I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
Pretty Girls Make Graves (Troy Tate demo)

UK 7" [Rough Trade RT198]
Portugal 7" [Rough Trade/Transmedia RT198]

I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
Pretty Girls Make Graves (Troy Tate demo)
Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others (live London 12/12/86)

UK 12" [Rough Trade RTT198]
Spain 12" [Nuevos Medios 41-291M]

I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
Pretty Girls Make Graves (Troy Tate demo)
Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others (live London 12/12/86)
What's The World? (live Glasgow 25/9/85)

UK CMS [Rough Trade RTT198C]

Artwork information:
Avril Angers from "The Family Way" (1966). A close-up of the roses she wears on her dress (not seen on the front of the 7" or 12", only on the front of the cassette artwork) is shown on the back of both vinyl formats. A very faint beige tinted close-up of those roses is found inside the cassette-single insert (view left).

Etchings on vinyl:
UK 7" and 12":
"MURDER AT THE WOOL HALL"(X)STARRING SHERIDAN WHITESIDE
/ YOU ARE BELIEVING, YOU DO NOT WANT TO SLEEP

The Wool Hall was the recording studio in Bath where the Smiths had recorded latest album "Strangeways Here We Come", but it also was where Morrissey, at the time of this single's release, was recording his debut solo album "Viva Hate". Sheridan Whiteside was one of Morrissey pseudonyms. The b-side etching is a pun on "You are sleeping, you do not want to believe", a sample heard at the end of the Smiths song "Rubber Ring".

Chart peak information:
UK: 23

Promotion:
UK: A white label version of the 12" single and 7"s with a plugger sticker on the sleeve were distributed for promotion of this single.

Germany: Although this single wasn't released in this country, it appears that stock copies of the UK 7" might have been sent to German media with a fact sheet.

Quotes

Morrissey, in an interview to journalist Len Brown, discussing the inclusion of the live cover of James' "What's The World" on this posthumous single to help it perform in the singles chart: "In another age, with a full living group, that would never have occurred. That was just a matter of trying to suspend 'I Started Something I Couldn't Finish' in the... lower fifties."

Reviews

"This is a fairly pointless bit of posthumous whingeing with some horrible guitar playing from Johnny Marr. Morrissey ought to get himself a string section and stop swanning about pretending to be Melvyn Bragg."
- Ben Thompson, New Musical Express, 7 November 1987