The Smiths: The Sound of the Smiths

Copy at Case Memorial Library
Contents: Hand in glove; This charming man; What difference does it make? (Peel Sessions version); Still ill; Heaven knows I'm miserable now; William, it was really nothing; How soon is now? (12" version); Nowhere fast; Shakespeare's sister; Barbarism begins at home (7" version); That joke isn't funny anymore; The headmaster ritual; The boy with the thorn in his side; Bigmouth strikes again; There is a light that never goes out; Panic; Ask; You just haven't earned it yet, baby; 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.
Barry Walters wrote in Rolling Stone: "Overseen by Morrissey and guitarist Johnny Marr, this compilation emphasizes the compositional might behind the miserablism of England's most idiosyncratic and influential Eighties band. Sound traces the quartet's four-year evolution from savage tenderness to refined despair: Morrissey articulates both bleak romanticism and omni-deprecating humor, while Marr accompanies him with chiming, multilayered riffs" (11/13/08).