The Smiths - The World Won't Listen

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....if anyone here has this album, have a look at the photo on the back cover, the group of women at the fairground.....

...is that, or is that not, Johnny Marr in drag with the black beehive?

― russ t, Wednesday, 21 May 2003 11:17 (twenty-two years ago)

there's a vague resemblance but i don't think it is..

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

ni. it isn't.
it was kinda like a representation of all 4 smiths,
if you look, each one resembles one of the 4.
(see peepholism)

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 21 May 2003 11:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't got Peepholism - but is that a fact? I always thought it could be Marr's Mum or something (was only joking that it was actually him).

How awesome are the lads on the front cover, too, and the one in the stripey tshirt? Where were the photos taken, does Peepholism give any insight?

― russ t, Wednesday, 21 May 2003 11:42 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't have peepholism either, but there's stuff all about
world won't listen in it that i half recall
from skim-reading it in a bookshop.
also see that book that Q did
called '100 best album covers' which had WWL in it and was top.
you can still buy that from Q mag online.

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 21 May 2003 12:05 (twenty-two years ago)

aha :

'...photographs for the cover were taken from the book
'rock and roll times' by jurgen vollmer, a collection of photos
taken in hamburg and paris between 1961 and 1964.'

the real question is, why does no-one ever ever mention
that world wont listen has an alternate version (from where ?)
of 'stretch out and wait' ?

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 21 May 2003 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Err.. they do - if you're in the 'right' circles.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I've seen this as both a double & a single LP. I think the single LP is Australian & the double NZ tho' I'm not sure - I can't check as I am at werk. How did it originally appear in the UK??

― Bill E (bill_e), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 21:31 (twenty-two years ago)

there was an Aussie edition of the double LP. i've seen a few copies around but they've always been overpriced

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I bought one copy in NZ & one in Oz when it came out (while moving from Auckland to Sydney) & I can't remember which I got where. Maybe the NZ version was a single

― Bill E (bill_e), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 22:52 (twenty-two years ago)

When I was obsessed with such things, yeah - the Aussie version was sought after cause it was a double with more tracks (it had 'Money Changes Everything' or 'The Draize Train' on it, I seem to recall).

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 23:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Cheers Nick!

― Bill E (bill_e), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 23:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Tracklisting of Oz version:

1. Panic
2. Ask
3. Bigmouth Strikes Again
4. Shakespeare's Sister
5. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
6. Shoplifters Of The World Unite
7. The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
8. Asleep
9. Unloveable
10. Half A Person
11. Stretch Out And Wait
12. That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
13. Oscillate Wildly
14. You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby
15. Rubber Ring
Side B:
1. Is It Really So Strange?
2. Sheila Takes A Bow
3. Sweet And Tender Hooligan
4. Girl Afraid
5. William, It Was Really Nothing
6. Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
7. Golden Lights
8. The Draize Train
9. Back To The Old House
10. Hand In Glove
11. Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
12. This Night Has Opened My Eyes

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 22 May 2003 00:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh man, listening to that album was the first opportunity I ever had to listen to that song, "Shakespeare's Sister". One of my HS-era friends, who knew how much I liked the Smiths, told me about how that was the track that never made it onto "Meat is Murder" (IIRC), and since that was my favorite Smiths album at the time I was intrigued about it. She didn't have that song available at the time to lend out to me and pretty soon after that she graduated and we lost contact with each other, so I was ever curious about that track. I think it must've been about four years ago that I finally got to listen to that song. Made me teary-eyed in jubliation.

</feeling>

Anyway, now I need to find the Australian version of that album. That sounds even dreamier than the one I have (i.e. an import from WEA International).

― Dee the Semi-Lurker (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 22 May 2003 03:02 (twenty-two years ago)

...there's always Louder Than Bombs, but I hated that compilation - terrible artwork.

UK version of TWWL was a single album.

― russ t, Thursday, 22 May 2003 08:28 (twenty-two years ago)

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