Song · The Smiths
“I Know It's Over” by The Smiths
From the album The Queen Is Dead (1986)
“I Know It's Over” by The Smiths appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1986 and 1991. It was first released in 1986 on the album The Queen Is Dead. Its best result is #6 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1986. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #49 alternative song of 1986 and #5,482 alternative song of all time.
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Three songs into The Queen Is Dead, the Smiths' third studio album, released in 1986, comes "I Know It's Over", and the record's deepest ache arrives with it. Johnny Marr built the music in the summer of 1985, and Morrissey, by Simon Goddard's account in Songs That Saved Your Life, kept his words from the others until the backing track was completely finished.
What he finally sang is often counted among the finest vocal performances of his career, and Marr has called being in the room for it one of the high points of his life. Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce hold the ground beneath it, Marr and Morrissey produced, and Stephen Street engineered. A trumpet was once pencilled in for the closing refrain, then scrapped.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 6 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1986 | 50 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 547 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (1991 Edition) | 1002 |
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