The Smiths | Transmission Impossible (3cd) | 3CD

The Smiths were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1982. The group consisted of vocalist Morrissey, guitarist Johnny Marr, bassist Andy Rourke and drummer Mike Joyce. Critics have called them one of the most important bands to emerge from the British independent music scene of the 1980s. Johnny Marr left in July 1987 and the band broke up later that year.

Transmission Impossible (Classic Radio Broadcasts) is an unofficial three disc set released in 2025 by Eat To The Beat in the UK. Its discs contain live FM broadcasts recorded at the Apollo Theatre in Oxford, England, on 18 March 1985, at the Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool, England, on 8 February 1986, and at Pier 84 in New York on 6 August 1986. The songs are credited to Johnny Marr and Morrissey.

Track List

Disc 1

1. William, It Was Really Nothing
2. Nowhere Fast
3. What She Said
4. Hand In Glove
5. How Soon Is Now?
6. Stretch Out And Wait
7. That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
8. Shakespeare's Sister
9. The Headmaster Ritual
10. Still Ill
11. Meat Is Murder
12. Miserable Lie
13. Barbarism Begins At Home
14. You've Got Everything Now

Disc 2

1. Intro / Shakespeare's Sister
2. I Want The One I Can't Have
3. Vicar In A Tutu
4. Frankly, Mr. Shankly
5. His Latest Flame / Rusholme Ruffians
6. The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
7. Cemetry Gates
8. Nowhere Fast
9. What She Said
10. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
11. Bigmouth Strikes Again
12. William, It Was Really Nothing
13. Meat Is Murder
14. Stretch Out And Wait

Disc 3

1. How Soon Is Now?
2. I Want The One I Can't Have
3. Still Ill
4. Frankly, Mr. Shankly
5. Panic
6. Never Had No One Ever
7. Stretch Out And Wait
8. The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
9. Cemetry Gates
10. What She Said
11. Hand In Glove
12. Is It Really So Strange
13. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
14. That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
15. The Queen Is Dead
16. Money Changes Everything
17. I Know It's Over
18. Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
19. Bigmouth Strikes Again