Best...I gathers the first half of a career that reshaped British guitar music forever. Across a handful of years in the 1980s, Morrissey's arch, aching wit and Johnny Marr's chiming, endlessly inventive guitar lines made The Smiths the most influential indie band of their generation, and this 1992 collection pulls together the essentials from the early run. Jangling, romantic, and bleakly funny all at once, it remains one of the best entry points into a catalog that never stopped mattering. Street date: July 24, 2026.