Song

Girl Afraid

by The Smiths · from The Sound of The Smiths (Deluxe Edition)

1984Alternative2:46Track 32

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Review by Oskar Lind★★½Sample

Everyone in my group chat loves this and I feel like I'm being gaslit.

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Review by lena★★½Sample

Respectfully: no. “Girl Afraid” is the only thing I'd revisit.

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1
Hand In Glove (Single A-Side Mix)
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3:17
2
This Charming Man
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2:43
3
What Difference Does It Make? (John Peel Session, 5/18/83)
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3:14
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Still Ill
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3:23
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Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
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3:36
6
William, It Was Really Nothing
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2:12
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How Soon Is Now? (12" Version)
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6:47
8
Nowhere Fast
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2:38
9
Shakespeare's Sister
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2:10
10
Barbarism Begins at Home (Single Version)
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3:52
11
That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore (Single Version)
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3:53
12
The Headmaster Ritual
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4:55
13
The Boy with the Thorn In His Side (Single A-Side Version)
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3:18
14
Rubber Ring
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3:49
15
Bigmouth Strikes Again
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3:14
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There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
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4:05
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Panic
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2:21
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The Draize Train
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5:09
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Ask (Remix)
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3:17
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You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby (US Mix)
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3:35
21
Shoplifters of the World Unite
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2:59
22
Sheila Take a Bow
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2:43
23
Girlfriend In a Coma
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2:03
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I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
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3:49
25
Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me (Single Edit)
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3:11
26
Jeane
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3:06
27
Handsome Devil (Live at The Haçienda, Manchester, 4/2/83)
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2:56
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This Charming Man (New York Vocal)
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5:36
29
Wonderful Woman
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3:10
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Back to the Old House
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3:06
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These Things Take Time
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2:24
32
Girl Afraid
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2:46
33
Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
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1:52
34
Stretch Out and Wait (Alternate Vocal Version)
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2:46
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Oscillate Wildly
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3:28
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Meat Is Murder (Live at Oxford Apollo, 18/3/85)
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5:39
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Asleep
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4:10
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Money Changes Everything
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4:41
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The Queen Is Dead / Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty
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6:26
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Vicar In a Tutu
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2:24
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Cemetry Gates
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2:40
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Half a Person
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3:37
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Sweet and Tender Hooligan (John Peel Session, 12/2/86)
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3:36
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Pretty Girls Make Graves (Troy Tate Demo)
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3:36
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Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
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3:34
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What's the World? (Live at The Barrowlands, Glasgow, 25/9/85)
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2:06
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London (Live In London, 1986)
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2:39