You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby

"One [1963 Stratocaster] I keep constantly high strung in Nashville tuning, which is the top two strings the same and bottom four like a 12-string set with the low strings taken off. It's a good tuning for coming up with new stuff 'cos you kind of feel like you're playing backwards. I used that on loads of Smiths stuff - You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby, Half A Person..."


- Johnny Marr

Macs899 sent me an awesome Guitar Pro tab that he transcribed from the comprehensive Louder Than Bombs: Off The Record book. I have uploaded it here. Right click to save as.



Here is the complete score from the "Louder Than Bombs:Off The Record" book:






















Here are the scans from the Complete Chord Dictionary:





cdwheel does a great version. The phasing sound is really close to the original:




Daniel Earwicker has done two versions, and they're both excellent:







Here's nicnoh69 on his Les Paul Custom:

Unloveable

"It was very deliberate. It was right when I got a white Strat. I used it on that and I used it on 'The Boy With The Thorn In His Side'. But 'Unloveable' was the first time I deliberately used that Strat sound for a Smiths song. I remember scratching my chin and thinking, Hmmm ok, Can I get away with this? You can particularly tell on that end. I used it on the outro of 'Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others'. But 'Unloveable' was the first of that whole row of songs."

-Johnny Marr

Here is the complete score from the "Louder Than Bombs:Off The Record" book:





















Here are the scans from the Complete Chord Dictionary:





Here's Oscar80lt on guitar.




Here's jl92509 on bass:

Asleep

"That was another one worked out on the upright I inherited when I moved into to the house in Bowdon, the same piano I wrote 'Oscillate Wildly' on. It had a pleasingly eerie quality about it. You could only play certain things on it. Weird, doomy music, which suited us fine."

- Johnny Marr

I have uploaded two Guitar Pro files with sheet music, as well as the guitar tabs for the versions by both marrzipan and markpaterson, whose videos are below, here.

Here is the piano sheet music from the "Louder Than Bombs:Off The Record" book:

Here are the scans from the Louder Than Bombs PVG book(thanks to MorrisseyScans for these tabs):

Despite this being a piano song, and one of the few Smiths songs with no guitar at all, there are a number of very cool guitar versions which have cropped up. One thing that I like is that they are all different, but they all sound really good.


marrzipan does a beautiful version on his Epiphone Broadway. He really captures the rhythm of the original version, and the tone is suitably piano-like. And the camera angle lets us see both hands really well.




markpaterson does an amazing instrumental interpretation in drop-D on an Epiphone Hummingbird. Sounds very haunting to me, some of the ringing open strings really contribute to the sad undercurrent. The tab for this version is contained in the above zip file. Thanks go to Mark for transcribing this!



He did a cleaner version on his Les Paul, with a close-up of the fingering.




markusbjoerk does another really nice version on a nylon stringed acoustic:




paperclippe has posted an attempt at the piano part:




scottmeta1 does a beautiful job on the complete piano part:

Shakespeare's Sister

"We were on our way to the studio on Saturday and Morrissey said, 'Look, we need a song', and we put it together."

"[Andy Rourke and I] would do stuff instinctively and sometimes work basslines out in the control room. He was always a really good musician and he played the cello on 'Shakespeare's Sister.'"

"As a 7" single for the group at that time, it was quite inventive. There was something about that riff that I always wanted to do. I just flipped recording it. I really loved doing it. We didn't get much support from Rough Trade on that one. As with 'Bigmouth Strikes Again', it was a valid 7" single to own, but maybe not to play on the radio. But that's all right by me."

"That has got one of the best rhythm patterns and grooves I have ever heard. If Elvis Presley had had Mike Joyce and Andy Rourke in his band he would have been an even bigger name. I'm sure of it."


- Johnny Marr

I have uploaded a Guitar Pro tab file here(right click to save as).


Here is the complete score from the "Louder Than Bombs:Off The Record" book:




















Here is the tab from the Singles book:













Here's an awesome version from juttkeys:




Here's Jahnli with a late-night session on a 1965 Guild Starfire II: