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The Smiths - The Smiths

The Smiths - The Smiths

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Brief Description

Item#: 2531382
    Disc 1:
    • Reel Around the Fountain
    • You`ve Got Everything Now
    • Miserable Lie
    • Pretty Girls Make Graves
    • Hand That Rocks the Cradle, The
    • This Charming Man
    • Still Ill
    • Hand in Glove
    • What Difference Does It Make?...
 
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Artist:
Smiths (The)
UPC:
075992506526
See Also:
Morrissey Various Artists - The String Quartet Tribute To The Smiths
Description:
The Smiths: Morrissey (vocals); Johnny Marr (guitar, harmonica); Andy Rourke (bass); Mike Joyce (drums).
Recorded at Pluto and Eden Studios, Manchester, and Matrix and Strawberry Studios, London in the winter of 1983.
This self-titled opening salvo of the Smiths` four-year war with mediocrity stands proud as one of the era`s most innovative and unique works. Flying in the face of the pomp and artifice that prevailed in pop music at the time, the Smiths raged against their makeup- wearing, synth-playing contemporaries and squarely put rock back on the agenda. Guitarist Johnny Marr married the tunesmanship and harmonic richness of his Motown heroes with the rage of punk, while Morrissey`s bedroom confessionals were catnip to England`s (and later the world`s) disenfranchised youth.
THE SMITHS demanded, and received, instant attention, desirable and otherwise, making a reluctant guitar hero out of Marr and a poster boy out of Morrissey. The jarring juxtaposition between Marr`s lilting, densely-layered guitar lines and Morrissey`s lyrics and plaintive delivery makes magic of "This Charming Man" (whose theme of sexual ambiguity was to remain prevalent in the group`s work) and the gentle major-seventh chords of "I Don`t Owe You Anything." The tender "Suffer Little Children," a paean to a group of murdered children in the band`s native Manchester, gave the band their first (though far from their last) taste of public controversy.
Track Listing:
  • DISC 1
    1. Reel Around the Fountain
    2. You`ve Got Everything Now
    3. Miserable Lie
    4. Pretty Girls Make Graves
    5. Hand That Rocks the Cradle, The
    6. This Charming Man
    7. Still Ill
    8. Hand in Glove
    9. What Difference Does It Make?
    10. I Don`t Owe You Anything
    11. Suffer Little Children

    • Album Information

    Type:
    Performer
    Genre:
    Rock & Pop
    Subgenre:
    Alternative
    Label:
    Sire
    Producer:
    John Porter
    Catalog Number:
    25065
    Original Release Year:
    1984
    # of Discs:
    1
    SPARS Coding:
    AAD
    Studio/Live:
    Studio
    Mono/Stereo:
    Stereo
    Runtime:
    55 : 0
    Guest Artist:
    Paul Carrack; Annalisa Jablonska

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