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((About|the compilation album|The Smiths' song|Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before|different songs of this name and other uses|Stop Me (disambiguation)))
((Use dmy dates|date=April 2022))
((Multiple issues|
((notability|Music|date=January 2015))
((more citations needed|date=January 2017))
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((Infobox album
| name       = Stop Me
| type       = Compilation album
| artist     = [[The Smiths]]
| cover      = Stop Me (The Smiths album).jpg
| alt        =
| released   = 21 January 1988
| recorded   = 1983–1987
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Alternative rock]], [[indie pop]]
| length     = 28:30
| label      = [[RCA Victor]]
| producer   = Various (see main text)
| prev_title = [[Strangeways, Here We Come (album)|Strangeways, Here We Come]]
| prev_year  = 1987
| next_title = [[Rank (album)|Rank]]
| next_year  = 1988
))

'''''Stop Me''''' is a compilation album by [[England|English]] band [[The Smiths]]. It compiles the band's then-latest (but not last) three [[Single (music)|singles]] and their [[A-side and B-side|B-side]]s in reverse-[[chronological]] order. ''Stop Me'' was released in January 1988 by their [[Japan]]ese [[record company]], [[RCA Victor]].

==Background==
In 1987 The Smiths' [[United Kingdom|UK]] record company, [[Rough Trade Records|Rough Trade]], planned to release three singles from the newly recorded ''[[Strangeways, Here We Come (album)|Strangeways, Here We Come]]'' [[album]]. In August 1987 "Girlfriend in a Coma" was scheduled to be released as planned when news broke that the band had split up. This presented Rough Trade with a problem as no new material would be available to complement the other singles on their B-sides. It was decided to release the singles as planned, using archive material for B-sides. [[Singing|Singer]] [[Morrissey]] remained involved in the singles' sleeve design.

The second single off ''Strangeways, Here We Come'' was scheduled to be "[[Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before]]", an up-tempo pop-rock song. The song contains the lines

((cquote|I crashed down on the [[Top tube|crossbar]]<br />
And the pain was enough<br />
To make a shy, bald [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] reflect<br />
And plan a [[mass murder]]))

Rough Trade deemed it unwise to release the song in the wake of the [[Hungerford massacre]], fearing a [[BBC Radio]] ban. In the UK, "I Started Something I Couldn't Finish" was chosen instead, but other countries ([[United States]], [[Canada]], [[Australia]], [[Netherlands]]) opted to keep "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before", releasing it in 7", [[12-inch single|12"]] and [[CD single]] formats.

In [[Germany]], the track was released as a double A-side with "Girlfriend in a Coma"; the 12" and CD versions featured the latter's original B-sides "Work Is a Four-Letter Word" and "[[I Keep Mine Hidden]]". The band's Japanese record company went one further and decided to compile their latest three singles, none of which had been released in Japan, and all of their B-sides onto a compilation album that bore an abbreviated version of the latest (international) single's title. By the time of the album's release, another single had been issued in the UK ("Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me", December 1987), but it was not included.<ref name=":1">((cite book |last=Luerssen |first=John D. |date=2015 |title=The Smiths FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Most Important British Band of the 1980s |publisher=Backbeat Books |isbn=978-1-4803-9449-0 |page=366))</ref>

===Cover===
The cover sleeve, designed as usual by Morrissey, features [[Murray Head]] in a still from the 1966 [[film]] ''[[The Family Way]]''. The same design was used for the [[Europe]]an and [[Australia]]n 1987 single editions, but not for the contemporary UK single "I Started Something I Couldn't Finish", which had its own sleeve design (yet used the same B-sides as "Stop Me...").

==Track listing==
All songs written by Morrissey and Johnny Marr except as noted. Songs marked "*" are exclusive to this compilation.

#"[[Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before]]" – 3:33
#"Pretty Girls Make Graves" ''(early version)'' – 3:40
#"Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others" ''(live)''* – 5:03
#"[[Girlfriend in a Coma (song)|Girlfriend in a Coma]]" – 2:02
#"Work Is a Four-Letter Word" ([[Guy Woolfenden]], [[Don Black (musician)|Don Black]])* – 2:45
#"I Keep Mine Hidden"* – 2:47
#"[[Sheila Take a Bow]]" – 2:42
#"Is It Really So Strange?" ''([[John Peel]] session)'' – 3:04
#"[[Sweet and Tender Hooligan]]" ''(John Peel session)'' – 3:36

==Personnel==
* [[Morrissey]] – [[singing|voice]], [[whistling]]<ref>Goddard, S, 2013. Songs That Saved Your Life - The Art of The Smiths 1982-87. 2nd ed. U.K.: Titan Books. P. 294.</ref> on "I Keep Mine Hidden"
* [[Johnny Marr]] – [[guitar]], [[piano]]
* [[Andy Rourke]] – [[bass guitar]]
* [[Mike Joyce (musician)|Mike Joyce]] – [[Drum kit|drums]], [[backup singer|backing vocals]] on "Work Is a Four-Letter Word"

===Additional musicians===

* [[Audrey Riley]] – [[cello]] on "Pretty Girls Make Graves"
* [[Stephen Street]] – [[synthesizer|synthesized strings]] on "Girlfriend in a Coma"
* [[John Porter (musician, born 1947)|John Porter]] – [[slide guitar]] on "Sheila Take a Bow"

===Production===

* Johnny Marr, Morrissey and Stephen Street – [[record producer|producers]] (1, 4, 7-9)
* [[Troy Tate]] – producer (2)
* [[Grant Showbiz]] – producer (3, 5-6)

==References==
((Reflist))

==External links==
* [http://www.passionsjustlikemine.com/ Passions Just Like Mine], site featuring the definitive Smiths and Morrissey discographies

((The Smiths))
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[[Category:The Smiths compilation albums]]
[[Category:Peel Sessions recordings]]
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[[Category:1987 EPs]]
[[Category:RCA Victor live albums]]
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