The instrumentation is great but the vocals. Morrissey has some majestic voice and that's one of the main reasons I love The Smiths. The music is so meticulously crafted around Morrissey's voice. This has some of The Smiths best music ever and although Morrissey is a piece of shit this music is so good.

For Jensen on 25 August, 1983 (broadcast 5 September): " Accept Yourself", "I Don't Owe You Anything", "Pretty Girls Make Graves", "Reel Around the Fountain" Early Smiths release, containing material recorded for several BBC radio sessions as well as other stuff. (If we had a John Peel type on the US government's payroll, I'd be willing to live with a despot or two.)Vote up content that is on-topic, within the rules/guidelines, and will likely stay relevant long-term. Beyond that, infant euthanasia, unemployment, employment, rejection and apathy are among the manifold miseries on offer, shot through with a waster's humour (usually) and an implicit, muscular, ambiguous sexuality that scared the shit out of millions. "Reel around the fountain," forever trying to catch up with itself like a record played off-speed, may be the best thing they ever recorded, and the epitome of Morrissey's interrupted fantasies. This sounds great for an LP that has 56 minutes of material on it - that's hard to do. Could it sound better on 2 discs instead of 1? Sure, but is it necessary? Not in my opinion. This Charming Man" has softer and more upbeat vocals, guitars and even drums than the version released as a single and on some versions of The Smiths. The bass line is louder and altered slightly. Additionally, there is no solo guitar introduction. Quality is good, I won't say it has the clarity of the best out there, but it's certainly good enough.

What Difference Does It Make?" has heavier and more natural-sounding guitars than the version on The Smiths. It is also in a higher key than the version on The Smiths. Hatful of Hollow also features the band's debut single, " Hand in Glove", and their two most recent singles prior to the album's release, " Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" and " William, It Was Really Nothing", along with their respective B-sides, "Girl Afraid", " How Soon Is Now?" and " Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want". While this isn't necessarily an album but more of a compilation, it still feels like an album. Hatful of Hollow consists of some of the best songs The Smiths made. Every. Song. Is. Good. Especially 'How Soon Is Now?' The Smiths 'Hatful of Hollow' T-Shirt. 1983 photo taken by Gilles Decroix for Liberation french magazine of a The Smiths, to me, were one of the bands that it was okay to like if you were 'alternative', but didn't possess many of the harsh characterstics of many other punk-inspired bands. The Smiths were a pop band, through and through.

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Fletcher, T, 2012. A Light That Never Goes Out: The Enduring Saga of the Smiths. 1st ed. U.K.: Random House. p. 355.

Wolk, Douglas (18 November 2011). "The Smiths: The Smiths Complete". Pitchfork . Retrieved 25 September 2015.Reel Around the Fountain" has duller-sounding drums and acoustic guitars than the version on The Smiths. The bass is more prominent, but the piano and organ parts are not included. It is also in a higher key than the version on The Smiths. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License and the GFDL; additional terms may apply. See Terms of Use for details. I only own _Hatful of Hollow_ and _Singles_ by the Smiths, but that's enough to know that they are one of the best bands of the 80s. Power, Tony (October 2004). "The Smiths: Hatful of Hollow". Blender. Vol.3, no.8. Archived from the original on 30 June 2006 . Retrieved 25 January 2022. The current sleeve for Hatful of Hollow is the CD issue sleeve, featuring a cropped photograph of the otherwise unknown Fabrice Colette taken by Gilles Decroix. The original sleeve, pictured above, included a tattoo of a Jean Cocteau drawing on Colette's left shoulder, which Colette commissioned in June 1983 because he idolised Cocteau. The photograph is taken from a July 1983 special edition of the French newspaper Libération. [13] Additionally, the old cover had a large sky-blue frame with the legends "The Smiths" and "Hatful of Hollow" above and underneath the picture. Editions after 1987 feature the cropped version with the text superimposed, although the 2011 vinyl re-issue reinstated the original sleeve.