My Early Burglary Years
1998 compilation album by Morrissey
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My Early Burglary Years is a compilation album by Morrissey that was released in September 1998 in the United States on Reprise Records.[1] It follows in the tradition of his previous compilation albums Bona Drag and World of Morrissey in that it collects various single A-sides and B-sides, some album tracks, live tracks and previously unreleased material.
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| Released | 15 September 1998 | |||
| Recorded | 1987–1995 | |||
| Length | 58:11 | |||
| Label | Reprise | |||
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Track listing
All tracks written by Morrissey and Alain Whyte except where noted.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original release | Length |
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| 1. | "Sunny" | Single A-side | 2:43 | |
| 2. | "At Amber" | Morrissey, Stephen Street | B-side of "Piccadilly Palare" | 2:44 |
| 3. | "Cosmic Dancer" (live in Costa Mesa, June 1, 1991; T. Rex cover) | Marc Bolan | Previously unreleased | 3:56 |
| 4. | "Nobody Loves Us" | B-side of "Dagenham Dave" | 4:50 | |
| 5. | "A Swallow on My Neck" | B-side of "Sunny" | 2:50 | |
| 6. | "Sister I'm a Poet" | Morrissey, Street | B-side of "Everyday Is Like Sunday" | 2:27 |
| 7. | "Black-Eyed Susan" | B-side of "Sunny" | 4:07 | |
| 8. | "Michael's Bones" | Morrissey, Street | B-side of "The Last of the Famous International Playboys" | 3:08 |
| 9. | "I'd Love To" | Morrissey, Boz Boorer | B-side of The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get" | 4:50 |
| 10. | "Reader Meet Author" | Morrissey, Boorer | Southpaw Grammar | 3:42 |
| 11. | "Pashernate Love" | Morrissey, Whyte & Gary Day | B-side of "You're the One for Me, Fatty" | 2:23 |
| 12. | "Girl Least Likely To" | Morrissey, Andy Rourke | B-side of "November Spawned a Monster" | 4:51 |
| 13. | "Jack the Ripper" (live in Paris, December 22, 1992) | Morrissey, Boorer | Beethoven was Deaf | 4:11 |
| 14. | "I've Changed My Plea to Guilty" | Morrissey, Mark E. Nevin | Edited version of B-side of "My Love Life" | 3:14 |
| 15. | "The Boy Racer" | Southpaw Grammar | 4:45 | |
| 16. | "Boxers" | Single A-side | 3:30 |
