What Difference Does It Make? (track)
by The Smiths
Year: 1984
From the album The Smiths (track #8)
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What Difference Does It Make? appears on the following album(s) by The Smiths:
- Hatful Of Hollow (track #2) (1984)
- The Smiths (track #8) (this album) (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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| ! | 11/11/2025 06:23 | Exist-en-ciel | 76,752 | 70/100 |
| ! | 09/13/2025 13:55 | gmessian | 1,472 | 55/100 |
| ! | 08/09/2025 22:49 | brent13 | 11,022 | 85/100 |
| ! | 08/01/2025 11:01 | wizardalien | 8,974 | 67/100 |
| ! | 07/30/2025 16:26 | araidernomore | 4,313 | 78/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 89.6/100, a mean average of 89.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 89.9/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.5.
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It's good, but for me one of the weaker tracks on the album (it's not as if that makes it a bad song)
Incredible riff by Johnny Marr and incredible lyrics by Morrissey. The John Peel version, which appears on Hatful of Hollow, is even better.
DeusExMackia 04/03/2016 18:20 | #163229
That descending chord progression that ends the song will never not give me goosebumps.
This song is near perfection. It would be impossible to improve on the shimmering, jangly guitar riffs. I adore it. The Smiths were one of the definitive bands of the 80s, and this might be the definitive song in their catalog.
GandalfORiley345 06/22/2014 18:27 | #115021
Incredible song intro, really, Fast and singable, this song is for everybody, incredible effects, completely amazing, another very representative song in this album
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