after sifting through all the recordings over the past month, ive finally come up with an Essential Smiths compilation that juste fits onto one cd:

01 Reel Around The Fountain [from The Smiths]
02 Hand In Glove [from The Smiths]
03 This Charming Man [from The Smiths]
04 Girlfriend In A Coma [from Strangeways, Here We Come]
05 The Boy With The Thorn In His Side [from The Queen Is Dead]
06 William, It Was Really Nothing [from Hatful Of Hollow]
07 Panic [from [The World Won't Listen/Louder Than Bombs]
08 That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore [from Meat Is Murder]
09 Shoplifters Of The World Unite [from The World Won't Listen/Louder Than Bombs]
10 Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want [from Hatful Of Hollow]
11 The Queen Is Dead [from The Queen Is Dead]
12 The Headmaster Ritual [from Meat Is Murder]
13 Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before [from Strangeways, Here We Come]
14 Shakespeare's Sister [from The World Won't Listen/Louder Than Bombs]
15 Bigmouth Strikes Again [from The Queen Is Dead]
16 How Soon Is Now? [from Hatful Of Hollow]
17 Meat Is Murder [from Meat Is Murder]
18 Paint A Vulgar Picture [from Strangeways, Here We Come]
19 Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me [from Strangeways, Here We Come]
20 There Is A Light That Never Goes Out [from The Queen Is Dead]


most difficult cuts:

Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now [from Hatful Of Hollow]
Nowhere Fast [from Meat Is Murder]
I Know It's Over [from The Queen Is Dead]
Rubber Ring [from The World Won't Listen/Louder Than Bombs]
Asleep [from The World Won't Listen/Louder Than Bombs]
I Started Something I Couldn't Finish [from Strangeways, Here We Come]


ioriginally had "I Know It's Over" in place of "Paint A Vulgar Picture" at track 18, but it seemed a little too heavy having it sandwiched between "How Soon Is Now?" and "Meat Is Murder" on one side and "Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me" on the other. also, it evens out the contingent from The Queen Is Dead and Strangeways, Here We Come at four tracks apiece, while the other albums and compilations come in juste one back at three apiece.

heres a 2CD version:

CD1 [songs originally released from May 1983 up to July 1985]

01 Reel Around The Fountain [from The Smiths]
02 Hand In Glove [from The Smiths]
03 This Charming Man [from The Smiths]
04 Rusholme Ruffians [from Meat Is Murder]
05 Nowhere Fast [from Meat Is Murder]
06 Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now [from Hatful Of Hollow]
07 William, It Was Really Nothing [from Hatful Of Hollow]
08 Girl Afraid [from Hatful Of Hollow]
09 Pretty Girls Make Graves [from The Smiths]
10 That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore [from Meat Is Murder]
11 Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want [from Hatful Of Hollow]
12 Oscilate Wildly [from The World Won't Listen/Louder Than Bombs]*
13 The Headmaster Ritual [from Meat Is Murder]
14 What She Said [from Meat Is Murder]
15 Shakespeare's Sister [from The World Won't Listen/Louder Than Bombs]*
16 Well I Wonder [from Meat Is Murder]
17 Still Ill [from The Smiths]
18 What Difference Does It Make? [from Hatful Of Hollow]
19 How Soon Is Now? [from Hatful Of Hollow]
20 Meat Is Murder [from Meat Is Murder]
21 Back To The Old House [from Hatful Of Hollow]

*these tracks were originally released on singles in Feb. and Mar. of 1985, prior to their re-release on The World Won't Listen and Louder Than Bombs in 1987

CD2 [songs released after July 1985]

01 The Queen Is Dead [from The Queen Is Dead]
02 I Started Something I Couldn't Finish [from Strangeways, Here We Come]
03 Frankly, Mr. Shankly [from The Queen Is Dead]
04 Girlfriend In A Coma [from Strangeways, Here We Come]
05 The Boy With The Thorn In His Side [from The Queen Is Dead]
06 Ask [from The World Won't Listen/Louder Than Bombs]
07 Panic [from The World Won't Listen/Louder Than Bombs]
08 Cemetry Gates [from The Queen Is Dead]
09 Bigmouth Strikes Again [from The Queen Is Dead]
10 Shoplifters Of The World Unite [from The World Won't Listen/Louder Than Bombs]
11 A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours [from Strangeways, Here We Come]
12 Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before [from Strangeways, Here We Come]
13 Sheila Take A Bow [from The World Won't Listen/Louder Than Bombs]
14 Death Of A Disco Dancer [from Strangeways, Here We Come]
15 Rubber Ring [from The World Won't Listen/Louder Than Bombs]
16 Paint A Vulgar Picture [from Strangeways, Here We Come]
17 I Know It's Over [from The Queen Is Dead]
18 Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me [from Strangeways, Here We Come]
19 Asleep [from The World Won't Listen/Louder Than Bombs]
20 There Is A Light That Never Goes Out [from The Queen Is Dead]


this seems like too much though- 41 tracks is over 60% of their officially released material. ah well, its over 2½ hours of bliss.

I won't bother separarting it into discs for now, here are my favorite songs by

Today is the Day

"The Man Who Loves to Hurt Himself"
"My First Knife"
"Black Dahlia"
"Spotting a Unicorn"
"In The Eyes of God"
"This Machine Kills Facists"
"Friend for Life"
"The Descent"
"Honor"
"Don't Thread on Hope"
"Realization"
"Crutch"
"Blindspot"
"My Life With You"
"6 Dementia Satyr"
"Blind Man At Mystic Lake"
"Adult Word"
"The Begging"
"Sidewinder"
"The Color of Psychic Power"
"Mayari"
"Afterlife"
"Going to Hell"
"Himself"
"Martial Law"
"There is No End"

The Best of Steely Dan:

1. Peg
2. Do It Again
3. Dirty Work
4. My Old School
5. Show Biz Kids
6. Rikki Don't Lose That Number
7. Kid Charlemagne
8. Hey Nineteen
9. Everyone's Gone To The Movies
10. Any Major Dude Will Tell You
11. Reelin' In The Years
12. Cousin Dupree

I've actually done my own greatest hits compilations, they were:

Isaac Hayes
1. Theme from Shaft
2. Disco Connection
3. Zeke The Freak
4. Walk On By
5. Do Your Thing
6. Theme From The Men
7. Ike's Mood
8. If Loving you is Wrong (I don't Want To Be Right)
9. Moonlight Loving (feat. Barry White)
10. I Stand Accused
11. I Never Can Say Goodbye
12. Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic
13. The Look of Love

Marvin Gaye
1. Lets Get It On
2. Sexual Healing
3. I Want You
4. You're All I Need (with Tammi Terrell)
5. Inner City Blues (Makes Me Wanna Holler)
6. Whats Going On?
7. I Heard It Through The Grapevine
8. Turn On Some Music
9. Funky Space Reincarnation
10. Rockin After Midnight
11. Got To Give It Up

Phish


Icculus
Divided Sky
YEM
Harry Hood
Reba
Squirming Coil
Split Open and Melt
The Lizards
Slave to the Traffic Light

although that would probably run for about 2.5 hours

you don't really like The Soft Bulletin, eh?
that's actually the only one I own by them and I like it very much...

guhhh... not a fan of that one.

That just looks like their three last albums chopped into two (with only Ugly Truth as an exception).

But since they already have "A-Sides," what they really need is a "B-Sides" collection...so howabout:

Birth Ritual
Girl U Want
Fell on Black Days (demo)
Bleed Together
Kyle Petty, Son of Richard
Stray Cat Blues
Seasons
Show Me
She Likes Surprises
Exit Stonehenge
Into the Void
HIV Baby
She's a Politician
Touch Me
Blind Dogs
Come Togther
Like Suicide (acoustic)

Special thanks to Kazaa Lite ++ for letting me hear these songs and me for making a CD-R very similar to this one right here.