The Smiths - The World Won't Listen & Louder than Bombs

Lately, I've been listening to the Smiths again, but I listen to them differently these days. Until recently, going right back to the beginning in high school, their music has always been overlaid with a sense of tumult and urgency - a feeling of drowning or at least drenchedness - but something has changed, and now it's more the surging, slightly giddy, perfectly weighted pop joy of their music that predominates, songs like "Girlfriend in a Coma" and "Shoplifters of the World Unite" taking on a new life and freshness. Anyhow, I haven't listened a great deal to these two compilations, but I'll dip into them in time - I guess the Smiths aren't going away for me any time soon.