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Smiths- Meat Is Murder LP (180 gram vinyl)

Smiths- Meat Is Murder LP (180 gram vinyl)
Smiths- Meat Is Murder LP (180 gram vinyl)
SKU: RHI658787.gal
Band/Title: Smiths
Label: Rhino
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Price: $24.99
Product Details
Vinyl LP pressing. Digitally remastered edition of this 1985 album from the legendary British quartet. With their second proper album Meat Is Murder, The Smiths began to branch out and diversify, while refining the jangling guitar pop of their debut. "The Headmaster Ritual" and "I Want the One I Can't Have" are fine elaborations of the formula they laid out on the debut, while "Rusholme Ruffians" is an infectious stab at Rockabilly. Such was their creative thrust at this point; they were seen as the most important British band since Joy Division. Above all though, there was no other British group making music quite like this in 1985.

  • - Disc 1 -
  • 1 The Headmaster Ritual (2011 Remastered Version)
  • 2 Rusholme Ruffians (2011 Remastered Version)
  • 3 I Want the One I Can't Have (2011 Remastered Version)
  • 4 What She Said (2011 Remastered Version)
  • 5 That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore (Single Version)
  • - Disc 2 -
  • 1 Nowhere Fast (2011 Remastered Version)
  • 2 Well I Wonder (2011 Remastered Version)
  • 3 Barbarism Begins at Home (2011 Remastered Version)
  • 4 Meat Is Murder (2011 Remastered Version)


With their second proper album Meat Is Murder, the Smiths begin to branch out and diversify, while refining the jangling guitar pop of their debut. In other words, it catches the group at a crossroads, unsure quite how to proceed. Taking the epic, layered "How Soon Is Now?" as a starting point (the single, which is darker and more dance-oriented than the remainder of the album, was haphazardly inserted into the middle of the album for its American release), the group crafts more sweeping, mid-tempo numbers, whether it's the melancholy "That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore" or the failed, self-absorbed protest of the title track. While the production is more detailed than before, the Smiths are at their best when they stick to their strengths -- "The Headmaster Ritual" and "I Want the One I Can't Have" are fine elaborations of the formula they laid out on the debut, while "Rusholme Ruffians" is an infectious stab at rockabilly.

(Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic.com)


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