Smiths in NYC 1985 audio remaster is up


The Smiths, live at Beacon Theatre, New York City, 18 June 1985.

Meaty, punchy low end, solid midrange, smooth, not harsh highs. I’d give the sound quality probably a B or B+.

Meat Is Murder tour. Nothing all too notable about this one. I suppose the biggest thing is that it’s unedited (outside of some little dropouts and similar hiccups that I fixed), so it’s a whole lot more filled out (one hour 25 minutes! nice.) than Rank. This one is just a standard audience bootleg that I fixed up, so it doesn’t sound as good as Rank, but is definitely worth a listen. I used the version which is on YT, which is audio only, and sounds terrible.

You’ll hear that they play several songs quite a bit faster than the album versions, noticeably fast. I could have slowed those down to get them closer to the album version tempos, but I said, nah, if they want to play the songs fast, I’ll let them.

Also, in fixing those little dropouts, sometimes I had to shorten up the drum stick four counts introducing the songs. Some I had to cut down to a two count, I’m sure there are a couple three counts, too, which sounds like it would be really awkward, but it’s not as bad as it sounds. I’m pretty sure I got rid of a couple four counts altogether.

I have no idea why they vamp that last song out to 12 minutes. Maybe there was something happening on stage which required a super long instrumental section? Some sort of Morrissey shenanigans?

I found a jpg poster from that tour for some other city/venue, but I covered up those details and put in this NYC date. The original is that green one above, but I made a bunch of different variations, different colors, different styles. Use whichever you’d like, or use them all.

Hope you like it. Thanks for listening.

Anders / Humorless Productions

Download (320 mp3s) or stream here-

[https://archive.org/details/The-Smiths-live-in-New-York-City-1985](https://archive.org/details/The-Smiths-live-in-New-York-City-1985)