- I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
Infobox Single
Name = I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
Artist =The Smiths
from Album =Strangeways, Here We Come
Released =November 2 1987
Format = 7", 12", MC
Recorded = Spring 1987
Genre =Alternative rock
Length = 3:46
Label =Rough Trade Records
Writer =Johnny Marr Morrissey
Producer = Morrissey, Johnny Marr andStephen Street
Chart position = * #23 (UK)
Video director = ?
Reviews =
*
Last single = "Girlfriend in a Coma"
(1987)
This single = "I Started Something I Couldn't Finish"
(1987)
Next single = "Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me " (1987)"I Started Something I Couldn't Finish" is a song byThe Smiths . It was released as a single in November1987 , reaching #23 in theUK Singles Chart .It was the second of three UK singles from the band's last studio album "
Strangeways, Here We Come ", and was released after the band had announced their split. The record company had originally intended to release "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before " as a single in the UK but felt this would be inappropriate following theHungerford massacre (the lyrics contain a reference to "mass murder")."Stop Me..." was still released as a single in other countries, but its promotional video - which featured
Morrissey plus a large number of Morrissey lookalikes - was used in the UK to promote "I Started Something I Couldn't Finish".The cover of the single features actress
Avril Angers in afilm still from the1966 film "The Family Way ". [Goddard, Simon. "", page 340. Reynolds & Hearn 2006. ISBN 1-905287-14-3]Track listing
All tracks written by
Morrissey andJohnny Marr except as noted.7": Rough Trade / RT198 (UK)
# "I Started Something I Couldn't Finish"
# "Pretty Girls Make Graves" (Troy Tate version)12": Rough Trade / RTT198 (UK)
# "I Started Something I Couldn't Finish"
# "Pretty Girls Make Graves" (Troy Tate version)
# "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others" (live)* also released on cassette Rough Trade RTT198C
The cassette version featured a cover of the James song "What's The World?"
Etchings on vinyl
UK 7" and 12":"MURDER AT THE WOOL HALL"(X)STARRING SHERIDAN WHITESIDE/ YOU ARE BELIEVING, YOU DO NOT WANT TO SLEEP
The Wool Hall was the recording studio in Bath where the Smiths had recorded latest album "Strangeways Here We Come", but it also was where Morrissey, at the time of this single's release, was recording his debut solo album "Viva Hate". Sheridan Whiteside was one of Morrissey pseudonyms. The b-side etching is a reversal of "You are sleeping, you do not want to believe", a sample heard at the end of the Smiths song "Rubber Ring".
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