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Death of a Disco Dancer by The Smiths • Jukebox

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Death of a Disco Dancer

by The Smiths · from Complete

1987Alternative5:26Track 3

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Review by Tomasz W.★★★½Sample

Overhyped? Maybe. Did I still cry at “Death of a Disco Dancer”? Also maybe.

3.2K likes

Review by Nadia Haddad★★★Sample

Solid, but I keep skipping “Death of a Disco Dancer”. Sorry The Smiths.

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Disc 1
1
Reel Around the Fountain
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5:57
2
You've Got Everything Now
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4:00
3
Miserable Lie
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4:28
4
Pretty Girls Make Graves
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3:43
5
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
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4:38
6
This Charming Man
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2:43
7
Still Ill
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3:21
8
Hand In Glove
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3:22
9
What Difference Does It Make?
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3:50
10
I Don't Owe You Anything
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4:05
11
Suffer Little Children
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5:31
Disc 2
1
The Headmaster Ritual
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4:53
2
Rusholme Ruffians
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4:20
3
I Want the One I Can't Have
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3:14
4
What She Said
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2:42
5
That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
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4:58
6
Nowhere Fast
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2:37
7
Well I Wonder
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4:00
8
Barbarism Begins at Home
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6:54
9
Meat Is Murder
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6:12
Disc 3
1
The Queen Is Dead
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6:25
2
Frankly, Mr. Shankly
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2:19
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I Know It's Over
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5:50
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Never Had No One Ever
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3:37
5
Cemetry Gates
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2:41
6
Bigmouth Strikes Again
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3:13
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The Boy with the Thorn In His Side
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3:17
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Vicar In a Tutu
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2:24
9
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
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4:04
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Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
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3:18
Disc 4
1
A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours
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3:01
2
I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
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3:48
3
Death of a Disco Dancer
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5:26
4
Girlfriend In a Coma
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2:03
5
Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
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3:36
6
Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
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5:06
7
Unhappy Birthday
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2:45
8
Paint a Vulgar Picture
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5:35
9
Death at One's Elbow
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2:02
10
I Won't Share You
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2:51
Disc 5
1
The Queen Is Dead (Live In London, 1986)
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4:15
2
Panic (Live In London, 1986)
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3:07
3
Vicar In a Tutu (Live In London, 1986)
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2:32
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Ask (Live In London, 1986)
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3:22
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His Latest Flame / Rusholme Ruffians (Live In London, 1986)
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3:56
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The Boy with the Thorn In His Side (Live In London, 1986)
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3:48
7
Rubber Ring / What She Said (Live In London, 1986)
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3:50
8
Is It Really So Strange? (Live In London, 1986)
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3:37
9
Cemetry Gates (Live In London, 1986)
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2:51
10
London (Live In London, 1986)
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2:39
11
I Know It's Over (Live In London, 1986)
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7:46
12
The Draize Train (Live In London, 1986)
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4:27
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Still Ill (Live In London, 1986)
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4:10
14
Bigmouth Strikes Again (Live In London, 1986)
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5:54
Disc 6
1
William, It Was Really Nothing
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2:11
2
What Difference Does It Make? (John Peel Session, 5/18/83)
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3:14
3
These Things Take Time (David Jensen Session, 6/26/83)
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2:33
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This Charming Man (John Peel Session, 9/14/83)
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2:46
5
How Soon Is Now? (12" Version)
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6:47
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Hand In Glove (Single A-Side Mix)
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3:17
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Still Ill (John Peel Session, 9/14/83)
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3:34
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Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
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3:36
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This Night Has Opened My Eyes
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3:42
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You've Got Everything Now (David Jensen Session, 6/26/83)
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4:14
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Accept Yourself (David Jensen Session, 8/25/83)
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4:03
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Girl Afraid
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2:46
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Back to the Old House (John Peel Session, 9/14/83)
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3:04
14
Reel Around the Fountain (John Peel Session, 5/18/83)
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5:52
15
Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
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1:52
Disc 7
1
Ask (Remix)
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3:16
2
London
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2:07
3
Shakespeare's Sister
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2:09
4
Money Changes Everything
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4:41
5
Asleep
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4:11
6
Unloveable (Single B-Side)
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3:56
7
Stretch Out and Wait (Alternate Vocal Version)
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2:45
8
That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore (Single Version)
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3:48
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You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby (UK Mix)
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3:31
10
Golden Lights
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2:42
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Is It Really So Strange? (John Peel Session, 12/2/86)
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3:07
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Sheila Take a Bow
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2:42
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Shoplifters of the World Unite
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2:58
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Sweet and Tender Hooligan (John Peel Session, 12/2/86)
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3:37
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Half a Person
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3:37
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Panic
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2:21
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You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby (US Mix)
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3:34
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Oscillate Wildly
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3:28
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These Things Take Time
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2:24
20
Rubber Ring
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3:49
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Back to the Old House
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3:05
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Stretch Out and Wait
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2:40
23
Handsome Devil (Live at The Haçienda, Manchester, 4/2/83)
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2:56
24
Reel Around the Fountain (Troy Tate Reel)
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6:11
25
Jeane
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3:06
26
What Difference Does It Make? (John Peel Session, 5/18/83)
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3:12
27
How Soon Is Now? (Single Edit)
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3:36
28
Barbarism Begins at Home (Single Version)
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3:52
29
Shakespeare's Sister
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2:10
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Meat Is Murder (Live at Oxford Apollo, 18/3/85)
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5:39
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The Draize Train
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5:09
32
Work Is a Four-Letter Word
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2:47
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Pretty Girls Make Graves (Troy Tate Demo)
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3:36
34
Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me (Single Edit)
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3:11
35
Rusholme Ruffians (John Peel Session, 9/8/84)
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4:05
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I Keep Mine Hidden
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2:00

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Review by Jules Archer★★★★½Sample

The bass on “Death of a Disco Dancer” should be studied in universities.

333 likes

Review by Yuki Tanaka★★★★Sample

i get it now. i didn't for years. i do now.

188 likes

Review by Priya Raman★★★½Sample

vibes immaculate, lyrics occasionally a little 'live laugh love'

39 likes