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The
Queen Is Dead
Frankly,
Mr. Shankly
I Know
It's Over
Never Had
No One Ever
Cemetery
Gates
Bigmouth
Strikes Again
The Boy
With The Thorn
In His Side
Vicar In
A Tutu
There Is
A Light That
Never Goes Out
Some
Girls Are Bigger
Than Others
"I was
only joking
when I
said I'd like
to
smash every tooth
in
your head"
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What I say
:
So
hey, what can one say. The best album of all time ?
Well, it's certainly not far off. An incredible album, full
of songs which each have their own distinct identity, mood
and sound. An album that gets better with every listen,
which will eventually make almost every other record sound
hollow and irrelevant.
High points during the
album include "Cemetery Gates", "I know it's over" and
"Bigmouth strikes again". To be perfectly honest I never
really enjoyed The Queen is Dead until many listens. however
now this album sounds totally indispensable. As with most of
life's joys, those which are greatest take some time to
enjoy. And such was the case with me and this album.
However, once these tunes get into your head, together with
Mozz's unsurpassed lyrics, you will understand why this
album, above any other, has stuck a chord with myself and so
many others.
What some
others think :
Bruce N
Trombley (Oklahoma, USA)
"If
someone were to ask me what album changed my life, I would
feel compelled to say The Queen Is Dead by the Smiths.
Although I've been obsessed with the Smiths for quite
awhile, I might not have said such a thing when I first
purchased the album. It was hard for me to see what all the
fuss was about. Why was this any better than their debut, I
thought? Only recently have I truly realized the power and
majesty of the album. Most importantly, the album doesn't
fall trap to emotional one dimensionality, like the largely
negative Meat Is Murder. Morrissey mixes his distinctive
humor with his more well known penchant for melancholy to
create a heady brew. Marr is not too bad either. He doesn't
get stuck in the jangly rut this time. Instead he expands
the band's sound to include strings and such, creating The
Smith's most musically varied outing, which nicely parallels
the vast emotional range of Morrissey's lyrics."
What the Critics
said :
THE
QUEEN IS DEAD (1986) is currently appearing in a poll near
you headlined Best Albums Of The '80s or suchlike, its
pre-eminence as The Smiths' best album having now entered
common folklore. It is, sure enough, an extraordinary
record. After the portentous black clouds of the
seven-minute title track, the rest of the album goes off on
a variety of contrapuntal tangents, which is why THE QUEEN
IS DEAD hardly seems to flow.
"I Know
It's Over," not so much lachrymose as genuinely
inconsolable, is squeezed between the
don't-dilly-dally-on-the-way bathos of "Frankly Mr. Shankly"
and Marr's low key seduction-fest, "Never Had No One Ever."
As to the
rarely celebrated "The Boy With The Thorn In His Side,"
here's a vocal of stunning ingenuity: Morrissey wasn't just
the lyricist of the decade, he was the singer of a lifetime.
Marr on guitar sounds supportive, but his conscientious
barrage of acoustic and electric guitars is the work of a
musical pioneer.
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