<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Review scores </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Source </Th> <Th> Rating </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> AllMusic </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <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>

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