nightandday
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Pretty Girls Make Graves (Troy Tate session) (used as B-side to I Started Something...)
An excellent version, IMO much better than the one on The Smiths. All Troy Tate sessions are worth hearing. Many of them are superior to the John Porter-produced tracks on the debut. The highlights, apart from Pretty Girls, include Miserable Lie (miles better than the version on the debut, although the Peel session is probably the best), Suffer Little Children (less slow and droning than the one on the debut, has a certain tension that the other version lacks, and it also has a haunting piano coda later used on Asleep), Wonderful Woman (less polished, more raw than the one from TCM, Johnny's guitar might not that beautiful, but Morrissey vocal is very emotional - one of his best early vocal performances). What Difference Does It Make? sounds very unusual due to strange backing vocal, courtesy of Johnny Marr, which gives it a slightly spooky atmosphere.
An excellent version, IMO much better than the one on The Smiths. All Troy Tate sessions are worth hearing. Many of them are superior to the John Porter-produced tracks on the debut. The highlights, apart from Pretty Girls, include Miserable Lie (miles better than the version on the debut, although the Peel session is probably the best), Suffer Little Children (less slow and droning than the one on the debut, has a certain tension that the other version lacks, and it also has a haunting piano coda later used on Asleep), Wonderful Woman (less polished, more raw than the one from TCM, Johnny's guitar might not that beautiful, but Morrissey vocal is very emotional - one of his best early vocal performances). What Difference Does It Make? sounds very unusual due to strange backing vocal, courtesy of Johnny Marr, which gives it a slightly spooky atmosphere.