Tag: Strangeways Here We Come

Out this week: Lloyd Cole, Dream Syndicate, Swans, The Smiths, Midnight Oil, D.O.A., Bad Manners

Out this week: Lloyd Cole, Dream Syndicate, Swans, The Smiths, Midnight Oil, D.O.A., Bad Manners

This week’s releases include new albums from Lloyd Cole and Swans, plus reissues from The Dream Syndicate, Midnight Oil, D.O.A. and more.

Morrissey debuts first-ever performance of The Smiths’ ‘I Won’t Share You’ on Broadway

Morrissey debuts first-ever performance of The Smiths’ ‘I Won’t Share You’ on Broadway

Morrissey closed out his seven-night residency on Broadway on Saturday with something old-but-new: He treated the New York City crowd to his first-ever performance of the ballad “I Won’t Share You,” off The Smiths’ 1987 swan song Strangeways, Here We Come. Watch the performance right here.

Morrissey performs The Smiths’ ‘I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish’ for first time ever

Morrissey performs The Smiths’ ‘I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish’ for first time ever

Morrissey’s tour opener in Portland, Ore., this week featured at least one major setlist surprise: the singer’s first-ever live performance of “I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish,” the second single off The Smiths’ posthumously released final album Strangeways, Here We Come. Watch that performance here.

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Dave Kendall eulogizes The Smiths following band’s 1987 break-up

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Dave Kendall eulogizes The Smiths following band’s 1987 break-up

For this week’s installment of “120 Minutes” Rewind, we turn to a September 1987 episode that features the show’s creator and producer Dave Kendall eulogizing the The Smiths upon their breakup following the release of Strangeways, Here We Come. Check out the whole thing right here.

Contest: Win The Smiths’ ‘Complete’ 8CD box set — featuring band’s entire discography

Last September, we gave away a copy of the CD-and-vinyl version of The Smiths’ ‘Complete’ box set to one lucky Slicing Up Eyeballs reader, and now, with the newly remastered albums released individually, the fine folks at Rhino Records have provided us with three copies of the 8-disc CD box set to give away.

New releases: Killing Joke’s ‘MMXII,’ plus The Smiths, Morrissey, fIREHOSE, Elvis Costello

New releases: Killing Joke’s ‘MMXII,’ plus The Smiths, Morrissey, fIREHOSE, Elvis Costello

This week’s new releases include ‘MMXII,’ the 15th studio album from Killing Joke, plus a reissue of Morrissey’s 1988 solo debut ‘Viva Hate,’ the new 2CD fIREHOSE anthology ‘lowFLOWs,’ a stripped-down version of Elvis Costello’s ‘Spectacular Spinning Songbook’ box set and U.S. editions of The Smiths’ reissues.

New releases: The Smiths reissues, plus Ministry, Nick Cave’s Grinderman, Paul Weller

New releases: The Smiths reissues, plus Ministry, Nick Cave’s Grinderman, Paul Weller

This week’s new releases include individual reissues of each album in The Smiths’ catalog, plus MInistry’s first new album in five years (‘Relapse’), the U.K. release of Grinderman’s new remix album (‘Grinderman 2 RMX’) and the U.S. release of Paul Weller’s just-released solo album ‘Sonik Kicks.’

The Smiths’ 2011 remasters to be released individually on CD this spring

The Smiths’ 2011 remasters to be released individually on CD this spring

If you didn’t buy The Smiths’ ‘Complete’ box set last year because you’d rather cherry pick which albums to get, you’re in luck: Later this month, Rhino Records will release, in the U.K., standalone CD editions of each title in the set — all four of the band’s studio album, plus three compilations and a live album.

Morrissey’s Top 10 albums by Morrissey and The Smiths: The records ‘of which I am most proud’

Morrissey’s Top 10 albums by Morrissey and The Smiths: The records ‘of which I am most proud’

Morrissey this week ranked his back catalog in a list that’s topped by his last three solo records — ‘Years of Refusal,’ ‘Ringleader of the Tormentors’ and ‘You Are the Quarry’ — and that relegates three latter-day works by The Smiths to Nos. 5 through 7.

Milestones: The Smiths played last concert 25 years ago today — watch the whole show

Milestones: The Smiths played last concert 25 years ago today — watch the whole show

Twenty-five years ago today, The Smiths performed what would prove to be the band’s final concert, a 15-song set at London’s Brixton Academy as part of a rescheduled benefit for Artists Against Apartheid. Watch that full Dec. 12, 1986, concert here.

Contest: Win The Smiths ‘Complete’ box set — 8 CDs, 8 LPs, 25 7-inches, 1 DVD and more

Contest: Win The Smiths ‘Complete’ box set — 8 CDs, 8 LPs, 25 7-inches, 1 DVD and more

While initially announced as U.K.-only, Rhino Records has decided to release a limited number of The Smiths’ ‘Complete’ box sets in the U.S. exclusively through Rhino.com. Even better: They’ve given us a copy of the deluxe CD-and-vinyl edition to give away to one very lucky Slicing Up Eyeballs reader.

‘The Smiths — Complete’ box set: 8 albums on vinyl, CD; plus 25 7-inch singles, DVD

‘The Smiths — Complete’ box set: 8 albums on vinyl, CD; plus 25 7-inch singles, DVD

The U.K. arm of Rhino Records this fall will release ‘The Smiths — Complete,’ a ‘super deluxe collectors’ box set’ that will feature remastered versions of the band’s eight albums on both CD and 180-gram audiophile vinyl, plus all 25 of the group’s singles on individual 7-inches.

Pre-order Janice Whaley’s The Smiths Project 6CD box set — vocal-only covers of 71 songs

Pre-order Janice Whaley’s The Smiths Project 6CD box set — vocal-only covers of 71 songs

Janice Whaley is releasing the fruits of her ambitious The Smiths Project — vocal-only covers of all 71 songs The Smiths ever recorded — as a lavish 6CD box set. Fans can pre-order the collection through March 1.