The Smiths didn’t make a lot of records during their
flashing five-year career, but the ones they made were sublime enough to
intoxicate an enduring cult. And like so many groups with
relatively few proper LPs—The Velvet Underground, The Clash, and Jimi Hendrix, for
example—The Smiths have a rich enough reservoir of singles, B-sides, and
outtakes to warrant Simon Goddard’s track-by-track analysis The Smiths: Songs That Saved Your Life.
As first published in 2002, the book did not fully please its author, baring a
few errors and a title altered by the publisher. A tick over a decade later,
Goddard has nudged his tome closer to his original vision and Titan Books is
giving it a fresh republication.
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