<P> Due to a dispute between the Smiths and its record label Rough Trade Records after the group completed The Queen Is Dead, nine months passed after the release of "The Boy with the Thorn in His Side" before the group issued another single . Once the matter was resolved, Rough Trade owner Geoff Travis felt that "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out" should be the band's "comeback" record . However, Johnny Marr was insistent that "Bigmouth Strikes Again" be the band's next single . Despite Travis's advocation of the song, Simon Goddard expressed doubt that the song's "explicit glamorisation of suicide" would have endeared it to daytime radio . Regardless, "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out" became the second Smiths song to top BBC Radio One disc jockey John Peel's Festive Fifty poll in his 1986 tally . The song was shortly thereafter included on the 1987 compilation album The World Won't Listen . In October 1992, "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out" finally received a single release by WEA to promote the...Best II compilation . The song reached number 25 on the UK Singles Chart, making it their last UK Top 40 appearance to date . </P> <P> Music critics consider "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out" to be one of the Smiths' finest efforts . Simon Goddard wrote, "In a straw poll among Smiths fans today,' There Is a Light That Never Goes Out' would more than likely still come out victorious", which he credits to the "perfect balance" of Marr's compositional skills and Morrissey's lyricism . AllMusic's Tim DiGravina calls it "a standout among standouts from the Smiths' masterpiece third album, The Queen Is Dead ." In 2014, NME listed "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out" as the 12th greatest song of all time . The website Acclaimed Music lists it as the 78th most acclaimed song of all time, and the 8th most acclaimed song of the 1980s . </P> <P> There is a chapter in Irvine Welsh's novel Trainspotting named after this song, which mentions its title directly . The song appears on the soundtrack to (500) Days of Summer; in the film, it is used to bring the main characters together . </P> <P> The song has been covered by numerous artists including Miley Cyrus in 2014 during several stops of her Bangerz Tour . Neil Finn's project 7 Worlds Collide covered the song on their 2001 self - titled album . It was also covered by Noel Gallagher during an acoustic performance with Gem Archer . </P>

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