Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before (single)

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US 7" cover art
Germany cover art
Netherlands cover art
THE SMITHS Single
Name Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
Release November 1987
Total Length 3:32
Recorded Spring 1987
Writer/composer Morrissey / Johnny Marr
Producer Stephen Street
Assisted by Morrissey / Johnny Marr
Art work Cover star: Murray Head film still from "The Family Way" (1966)
Layout: Caryn Gough
Vinyl Etching No matrix message
Publisher Sire Records (US)
Line Records (Germany)
Megadisc (Netherlands)
Format(s) 7" Vinyl, 12" Vinyl, CD
Chart position Not applicable
Single chronology
I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
←
Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
→
Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me

Information

In 2011, "Gurglejerk" & "altscott3000" made the "stem" files for this song available.
This featured the song in component parts (including the vocal) for the Rock Band 3 video game.
This song was covered by Mark Ronson in 2007 (reaching number 2).

This was not released in the UK as a single due to the Hungerford Massacre.

Track list

7" Vinyl

US - [Sire – 9 28136-7]

  1. Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before – 3:32 (Morrissey/Marr)
  2. I Keep Mine Hidden – 1:57 (Morrissey/Marr)

7" Vinyl

Germany - [Line Records – LS 1.00025]

  1. Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before – 3:32 (Morrissey/Marr)
  2. Girlfriend In A Coma – 2:02 (Morrissey/Marr)

12" Vinyl / CD

Germany - [Line Records – LMS 3.00013 / LICD 9.00440]

  1. Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before – 3:32 (Morrissey/Marr)
  2. Work Is A Four-Letter Word – 2:47 (Black/Woolfenden)
  3. Girlfriend In A Coma – 2:02 (Morrissey/Marr)
  4. I Keep Mine Hidden – 1:57 (Morrissey/Marr)

12" Vinyl

Netherlands - [Megadisc – MD 125280]

  1. Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before – 3:32 (Morrissey/Marr)
  2. Pretty Girls Make Graves (Early Cello / Troy Tate version) – 3:35 (Morrissey/Marr)
  3. Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others (live) – 5:03 (Morrissey/Marr)

Lyrics

Stop me, stop me
stop me if you think that you've
heard this one before
stop me, stop me
stop me if you think that you've
heard this one before
nothing's changed
I still love you, oh I still love you
...only slightly less than I used to
I was delayed, I was way-laid
an emergency stop
I smelt the last ten seconds of life
I crashed down on the crossbar
and the pain was enough to make
a shy, bald buddhist reflect
and plan a mass-murder
who said I'd lied to her?
who said I'd lied because I never
Who said I'd lied because I never
I was detained, I was restrained
he broke my spleen
he broke my knees
(and then he really laid into me)
Friday night in Out-patients
who said I'd lied to her?
who said I'd lied - because I never
who said I'd lied - because I never
Oh, so I drank one
or was it four
and when I fell on the floor...
...I drank more
stop me, stop me
stop me if you think that you've
heard this one before
nothing's changed
I still love you
I still love you
but only slightly
less than I used to

Music Video (US)

Credits

Live History

Play count (The Smiths concert): 0


Play count (Morrissey concert): 127

Morrissey live history:

... further results

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Discogs Information

Credits

  • Bass Guitar - Andy Rourke
  • Coordinator [Art Co-ordination] - Jo Slee
  • Drums - Mike Joyce
  • Guitar - Johnny Marr
  • Layout - Caryn Gough
  • Model [Cover Star] - Murray Head
  • Sleeve - Morrissey
  • Voice - Morrissey
  • Written-By - Johnny Marr
  • Written-By - Morrissey

Notes

Recorded at The Wool Hall in Bath during Spring 1987.

Cover Star - Murray Head. ©1966 Weintraub Entertainments.

From the Sire album [url=http://www.discogs.com/master/21143]"Strangeways, Here We Come"[/url] Available on LP, Cassette and Compact Disc (1/4/2-25649)

Morrissey/Marr Songs Ltd. PRS adm. by Warner-Tamerlane Pub. Corp. BMI Sire Records Company, Marketed by Warner Bros. Records, Inc. © 1987 Sire Records Company ℗ 1987 Sire Records Company Made in U.S.A.

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Discogs information (additional release)

Notes

Double A-side single. "Side 1" printed on both sides of the center labels. Pressed on grey opaque vinyl.

Runouts are stamped except for 'ED' and 'BN', which are hand-etched.

[Sleeve:] Recorded at The Wool Hall in Bath during Spring 1987. Cover Star - Murray Head, © 1966 Weintraub Entertainments.

Line Records, a division of Line Music GmbH. Pressed and printed in Western Germany. P.1987 Rough Trade Records Ltd. C.1987 Line Music GmbH.

[Labels:] Lic. by Rough Trade Records Ltd., London

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Discogs information (additional release)

Notes

Back cover still uses the same back as the "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before" 12" release layout, with "STOP ME IF YOU THINK YOU'VE HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE" listed first. But the spine says, "THE SMITHS - GIRLFRIEND IN A COMA - MAXI SINGLE - 12 INCH".

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Discogs information (additional release)

Notes

Alternate rear sleeve variation looks more like the back of the sleeve of other international editions. It is all grey with no image, only the track listing and the block of credits in yellow and the Megadisc logo, marketing credit and catalogue number in white in the bottom right corner

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Discogs information (additional release)

Notes

Includes an 8-page booklet with lyrics to all the tracks, credits + images and track lists of five albums by The Smiths.

Otherwise identical to [r=31874792], which has a booklet of only four pages, omitting the images and track lists of the albums.

[Back cover:] Line Records, a division of Line Music GmbH. Manufactured in Western Germany. P.1987 Line Music GmbH.

[Disc:] ℗ 1987 / © 1987 Licensed by Rough Trade Records Ltd., London

[Booklet:] "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before" and "Girlfriend In A Coma" [...], recorded at The Wool Hall in Bath during Spring 1987, "Work Is A Four-Letter Word" [...], recorded in London, "I Keep Mine Hidden" [...], recorded in London, [...], Cover Star - Murray Head, © 1966 Weintraub Entertainments.

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Wikipedia Information

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"Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before" is a song by the English rock band the Smiths, written by singer Morrissey and guitarist Johnny Marr. The song was first released on the group's 1987 album Strangeways, Here We Come. Marr's music features a larger sound, courtesy of a 12-string Gibson ES-335, and one of his few guitar solos with the Smiths. Morrissey's lyrics allude to alcohol and deception. Although the song was originally planned to be released as a single in August 1987, the BBC objected to the song's lyrical reference to mass murder in the aftermath of the Hungerford massacre. As a result, "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before" was only released as a single in America, Australia, and some European markets, while "I Started Something I Couldn't Finish" was chosen to replace the song as the band's new UK single. Despite its censorship by British radio, "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before" has seen critical acclaim for Marr's guitar work and Morrissey's witty lyricism. It has since appeared on multiple compilation albums and has been ranked by music writers as one of the band's best songs.

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