The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
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Artist: The SmithsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Queen Is Dead (Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty) [Medley]
- Frankly, Mr. Shankly
- I Know It's Over
- Never Had No One Ever
- Cemetry Gates
- Bigmouth Strikes Again
- 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
Music reviews of The Queen Is Dead
Music Review: The Smiths became a legend with this record.
Rating: 5 Stars
There are just a few moments in lifetime when you really get into music by listening a record that will change your life and the way you enjoy good music forever. That has happened to me a couple of times already with albums like "Murmur" and "Out of time" by R.E.M., "Ok computer", "Kid A" and "In rainbows" by Radiohead, "American Idiot" by Green Day, "Neon bible" by Arcade Fire and of course "Meat is murder" and "The Queen is dead" by The Smiths.
This Smiths's album gave me a wonderful feeling the first time I listened to it and this feeling keeps on popping up everytime I listen to this record. The feeling I'm talking about is that one that just Jonnhy Marr can create on me with his awesome way to make music by playing some notes in his guitar and the one that Morrissey can make me feel when I listen to his lyrics and the way he sings them as well. This is a perfect album in every way you look at it and eventhough not all of the songs are at the same level of perfection, that's just part of the whole idea. For me "I know is over" and "Cemetery gates" are the songs that make the album look good and so enjoyable but "The boy with the torn in his side" and "There is a light that never goes out" make you fall in love with it. Personally these two tracks I just mentioned are the ones that make me love The Smiths so much. "The boy..." is a song that makes me feel so happy and at the same time it brings me a sad feeling by missing the 80's good music... I can listen to this song over and over again at it never gets old for me. On the other hand "There is a light..." has one of the most intelligent lyrics ever written for a love song (maybe next to "Losing my religion" (R.E.M.)) and the music is so elegant and powerful as well that wraps up the whole song to make it just perfect.
This is a "must buy" album from The Smiths. A band that left a legacy that is almost impossible to match. Now, who dares to say the opposite here? Anybody, I guess.
Description of The Queen Is Dead
This is the value of working at cross-purposes: The Smiths were Morrissey's excuse to undulate his wry, disaffected lyrics, and Johnny Marr's vehicle for his sharp, chiming, pop songs. Their favorite kind of compromise made them essentially a singles band, and The Queen Is Dead has a couple of their best (notably "The Boy with the Thorn in His Side," one of the greatest pop expressions of the Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name). But it also has some wonderful compromises of different kinds: the bizarrely romantic "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out," and "Cemetry Gates," where Marr covers up for Morrissey's floridity with shimmying rockabilly. --Douglas WolkGeneral CDs
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