The folks over at the U.K. arm of Rhino Records recently discovered this little gem in their archive of material by The Smiths: a 1992 advertisement for the then-new 14-track Best… compilation that apparently was shown in British movie theaters.
As you can see above, the cheeky clip finds a suicidal young man sitting in his car listening to “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now.” He keeps pulling the trigger on his gun to no avail, and, after the final click, tosses it out the window — and the gun finally goes off, shooting out his tire.
A voice then chimes in: “Fourteen of The Smiths’ jolliest tunes… all on one uplifting album.”
haha. Good stuff!
lol
Those two Best Of compilations were horrible. So contritely packaged with such strange and disjointed play order. I always felt bad for the people who discovered the Smiths through those.