Anyone notice that the single version of 'The Boy With The Thorn In His Side' is missing from The Smiths - Complete? I've listened to the version on the remastered The World Won't Listen and it doesn't seem to be any different than the TQID version.

I've also compared it to my un-remastered versions of the song and again it sounds like the album version, not the single one. I'm not sure what to make of this, especially since it is well known that the album version was used instead of the single version on The Singles Album and in the 2009 CD Singles Boxset. Not upset at all. I just find it interesting that as far as The World Won't Listen album goes, they didn't deliver a remastered version of the original. Instead, we have a version with a unique track listing in comparison to all previous versions (at least insofar as it includes the album version of TBWTTIHS, rather than the single mix).

Because the album version has been used elsewhere in the post-breakup discography where one would have expected the single version, this raises some interesting questions: - Was the original single supposed to have the album mix, but through some error an earlier 'incomplete' outtake was used instead? - Does Marr have some issue with the single version and is he using this remastered set to 'expunge' this version from the discography? - Is the master tape for the single version missing or damaged? Free Mitchell On Demand 5.8. - Is it just an odd coincidence that TBWTTIHS is a track that the record companies continually 'get wrong' on re-releases? Not upset at all. I just find it interesting that as far as The World Won't Listen album goes, they didn't deliver a remastered version of the original. Instead, we have a version with a unique track listing in comparison to all previous versions (at least insofar as it includes the album version of TBWTTIHS, rather than the single mix).