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Artist: The SmithsBrand: Smiths
Edition: 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
Free Music Notes for The Smiths
Free Music Review: An alternative music primer.
Hit: 5 Stars
Back in the mid-80's, when the term "Alternative" actually meant something, this album quietly forced its way in amongst the Flocks of Seagulls and Spandau Ballets that were dominating the UK and American charts. Deliberatly underproduced and raw, this LP was the antithesis of everything 80's pop was supposed to be. It was lyrically negative, musically cold, and visually bleak. (The Joe Dallasandro image on the cover speaks volumes). Also remember that England did not share in America's 1980's prosperity and optimism. The Smiths were the voice of the lonely, the isolated, the sexual sideliners. If you're wondering what alternative music was all about in the 80's, or if you just need a good dose of cynicism, this is the place to start. Alternative 101, if you please.
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Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 20-JAN-1989
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 Bessmer
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