The single " What Difference Does It Make?" was released in January 1984, reaching number 12 on the UK Singles Chart. [13] Release [ edit ] The Smiths followed their debut with a compilation that collected their non-album singles and BBC sessions. The BBC sessions, captured in 1983 before their debut was recorded, often outshine the studio versions. The singles are sublime –‘How Soon Is Now?’, ‘William, It Was Really Nothing’, and ‘Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now’ are among The Smiths’ finest songs. RPM100 Albums". RPM. 46 (8). 20 May 1987. Archived from the original on 19 May 2011 . Retrieved 29 October 2008. The sleeve for The Smiths was designed by Morrissey. It features American actor Joe Dallesandro in a cropped still from Andy Warhol's 1968 film Flesh. The photograph of Morrissey on the original card inner sleeve was taken at an early London concert by Romi Mori, who subsequently played bass guitar for the Gun Club.

Power, Tony (15 September 2004). "The Smiths: Meat Is Murder". Blender. Archived from the original on 30 June 2006 . Retrieved 9 November 2015.a b "CASH BOX MAGAZINE: Music and coin machine magazine 1942 to 1996". worldradiohistory.com . Retrieved 21 July 2020. Greatest Albums of All Time Rolling Stone's definitive list of the 500 greatest albums of all time". Rolling Stone. 2012 . Retrieved 9 September 2019. It is typically perverse of Morrissey that while in Paint a Vulgar Picture he sneers at record companies for milking the fans with extra product, The Smiths were issuing compilations when they were only just out of nappies. Search Results: The Smiths". Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 14 August 2014 . Retrieved 14 November 2020. I can’t disagree with any of this, especially with the inclusion of the two compilations. Some of their best work wasn’t on their studio albums and only available on these two compilations. Great list.

Yes my friend! The Queen is Dead is their best. This was a very good band. But in those days (I was a teenager during the 80s) it was inevitable to choose the coolness of The Police, the hiper serious preaching of U2, the magic atmospheres from Joy Division and The Cure, the hype of INXS or the emotional sincerity from REM. But after all these years, The Smiths deserve a recognition. Panic" (liner notes). The Smiths. UK: Rough Trade Records. 1986. RTT 193. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) Bessman, Jim (31 May 1986). "Docu-Clips Show Avant-Garde Influence". Billboard. Vol.98, no.22. p.45.Shoplifters of the World Unite" (liner notes). The Smiths. UK: Rough Trade Records. 1986. RTT 195. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) Guitarist Johnny Marr would later write in his autobiography that he "liked Troy...Troy's vision was to capture the way the band sounded live. He thought it was important that the record represented the way we were in the clubs and was an authentic document. He worked pretty tirelessly to get passion from a performance and was very nurturing with me..." However, the sessions would also prove to be arduous due to an ongoing heatwave in London. The Smiths were recording in a hot basement studio at Elephant, and according to Marr, not only was the heat uncomfortable but it made it difficult to keep their instruments in tune. [9] a b Rank (LP liner notes). The Smiths. UK: Rough Trade Records. 1988. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) a b c d e f g h i j Strangeways, Here We Come (LP liner notes). The Smiths. UK: Rough Trade Records. 1987. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) a b "European Hot 100 Albums Chart" (PDF). Music & Media. 19 March 1984. p.17 . Retrieved 14 October 2019.

a b "How Soon Is Now" (liner notes). The Smiths. UK: Rough Trade Records. 1984. RTT 166. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) Well I Wonder"/"Oscillate Wildly" (liner notes). The Smiths. UK: Rough Trade Records. 1985. RTT 176. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) I dunno! Is it ever customer driven or are we just the useless eaters sat around the corporate table waiting for those rare crumbs to perhaps fall into our open ravenous mouths? a b c "Search Results". Recording Industry Association of America. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015 . Retrieved 26 February 2009. Bien dicen que uno se enamora de alguien a primera vista, en mi caso, mi amor por The Smiths se dio a la primera escucha, aunque debo confesar que escuché al gran Morrissey Official como solista antes que a los Smiths allá por 1997.Two other loose categories could be formed out of the songs on The Queen Is Dead: Beside the meta, there’s the merry and the melancholy. Despite the morbid (and misspelled) title, “Cemetry Gates” is sprightly and carefree. Even though they’re strolling among the gravestones quoting poetry at each other to show how intensely they feel the sorrow of mortality, the life-force is strong in these precocious youngsters. As so often with Morrissey, the frissons come with the tiny quirks of unusual word-choice or phrasing—the little jolt of the way he pronounces “plagiarize” with an incorrect hard “g,” for instance. Featuring the album’s second instance of cross-dressing, “Vicar in a Tutu” is a slight delight with just a casual twist of subversiveness in a passing reference to the priest’s kinky antics being “as natural as rain”: This freak is just as God made him. Almost cosmic in its insubstantiality, “Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others” seemed at the time an anticlimactic ending to such an Important Album. Now I think the understatement is just right, rather than the obvious curtain-closer, “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out”—the glide and glisten of Marr’s playing on “Some Girls” is that never-fading light. cd mixtape - mixtape compact disc - mixed tape custom cd personalized custom - mixtape cd - retro brown kraft paper cover - hand stamped Goddard, Simon (2009). Mozipedia: The Encyclopaedia of Morrissey and the Smiths. London: Ebury Publishing. ISBN 978-0-09-192709-7. Wolk, Douglas (18 November 2011). "The Smiths: The Smiths Complete". Pitchfork . Retrieved 25 September 2015. Rogan, Johnny (1992). Morrissey and Marr: The Severed Alliance. London: Omnibus. pp. 281–282. ISBN 978-0-7119-3000-1.

Goddard, S, 2013. Songs That Saved Your Life - The Art of The Smiths 1982–87. 2nd ed. U.K.: Titan Books. P. 137.Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4thed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734. And then there’s the life-and-death serious stuff. Both songs of unrequited love, “I Know It’s Over” and “There Is a Light” make a pair: The first spins majesty out of misery, the second transcends it with a sublime and nakedly religious vision of hope-in-vain as an end in itself. The writing in “I Know It’s Over” is a tour de force, from the opening image of the empty—sexless, loveless—bed as a grave, through the suicidal inversions of “The sea wants to take me/The knife wants to slit me,” onto the self-lacerations of “If you’re so funny, then why are you on your own tonight?” and finally the unexpected and amazing grace of “It’s so easy to hate/It takes strength to be gentle and kind.” Not a strong or sure singer by conventional standards, Morrissey gives his all-time greatest vocal performance, something ear-witness Johnny Marr described as “one of the highlights of my life.” The Boy With The Thorn In His Side on The World Won't Listen is the album mix rather than the single mix featured on previous versions.