The Smiths - The Smiths
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Artist: The SmithsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Reel Around the Fountain
- You've Got Everything Now
- Miserable Lie
- Pretty Girls Make Graves
- Hand That Rocks the Cradle
- This Charming Man
- Still Ill
- Hand in Glove
- What Difference Does It Make?
- I Don't Owe You Anything
- Suffer Little Children
Music reviews of The Smiths
Music Review: Ok..
Rating: 5 Stars
So this is fantastic musically."This Charming Man" is a dance number that heats up the life of the new wavers and anyone who loves to dance.The lyrics are a muffled gay thing if you ask me.Morrissey once declared himself celebate."Never Had No One Ever" might be more of a song about that though.(Off The Queen Is Dead)."Pretty Girls Make Graves" is more Mo type stuff,with a sharp and funky beat."Hand In Glove" is a surprise with a harmonica and is perfect."What Difference Does It Make?" is perfect.It almost approaches the perfection of "Stop Me If You Think That You've Heard This One Before" off (Strangeways, Here We Come).."Reel Around The Fountain" has good lyrics.."The Hand That Rocks The Cradle" is pretty and "Suffer Little Children" is an amazing perfect song with gripping lyrics.Probably not as good as "That Joke Isn't FUnny Anymore": "At the car at the side of the road,you should know..Times tide may smother you,and I will too.When you laugh about people who feel so very lonely their only desire is to die,well I'm afriad it doesn't make me smile.I wish I could laugh..But that joke isn't funny anymore..It's too close to home and it's too near the bone more than you'll ever knoW..I've seen this happen..In other peoples lives and now it's happening in mine.."(Meat Is Murder)..
Description of The Smiths
With their debut album, the Smiths launched an all-too-brief, but profound career that, largely owing to their outspoken lead singer, would be enshrouded in controversy and cultlike devotion. Lyrically, Steven Patrick Morrissey waxed haute poetic about homosexuality ("Hand in Glove") and child murders ("Suffer Little Children"). Musically, this album kicked a hole through the lip-glossed synth-pop that dominated the early-'80s music scene. Still cloaked in the lingering influences of New Romantic new wave and Clash-like punk, this album, like most great rock debuts, represents the group at its most raw and stark. But the core elements of the Smiths' sound, rooted in Morrissey's subtly off-key, morose crooning and nearly freeform lyrical arrangements floating over guitarist Johnny Marr's plucky, concise guitar riffs, are well-established here. The rhythm section displayed a similar relationship: Andy Rourke's mobile bass lines seemed almost to disregard any supportive undertones they could have lent to Mike Joyce's straight-ahead, no nonsense drum patterns. All the tugging and pulling worked brilliantly, cementing the sound that made the Smiths a landmark band of the 1980s. --Beth BessmerGeneral CDs
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