Wednesday 10 August 2011

SummersRadio™ Music News! The Smiths! Part 2!

SummersRadio™ Music News! The Smiths - 'How Soon Is Now?' (Manchester Mix) So we've covered the contents of the vinyl and cd boxed set editions of The Smiths 'Complete' (in Part 1 posted below) - now onto the 'Deluxe Collector's Box Set'!  All three boxed sets are released on October 3rd in the U.K. by Rhino Records. The vinyl and cd editions retail around £150 and the 'Deluxe Collector's Box Set'  goes for about £250. Here are the contents of the 'Deluxe' edition:


DELUXE COLLECTORS BOXSET
**INDIVIDUALLY NUMBERED & STRICTLY LIMITED TO JUST 4000 COPIES WORLDWIDE**

A heavyweight trunk boxset including:
> All eight album releases taken back to original tape sources and remastered by Johnny Marr and Frank Arkwright
> All eight albums on Mini LP replica style CDs in gatefold card wallets
> All eight albums on 12” vinyl LPs (5 singles, 3 doubles)
> 25x 7" Singles (the entire The Smiths Singles collection) inc. specially reproduced rarities
> A 36" x 24" Poster of all album and single cover artwork
> ‘The Complete Picture’ DVD of the band's music videos
> An 8 page 12" booklet feat. expanded liner notes
> 8x 12" art prints of each album cover artwork
> An Exclusive Code to download the whole catalogue as high quality MP3s (320k)


PLUS order now from Rhino.co.uk and get:
- an instant download of the album cover as a desktop wallpaper
- a chance to win the iconic Johnny Marr guitar - the Fender Special Edition Jaguar HH!
- 5 Runners up will win a framed designers proof of the boxset cover art

If you bought 'The Smiths Singles Box' in 2008 - which contained 12 7" singles - and figured that it covered everything - this 'Deluxe' edition includes the following 7" singles - 25 of them!

7” Singles (only available in the Deluxe Collectors Boxset)

1. Hand In Glove b/w Handsome Devil (Live)
2. Reel Around The Fountain b/w Jeane
3. This Charming Man b/w Jeane
4. What Difference Does It Make? b/w Back To The Old House
5. Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now / Suffer Little Children
6. William, It Was Really Nothing b/w Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
7. How Soon Is Now b/w Well I Wonder
8. Shakespeare’s Sister b/w What She Said
9. The Headmaster Ritual b/w Oscillate Wildly
10. That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore b/w Meat Is Murder (Live)
11. The Boy With The Thorn In His Side b/w Asleep
12. Bigmouth Strikes Again b/w Money Changes Everything
13. Panicb/w Vicar In A Tutu
14. Ask b/w Cemetry Gates
15. Shoplifters Of The World Unite b/w Half A Person
16. Sheila Take A Bow b/w Is It Really So Strange?
17. Girlfriend In A Coma b/w Work Is a Four Letter Word
18. I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish b/w Pretty Girls Make Graves
19. Last Night I Dreamt Somebody Loved Me b/w Rusholme Ruffians
20. Sweet And Tender Hooligan b/w I Keep Mine Hidden
21. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out b/w Half A Person
22. Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others b/w The Draize Train
23. Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before b/w Girlfriend In A Coma
24. Hand In Glove b/w I Don’t Owe You Anything
25. William, It Was Really Nothing b/w How Soon Is Now?

So if you're a Smiths fan and you have $500 to spend you can pre-order 'The Smiths Complete' -Deluxe Collector's Box Set (and/ or the vinyl and cd box sets) from Rhino U.K. here: http://www.rhino.co.uk/

'How Soon Is Now' was first released as the b-side of 'William, It Was Really Nothing' in 1984. After becoming a club and alternative radio hit in the U.S. it was added to the North American version of their 'Meat Is Murder' album, and it was later released as a proper single in the U.K. in 1985 - reaching #24. Although it wasn't one of their most successful singles chart wise, it's perhaps their most instantly reconizable song - particularly for Johnny Marr's opening guitar sound. This is the rather rare extended 'Manchester Mix' of 'How Soon Is Now?'... Enjoy!



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2 comments:

  1. I'm sure I first heard 'How Soon Is Now' on COAST 1040, the Spirit of Radio! But I don't remember ever hearing this cool mix!

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  2. I just looked at my copy of the 2008 Smiths Singles Box. The 12 singles are *almost* the same as the first 12 singles in your list above. But the 2008 box contains Still Ill b/w You've Got Everything Now which is not in the Deluxe Collectors BoxSet. But the Singles Box leaves out Reel Around the Fountain b/w Jeanne. So ... you just have to buy them both ... if you're a *true* fan !

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