The Very Best of the Smiths

RELEASE
June 19, 2001
LABEL
Warner Bros.
GENRES
Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Alternative Pop/Rock, College Rock

Album Review

If you're looking for 23 songs that represent much of the Smiths' best work, 2001's The Very Best of the Smiths will do, since it does contain all the group's anthems without a misstep. It's better than the first two posthumous best-of collections.
– Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi

Track Listing

  1. Panic
  2. The Boy With the Thorn in His Side
  3. Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
  4. Ask
  5. Bigmouth Strikes Again
  6. How Soon Is Now?
  7. This Charming Man
  8. What Difference Does It Make?
  9. William, It Was Really Nothing
  10. Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
  11. Girlfriend in a Coma
  12. Hand in Glove
  13. There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
  14. Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
  15. That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
  16. I Know It's Over
  17. Sheila Take a Bow
  18. I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
  19. Still Ill
  20. Shakespeare's Sister
  21. Shoplifters of the World Unite
  22. Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
  23. Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before

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