The World Won't Listen is a similar collection to the earlier Hatful of Hollow, bringing together songs from the period between Meat is Murder and The Queen is Dead, with a few songs overlapping along the way. Together with the aforementioned Hatful... it remains, perhaps, the best introduction to the music of the Smiths that anyone is likely to find, and is probably better value for money than the endless, alternate "best of..." collections, currently available.The songs on this album are probably more familiar to the casual Smiths fan, with songs like Panic, The Boy With the Thorn In His Side and There Is A Light That Never Goes out still getting fairly regular play on channels like VH2, and occasionally crop up on the radio. The sound here had become more pop orientated than the songs on Hatful... with Johnny Marr layering a number of different jangling guitar tracks and gorgeous melodies, which were really taking a greater dominance over the more pedestrian drums and bass.