The Smiths Before 1985 – Guitar Covers

A collection of YouTube Shorts – clips roughly sixty seconds long – for all early Smiths songs (up to the end of 1984) .

Johnny Marr used F# standard tuning, along with the occasional song in Open E, pretty much exclusively for the early catalogue when playing live.

The list of links below is in order of recording as documented in the book Songs That Saved Your Life, by Simon Goddard. Eventually I’ll complete the full set. In all of the clips played on the Rickenbacker, the guitar is tuned to F# standard.

1. Handsome Devil
2. Hand In Glove
3. The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
4. You’ve Got Everything Now
5. These Things Take Time
6. What Difference Does It Make?
7. Reel Around The Fountain
8. Wonderful Woman
9. I Don’t Owe You Anything
10. Suffer Little Children
11. Miserable Lie
12. Accept Yourself
13. Pretty Girls Make Graves
14. Jeane
15. This Night Has Opened My Eyes
16. This Charming Man
17. Still Ill
18. Back To The Old House
19. Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now
20. Girl Afraid
21. William, It Was Really Nothing
22. Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
23. How Soon Is Now?
24. The Headmaster Ritual (Open E)
25. What She Said
26. Well I Wonder
27. Nowhere Fast
28. Rusholme Ruffians
29. Barbarism Begins At Home
30. That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore
31. I Want The One I Can’t Have
32. Meat Is Murder (Open E)