I Know It's Over (track)
by The Smiths
Year: 1986
From the album The Queen Is Dead (track #3)
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I Know It's Over appears on the following album(s) by The Smiths:
- The Queen Is Dead (track #3) (this album) (1986)
- The Very Best Of The Smiths (track #16) (compilation) (2001)
- Rank (track #11) (1988)
- Complete (track #23) (compilation) (2011)
- Complete (track #51) (compilation) (2011)
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| ! | 08/03/2026 15:11 | Leginlists | 615 | 84/100 |
| ! | 07/23/2026 01:26 | stryker700 | 1,893 | 84/100 |
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This song is one of my canned responses when someone asks what my favorite song is. I also tend to pick it when I'm forced to sing something. This is probably the most emotional vocal Morrissey has done in his career and the arrangement Marr and co. set behind it is the perfect backdrop. Jeff Buckley did a decent cover of this song, but I don't believe that his delivery matched Morrissey's, which is surprising considering the emotional range Buckley could summon almost on a whim. As such, I have serious doubts that any band/artist could ever deliver a performance of this song that tops the original.
Can't believe this song hasn't got a medal next to it. Bigmouth better than this...really?
andy_hunter TOP 100 COMMENTER 07/22/2012 23:32 | #47050
Perhaps I was exposed to The Smiths too young but this song has had an enormous affect on how my personality has developed since I first heard it at the age of 13. But I'm thankful, I wouldn't want to be "loud" and "loutish" anyway.
I am chilled by this song every time I listen to it (and that is a lot of times!)
I've read a comment or two that described Radiohead as the ultimate depressed person's music. I whole-heartedly disagree. For me at least, this is the best representation of crushing loneliness and sorrow put to song. I'm simply drawn to it, over and over again. Although the days where I've felt the way the narrator felt are long past, this stirs up old feelings within me.
Eat your heart out, "There is a Light that Never Goes Out." This is the best song on the album. (Edited)
