What Difference Does It Make? (track)
by The Smiths
Year: 1984
From the album Hatful Of Hollow (track #2)
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What Difference Does It Make? appears on the following album(s) by The Smiths:
- Hatful Of Hollow (track #2) (this album) (1984)
- The Smiths (track #8) (1984)
- The Sound Of The Smiths (track #3) (compilation) (2008)
- Singles (track #3) (compilation) (1995)
- Best...I (track #3) (compilation) (1992)
- The Very Best Of The Smiths (track #8) (compilation) (2001)
- Complete (track #9) (compilation) (2011)
- Complete (track #56) (compilation) (2011)
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It is What difference? But a poor version next to the one on
The Smiths. (Edited)
