5LP Box Set Includes 2017 Master of Seminal Album & Previously Unreleased Material!
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 113/500!
Widely considered to be both The Smiths' finest work and one of the greatest albums ever made, 'The Queen Is Dead' has cast a significant influence over subsequent generations since it was first released in the summer of 1986. Warner Bros. Records now releases a newly mastered and expanded version of the album in this 5LP Box Set.
This 5LP Box Set features the 2017 master of the album, additional recordings and the 'Live In Boston' recording.
"You cannot continue to record and simply hope that your audience will approve, or that average critics will approve, or that radio will approve," says Morrissey. "You progress only when you wonder if an abnormally scientific genius would approve and this is the leap The Smiths took with The Queen Is Dead."
Johnny Marr adds, "The Queen Is Dead was epic to make and epic to live."
Features:
5LP Box Set
Lift-off box
Updated artwork
2017 Master of original album
Additional recordings (demos, alternates & b-sides)
Unreleased live album (Live In Boston)
Selections:
Original Album - 2017 Master:
1. The Queen Is Dead
2. Frankly, Mr. Shankly
3. I Know It's Over
4. Never Had No One Ever
5. Cemetry Gates
6. Bigmouth Strikes Again
7. The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
8. Vicar In A Tutu
9. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
10. Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
Additional Recordings:
1. The Queen Is Dead (full version)
2. Frankly, Mr. Shankly (demo)
3. I Know It's Over (demo)
4. Never Had No One Ever (demo)
5. Cemetry Gates (demo)
6. Bigmouth Strikes Again (demo)
7. Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others (demo)
8. The Boy With The Thorn In His Side (demo mix)
9. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (take 1)
10. Rubber Ring (single b-side)
11. Asleep (single b-side)
12. Money Changes Everything (single b-side)
13. Unloveable (single b-side)
Live in Boston: Recorded at The Great Woods Center for The Performing Arts, 8/5/86 (Previously unreleased):
1. How Soon Is Now?
2. Hand In Glove
3. I Want The One I Can't Have
4. Never Had No One Ever
5. Stretch Out And Wait
6. The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
7. Cemetry Gates
8. Rubber Ring / What She Said / Rubber Ring
9. Is It Really So Strange?
10. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
11. That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
12. The Queen Is Dead
13. I Know It's Over
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 113/500!
Widely considered to be both The Smiths' finest work and one of the greatest albums ever made, 'The Queen Is Dead' has cast a significant influence over subsequent generations since it was first released in the summer of 1986. Warner Bros. Records now releases a newly mastered and expanded version of the album in this 5LP Box Set.
This 5LP Box Set features the 2017 master of the album, additional recordings and the 'Live In Boston' recording.
"You cannot continue to record and simply hope that your audience will approve, or that average critics will approve, or that radio will approve," says Morrissey. "You progress only when you wonder if an abnormally scientific genius would approve and this is the leap The Smiths took with The Queen Is Dead."
Johnny Marr adds, "The Queen Is Dead was epic to make and epic to live."
Features:
5LP Box Set
Lift-off box
Updated artwork
2017 Master of original album
Additional recordings (demos, alternates & b-sides)
Unreleased live album (Live In Boston)
Selections:
Original Album - 2017 Master:
1. The Queen Is Dead
2. Frankly, Mr. Shankly
3. I Know It's Over
4. Never Had No One Ever
5. Cemetry Gates
6. Bigmouth Strikes Again
7. The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
8. Vicar In A Tutu
9. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
10. Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
Additional Recordings:
1. The Queen Is Dead (full version)
2. Frankly, Mr. Shankly (demo)
3. I Know It's Over (demo)
4. Never Had No One Ever (demo)
5. Cemetry Gates (demo)
6. Bigmouth Strikes Again (demo)
7. Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others (demo)
8. The Boy With The Thorn In His Side (demo mix)
9. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (take 1)
10. Rubber Ring (single b-side)
11. Asleep (single b-side)
12. Money Changes Everything (single b-side)
13. Unloveable (single b-side)
Live in Boston: Recorded at The Great Woods Center for The Performing Arts, 8/5/86 (Previously unreleased):
1. How Soon Is Now?
2. Hand In Glove
3. I Want The One I Can't Have
4. Never Had No One Ever
5. Stretch Out And Wait
6. The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
7. Cemetry Gates
8. Rubber Ring / What She Said / Rubber Ring
9. Is It Really So Strange?
10. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
11. That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
12. The Queen Is Dead
13. I Know It's Over
