUBLE LP  
Recording Artist The Smiths
Product Title Louder Than Bombs - Remastered - Sealed
Product Information The Smiths Louder Than Bombs - Remastered - Sealed UK 2-LP vinyl record set (Double LP Album).
Language All tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
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Artists Related To Bim, Boz Boorer, Freak Party, James Maker, Johnny Marr, Morrissey, Sea Fever, Snake River Conspiracy, Stex, The Cradle, The Hoax, The One Three, Vinny Peculiar
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