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{{Redirect|Best I|articles with similar titles|Best (disambiguation)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2019}} {{Infobox album | name = Best... I | type = greatest | artist = [[the Smiths]] | cover = UKBest1.jpg | alt = | released = August 17, 1992 | recorded = 1983β1987 | studio = | genre = [[Alternative rock]], [[indie pop]] | length = 45:09 | label = [[Warner Music Group|WEA]] | producer = Various (see main text) | prev_title = [[The Peel Sessions (The Smiths EP)|The Peel Sessions]] | prev_year = 1988 | next_title = [[...Best II]] | next_year = 1992 | misc = {{Extra album cover | header = Alternative cover | type = greatest | cover = USBest1.jpg | border = | alt = | caption = US cover of ''Best... I'' }} }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = [[AllMusic]] | rev1score = {{Rating|2|5}} [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r76652|pure_url=yes}} link] | rev2 = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]'' | rev2score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734|title-link=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}</ref> | noprose = yes }} '''''Best... I''''' is a compilation album by [[the Smiths]]. It was released in August 1992 by the new owner of their back catalogue, [[Warner Music Group|WEA]] ([[Sire Records]] in the United States). It reached number one on the [[UK Albums Chart]]; it reached No. 139 on the US [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]]. Warner UK used a photograph taken by actor [[Dennis Hopper]] titled "Biker Couple, 1961" (top photo) for the artwork of the two 1992 "best of" compilations by The Smiths.
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