The Smiths

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Interview With Stephen Street". HitQuarters. 27 September 2005. Archived from the original on 14 March 2012 . Retrieved 12 May 2010. All of the albums have quality songs – not surprising when their recording career only lasted about four years. Wonderful Woman" (liner notes). The Smiths. UK: Rough Trade Records. 1983. RTT 136. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) I dunno! Is it ever customer driven or are we just the useless eaters sat around the corporate table waiting for those rare crumbs to perhaps fall into our open ravenous mouths? Guitarist Johnny Marr would later write in his autobiography that he "liked Troy...Troy's vision was to capture the way the band sounded live. He thought it was important that the record represented the way we were in the clubs and was an authentic document. He worked pretty tirelessly to get passion from a performance and was very nurturing with me..." However, the sessions would also prove to be arduous due to an ongoing heatwave in London. The Smiths were recording in a hot basement studio at Elephant, and according to Marr, not only was the heat uncomfortable but it made it difficult to keep their instruments in tune. [9]

The story behind the cover of Meat Is Murder by The Smiths". Radio X. 5 August 2019 . Retrieved 12 February 2022.

The 1995 (?) compilation Singles was my first Smiths album too – I still have it, even though I have almost all of their albums on CD. It is terrific but I think there are a bunch of songs that are up to that standard – I’d include ‘Headmaster Ritual’, ‘Frankly Mr Shankly’, ‘Cemetery Gates’, and ‘Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before’ as album cuts that measure up to their great singles. The Smiths’ career was short – they recorded their first single in May 1983 and Marr left the group in June 1987 – but influential. The quartet melded mid-1960s sounds with contemporary ideas from post-punk. Marr’s guitar playing was modelled on the jangle of The Byrds’ Roger McGuinn. He avoided clichés like solos and power chords in favour of intricate arpeggios and jangling rhythms. Morrissey was a punk fan whose odd croon alternated between keen wit and morose self-pity. Must have been exciting. I think there’s still lots of interesting music being made, but that music’s lost a lot of its cultural impact – like everyone’s in their own little niche and music doesn’t have the same power to excite and unify like it did.

a b "European Hot 100 Albums Chart" (PDF). Music & Media. 19 March 1984. p.17 . Retrieved 14 October 2019. I hoovered up all of these albums and all of the singles in real time when they came out, and they were thrilling. These days, I have “Hatful of Hollow” and “Louder Than Bombs” together as a Smiths playlist, and that meets my needs, completely! Two other loose categories could be formed out of the songs on The Queen Is Dead: Beside the meta, there’s the merry and the melancholy. Despite the morbid (and misspelled) title, “Cemetry Gates” is sprightly and carefree. Even though they’re strolling among the gravestones quoting poetry at each other to show how intensely they feel the sorrow of mortality, the life-force is strong in these precocious youngsters. As so often with Morrissey, the frissons come with the tiny quirks of unusual word-choice or phrasing—the little jolt of the way he pronounces “plagiarize” with an incorrect hard “g,” for instance. Featuring the album’s second instance of cross-dressing, “Vicar in a Tutu” is a slight delight with just a casual twist of subversiveness in a passing reference to the priest’s kinky antics being “as natural as rain”: This freak is just as God made him. Almost cosmic in its insubstantiality, “Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others” seemed at the time an anticlimactic ending to such an Important Album. Now I think the understatement is just right, rather than the obvious curtain-closer, “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out”—the glide and glisten of Marr’s playing on “Some Girls” is that never-fading light. The 90s were the last decade where I was paying attention. I outlasted a lot of my peers whose last…

Make Your Own CD Mixtape Compact Disc Digital Vinyl Design Personalized Custom Mixed Tape Perfect Gift RPM100 Albums". RPM. 46 (8). 20 May 1987. Archived from the original on 19 May 2011 . Retrieved 29 October 2008.

Goddard, S, 2013. Songs That Saved Your Life - The Art of The Smiths 1982–87. 2nd ed. U.K.: Titan Books. P. 142.

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Shoplifters of the World Unite" (liner notes). The Smiths. UK: Rough Trade Records. 1986. RTT 195. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) RPM Chart Archives, 27 April 1985". Archived from the original on 10 February 2015 . Retrieved 15 July 2012.

It’s a brutal ranking to do considering it is a nigh immaculate discography and the gaps between the quality of the albums are so tight, but nicely done. I would have put Meat Is Murder in 3rd (behind your Top 2, with which I completely agree) and Strangeways as the last one. But, like I said, it is a tight ranking! Youngs, Ian (17 February 2013). "Johnny Marr on The Smiths and going solo". BBC News. Archived from the original on 19 April 2013 . Retrieved 10 February 2019. Christgau, Robert (29 May 1984). "Christgau's Consumer Guide". The Village Voice . Retrieved 25 September 2015.a b c "Search Results". Recording Industry Association of America. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015 . Retrieved 26 February 2009. To be fair, "Paint a Vulgar Picture" is both funny and painfully accurate about the fate of the Smiths' music after the Morrissey/Marr team split. Rank, released after Morrissey had launched his solo career, is useful as the Smiths' only full-on live album, and as a document of the brief era when Craig Gannon was their second guitarist (the Queen Is Dead tour, basically). It's also a contractually obligated piece of barrel-scraping, and the onstage Smiths were not what they'd once been-- they would play only six more complete gigs after the one recorded here. They're still pretty on-point, and it's fun to hear them swing through a verse of Elvis Presley's "(Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame" as an introduction to "Rusholme Ruffians", but it's uncharacteristically inessential. a b "CASH BOX MAGAZINE: Music and coin machine magazine 1942 to 1996". worldradiohistory.com . Retrieved 21 July 2020. I can’t disagree with any of this, especially with the inclusion of the two compilations. Some of their best work wasn’t on their studio albums and only available on these two compilations. Great list. officialsmiths.co.uk , Facebook , passionsjustlikemine.com , Soundcloud , Wikipedia , Imdb , YouTube , YouTube