Hatful of Hollow est un album compilation de The Smiths, sorti en 1984. Il s'agit d'une collection de singles, faces B et des versions de chansons de l'album enregistrées pour le show de John Peel sur la radio BBC One.
Les versions radios sont d'ailleurs souvent reconnues (même par le groupe lui-même) comme meilleures que les versions originales de studio.
Hatful of Hollow is a compilation album by English rock band the Smiths.
Released on 12 November 1984 by the band's British record company Rough Trade, the album reached No. 7 on the UK Albums Chart and stayed on the chart for 46 weeks.
It was released on 9 November 1993 by their American label Sire Records, which had initially declined to release the album.
Sire instead released Louder Than Bombs in the US in 1987—which contains several of the same tracks as Hatful of Hollow—as well as The World Won't Listen.
It features BBC Radio 1 studio recordings and two contemporary singles with their B-sides.
In 2000, Q magazine placed Hatful of Hollow at number 44 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever.
The Smiths were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1982.
The band consisted of vocalist Morrissey, guitarist Johnny Marr, bassist Andy Rourke and drummer Mike Joyce.
Critics have called them one of the most important bands to emerge from the British independent music scene of the 1980s.
NME named the Smiths the "most influential artist ever" in a 2002 poll.
In 2003, four of the band's albums appeared on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
Based on the songwriting partnership of Morrissey and Marr, the group signed to the independent record label Rough Trade Records, on which they released four studio albums:
The Smiths (1984), Meat Is Murder (1985), The Queen Is Dead (1986) and Strangeways, Here We Come (1987).
They have also released several compilations, and numerous non-album singles.
They had several singles reach the top twenty of the UK Singles Chart and all four of their studio albums reached the top five of the UK Albums Chart,
including Meat Is Murder which hit number one. They won a significant following and remain cult favourites.
The band broke up in 1987 due to internal tensions and have turned down several offers to reunite.
The band's focus on a guitar, bass, and drum sound, and their fusion of 1960s rock and post-punk, were a rejection of the then-popular, synthesiser-based dance-pop.
Marr's guitar work, using a Rickenbacker, had a jangle pop sound reminiscent of Roger McGuinn of the Byrds.
Morrissey's complex, literate lyrics combined themes about ordinary people with mordant humour
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Face A
William, it Was Really Nothing 2 min 5s
What Difference Does it Make? (Peel, mai)* 3 min 15s
These Things Take Time (Jensen, juillet)* 2 min 36s
This Charming Man (Peel, septembre)* 2 min 48s
How Soon Is Now? 6 min 34s
Handsome Devil (Peel, mai)* 2 min 50s
Hand in Glove (version single) 3 min 15s
Still Ill (Peel, septembre)* 3 min 58s
Face B
Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now 3 min 36s
This Night Has Opened My Eyes (Peel, septembre) 3 min 37s
You've Got Everything Now (Jensen, juillet)* 4 min 14s
Accept Yourself (Jensen, septembre)* 4 min 9s
Girl Afraid 2 min 47s
Back to the Old House (Peel, septembre)* 3 min 3s
Reel Around the Fountain (Peel, mai)* 5 min 50s
Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want 1 min 56s
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