Complete (The Smiths album)

Complete

Box set by The Smiths

Released

26 September 2011

Recorded

1983–1987

Genre

Alternative rock, indie pop

Length

404:38

Label

Rhino Entertainment

Producer

Various

The Smiths chronology

The Smiths Singles Box
(2008)

Complete
(2011)

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	89/100^[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]
Filter	96%^[3]
Pitchfork Media	8.1/10^[4]
The Independent	^[5]
Mojo	80/100^[6]
PopMatters	8/10^[7]

Complete is a box set released by British band The Smiths on 26 September 2011. Standard versions contain their four studio albums (The Smiths, Meat Is Murder, The Queen Is Dead and Strangeways, Here We Come), a live album (Rank) and three compilations (Hatful of Hollow, The World Won't Listen and Louder Than Bombs) over 8 CDs or 8 LPs. A deluxe version contains the albums on both CD and LP formats as well as 25 7" vinyl singles and a DVD.

Despite its name it is not truly complete, as at least three songs are missing on the standard versions: "Work Is A Four Letter Word", "I Keep Mine Hidden" and "The Draize Train" (studio version), though the live version of this instrumental is available on "Rank" and it's also available in the 7" of the deluxe edition. Other tracks missing from the Complete collection, "Jeane" and "Wonderful Woman" from the This Charming Man single are now available on the Deluxe 2CD version of the remastered 2008 compilation The Sound of The Smiths.

The package claims "Each album has been taken back to original tape sources and remastered by master-engineer Frank Arkwright, assisted by Johnny Marr at the Metropolis Studios in London". The CD version is presented "in VINYL REPLICA sleeves", actually the usual miniature-LP packaging.

Marr said of the reissues, which were released on both CD and 12" vinyl, "I'm very happy that the remastered versions of The Smiths albums are finally coming out. I wanted to get them sounding right and remove any processing so that they now sound as they did when they were originally made. I'm pleased with the results." (NME, July 28, 2011 13:33)

Track listing

All songs by Morrissey and Johnny Marr except:

"Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty" from The Queen Is Dead (Intro) (A.J. Mills, Fred Godfrey, Bennett Scott)
"Money Changes Everything" from The World Won't Listen and "The Draize Train" from Rank (Johnny Marr)
"Golden Lights" from Louder Than Bombs (Twinkle)
"His Latest Flame" from Rank (Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman)
"Work Is a Four-Letter Word" from Girlfriend in a Coma (Guy Woolfenden, Don Black, Cilla Black)

CD1/LP1 – The Smiths track listing
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Reel Around the Fountain"	5:58
2.	"You've Got Everything Now"	3:59
3.	"Miserable Lie"	4:29
4.	"Pretty Girls Make Graves"	3:24
5.	"The Hand That Rocks the Cradle"	4:38
6.	"Still Ill"	3:23
7.	"Hand in Glove"	3:25
8.	"What Difference Does It Make?"	3:51
9.	"I Don't Owe You Anything"	4:05
10.	"Suffer Little Children"	5:28

CD2/LP2 – Meat Is Murder track listing
No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Headmaster Ritual"	4:52
2.	"Rusholme Ruffians"	4:20
3.	"I Want the One I Can't Have"	3:14
4.	"What She Said"	2:42
5.	"That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore"	4:59
6.	"Nowhere Fast"	2:37
7.	"Well I Wonder"	4:00
8.	"Barbarism Begins at Home"	6:57
9.	"Meat Is Murder"	6:06

CD3/LP3 – The Queen Is Dead track listing
No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Queen Is Dead"	6:24
2.	"Frankly, Mr. Shankly"	2:17
3.	"I Know It's Over"	5:48
4.	"Never Had No One Ever"	3:36
5.	"Cemetry Gates"	2:39
6.	"Bigmouth Strikes Again"	3:12
7.	"The Boy with the Thorn in His Side"	3:15
8.	"Vicar in a Tutu"	2:21
9.	"There Is a Light That Never Goes Out"	4:02
10.	"Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others"	3:14

CD4/LP4 – Strangeways, Here We Come track listing
No.	Title	Length
1.	"A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours"	3:00
2.	"I Started Something I Couldn't Finish"	3:47
3.	"Death of a Disco Dancer"	5:26
4.	"Girlfriend in a Coma"	2:03
5.	"Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before"	3:32
6.	"Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me"	5:03
7.	"Unhappy Birthday"	2:46
8.	"Paint a Vulgar Picture"	5:35
9.	"Death at One's Elbow"	2:01
10.	"I Won't Share You"	2:48

CD5/LP5 – Rank track listing
No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Queen Is Dead"	4:11
2.	"Panic"	3:07
3.	"Vicar in a Tutu"	2:40
4.	"Ask"	3:12
5.	"His Latest Flame/Rusholme Ruffians" (Medley)"	3:55
6.	"The Boy with the Thorn in His Side"	3:47
7.	"Rubber Ring/What She Said (Medley)"	3:41
8.	"Is It Really So Strange?"	3:45
9.	"Cemetry Gates"	2:50
10.	"London"	2:38
11.	"I Know It's Over"	7:49
12.	"The Draize Train"	4:23
13.	"Still Ill"	4:09
14.	"Bigmouth Strikes Again"	5:51

CD6/LP6 – Hatful of Hollow track listing
No.	Title	Length
1.	"William, It Was Really Nothing"	2:09
2.	"What Difference Does It Make?"	3:11
3.	"These Things Take Time"	2:32
4.	"This Charming Man"	2:42
5.	"How Soon Is Now?"	6:44
6.	"Handsome Devil"	2:47
7.	"Hand in Glove (single version)"	3:13
8.	"Still Ill"	3:32
9.	"Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now"	3:33
10.	"This Night Has Opened My Eyes"	3:39
11.	"You've Got Everything Now"	4:18
12.	"Accept Yourself"	4:01
13.	"Girl Afraid"	2:48
14.	"Back to the Old House"	3:02
15.	"Reel Around the Fountain"	5:51
16.	"Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want"	1:50

CD7/LP7 – The World Won't Listen track listing
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Panic"	2:21
2.	"Ask"	3:15
3.	"London"	2:07
4.	"Bigmouth Strikes Again"	3:13
5.	"Shakespeare's Sister"	2:08
6.	"There Is a Light That Never Goes Out"	4:05
7.	"Shoplifters of the World Unite"	2:58
8.	"The Boy with the Thorn in His Side (album version – the original release included the single version)"	3:16
9.	"Money Changes Everything"	4:43
10.	"Asleep"	4:10
11.	"Unloveable"	3:56
12.	"Half a Person"	3:36
13.	"Stretch Out and Wait (alternate vocal)"	2:45
14.	"That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore (single version)"	3:49
15.	"Oscillate Wildly"	3:26
16.	"You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby (UK mix)"	3:32
17.	"Rubber Ring"	3:48

CD8/LP8 – Louder Than Bombs track listing
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Is It Really So Strange? (John Peel session, 12/2/86)"	3:04
2.	"Sheila Take a Bow"	2:41
3.	"Shoplifters of the World Unite"	2:57
4.	"Sweet and Tender Hooligan (John Peel session, 12/2/86)"	3:35
5.	"Half a Person"	3:36
6.	"London"	2:07
7.	"Panic"	2:20
8.	"Girl Afraid"	2:48
9.	"Shakespeare's Sister"	2:09
10.	"William, It Was Really Nothing"	2:11
11.	"You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby (original UK Mix – the original release included an alternate US mix)"	3:34
12.	"Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now"	3:34
13.	"Ask"	3:18
14.	"Golden Lights"	2:39
15.	"Oscillate Wildly"	3:27
16.	"These Things Take Time"	2:23
17.	"Rubber Ring"	3:48
18.	"Back to the Old House"	3:05
19.	"Hand in Glove (Single Version)"	3:13
20.	"Stretch Out and Wait (Original Version)"	2:38
21.	"Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want"	1:52
22.	"This Night Has Opened My Eyes (John Peel Session 9/14/83)"	3:40
23.	"Unlovable"	3:55
24.	"Asleep"	4:11

Deluxe Edition 7" Singles track listing
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Hand in Glove/Handsome Devil (Live at the Hacienda, Manchester 1983)"
2.	"Reel Around The Fountain (Troy Tate Reel)/Jeane"
3.	"This Charming Man/Jeane"
4.	"What Difference Does It Make?/ Back to the Old House"
5.	"Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now/Suffer Little Children"
6.	"William, It Was Really Nothing/Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want"
7.	"How Soon Is Now?/Well I Wonder"
8.	"Shakespeare's Sister/What She Said"
9.	"Barbarism Begins at Home/Shakespeare's Sister"
10.	"The Headmaster Ritual/Oscillate Wildly"
11.	"That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore/Meat Is Murder (Live)"
12.	"The Boy with the Thorn in His Side/Asleep"
13.	"Bigmouth Strikes Again/Money Changes Everything"
14.	"Panic/Vicar in a Tutu"
15.	"Ask/Cemetry Gates"
16.	"Shoplifters of the World Unite/Half A Person"
17.	"Sheila Take A Bow/Is It Really So Strange?"
18.	"Girlfriend in a Coma/Work Is A Four-Letter Word"
19.	"I Started Something I Couldn't Finish/Pretty Girls Make Graves (Troy Tate Version)"
20.	"Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me/Rusholme Ruffians (John Peel Version)"
21.	"Sweet And Tender Hooligan/I Keep Mine Hidden (Previously unreleased version^[8])"
22.	"There Is A Light That Never Goes Out/Half A Person"
23.	"Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others/The Draize Train"
24.	"Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before/Girlfriend in a Coma"
25.	"William, It Was Really Nothing/How Soon Is Now?"

Deluxe Edition DVD track listing
No.	Title	Length
1.	"This Charming Man"
2.	"What Difference Does It Make?"
3.	"Panic"
4.	"Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now"
5.	"Ask"
6.	"The Boy with the Thorn in His Side"
7.	"How Soon Is Now?"
8.	"Shoplifters of the World Unite"
9.	"Girlfriend in a Coma"
10.	"Sheila Take A Bow"
11.	"Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before"

^[9]

References

↑ Complete (The Smiths album) at Metacritic Retrieved 5 January 2012.
↑ Allmusic review
↑ Filter review
↑ Pitchfork review
↑ The Independent review
↑ Mojo review
↑ Sawdey, Evan. "The Smiths: Complete < PopMatters". Popmatters.com. Retrieved 18 March 2012.
↑ Morrissey fan forum article
↑ discogs article

The Smiths

Morrissey Johnny Marr Andy Rourke Mike Joyce Craig Gannon Dale Hibbert

Studio albums	The Smiths Meat Is Murder The Queen Is Dead Strangeways, Here We Come

Extended plays	The Peel Sessions

Live albums	Rank

Compilations	Hatful of Hollow The World Won't Listen Louder Than Bombs Stop Me Best... I ...Best II Singles The Very Best of The Smiths The Sound of The Smiths The Smiths Singles Box Complete

Singles	"Hand in Glove" "This Charming Man" "What Difference Does It Make?" "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" "William, It Was Really Nothing" "How Soon Is Now?" "Shakespeare's Sister" "Barbarism Begins at Home" "That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore" "The Boy with the Thorn in His Side" "Bigmouth Strikes Again" "Panic" "Ask" "Shoplifters of the World Unite" "Sheila Take a Bow" "Girlfriend in a Coma" "I Started Something I Couldn't Finish" "Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me" "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before" "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out" "Sweet and Tender Hooligan"

Other songs	"Suffer Little Children" "Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want" "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others"

Related articles	Discography The Smiths Is Dead Songs List of live performances

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