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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 I wanted to get them sounding right and remove any processing so that they now sound as they did when they were originally made.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)


Tracklist:

The Smiths – The Smiths (1984)

01 – Reel Around The Fountain
02 – You’ve Got Everything Now
03 – Miserable Lie
04 – Pretty Girls Make Graves
05 – The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
06 – This Charming Man
07 – Still Ill
08 – Hand In Glove
09 – What Difference Does It Make?
10 – I Don’t Owe You Anything
11 – Suffer Little Children

The Smiths – Meat Is Murder (1985)

12 – The Headmaster Ritual
13 – Rusholme Ruffians
14 – I Want The One I Can’t Have
15 – What She Said
16 – That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore
17 – Nowhere Fast
18 – Well I Wonder
19 – Barbarism Begins At Home
20 – Meat Is Murder

The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead (1986)

21 – The Queen Is Dead
22 – Frankly, Mr. Shankly
23 – I Know It’s Over
24 – Never Had No One Ever
25 – Cemetery Gates
26 – Bigmouth Strikes Again
27 – The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
28 – Vicar In A Tutu
29 – There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
30 – Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others

The Smiths – Strangeways, Here We Come (1987)

31 – A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours
32 – I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish
33 – Death Of A Disco Dancer
34 – Girlfriend In A Coma
35 – Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before
36 – Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
37 – Unhappy Birthday
38 – Paint A Vulgar Picture
39 – Death At One’s Elbow
40 – I Won’t Share You


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