This is a discography of the fundamental recordings on which Johnny Marr was predominant. There are, of course, boundless numbers of Smiths bootlegs available, but these are beyond the scope of this listing. The usual internet resources are available to the intrepid bootleg collector!
These are the original, fundamental Smiths releases. Post-Smiths re-issues are noted where it is thought that this is appropriate, but of necessity there may be some omissions amongst the re-releases.
Hand In Glove / Handsome Devil
Rough Trade, May 1983
Rough Trade, November 1983
(12-inch included ‘Accept Yourself’ and ‘Wonderful Woman’)
What Difference Does It Make? / Back To The Old House
Rough Trade, January 1984
(12-inch included ‘These Things Take Time’)
Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now / Suffer Little Children
Rough Trade, May 1984
(12-inch included ‘Girl Afraid’)
William It Was Really Nothing / Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
Rough Trade, August 1984
(12-inch included ‘How Soon Is Now?’)
How Soon Is Now? / Well I Wonder
Rough Trade, January 1985
(12-inch included ‘Oscillate Wildly’)
How Soon Is Now? / The Headmaster Ritual
Rough Trade, February 1985
Shakespeare’s Sister / What She Said
Rough Trade, February 1985
(12-inch included ‘Stretch Out And Wait’)
That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore / Meat Is Murder (live)
Rough Trade, July 1985
(12-inch included ‘Nowhere Fast’, ‘Shakespeare’s Sister’, ‘Stretch Out & Wait’, live versions)
The Boy With The Thorn In His Side / Asleep
Rough Trade, September 1985
(12-inch included ‘Rubber Ring’)
Bigmouth Strikes Again / Money Changes Everything
Rough Trade, May 1986
(12-inch included ‘Unloveable’)
Panic / Vicar In A Tutu
Rough Trade, July 1986
(12-inch included ‘The Draize Train’)
Ask / Cemetry Gates
Rough Trade, October 1986
(12-inch included ‘Golden Lights’)
Shoplifters Of The World Unite / Half A Person
Rough Trade, February 1987
(12-inch included ‘London’)
Sheila Take A Bow / Is It Really So Strange?
Rough Trade, April 1987
(12-inch included ‘Sweet And Tender Hooligan’)
Girlfriend In A Coma / Work Is A Four-Letter Word
Rough Trade, August 1987
(12-inch included ‘I Keep Mine Hidden’)
Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before / I Keep Mine Hidden
Rough Trade, October 1987
I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish / Pretty Girls Make Graves
Rough Trade, November 1987
(12-inch included ‘Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others’)
Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me / Nowhere Fast (BBC recording)
Rough Trade, December 1987
(12-inch included ‘Rusholme Ruffians’ (BBC recording))
The Smiths Singles Box (containing twelve 7” singles)
Hand In Glove / Handsome Devil / This Charming Man / Jeane / What Difference Does It Make / Back To The Old House / Still Ill / You’ve Got Everything Now / Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now / Suffer Little Children / William, It Was Really Nothing / Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want / How Soon Is Now? / Well I Wonder / Shakespeare’s Sister / What She Said / The Headmaster Ritual / Oscillate Wildly / That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore / Meat Is Murder / The Boy With The Thorn In His Side / Asleep / Bigmouth Strikes Again / Money Changes Everything
The Smiths
Reel Around The Fountain / You’ve Got Everything Now / Miserable Lie / Pretty Girls Make Graves / The Hand That Rocks The Cradle / Still Ill / Hand In Glove / What Difference Does It Make? / I Don’t Owe You Anything / Suffer Little Children
Rough Trade February 1984
1993 WEA re-issue included ‘This Charming Man’
Hatful Of Hollow
William, It Was Really Nothing / What Difference Does It Make? / These Things Take Time / This Charming Man / How Soon Is Now? / Handsome Devil / Hand In Glove / Still Ill / Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now / This Night Has Opened My Eyes / You’ve Got Everything Now / Accept Yourself / Girl Afraid / Back To The Old House / Reel Around The Fountain / Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
Rough Trade November 1984
Meat Is Murder
The Headmaster Ritual / Rusholme Ruffians / I Want The One I Can’t Have / What She Said / That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore / Nowhere Fast / Well I Wonder / Barbarism Begins At Home / Meat Is Murder
Rough Trade February 1985
1993 WEA re-issue included ‘How Soon Is Now?’
The Queen Is Dead / Frankly Mr Shankly / I Know It’s Over / Never Had No One Ever / Cemetery Gates / Bigmouth Strikes Again / The Boy With The Thorn In His Side / Vicar In A Tutu / There Is A Light That Never Foes Out / Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
Rough Trade June 1986
The World Won’t Listen
Panic / Ask / London / Bigmouth Strikes Again / Shakespeare’s Sister / There Is A Light That Never Goes Out / Shoplifters Of The World Unite / The Boy With The Thorn In His Side / Asleep / Unloveable / Half A Person / Stretch Out And Wait / That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore / Oscillate Wildly / You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet, Baby / Rubber Ring
Rough Trade March 1987
1993 WEA re-issue included ‘Money Changes Everything’ and ‘Golden Lights’’
Louder Than Bombs
Is It Really So Strange? / Sheila Take A Bow / Shoplifters Of The World Unite / Sweet And Tender Hooligan / Half A Person / London / Panic / Girl Afraid / Shakespeare’s Sister / William, It Was Really Nothing / You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet Baby / Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now / Ask / Golden Lights / Oscillate Wildly / These Things Take Time / Rubber Ring / Back To The Old House / Hand In Glove / Stretch Out And Wait / Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want / This Night Has Opened My Eyes / Unloveable
Sire June 1987, later released on Rough Trade
A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours / I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish / Death Of A Disco Dancer / Girlfriend In A Coma / Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before / Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me / Unhappy Birthday / Paint A Vulgar Picture / Death At One’s Elbow / I Won’t Share You
Rough Trade September 1987
‘Rank’ (live)
The Queen Is Dead / Panic / Vicar In A Tutu / Ask / (Marie’s The Name) His Latest Flame & Rusholme Ruffians / The Boy With The Thorn In His Side / What She Said / Is It Really So Strange? / Cemetry Gates / London / I Know It’s Over / The Draize Train / Still Ill / Bigmouth Strikes Again
Rough Trade September 1988
The Peel Session
What Difference Does It Make? / Miserable Lie / Reel Around The Fountain / Handsome Devil
12-inch EP, Strange Fruit October 1991
‘Best 1’
This Charming Man / William It Was Really Nothing / What Difference Does It Make / Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before / Girlfriend In A Coma / Half A Person / Rubber Ring / How Soon Is Now? / Hand In Glove / Shoplifters Of The World Unite / Sheila Take A Bow / Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others / Panic / Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
WEA August 1992
The Boy With The Thorn In His Side / The Headmaster Ritual / Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now / Ask / Oscillate Wildly / Nowhere Fast / Still Ill / Bigmouth Strikes Again / That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore / Shakespeare’s Sister / Girl Afraid / Reel Around The Fountain / Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me / There Is Alight That Never Goes Out
WEA November 1992
‘The Very Best Of The Smiths’
Panic / The Boy With The Thorn In His Side / Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now / Ask / Bigmouth Strikes Again / How Soon Is Now? / This Charming Man / What Difference Does It Make? / William, It was really nothing / some girls are bigger than others / girlfriend in a coma / Hand in Glove / There is a Light That Never Goes Out / Please Please Please Let Me Get what I Want / That Joke isn’t Funny any More / I Know It’s Over / Sheila Take a Bow / I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish / Still Ill / Shakespeare’s Sister / Shoplifters of the World Unite / Last Night I Dreamt that Somebody Loved me / Stop Me if you Think you’ve Heard This one before
WEA June 2001
The Sound Of The Smiths
Disc One
Hand In Glove / This Charming Man / What Difference Does It Make / Still Ill / Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now / William, It Was Really Nothing / How Soon Is Now? / Nowehre Fast. Shakespeare’s Sister / Barbarism Begins At Home / That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore / The Headmaster Ritual / The Boy With The Thorn In His Side / Bigmouth Strikes Again / There Is A Light That Never Goes Out / Panic / Ask / You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet Baby / Shoplifters Of The World Unite / Sheila Take A Bow / Girlfriend In A Coma / I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish / Last Night I Dreamed Somebody Loved Me
Disc Two (Deluxe Edition, Various B-Sides, Promo And Live Versions)
Jeane / Handsome Devil / This Charming Man / Wonderful Woman / Back |To The Old House / These Things Take Time / Girl Afraid / Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want / Stretch Out And Wait / Oscillate Wildly / Meat Is Murder / Asleep / Money Changes Everything / The Queen Is Dead / Vicar In A Tutu / Cemetry Gates / Half A Person / Sweet And Tender Hooligan / Pretty Girls Make Graves / Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before / What’s The World / London
WEA November 2008
Complete (boxed set)
Comprises The Smiths’ studio albums (The Smiths, Meat is Murder, The Queen is Dead and Strangeways Here We Come), Rank, Hatful of Hollow, The World Won’t Listen and Louder Than Bombs, as well as – in the deluxe edition – 25 7” singles and a DVD.
The Complete Picture
This Charming Man / What Difference Does It Make? / Panic / Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now / Ask / The Boy With The Thorn In His Side / How Soon Is Now? / Shoplifters Of The World Unite / Girlfriend In A Coma / Sheila Take A Bow / Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before / The Queen Is Dead (Including ‘The Queen Is Dead’, ‘There Is A Light That Never Goes Out’ And ‘Panic’, a film by Derek Jarman)
WEA December 1992. Released on DVD later.
The Beaten Generation / Angel
Epic March 1989
Gravitate To Me / The Violence Of Truth
Epic July 1989
Armageddon Days Are Here (Again) + remixes and versions
Epic November 1989
Various 7, 10 and 12-inch versions with additional tracks.
Jealous Of Youth / Another Boy Drowning (live) / Solitude / Dolphins
Epic February 1991
The Dogs Of Lust / The Violence Of Truth
Epic January 1993
Slow Emotion Replay / Dogs of Lust
Epic April 1993
Various formats and additional tracks available
Mind Bomb
Good Morning Beautiful / Armageddon Days Are Here (Again) / The Violence Of Truth / Kingdom Of Rain / The Beat(en) Generation / August & September / Gravitate To Me / Beyond Love
May 1989
Dusk
True Happiness This Way Lies / Love Is Stronger Than Death / Dogs Of Lust / This Is The Night / Slow Emotion Replay / Helpline Operator / Sodium Light Baby / Lung Shadows / Bluer Than Midnight / Lonely Planet
Most Electronic releases involved a number of different mixes, edits and formats. Only the main release is listed here.
Getting Away With It / Lucky Bag
Factory December 1989
Get The Message / Free Will
Factory April 1991
Feel Every Beat / Lean To The Inside
Factory September 1991
Disappointed / Idiot Country Two
Parlophone June 1992
Forbidden City / Imitation Of Life
Parlophone June 1996
For You / All That I Need
Parlophone September 1996
Second Nature / Turning Point
Parlophone February 1997
Vivid / Prodigal Son
Parlophone April 1999
Late At Night / Make It Happen / Make It Happen (remix)
July 1999
Electronic
Idiot Country / Reality / Tighten Up / The Patience Of A Saint / Gangster / Soviet / Get The Message / Try All You Want / Some Distant Memory / Feel Every Beat
Factory May 1991
Raise The Pressure
Forbidden City / For You / Dark Angel / One Day / Until The End Of Time / Second Nature / If You’ve Got Love / Out Of My League / Interlude / Freefall / Visit Me / How Long / Time Can Tell
Parlophone July 1996
Twisted Tenderness
Make It Happen / haze/ Vivid / Breakdown / Can’t Find My Way Home / Twisted Tenderness / Like No Other / Late At Night / Prodigal Son / When She’s Gone / Flicker
Levi Stubbs’ Tears / Walk Away Renee (as Duane Tremelo)
Go! Discs June 1986
Greetings To The New Brunette / Deportees / The Tatler 12-inch included ‘Jeane’ and ‘There Is A Power In The Union’
Go! Discs December 1986
Sexuality / One Good Thing / Sexuality
Go! Discs July 1991
Talking With The Taxman About Poetry
- appears on ‘Greetingsˇ’ and ‘The Passion’
Go! Discs September 1986
Don’t Try This At Home
- appears on ‘Cindyˇ’ and ‘Sexuality’
Go! Discs September 1991
Bloke On Bloke
- appears on ‘The Boy Done Good’
Cooking Vinyl June 1997
All Bragg’s compilations are worth owning. According to budget you’ll search out Victim Of Geography, Reaching To The Converted or Must I Paint You A Picture. The re-recorded version of ‘Greetings’, entitled ‘Shirley’ is on Reaching To The Converted.
The Right Stuff / The Right Stuff (remix)
Virgin November 1987
Kiss and Tell / Zamba (Marr on A-side)
Virgin February 1988
Limbo / Limbo Remix)
Virgin June 1988
Bete Noire
Virgin November 1987
Johnny appears on ‘Limbo’, ‘The Right Stuff’, ‘Kiss And Tell’ and ‘Seven Deadly Sins’
(Nothing But) Flowers / Ruby Dear
EMI April 1988
Naked
EMI March 1988
Johnny appears on ‘(Nothing But) Flowers,’ ‘Ruby Dear’, ‘Cool Water’ and ‘Mommy, Daddy, You and I.’ A UK 10-inch version of the single appeared with all of these except for ‘Cool Water.’
Free World / Closer to God / You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet Baby Virgin February 1989
Days / Happy
Virgin June 1989
Walking Down Madison / One Good Thing
Kite
Johnny plays on the majority of tracks, and co-wrote ‘End Of A Perfect Day’ and ‘You And Me Baby.’
Virgin April 1989
Electric Landlady
Johnny plays on ‘Walking Down Madison,’ which he co-wrote, and ‘Children of The Revolution.’
Virgin June 1991
Windows Of The World / 1969
Polydor April 1989
2 From Quando: Atom Rock / Triangle
Native Land / River Bed Dry
Blanco Y Negro September 1984
(Johnny appears on the A-side)
Universal
Parlophone December 1993
Johnny appears on ‘Las Cassa’
Shack Up / Life’s A Scream
Fat Neck / Yeah Yeah Brother / Pretty Vacant
Radioactive May 1996
Fresco
Deconstruction October 1997
The Program
London September 1998
Kiss Me I’m Cold / That’s My Business
Still Feel The Rain / Still Feel The Rain
Some Bizarre January 1991
This Is Your Life / It’s Written All Over My Face
London February 1991
Ripe
London March 1991
Johnny appears on ‘This Is Your Life’
Can You Forgive Her / Hey Headmaster
Parlophone, June 1993
Various formats included an extra track, Johnny’s guitar/remix version of ‘I Want To Wake Up’
Parlophone April 1994
Johnny appeared on the B-side.
Beautiful People / Fugitive
EMI October 2009 (Germany)
Johnny plays on A-side
Did You See Me Coming / After The Event / The Former Enfant Terrible / Up And Down (various formats)
Johnny plays on the A-side
Parlophone June 2009
Behaviour
Parlophone October 1990
Johnny appeared on ‘My October Symphony’ and ‘This Must Be The Place.’
Release
Album – Parlophone April 2002
Johnny Appears on eight of the ten tracks
Yes
Parlophone March 2009
Johnny plays guitar on ‘Beautiful People’, ‘Did You See Me Coming,’ ‘Building a Wall,’ and ‘Pandemonium’, and harmonica on the first and last of these.
Crimson Moon
Castle/When June 2000
Johnny appears on ‘Fool’s Mate’, ‘My Donald, ‘Looking For Love’,
‘The River Bank.’
Daybreaker
Heavenly July 02
Johnny co-wrote ‘Concrete Sky’, also released as an EP in July 02 with various other tracks.
Midnight Vultures
Seven Worlds Collide
Parlophone February 2002
Johnny plays guitar and vocals throughout this live collection, taking lead vocal on ‘Down On The Corner.’ He also plays ukulele and harmonica elsewhere. Includes Finn’s version of ‘There Is A Light That Never Goes Out.’
The Sun Came Out
Columbia / EMI August 2009
Johnny takes writing and vocal credits on “Too Blue,” “Run in the Dust,” and a writing credit on “Learn to Crawl.”
(as producer)
Between The Senses
Radiate February 2002
All For A Reason
Heathen Chemistry
July 2002
Johnny appeared on ‘(Probably) All In The Mind’ and ‘Born On A Different Cloud.’
Rays Of The Rising Sun / (versions)
Magnet, June 1995
Fictions
Album – EMI March 2006
Johnny arranged and plays harmonica and guitar on several tracks, including Neil Hannon’s ‘Home’ and ‘Image Fantome,’ a reading of Debussy’s ‘Pavane Pour Une Infente Defunte.’
We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
Album unreleased at time of going to press. Johnny involved in songwriting and playing.
The Last Ride / Need It / Long Gone
Pacific October 2001
Boomslang
The Last Ride / Caught Up / Down On The Corner / Need It / You Are The Magic / In Betweens / Another Day / Headland / Long Gone / Something To Shout About / Bangin’
Live It Like You Love It: The Best Of The Charlatans live
Album – MCA October 2002
Johnny appeared on stage with The Charlatans and appears on ‘Weirdo’ and ‘Sproston Green’
Lullaby For Liquid Pig
Album – Reincarnate May 2003
In The Maybe World
Young God July 2006
Time on Earth
ATO June 2007
Johnny appears on ‘Don’t Stop Now’ and ‘Even a Child’, co-writing the latter.
Don’t Stop Now / Stare Me Out (various alternative releases and b-sides)
Capitol June 2007
Johnny appears on the A-side
Out of Control
Fascination November 2008
Johnny appears on ‘Rolling Back the Rivers In Time,’ playing guitar and harmonica.
The Empyrean
Record Collection January 2009
Johnny plays on the tracks ‘Enough of Me’ and ‘Central.’
Inception
Reprise July 2010
Johnny appears throughout, notably on the track ‘Here’
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Columbia / Madison Gate Records April 2014
Johnny appears throughout, notably on the track ‘Here’
We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
March Into The Sea / Dashboard / Fire It Up / Florida / Parting Of The Sensory / Missed The Boat / We’ve Got Everything / Fly Trapped In A Jar / Education / Little Motel / Steam Engenius / Spitting Venom / People As Places As People / Invisible
Epic March 2007
No-one’s First And You’re Next
Satellite Skin / Guilty Cocker Spaniels / Autumn Beds / The Whale Song / Perpetual Motion Machine / History Sticks To Your Feet / King Rat / I’ve Got It All (Most)
Epic August 2009
Dashboard /King Rat
Epic January 2007
Missed the boat
Epic March 2007
Ignore The Ignorant
We Were Aborted / Cheat On Me / We Share The Same Skies / City Of Bugs / Hari Kari / Last Year’s Snow / Emasculate Me / Ignore The Ignorant / Save Your Secrets / Nothing / Victim Of Mass Production / Stick To Yr Guns / Is Anybody There (bonus on iTunes)
Wichita (UK), Warner (USA) and others elsewhere September 2009
Cheat on Me / various b-sides on various releases
Wichita (UK), Warner (USA) and others elsewhere August 2009
We Share The Same Skies / City of Bugs
Wichita (UK), Warner (USA) and others elsewhere November 2009
Chasing Yesterday
Sour Mash February 2015
Johnny appears on ‘Ballad of the Mighty I’
Ballad of the Mighty I
Sour Mash January 2015
The Messenger
The Right Thing Right / I Want The Heartbeat / European Me / Upstarts / Lockdown / The Messenger / Generate! Generate! / Say Demesne / Sun And Moon / The Crack Up / New Town Velocity / Word Starts Attack
Warner February 2013
Back In The Box / Easy Money / Dynamo / Candidate / 25 Hours / The Trap / Playland / Speak Out Reach Out / Boys Get Straight / This Tension / Little King
Warner October 2014
Life Is Sweet
Echo Records (download) 2010
Theme tune from The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret
Upstarts / Psychic Beginner
Warner February 2013
New Town Velocity / The It-Switch
New Voodoo / Warner November 2013
Easy Money / Use Me Up
New Voodoo / Warner June 2014
Dynamo / Struck
Warner February 2015
I Feel You
New Voodoo / Warner April 2015
Depeche Mode cover, released in support of Record Store Day
New Voodoo / Warner June 2015