THE SMITHS-COMPLETE UK BACK CATALOGUE-50 RECORD SET
  £   300
  $   398

 


£ 300 Sold For
Aug 12, 2005 Sold Date
Aug 5, 2005 Start Date
35   Number Of Bids
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SMITHS BACK CATALOGUE - 50 PIECE VINYL SET

EVERY 7", 12" AND LP PLUS A FEW RARE ITEMS

A ONCE IN A LIFETIME CHANCE TO OWN THE COMPLETE SMITHS ON VINYL

WHICH INCLUDES EVERY RECORD RELEASED IN THE UK FROM 1983-1988

21 - 7" singles,  20 - 12" singles,  8 - 12" LP's [including 1 DOUBLE LP] ,  1 - 12" EP

All with picture sleeves

FOR SERIOUS BIDDERS ONLY

Apologies to those who previously bid on this. I didn't offer any second chances because I only became aware at the end of the auction that the images of the records would not display properly.

Therefore I am re-listing this as it should have looked the first time.

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Owing to high Paypal charges, I would prefer cheques or the equivalent from the successful bidder.

I WOULD ALSO RECOMMEND POSTAL INSURANCE FOR THIS AUCTION

 ALL RECORDS AND SLEEVES IN VERY GOOD OR MINT CONDITION,

UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED

Good Luck.

Hand In Glove
 Handsome Devil (live Manchester Hacienda 4/2/83)
 UK 7" [Rough Trade RT131]  

1. First pressing- Manchester address

COVER STAR - George O'Mara [FROM THE NUDE MALE 1978]

ETCHINGS ON VINYL - KISS MY SHADES / KISS MY SHADES TOO

2. Second pressing -  London  address                                                                     

 
Has made in England sticker on the reverse sleeve

This Charming Man
Jeane 
UK 7" [Rough Trade RT136]

COVER STAR - Jean Marais  - "Orphée", [1949] .

ETCHING - none / SLAP ME ON THE PATIO 

 

This Charming Man (Manchester)
This Charming Man (London)
Accept Yourself
Wonderful Woman
UK 12" [Rough Trade RTT136]

ETCHING - WILL NATURE MAKE A MAN OF ME YET / none 

-blue biro on label-see picture

This Charming Man (New-York)
This Charming Man (New-York instrumental)
UK 12" [Rough Trade RTT136NY]

ETCHING -NONE

 

What Difference Does It Make? (single edit)
Back To The Old House
UK 7" [Rough Trade RT146]

COVER STAR - Terence Stamp - "The Collector", [1965]. Morrissey then re-enacted the pose when Stamp objected to the use of his image. He later relented and the the original version was re-instated.

ETCHING - NONE ON BOTH FORMATS

1. Terence Stamp sleeve 

  2. Morrissey re-issue   What Difference Does It Make?
 Back To The Old House
 These Things Take Time
 UK 12" [Rough Trade RTT146] 
  1. Terence Stamp sleeve  
2. Morrissey re-issue- sticker removed & two inches of top right sleeve    has come away

 

The Smiths - DEBUT LP


Reel Around The Fountain
You've Got Everything Now
Miserable Lie
Pretty Girls Make Graves
The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
Still Ill
Hand In Glove (remixed by John Porter)
What Difference Does It Make?
I Don't Owe You Anything
Suffer Little Children

UK LP [Rough Trade ROUGH61]

COVER STAR - Joe Dallesandro -  "Flesh", [1968].

ETCHING - NONE

-minor scuffs but plays well


Hand In Glove (with Sandie Shaw on vocals)
I Don't Owe You Anything (Sandie Shaw on vocals)
UK 7" [Rough Trade RT130]

COVER STAR - Rita Tushingham - "A Taste Of Honey"  [1961].

ETCHING - "KISS MY SHADES" / "J.M." 

-record has uneven edge but plays well 

 

Hand In Glove (with Sandie Shaw on vocals)
Jeane (with Sandie Shaw on vocals)
I Don't Owe You Anything (Sandie Shaw on vocals)
UK 12" [Rough Trade RTT130]

ETCHING - NONE 

Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
Suffer Little Children
UK 7" [Rough Trade RT156]

COVER STAR - Viv Nicholson [FROM AUTOBIOGRAPHY 'SPEND, SPEND, SPEND 1977]

ETCHING - SMITHS INDEED / ILL FOREVER

-minor scuffs but plays well 

 

Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
Girl Afraid
Suffer Little Children
UK 12" [Rough Trade RTT156]

ETCHING - SMITHS PRESUMABLY / FOREVER ILL


William, It Was Really Nothing
Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
UK 7" [Rough Trade RT166 (original green sleeve)]

COVER STAR -  UNKNOWN - 1982 advertisement for A.D.S. speakers

ETCHING - THE IMPOTENCE OF ERNEST / ROMANTIC AND SQUARE IS HIP AND AWARE [BOTH FORMATS]

-small tear bottom right corner and slight creasing

  William, It Was Really Nothing
 How Soon Is Now?
 Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
 UK 12" [Rough Trade RTT166 (green sleeve)]
 

Hatful of Hollow

William, It Was Really Nothing
What Difference Does It Make? (John Peel session 31/5/83)
These Things Take Time (David Jensen session 4/7/83)
This Charming Man (John Peel session 21/9/83)
How Soon Is Now?
Handsome Devil (John Peel session 31/5/83)
Hand In Glove
Still Ill (John Peel session 21/9/83)
Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
This Night Has Opened My Eyes (John Peel session 21/9/83)
You've Got Everything Now (David Jensen session 4/7/83)
Accept Yourself (David Jensen session 5/9/83)
Girl Afraid
Back To The Old House (John Peel session 21/9/83)
Reel Around The Fountain (John Peel session 31/5/83)
Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
UK LP [Rough Trade ROUGH76

COVER STAR - UNKNOWN - Jean Cocteau model from unknown French magazine

ETCHING - THE IMPOTENCE OF ERNEST / IAN [EIRE] 

-Has original promo sticker

 

How Soon Is Now? (fade-out version)
Well I Wonder
UK 7" [Rough Trade RT176]

COVER STAR - Sean Barrett - "Dunkirk" [1958]

ETCHING - THE TATTY TRUTH / none [BOTH FORMATS]

How Soon Is Now?
 Well I Wonder
 Oscillate Wildly
 UK 12" [Rough Trade RTT176] 
 

Meat Is Murder


The Headmaster Ritual
Rusholme Ruffians
I Want The One I Can't Have
What She Said
That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
How Soon Is Now? *
Nowhere Fast
Well I Wonder
Barbarism Begins At Home
Meat Is Murder
UK LP [Rough Trade ROUGH81

COVER STAR - UNKNOWN - "In The Year Of The Pig" [1968].  "Meat Is Murder" replaces the original slogan "Make war not love".

ETCHING -  ILLNESS AS ART / DOING THE WYTHENSHAWE WALTZ

Shakespeare's Sister
What She Said
UK 7" [Rough Trade RT181]

COVER STAR - Pat Phoenix - Unknown still photo of the  Coronation Street Icon

ETCHING - HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS /none [BOTH FORMATS]

Shakespeare's Sister
What She Said
Stretch Out And Wait
UK 12" [Rough Trade RTT181]

-minor scuffing but plays well, slight wear on sleeve

That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore (edited)
Meat Is Murder (live Oxford 18/3/85)
UK 7" [Rough Trade RT186]

COVER STAR - UNKNOWN -  "The Enchanted Desna" [1965]

ETCHING - OUR SOULS, OUR SOULS, OUR SOULS / OUR SOULS, OUR SOULS, OUR SOULS

 

That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
Nowhere Fast (live Oxford 18/3/85)
Stretch Out And Wait (live Oxford 18/3/85)
Shakespeare's Sister (live Oxford 18/3/85)
Meat Is Murder (live Oxford 18/3/85)
UK 12" [Rough Trade RTT186]

ETCHING - OUR SOULS, OUR SOULS, OUR SOULS / none

 

The Boy With The Thorn In His Side (single version)
Asleep
UK 7" [Rough Trade RT191]

COVER STAR - Truman Capote -  by Cecil Beaton, 1949

ETCHING - ARTY BLOODY FARTY / "IS THAT CLEVER"...JM [BOTH FORMATS]

 

The Boy With The Thorn In His Side (single version)
Rubber Ring / Asleep
UK 12" [Rough Trade RTT191]

-slit on inner sleeve caused by record

Bigmouth Strikes Again
Money Changes Everything
UK 7" [Rough Trade RT192]

COVER STAR - James Dean -  by Nelva Jean Thomas, 1948. Incorrectly credited to David Loehr.

ETCHING - BEWARE THE WRATH TO COME / TALENT BORROWS, GENIUS STEALS [BOTH FORMATS]

-minor scuffing but plays well

 

Bigmouth Strikes Again
Money Changes Everything
Unloveable
UK 12" [Rough Trade RTT192]

 

The Queen Is Dead

The Queen Is Dead/Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty
Frankly, Mr. Shankly
I Know It's Over
Never Had No One Ever
Cemetry Gates
Bigmouth Strikes Again
The Boy With The Thorn In His Side(album version)
Vicar In A Tutu
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
UK LP [Rough Trade ROUGH96]

COVER STAR - Alain Delon - "L'insoumis" [1964]

ETCHING - FEAR OF MANCHESTER / THEM WAS ROTTEN DAYS 

note- marks on spine of sleeve due to photo not on record

 

Panic
Vicar In A Tutu
UK 7" [Rough Trade RT193]

COVER STAR - Richard Bradford  "Man In A Suitcase", TV SHOW [1967]

ETCHING- I DREAMT ABOUT STEW LAST NIGHT / none [BOTH FORMATS]

 Panic
 Vicar In A Tutu
 The Draize Train
 UK 12" [Rough Trade RTT193]

Ask (single version)
Cemetry Gates
UK 7" [Rough Trade RT194]

COVER STAR - Yootha Joyce - "Catch Us If You Can" [1965]

ETCHING - ARE YOU LOATHESOME TONIGHT? / TOMB IT MAY CONCERN [BOTH FORMATS]

Ask (single version)
Cemetry Gates
Golden Lights
UK 12" [Rough Trade RTT194]

slight tear on top right hand corner

Shoplifters Of The World Unite
Half A Person
UK 7" [Rough Trade RT195]

COVER STAR - Elvis Presley - by James R. Reid (his hairdresser), 1955. This was his first ever press shot.

ETCHING - ALF RAMSEY'S REVENGE / none [BOTH FORMATS]

Shoplifters Of The World Unite
London
Half A Person
UK 12" [Rough Trade RTT195]

slight wear on top centre of sleeve and on inner sleeve

The World Won't Listen

Panic
Ask
London
Bigmouth Strikes Again
Shakespeare's Sister
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
Shoplifters Of The World Unite
The Boy With The Thorn In His Side (single version)
Asleep
Unloveable
Half A Person
Stretch Out And Wait (alternate version)
That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore (edited)
Oscillate Wildly
You Just Haven't Earned It Yet Baby
Rubber Ring
UK LP [Rough Trade ROUGH101

COVER STAR - UNKNOWN - [FROM ROCK 'N' ROLL TIMES, 1983]

ETCHING - NONE

various minor scratches and scuffs, some clicks and hissing between

That Joke...and Oscillate Wildly, otherwise plays well.

Has original promo sticker

 

Sheila Take A Bow
Is It Really So Strange? (John Peel session 17/12/86)
UK 7" [Rough Trade RT196]

COVER STAR - Candy Darling - "Women In Revolt" (1971)

ETCHING - COOK BERNARD MATTHEWS / none [BOTH FORMATS]

Sheila Take A Bow
Is It Really So Strange? (John Peel session 17/12/86)
UK 7" [Rough Trade RT196]

COVER STAR - Candy Darling - "Women In Revolt" (1971)

ETCHING - COOK BERNARD MATTHEWS /none [BOTH FORMATS] 
Sheila Take A Bow
 Is It Really So Strange? (John Peel session 17/12/86)
 Sweet And Tender Hooligan (John Peel session 17/12/86)
 UK 12" [Rough Trade RTT196

Louder Than Bombs


Half A Person
London
Panic
Girl Afraid
Shakespeare's Sister
William, It Was Really Nothing
You Just Haven't Earned It Yet Baby (slightly remixed)
Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
Ask
Golden Lights
Oscillate Wildly
These Things Take Time
Rubber Ring
Back To The Old House
Hand In Glove
Stretch Out And Wait
Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
This Night Has Opened My Eyes (John Peel session 21/9/83)
Unloveable
Asleep

USA 2-LP [Sire 9 25569-1]

COVER STAR - Shelagh Delaney - Saturday Evening Post, 1961

ETCHING - NONE

Both records are slightly bowl shaped, like so  (  , but play well

Girlfriend In A Coma
Work Is A Four Letter Word (edited)
UK 7" [Rough Trade RT197]

COVER STAR - Shelagh Delaney -  [FROM "A TASTE OF HONEY 1961 ED]

ETCHING - AND NEVER MORE SHALL BE SO / SO FAR, SO BAD

 

Girlfriend In A Coma
Work Is A Four Letter Word
I Keep Mine Hidden
UK 12" [Rough Trade RTT197]

ETCHING - EVERYBODY IS A FLASHER AT HEART/AND NEVER MORE SHALL BE SO

 

 

Strangeways Here We Come

A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours
I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
Death Of A Disco Dancer
Girlfriend In A Coma
Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
Unhappy Birthday
Paint A Vulgar Picture
Death At One's Elbow
I Won't Share You
UK LP [Rough Trade ROUGH106]

COVER STAR - Richard Davalos - by  David Loehr.

ETCHING - GUY FAWKES WAS A GENIUS / none

-clicks at the start of A Rush And a Push..., but otherwise plays well

 

I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
Pretty Girls Make Graves (Troy Tate demo)
UK 7" [Rough Trade RT198]

COVER STAR - Avril Angers - "The Family Way" (1966).

ETCHING - "MURDER AT THE WOOL HALL"(X)STARRING SHERIDAN WHITESIDE
/ YOU ARE BELIEVING, YOU DO NOT WANT TO SLEEP [BOTH FORMATS]

I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
 Pretty Girls Make Graves (Troy Tate demo)
 Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others (live London 12/12/86)
 UK 12" [Rough Trade RTT198]

 

Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
Girlfriend in a Coma
Germany 7" [Line LIS1.00025B (yellow vinyl)]

COVER STAR - Murray Head - "The Family Way" [1966].

ETCHING- NONE ON BOTH FORMATS

 
Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
 Work Is A Four-Letter Word
 Girlfriend in a Coma
 I Keep Mine Hidden
 Germany 12" [Line LMS 3.00013 (white vinyl)]

Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me (edit)
Rusholme Ruffians (John Peel session 9/8/84)
UK 7" [Rough Trade RT200]

COVER STAR - Billy Fury - Source unknown

ETCHING - "THE RETURN OF THE SUBMISSIVE SOCIETY" (X) STARRING SHERIDAN WHITESIDE /
"THE BIZARRE ORIENTAL VIBRATING PALM DEATH"(X)STARRING SHERIDAN WHITESIDE [BOTH FORMATS]

  Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
 Rusholme Ruffians (John Peel session 9/8/84)
 Nowhere Fast (John Peel session 9/8/84)
 UK 12" [Rough Trade RTT200]
 

Rank

(intro: "Romeo & Juliet": Philadelphia Orchestra)
The Queen Is Dead
Panic
Vicar In A Tutu
Ask
Rusholme Ruffians/(Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame
The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
What She Said/Rubber Ring
Is It Really So Strange?
Cemetry Gates
London
I Know It's Over
The Draize Train
Still Ill
Bigmouth Strikes Again
(exitus: "You'll Never Walk Alone" Shirley Bassey)

Recorded live at Kilburn National Ballroom 23rd October 1986


UK LP [Rough Trade ROUGH126]

COVER STAR - Alexandra Bastedo - [FROM  "BIRDS OF BRITAIN"]

ETCHING - PEEPHOLISM / none

 

Peel Sessions

What Difference Does It Make? (John Peel session 31/5/83)
Miserable Lie (John Peel session 31/5/83)
Reel Around The Fountain (John Peel session 31/5/83)
Handsome Devil (John Peel session 31/5/83)
UK EP [Strange Fruit SFPS055]

COVER STAR - GENERIC PEEL SESSIONS SLEEVE

ETCHING - NONE

 

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