S m i t h s - Troy Tate + Pablo Cuckoo best versions

LOSSLESS RE-POST

Troy Tate Sessions
summer 1983
East London, UK
'Soundsville Paul' source
Analog Loyalist remaster

soundboard recordings (sound quality Ex-) 

01 What Difference Does It Make? #1
02 Accept Yourself #1
03 The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
04 You've Got Everything Now
05 These Things Take Time

06 What Difference Does It Make? #2
07 Hand In Glove
08 Handsome Devil
09 Accept Yourself #2
10 Wonderful Woman
11 I Don't Owe You Anything
12 Jeane
13 Suffer Little Children
14 Miserable Lie
15 Reel Around the Fountain

ROB SEZ: I "blame" this post on the new-old single from this group that I bought on Record Store Day in 2017. Something about the music of the band always brings me back, in spite of my ambivalence. After reading Johnny Marr's bio, I realized the appeal for me is 90% JM's personality/talent/guitar playing, 5% the loony, over-the-top singer, and 5% inexplicable mystery. These two ROIO sets are nothing new to collectors. But in case someone out there hasn't heard them (especially in these superior versions), the post will not be in vain. Check out Drew's amazing mastering job on the Troy Tate recordings — the beautiful bass tones will blow you away.

MEGA THANKS to Steve, Drew, CrazyCol and everyone else 

who brought this music to the masses.

Pablo Cuckoo Tape

The duo that conquered indie music in the 1980s

May 1983
Manchester, UK

ambient mic recording
     (sound quality VG-)

01 You've Got 
     Everything Now 
02 Accept Yourself 
03 What Difference 
     Does It Make?  
04 Reel Around the Fountain 
05 These Things Take Time 
06 I Don't Owe You Anything 
07 Hand In Glove 
08 Handsome Devil 
09 Miserable Lie
  
FLAC
  
MP3@320 

  
One other S m i t h s - related post is HERE

      

Learn more about this band's music at Wikipedia and the fabulous fan site Passions Just Like Mine

 

Smiths, The - Manchester + NOLA 1986

G-Mex

Manchester, UK

Festival of the 10th Summer 

July 19, 1986

FM recording (sound quality: VG++; 
master tape source from Picadilly Radio broadcast)

00 intro (pre-recorded The March of The Capulets) 

01 Bigmouth Strikes Again

02 Panic

03 Vicar In a Tutu

04 Frankly, Mr. Shankly

05 There Is a Light That Never Goes Out

06 Ask

07 I Want the One I Can't Have

08 Cemetry Gates

09 Shakespeare’s Sister

10 Stretch Out and Wait

11 That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore 

12 The Queen Is Dead (end cut, fades out)

13 I Know It’s Over

14 Hand In Glove + outro

MEGA THANKS to craigie for taping and to thehappyone for sharing.

ROB SEZ: The new deluxe reissue of The Queen Is Dead is great, and the live disc from a show in Boston, MA in 1986 is fine. But what I really want to hear is a show from this tour when the crowd is going nuts, and the band is on fire. If you have similar inclinations, give these a try.

McAlister Auditorium

New Orleans, LA

Sept. 8, 1986

audience recording (sound quality VG+)

01 intro (March of the Capulets)
02 The Queen Is Dead
03 Panic
04 I Want The One I Can't Have
05 Rusholme Ruffians
06 There Is A Light That Never Goes Out 
07 Still Ill
08 The Boy With the Thorn In His Side
09 Cemetry Gates
10 Stretch Out and Wait
11 Never Had No One Ever
12 Is It Really So Strange?
13 That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
14 Meat Is Murder
15 What She Said
16 I Know It's Over
17 crowd, pre-encore
18 Money Changes Everything  
19 How Soon Is Now?
20 crowd
21 Hand In Glove
22 Bigmouth Strikes Again

Transferred from a DAT copy of the master tape.

FLAC
  
MP3@320

Smiths, The – At the Beeb (unreleased 1983-‘87)

At the Beeb

Radio and TV appearances (none officially released)

various locales & dates 1983-1987

(artwork included in the download)

FM, soundboard and video-derived audio (from best available sources)

sound quality: variable (range = VG- to Ex-)

01 Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now (Ear Say 84)

02 Pretty Girls Make Graves (Jenson Session 83)

03 I Don't Owe You Anything (Jenson Session 83)

04 Reel Around the Fountain (Jenson Session 83)

05 This Night Has Opened My Eyes (Y.E.S. 84)

06 What Difference Does It Make? (Y.E.S. 84)

07 Still Ill (The Tube 84)

08 Hand In Glove (The Tube 84)

09 How Soon Is Now? (Peel Session 84)

10 Barbarism Begins at Home (The Tube 84)

11 There Is a Light That Never Goes Out (Euro-Tube 86)

12 Vicar In A Tutu (Whistle Test 86)

13 Panic (Euro-Tube 86)

14 Bigmouth Strikes Again (Whistle Test 86)

15 Half A Person (Peel Session 86)

16 London (Peel Session 86)

17 Shoplifters of the World Unite (Tube 87)

18 Sheila Take a Bow (Tube 87)

BONUS TRACKS:

Xa Asleep (Inverness soundcheck 85)

Xb [blank]

Xc Wonderful Woman (Jenson Session 83)

Xd Shoplifters of the World Unite (Megamix 87)

MP3@320

TRACK INFO:

01 – early studio version with shorter ending, broadcast 31 March 1984 on “Ear Say” television programme, Channel 4 in the UK

02 – live session, recorded 25 August 1983 on David “Kid” Jenson show, BBC Radio One in the UK
03 – [same as 02]
04 – [same as 02]
05 – live performance, broadcast 31 March 1984 on “Y.E.S.” television programme, BBC North West in the UK
06 – [same as 05]
07 - live performance, broadcast 16 March 1984 on “The TUBE” television programme in the UK
08 – [same as 07]
09 – live session, recorded 1 August 1984 on John Peel show, BBC Radio One in the UK (includes abrupt false ending, followed by 42 additional seconds of music)
10 – [same as 07]
11 - live performance, broadcast 5 July 1986 on “Euro-Tube” television programme, Channel 4 in the UK
12 – live performance, broadcast 20 May 1986 on “(Old Grey) Whistle Test” television programme, BBC2 in the UK
13 – [same as 11] – features unusual long intro
14 – [same as 12]
15 - live session, recorded 17 December 1986 on John Peel show, BBC Radio One in the UK
16 – [same as 15]
17 - live performance, broadcast 10 April 1987 on “The TUBE” television programme in the UK
18 – [same as 17]

Xa – audience recording, 1 October 1985, Eden Court, Inverness, Scotland (soundcheck)

Xc - live session, recorded 24 July 1983 on David “Kid” Jenson show, BBC Radio One in the UK
Xd – live performance, broadcast 13 February 1987 on “Megamix” television programme, Dublin, Ireland

MORE ABOUT THE COMPILATION:

I’d been intending for some time to put together an audio compilation of all the British radio and TV performances that have never seen official release. I did this for my own amusement, but since it turned out better than I anticipated, I decided to share it.

Be prepared for quite a lot of variety in sound quality. That said, I think most listeners will find many, or even all, of these very listenable. I used the best sources I could find from an audio standpoint, lossless in most instances. Those interested are welcome to consult the comments section to discover the source I used for each track.

For the running order, I picked tracks that I thought sounded good before and after each other. Happily, the sequence ended up being mostly chronological. My apologies to fans of “Wonderful Woman” from the 1983 Jenson Session: I could not imagine it making a positive musical contribution to this compilation other than as a “bonus track.” The Xb blank track features 10 seconds of silence to create an audio gap before the bonus tracks.

Above all, please enjoy.

Rob-in-Brevard