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Features Disc of the day
The Smiths
Hatful Of Hollow
(Rough Trade, 1984)
Beloved group trump debut with bargain radio sessions LP!
"We hadn't even proper-sounding tapes of them ourselves, except for a few dire bootlegs that we bought at our concerts," said Morrissey of the songs The Smiths recorded for John Peel and David Jensen's radio shows in 1983. So in November 1984, they collected them on Hatful Of Hollow with some singles and B-sides, and sold it in a gatefold sleeve for £3.99. Bargain! Consequently, their debut LP, released just nine months earlier, is in some quarters considered an inferior introduction to this unique band, and comparing the versions of Reel Around The Fountain or You've Got Everything Now, it's not hard to see why. Natural sounding and emotionally charged, they seem to be free of The Smiths' studio-tanned desire to leave nothing to chance, and show a band in such possession of their powers they could capture the definitive takes of songs working against the clock at a BBC studio. The guitar-and-voice Back To The Old House, for example has a bereft majesty that its later, full-band arrangement lacks, while, slotted between Peel versions of Handsome Devil and Still Ill, the out-of-body-experience that is How Soon Is Now? is revealed as one of the group's key recordings, rather than the 12" single extra it started life as. A mere three months later the group released the also-fabulous Meat is Murder LP, but then, magic was a common thing for The Smiths.
Ian Harrison
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 03/03/2009
Further Listening
The Smiths – The World Won’t Listen (Rough Trade, 1986)
Morrissey – Vauxhall And I (Parlophone, 1994)
Patti Smith – Horses (Arista, 1975)
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