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Artist:	The Smiths	Record Label:	WEA
Release Year:	1995	EAN:	0745099189624
Genre:	Indie/Britpop	Format:	Album
	1980s	Compilation:	--
Condition:	Used

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Track listing
1. Queen Is Dead 2. Frankly Mr Shankly 3. I Know It's Over 4. Never Had No One Ever 5. Cemetry Gates 6. Bigmouth Strikes Again 7. Boy With The Thorn In His Side 8. Vicar In A Tu Tu 9. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out 10. Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
Details
Number of CDs:	1
Producer:	Johnny Marr
Recording type:	Studio
Distributor:	Cinram Logistics
Recording mode:	Stereo

Album notes
The Smiths: Morrissey (vocals); Johnny Marr (guitar); Andy Rourke (bass); Mike Joyce (drums). Recorded in England in Winter 1985.Arguably the Smiths' masterpiece, THE QUEEN IS DEAD found the band at the artistic apex of a career that knew few lows. More than any of their other albums, THE QUEEN IS DEAD represents the elegance, craftsmanship and humor for which the Smiths are remembered. Opening the album, the explosive title track is filled with vintage punk-era iconoclastic rage, wherein Morrissey tears at the very fabric of the British monarchy atop the howling feedback and swirling chords of Johnny Marr and the pounding fury of Rourke and Joyce (whose punk roots were never so apparent).THE QUEEN IS DEAD also contains some of the band's most disarmingly beautiful work. "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" bears a lush accompaniment and utterly miserable lyric, while the chiming, heavenly atmosphere of "The Boy With A Thorn In His Side," as convincing an ode to the sensitive outcast as has ever been penned. "Bigmouth Strikes Again," the album's most recognizable tune, is a dizzying adrenaline rush. And the upbeat tunesmanship of Marr was never in sharper contrast with Morrissey's lyrical ire than on the bouncy, wistful "Cemetry Gates."
Editorial reviews
Ranked #2 among the `50 Greatest Albums Of The 80s' - ...Neither before nor after have Morrissey and Marr come close to making such an ambitious, consistent, touching and witty album... NME (09/25/1993) Ranked #10 in NME's list of the `Greatest Albums Of All Time.' NME (10/02/1993) Ranked #2 in AP's list of the `Top 99 Of '85-'95' - ...THE QUEEN IS DEAD remains today a passionate carpet-bombing of every stuffy, phony inch of the English earth....Like Tennessee Williams' best drama, it's...about the defense of innocence, about drag queens coming out of the closet only to face a prickly, heartless and heartlessly boring world... Alternative Press (07/01/1995) 5 Stars - Indispensible - ...The Smiths' best album....an extraordinary record... Q (12/01/1993) Ranked #27 in Q's 100 Greatest British Albums Q (06/01/2000) 5 stars out of 5 - ...One of the funniest rock albums ever... Rolling Stone (04/17/2003) Included in AP's 10 Essential '80s Albums. Alternative Press (08/01/2001) Ranked #27 in Q's 100 Greatest British AlbumsNME (9/25/93, p.18) - Ranked #2 among the `50 Greatest Albums Of The 80s' - ...Neither before nor after have Morrissey and Marr come close to making such an ambitious, consistent, touching and witty album...NME (10/2/93, p.29) - Ranked #10 in NME's list of the `Greatest Albums Of All Time.'Alternative Press (8/01, p.112) - Included in AP's 10 Essential '80s Albums.Alternative Press (7/95, p.75) - Ranked #2 in AP's list of the `Top 99 Of '85-'95' - ...THE QUEEN IS DEAD remains today a passionate carpet-bombing of every stuffy, phony inch of the English earth....Like Tennessee Williams' best drama, it's...about the defense of innocence, about drag queens coming out of the closet only to face a prickly, heartless and heartlessly boring world...Rolling Stone (4/17/03, p.109) - 5 stars out of 5 - ...One of the funniest rock albums ever...Q (12/93, p.139) - 5 Stars - Indispensible - ...The Smiths' best album....an extraordinary record... Q (06/01/2000)

THE SMITHS: THE QUEEN IS DEAD

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CONTAINS THE SINGLES: [highest UK chart position]

the boy with the thorn in his side [#23]

bigmouth strikes again [#26]

CONDITION: disc has some surface scratches but plays fine

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