{"id":41222,"date":"2008-11-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/the-sound-of-the-smiths\/"},"modified":"2008-11-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T00:00:00","slug":"the-sound-of-the-smiths","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/the-sound-of-the-smiths\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sound Of The Smiths"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ah, geez. Another Smiths compilation? Why? <\/o:p><\/p>\n

My God, between Hatful Of Hollow, Louder Than Bombs, The Best Of The Smiths <\/i>(Volumes I and II), and their Singles<\/i> collection, it would seem that the powers that be have exhausted all efforts to convince record buyers to spend MORE money on Smiths compilations that they don\u2019t really need\u2026or will ever listen to. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

Alas, Rhino\u2019s newest compilation The Sound Of The Smiths<\/i> is an utterly necessary buy. Do yourself a favor, too; don\u2019t buy the single disc version, buy the deluxe version. Disc one is superfluous, yes, containing all the usual: \u201cHand In Glove,\u201d \u201cThis Charming Man,\u201d \u201cHeaven Knows I\u2019m Miserable Now,\u201d \u201cPanic,\u201d and on and on and on. But because it\u2019s now 2008 and The Smiths have been defunct for over twenty years, The Sound Of The Smiths<\/i> serves as a definitive collection without some of the holes contained on previous compilations; holes that were necessary because Morrissey and Marr had not yet finished churning out their unforgettable, guitar-driven, melodramatic, and musical landscape-changing pop gems. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

There are two features that make <\/i>the two-disc deluxe version of The Sound Of The Smiths<\/i> so very special and an absolute must-have for even the casual listener: 1) Every single song, under the close supervision of Johnny Marr himself, has been immaculately restored and re-mastered, this is The Smiths as you\u2019ve never heard them before, and 2) Disc two features some fascinating live cuts (\u201cHandsome Devil,\u201d \u201cMeat Is Murder,\u201d \u201cLondon,\u201d and \u201cWhat\u2019s The World\u201d) and some hard to get a hold of B-sides (\u201cJeane,\u201d \u201cWonderful World,\u201d \u201cMoney Changes Everything,\u201d and the New York Vocal version of \u201cThis Charming Man\u201d).\u00a0 To top it all off, the packaging for the set is gorgeous and it features album artwork from many of the band\u2019s singles and a high-gloss booklet loaded with beautiful photos of The Smiths during their heyday as the most important band making music on the planet.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Sure there\u2019s a tendency for music critics to give The Smiths their unwavering and perpetual stamp of approval — after all, some have argued that The Queen Is Dead<\/i> is the best and most important pop album of all time (that\u2019s right, better even than Rubber Soul<\/i>). But Rhino Records, with the help of Morrissey and Marr, have done an especially outstanding job with The Sound Of The Smiths<\/i>. It\u2019s the best Smiths compilation to date; it\u2019s where any newcomer ought to start.\u00a0 This is the Smiths collection that shall carry us through the next century; it\u2019s that comprehensive and it\u2019s simply that good.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

So even if you knew we would, The Daily Vault\u2019s slappin\u2019 this set with an A. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":29624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[7740],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-41222","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-the-smiths","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41222"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=41222"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=41222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}