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The Smiths: The Smiths ---Ink Blot Magazine The Smiths' early singles and eponymous debut album caused quite a stir in Britain, despite the fact that the latter was a slightly overproduced and under-realized affair (a fact borne out by the brilliance of early singles and b-sides comp Hatful of Hollow). Second LP Meat Is Murder solidified their fanbase but The Smiths were rightfully considered a singles band until 1986 tour de force The Queen Is Dead. In early 1984, the first album from England's newest hitmakers was overdue. www.inkblotmagazine.com /rev-archive/Smiths.htm   (750 words)

Amazon.com: Singles: Music The Smiths, the mid-80's alternative rock group fronted by fey frontman Morrissey, burst into the Top 20 with several indelible singles before imploding as quickly as they had appeared. Fortunately for the world's teenagers, they left behind several albums of adolescent angst bolstered by solid hit singles. They only made 5 studio albums and in my opinion the singles weren't always the best songs... www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002MZ4?v=glance   (1444 words)

Smiths Album Reviews Of the eight records that The Smiths released in their 4 years together, only four of them were actual studio albums with one of them being a live album and the remaining three being collections of singles and B-Sides, something which testifies to their appeal as a singles band. The album begins with ‘William It Was Really Nothing’, the first single to be released following their debut album. Considering the circumstances under which it was recorded it surprising that it was recorded at all and the standard of the album is a testiment to the talent and professionalism of all members of the Smiths. www.liquiddarkness.com /smiths.html   (2927 words)

The Smiths - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The resulting album, Viva Hate (a reference to the end of the Smiths) was released six months later, reaching #1 in the UK charts. A couple of further singles from the album were released with old live, session and demo tracks as B-sides, and the following year the live album Rank (recorded in 1986 while Gannon was in the band) repeated the UK chart success of previous albums. This album was more strident and political than its predecessor, including the vegetarian proselytising of the title track (Morrissey forbade the rest of the group from being photographed eating meat), the light-hearted republicanism of "Nowhere Fast", and the anti-corporal punishment The Headmaster Ritual and Barbarism Begins at Home. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Smiths   (2772 words)

The Smiths Home In an intense 5 years Between 1983 and 1987 The Smiths released almost 20 singles and 7 albums, and are recognised by the critics as one of the most significant bands of the 1980's. The Smiths are, or were, Mike Joyce, Johnny Marr, Steven Morrissey and Andy Rourke. It is difficult to believe that Morrissey has been a solo artist longer than 2 lifetimes of The Smiths, but his impact on the music industry declined significantly after 1987. www.askmeaskmeaskme.com   (222 words)

The Smiths - Singles sputnikmusic As anyone wise should know, the Smiths were mainly a singles band. The Smiths are the pinnacle of what pop music is, and if you are doubting that statement at all, then I have lost all faith in this sad world. That's not to say that the albums themselves were fine collections of songs. musicianforums.com /sputnik/album.php?reviewid=3235&genreid=37&...   (905 words)

The Impryan Emporium - Album Reviews: The Smiths They unleashed singles like a machine gun spewing bullets at the charts, for two years hammering away with the infectious, thought-povoking, well-crafted pop songs, before finally unveiling a full-length record, The Smiths. When the Smiths bursted into the bland climate of the early-eighties U.K. pop scene, their refreshing minimalism, political outspokenness and smart, arty jangling guitar sound received a virtual salivating response from the British music press. This is The Smiths at their rawest, their most aggressive, the perfect union of rebelliousness and elegant sophistication. www.angelfire.com /indie/impryan/smithscd.html   (355 words)

83. Suede - Suede Suede was possibly the most-anticipated debut album of the ‘90s. The Suede sound finds its roots in the glam rock of the mid-’70s, but also draws highly on ‘80s emotional English pop performers like the Smiths and the Cure. Suede awakened the libidos of countless young Brits, heretofore starved for anthemic rock and roll. www.nudeasthenews.com /90s/reviews/firstlaunch50/83suede.htm   (355 words)

Blogcritics.org: Travis - Singles Some version of Singles include a jam-packed DVD that has the entire library of the band's videos, previously unseen documentary footage as well as live performances such as their headline Glastonbury show in 2000 and their version of "Baby One More Time" from VH1's Storytellers. Whereas bands like The Cure and The Smiths create music that allows the listener to wallow in despair, Travis' music captures the happiness that comes from the epiphany that your sadness and your situation are a universal experience that others share. Fifteen top 40 hits have come from those albums, but they still haven't made a big of a splash in the U.S. yet. blogcritics.org /archives/2004/11/02/034227.php   (693 words)

Adrian's Album Reviews : Suede Suede survived, quite spectacularly for this album, which sailed easily to number one at the height of britpop and spawned numerous top ten singles. Three singles that were clearly from a band obsessed with Smiths, and Bowie, and being English. On the evidence of this album, he was talking utter shite. www.adriandenning.co.uk /suede.html   (693 words)

New fan's Smiths Discography But new fans must keep in mind that there is a whole important side of the Smiths, perhaps their best, that was never released on singles. For more information, see the "Singles" and "The Very Best Of The Smiths" cards from the complete discography. This album, a near-chronological rundown of all the singles the band released, is a good purchase for people interested in hearing a sampler of the Smiths' whole career single-wise. passionsjustlikemine.com /smiths-db11singles.htm   (693 words)

TrouserPress.com :: Smiths The key to the Smiths' enormous success (in addition to sixteen UK hit singles, all seven of the quartet's albums went Top 10 there) was that the no-nonsense band &; under the direction of brilliant guitarist/songwriter Johnny Marr &; offset Morrissey's flightiness with bright and catchy music. The American-only Louder Than Bombs two-record set contains many of the same tracks (deleting those which appeared on The Queen Is Dead and two others) as The World Won't Listen, adding album tracks and single sides dating as far back as 1983. The live Rank album (recorded in London in October '86) closes the book on the Smiths' extraordinary career with a hastily paced program of songs drawn largely from The Queen Is Dead and that year's singles. www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=smiths   (897 words)

Morrissey-solo The Smiths "The Singles" voted as being the #5 best alternative album of all time at Askmen I found this article quite interesting: Askmen.com named The Smith's album "the singles" as being #5 best album of all time (out of 200) under the category alternative. that album is great but the "singles" are much better. Askmen.com named The Smith's album "the singles" as being #5 best album of all time (out of 200) www.morrissey-solo.com /articles/02/02/08/1531216.shtml   (228 words)

The Smiths - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A couple of further singles from the album were released with old live, session and demo tracks as B-sides, and the following year the live album Rank (recorded in 1986 while Gannon was in the band) repeated the UK chart success of previous albums. The sleeve of The Smiths' 1985 album, Meat Is Murder, featuring a still from Emile de Antonio's 1969 film In The Year Of The Pig. Early in 1985 the band released their second album, Meat Is Murder. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Smiths   (3150 words)

Jack Feeny reviews: The Smiths Rose-tinted hacks go on about "the birth of indie" and such larks and I'm sure an indelible blue-print for the genre resulted from the release of this album and the accompanying singles. The Smiths made four official albums, and the fact you reviewed what is essentially a b-sides and rarities collection as an actual album and gave it 9 is perhaps a good indication of the greatness and prolific nature of the best band of the 80's. Perhaps the greatest evidence of the strength of this album is the fact that five songs (half the album) are all vying for the accolade of being the Smiths' greatest ever song. www.jackfeenyreviews.com /smiths.htm   (4833 words)

Amazon.com: The Queen is Dead: Music: The Smiths There are plenty of Smiths singles collections out there, but in my view they seem somewhat "random" in their cohesiveness. Definitely a gem in the Smiths anthology, The Queen is Dead is the album that launched the Smiths to international acclaim in contrast to the relegated cult following they enjoyed in Europe. This is not the greates album the Smiths produced, but it's certainly the one with the largest social and cultural impact. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002L9J?v=glance   (1349 words)

sophieellisbextor.org.uk - melody maker album review august 1998 Singles always tend to be stand-outs and there's no exception here; the spiffing "A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed" with its Orange Juice plinks and plonks romps in as the album's opener, the Hazel O'Connor-ish "I've Got The Wherewithal" and... deep breath, "If You Can't Do it When You're Young; When Can You Do It?" both thrill with their slow, lazy vocal and epic kitchen-sink approach; even be upbeat, Smiths-y jangle of "I Know Enough (I Don't Get Enough)", their weakest single to date, nestles in neatly as an album track. If you've got their fine singles, "theaudience" isn't going to he a huge surprise. mysite.freeserve.com /sophieellisbextor/melodymakeralbumreviewaug1998.htm   (440 words)

Amazon.co.uk: Music: The Very Best of the Smiths Singles was ok. Best Of 1 was just a montage of Singles and the original albums, Best of 2 was taking the proverbial piddle and the Very Best of just made me plain angry. All of the Smiths signature tracks are on the very best of but some of the best, more poignant songs are left out. The Smiths were only around from 1983-1987, but their music has and always will have a more lasting impact than five years. www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005KB47   (440 words)

The History of Rock Music. Smiths: biography, discography, reviews, links Despite being a content-oriented act, the Smiths ended their career with the formal perfection of The Queen Is Dead (1986) and singles such as Girlfriend In A Coma (1987). The album collapses on track after track, going through the dreadfully pathetic Alsatian Cousin, Everyday Is Like Sunday, Suedehead. The album, in fact, preserves the worst defects of the Smiths (the laconic crooning, the operatic melodies, the pop arrangements) and few of its merits. www.scaruffi.com /vol4/smiths.html   (3586 words)

The Smiths Reviews When you listen to this collection of nearly all the noteworthy singles by the Smiths, you might marvel over the fact that Morrissey and guitarist Johnny Marr collaborated and cowrite so many astonishing tunes only to break up a mere four years into their creative burst. 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). The U.S. edition of the band's second album includes the bonus single "How Soon Is Now?" and while it's a welcome addition, the rest of the tracks stand ably on their own. www.iq451.com /music/smiths.htm   (3586 words)

The Very Best of The Smiths - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia After Singles( 1995), the previous Smiths compilation album that WEA (now the Warner Music Group) had issued, went out of print in Europe, Australia and Taiwan, the record company decided to revamp the package slightly and release it under the name The Very Best of The Smiths. The Very Best of The Smiths is a compilation album by The Smiths. The sleeve for The Very Best of The Smiths features Charles Hawtrey of Carry On fame. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Very_Best_of_The_Smiths   (3586 words)

Singles (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Singles is a compilation album by The Smiths, ostensibly pitched as a compilation of previously issued singles. After re-releasing all of The Smiths original albums and compilations and issuing a two-volume best-of compilation( Best...I and...Best II) in 1992, in 1995 they decided to celebrate The Smiths' reputation as a singles band by issuing a complete singles collection. Unfortunately, in all cases where the actual single has a different mix or edit, the album version is preferred, negating the concept. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Singles_(album)   (3586 words)

Win ace new compilation 'The Very Best Of The Smiths' - NME.COM Featuring all the singles plus a batch of album highlights, this can be enjoyed as a trip down memory lane, but also acts as a useful beginning for those yet to start wearing hearing aids or taking to wondering around with gladioli in their back pocket. And their legacy has undoubtedly lasted - when promoting Radiohead 's recent 'Amnesiac' LP, frontman Thom Yorke admitted Marr 's intricate arpeggios inspired album highlight and future single 'Knives Out'. Bedsit angst was all the rage in the 80s, and The Smiths were undoubtedly the prime purveyors. www.nme.com /features/33804.htm   (3586 words)

The Smiths: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more Music.com By the time of the group's second single, "This Charming Man," in late 1983, the Smiths [+] had already been the subject of controversy over their songs "Reel Around the Fountain," a song that had been aired on a BBC radio session and was alleged to condone child abuse. Sonically, the group was indebted to the British Invasion, crafting ringing, melodic three-minute pop singles, even for their album tracks. The Smiths' rise to the upper reaches of the British charts was swift, and the passion of their fans, as well as the UK music press, indicated that the group had put an end to the synth-powered New Wave that dominated Britain in the early '80s. www.music.com /group/the_smiths/1   (1707 words)

The Smiths: album reviews and ratings "I don't think there's any point in comparing The Smiths with their pop contemporaries; a couple of dodgy singles aside they remained above and beyond the rest, ploughing their own furrow (digging their own grave?), setting their own standards. Since their breakup in 1987, several Best-of the Smiths compilations were released: The LP is a collection of Radio 1 sessions The Smiths recorded for John Peel and David Jensen (forgive him, Lord), four sessions in all that, at the last count, have been transmitted 12 times, according to the rather nicely-written biog included here for the benefit of ignorant hacks. www.musicfolio.com /modernrock/smiths.html   (753 words)

The Smiths History When they released the second single "This Charming Man," in October 1983, the Smiths had already been the subjects of controversy and scandal over their songs "Reel Around The Fountain," and "Handsome Devil" as possible vehicles for the diffusion of child abuse. The Smiths may have been at the height of their popularity in early 1987, with the singles "Shoplifters of the World" and "Sheila Take A Bow" reaching number 12 and 10 In February of 1984 the Smiths released their eponymous debut "The Smiths" the album became a best seller acclaimed by critics and reached number 2. www.askmeaskmeaskme.com /history.htm   (757 words)

Articles - The Smiths The resulting album, Viva Hate (a reference to the end of the Smiths) was released six months later, reaching #1 in the UK charts. A couple of further singles from the album were released with old live, session and demo tracks as B-sides, and the following year the live album Rank (recorded in 1986 while Gannon was in the band) repeated the UK chart success of previous albums. This album was more strident and political than its predecessor, including the vegetarian proselytising of the title track (Morrissey forbade the rest of the group from being photographed eating meat), the light-hearted republicanism of "Nowhere Fast", and the anti-corporal punishment "The Headmaster Ritual" and "Barbarism Begins at Home". www.wholez.com /articles/The_Smiths   (2722 words)

Amazon.co.uk: The Great Escape: Music Because of this, the album can be enjoyed as both a conceptual piece (with Blur looking at certain themes synonymous with the rat race and the British way of life), or as a collection of fine pop songs (the singles, particularly The Universal, still sound great). It wasn't until the second album Modern Life is Rubbish that the iconic Blur sound began to immerge, with the band taking the influence of 60's acts like The Kinks and The Beatles and applying it to the indie-ethos of 80's bands like The Smiths, Felt and The Wedding Present. I personally find Parklife a bit grating these days (...it's hard to listen to most Blur albums because of how irremovable they are to my secondary school memories), with Damon's mock cockney antics coming across as more obnoxious than they probably did in 1995. www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000024J7B   (1844 words)

New York Town Her eleven record albums, released over the last twenty years, have charted eleven number-one singles. Whether fronting the influential punk rock group The New York Dolls, leading the Banshees of Blue as lounge master Buster Poindexter, or invoking the blues with the Harry Smiths, he has always demonstrated his unique talent for taking a musical style and making it his own. She traveled from Boston to New York on an overnight train to make her first record at the age of 16, writing the "B" side on the way to the studio. www.black47.com /newyorktown/bio/bio.htm   (1328 words)

TrouserPress.com :: Stone Roses Stylishly produced by John Leckie and dressed in a Jackson Pollock-styled splatter cover painting by guitarist John Squire, the album is a stunningly well-realized debut, a record-as-cultural-identity one-off as cataclysmic as The Smiths or Ziggy Stardust. Evidently more intent on driving associates around the bend than reaping a commercial harvest, Stone Roses produced only a couple of singles (the first, "Fools Gold," was added to a second US version of the first album) during its lengthy hibernation period. Originally a mod combo known as English Rose (a Jam reference), Stone Roses galvanized their city's — and, by media extension, nation's — Ecstasy-driven post-punk subculture with an utterly brilliant 1989 album of chiming, atmospheric and winningly arrogant folked-up rock. www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=stone_roses   (640 words)

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