After a slight detour late last week, we’re back on track with the weekly dribbling of previously unreleased versions of tracks off The Smiths’ classic 1986 The Queen is Dead album. We’re now up to “The Boy With the Thorn in His Side,” which you can stream below in the form of a never-before-released recording from the band’s concert at McAlister Auditorium in New Orleans on Sept. 8, 1986.
That track, like its weekly predecessors (see links below), won’t be included in the upcoming 3CD/1DVD reissue of The Queen is Dead. But the band’s label did release one of the tracks that will appear on the Live in Boston bonus disc last week: a 4-minute medley “Rubber Ring/What She Said/Rubber Ring.”
Below, check out the new (old) version of “The Boy With the Thorn in His Side.”
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- Listen: The Smiths, ‘Rubber Ring/What She Said/Rubber Ring’ — off ‘Live in Boston’
- Listen: The Smiths, ‘Bigmouth Strikes Again’ — unreleased live take from Berkeley 1986
- Listen: The Smiths, ‘Cemetry Gates’ — unreleased live take from Manchester 1986
- Listen: The Smiths, ‘Never Had No One Ever’ — unreleased live take from Nottingham 1986
- Listen: The Smiths, ‘I Know It’s Over’ — unreleased live take from Los Angeles 1986
- Listen: The Smiths, ‘Frankly Mr. Shankly’ — unreleased live take from Milwaukee 1986
- Listen: The Smiths, ‘The Queen is Dead’ — previously unreleased live recording
- The Smiths’ ‘The Queen is Dead’ 3CD/1DVD reissue to include unreleased 1986 live album
