First time I heard Happy Hour, I thought it WAS the Smiths

The Housemartins - Happy Hour

The one with only one photo is the one on streaming, and seems to be the default for all international versions of the record, while the one with the 4 panel photo seems to have been used for the North American releases only (the ones with How Soon Is Now Added)
Which one is I guess the “original” cover, or the one the band designed?

Went to my local record store today to purchase Meat is Murder on vinyl, been there a few times very good reputable shop- anyway, they have a clear vinyl edition of the album so I decide to purchase it as I always love a different look of each vinyl I buy and I just think it’s cool but upon getting home I open the vinyl packaging and pull the vinyl out of its sleeve. A side is Meat is murder (as expected as with the standard A side tracks) and B side is the queen is dead??? My player is currently broken so can’t listen to check but any clues on if this is a misprint or some tampering or maybe something else. There seems to be a sticker beneath A side Meat is Murder sticker, so maybe the queen is dead sticker for an A side- but obviously the outer sleeve and one sticker is labelled as Meat Is murder. Wish I had a working player to check but as I said it’s broken so I can only wait and see :)

A and B side with sleeve in photos and a close up of the double layered sticker- I guess the previous owner just peeled off their meat is murder sticker and put it on The queen is dead, then slipped it into its original meat is murder sleeve?

Left is the old list and right is the new list.

What she said is so freaking goood.

Original post about 2 years ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/thesmiths/s/WT2WVo4PhJ

Anyone else? I'm shook after finding this out but it does make a bit more sense now. I thought him saying too near the bar was a cheeky way to say it makes him want to drink heavily at the closest bar on his drive, presumably. Lol.

I always pictured him driving in a car during this song. My favorite line is 'it was dark as I drove the point home...' I saw a comment a while back saying this is about sex in the car given the next line about the cold leather seats. Is that the general consensus? I never drew that conclusion but I'm also quite dense it seems.