Hatful of Hollow
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| Compilation album by The Smiths | ||||
| Released | 12 November 1984 | |||
| Recorded | 1983–1984 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock, indie pop | |||
| Length | 56:11 | |||
| Label | Rough Trade (UK), Sire (US) | |||
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| AllMusic |  |
| Chicago Tribune | |
| Pitchfork | 10/10 |
| Q |  |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | |
| Select | 5/5 |
| Sputnikmusic | 5/5 |
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Hatful of Hollow is a compilation album by the English rock band the Smiths, featuring BBC Radio 1 studio recordings and two contemporary singles with their B-sides. It was released on 12 November 1984 by the band's British record company Rough Trade, just months after the band's debut, The Smiths. The album reached No. 7 on the UK Albums Chart and stayed on the chart for 46 weeks. Eventually, on 9 November 1993, it was also released by their American label Sire Records, which had initially declined to release the album. Sire instead released Louder Than Bombs in the US in 1987—which contains several of the same tracks as Hatful of Hollow—as well as The World Won't Listen.
In 2000, Q magazine placed Hatful of Hollow at number 44 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever.
The current sleeve for Hatful of Hollow is the CD issue sleeve, featuring a cropped photograph of the otherwise unknown Fabrice Colette taken by Gilles Decroix. The original sleeve, pictured above, included a tattoo of a Cocteau drawing on Colette's left shoulder, which he had had done in June 1983 because he idolised Cocteau. The photograph is taken from a July 1983 special edition of the French newspaper Libération. Additionally, the old cover had a large sky-blue frame with the legends "The Smiths" and "Hatful of Hollow" above and underneath the picture. All editions after 1987 however feature the cropped version with the text superimposed.
The album consists mainly of songs recorded over several BBC Radio 1 sessions in 1983 (tracks shown in bold were included on the album). When first broadcast, these radio sessions mainly featured songs which were otherwise unavailable—all were subsequently re-recorded for singles or for the following year's debut album, with the exception of "This Night Has Opened My Eyes" which was only ever recorded for the September Peel session.
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