“I love the Smiths and my sister turned me on to them. But I think I loved the amount of stuff on this record. It's like a double record. It seemed like a special, special thing.”Watch this moment
Louder Than Bombs
The Smiths
Louder Than Bombs is a compilation album by the English rock band the Smiths, released as a double album on 30 March 1987 by their American record company, Sire Records. It peaked at number 62 on the US Billboard 200 album chart. Popular demand prompted their British record company, Rough Trade, to issue the album domestically as well.
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“This is full of bangers. This is just like banger on banger on banger. The Smiths were a band that my dad told me about a lot when I was a kid... and then it wasn't until I was a teenager that I started listening to The Smiths and I started to listen to his lyrics.”Watch this moment
Tracklist
24 tracks · 73:06 · click to preview1
Is It Really So Strange? (John Peel Session, 12/2/86)
3:06
2
Sheila Take a Bow
2:42
3
Shoplifters of the World Unite
2:57
4
Sweet and Tender Hooligan (John Peel Session, 12/2/86)
3:36
5
Half a Person
3:36
6
London
2:07
7
Panic
2:21
8
Girl Afraid
2:46
9
Shakespeare's Sister
2:09
10
William, It Was Really Nothing
2:10
11
You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby (US Mix)
3:34
12
Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
3:36
13
Ask (Remix)
3:16
14
Golden Lights
2:41
15
Oscillate Wildly
3:27
16
These Things Take Time
2:23
17
Rubber Ring
3:48
18
Back to the Old House
3:04
19
Hand In Glove (Single A-Side Mix)
3:17
20
Stretch Out and Wait
2:39
21
Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
1:52
22
This Night Has Opened My Eyes
3:41
23
Unloveable (Single B-Side)
3:56
24
Asleep
4:10
Pretty Hate Machine
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1989
Marquee Moon
Television
1977
Disintegration
The Cure
1989
The Downward Spiral
Nine Inch Nails
1994
Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space
Spiritualized
1997
songs
Adrianne Lenker
2020
Calling Out of Context
Arthur Russell
2000
Teens of Denial
Car Seat Headrest
2016
Alien Lanes
Guided By Voices
1995
Doolittle
Pixies
1989
In Rainbows
Radiohead
2007
Kid A
Radiohead
2000
Amnesiac
Radiohead
2001
A Moon Shaped Pool
Radiohead
2016
Last Splash
The Breeders
2023
MY WOMAN
Angel Olsen
2016
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