Hatful Of Hollow (1984)

The Smiths

2 It was only a rag-bag of radio sessions, but Hatful Of Hollow outsold The Smiths’ damp-squib self-titled debut, and captured the band’s live muscle, too. Marr was masterful on the glistening sevenths of Heaven

Knows I’m Miserable Now, the aching fingerstyle of Back To The Old House and the doomed lilt of

Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want. But it was How Soon Is Now? that announced him as far more than a jangler – with the guitarist and producer John Porter feeding the rhythm part through four Fender Twins and manually controlling the tremolo to create that juddering swampscape. This supposed stopgap is now regarded as the pick of their early run. Download: How Soon Is Now?