BigmouthXStrikesX
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I didn't see it on here yet, but in the current issue of Entertainment Weekly there is a pull out section entitled "The Indie Rock 25".
The Smiths are listed as the essential Indie Rock band of 1985. The essential track is " How Soon is Now", and gives a brief albeit summary of the band in 1985.
There is also a fairly large picture of the Smiths in the middle of the spread.
Needless to say opening this mag and finding this article has clearly made my day!!!
The article as follows:
"Has rock music ever had a poet-prince more spectacularly emotive then one Mr. Stephen Patrick Morrissey?
On the Smiths' second full-length, their only non-compilation release to hit No. 1 on the UK charts, Moz came into his own as a man of political principle, condemning carnivores, corporal punishment, and the Thatcher regime in the sweep of 10 gorgeously crafted pop songs. From it's military album art to screeds like the title track and "The Headmaster Ritual," Murder at times seemed more like an ambitious civics lesson then a mere album, and many bemoaned its lack of cohesive musicality. Still, while the band would go on to create more polished and melodic works ( 1986's The Queen is Dead is, track by track , a masterpiece ) in their brief , brilliant career, this release remains a giant of its time. And for all his polemics, Morrissey still managed to strip himself bare with one immortal, shimmering refrain: " I am human and I need to be loved/Just like everybody else does"
The Smiths are listed as the essential Indie Rock band of 1985. The essential track is " How Soon is Now", and gives a brief albeit summary of the band in 1985.
There is also a fairly large picture of the Smiths in the middle of the spread.
Needless to say opening this mag and finding this article has clearly made my day!!!
The article as follows:
"Has rock music ever had a poet-prince more spectacularly emotive then one Mr. Stephen Patrick Morrissey?
On the Smiths' second full-length, their only non-compilation release to hit No. 1 on the UK charts, Moz came into his own as a man of political principle, condemning carnivores, corporal punishment, and the Thatcher regime in the sweep of 10 gorgeously crafted pop songs. From it's military album art to screeds like the title track and "The Headmaster Ritual," Murder at times seemed more like an ambitious civics lesson then a mere album, and many bemoaned its lack of cohesive musicality. Still, while the band would go on to create more polished and melodic works ( 1986's The Queen is Dead is, track by track , a masterpiece ) in their brief , brilliant career, this release remains a giant of its time. And for all his polemics, Morrissey still managed to strip himself bare with one immortal, shimmering refrain: " I am human and I need to be loved/Just like everybody else does"
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