h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Mad Sash again. Whilst I'm quietly cheering that I haven't made an a**e of myself this time, I'm also quietly chuffed by the replies. The problem I have is that I have no idea what Smiths albums I actually have. This may sound strange but they are all on tapes with no labels. I'm assuming 'Hatful' is the one with 'Heaven knows I'm miserable now'(one of my favourites) and 'This Charming Man'After that I stop knowing what is on what album. Which album is 'Panic' and 'Bigmouth' on? Help

'Panic' wasn't originally on any album - it was only released as a single. 'Bigmouth Strikes Again' was on 'The Queen Is Dead'. But there have been several compilations of Smiths tracks, and it may well be that you've got one of those.

I recommend that you follow this link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A446014 to the unedited version of my Smiths Entry. The main difference is that at the bottom of that version of the Entry, there are some links to other Smiths-related sites. If you go to the 'Smiths Presumably Forever Ill' site, there's an excellent critical discography there that might help identify your albums.

Cheers Ormandroyd, will check it out! Alternatively, I could just ask my stepdad to tape them all again for me, this time with labels! I'll get back to you in a week or so. In the meantime, do you know anything about 'King Arthur'(Not a band) Big subject I'm researching.

Er, no, don't know much about King Arthur, I'm afraid! But the legend is so well-known that I'm sure you'll be able to find plenty of info on the 'Net.

Just had to respond to this article, what with my nickname and all! The Smiths and Morrissey seem to have added footnotes to my life over the last decade and a half. I even had a rather significant event of my life occur to the strains of 'Getting Away With It' by Electronic! Whenever I am seriously down I grab an album and lock myself away playing it at full volume. The first bars of 'The Smiths' still sends a shiver down my spine whenever I hear them! Fave Solo album is probably 'Vauxhall and I' but I would struggle to decide on my fave Smiths album! Probably the last one I listened to at the time.

*My earlier contributions to this conversation appear under the name 'Borodino' - I haven't the energy to explain.*

Anyway, I read a rather touching interview with Mike Joyce about two years ago, in the midst of the legal to-ing and fro-ing. Amid other things, Joyce apparently begged his solicitors to keep Morrissey out of court, because he still loved the bloke so much.

As the interview went on, both Joyce and the interviewer got somewhat squiffy, and began babbling on about the Smiths like a couple of fans. Towards the end of the interview, they were enthusing about the slow/fast instrumental break in 'Shakespeare's Sister,' at which point the interviewer stopped Joyce and said 'Hang on a minute - you're the bloke who played the bloody drums on it!'

Good posting. It was love at first listen for me, although I only got into them just as they were splitting. It is no exaggeration to say that for two years the only band I listened to was the Smiths, and although that period was a few years ago now, they are never far from the stereo.

It took me a long while to appreciate Moz's solo stuff, with the result that I only really got into the albums until a while after they were released. Funnily enough, it was probably 'Kill Uncle' - perhaps the weaking of the brood - that did it. I loved 'Mute Witness' the best, and the fact that I didn't live too far from 'Northside, Clapham Common' was a little eerie.

Anyway, I'll be hear for ages if I start rambling. I just love the bloke, to be honest. There are some fantastic Moz/Smiths sites on the web, from which I absolutely forbid you to download any of the excellent live material available, especially from [URL removed by moderator]

[Comment removed by moderator due to it being full of ever such rude words, none more than four letters long - except "w*nker", "t*sser" and "assh*le*]

Barbarism begins at Livzy's home...
Anyway, on the subject of Smiths/Mozzer websites, there are links to a couple of particularly good ones in the 'Further Smiths resources' section at the bottom of the unedited version of this Entry, on http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A446014 .

thank you, Orm, for such an accolade !!!!!!