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Re: Records that you have more affection for than is usually tolerated

Dec 03, 2006, 10:32

Lord Lucan wrote:

The Smiths - Strangeways Here We Come
(Just more entertaining and musically innovative than The Queen Is Dead to my ears. Unfortuantely this opinion makes me a pariah in some circles.)

It's gaining reputation all the time. It's actually Marr's favourite album, and I do agree that it is their best. Q.I.D has about three or four great tunes on it (the two singles, title track, and There is a light), but the rest is a load of turgid balls. I think that album gave them there most TOTP appearances, so something populist is going down there.
The Smiths were my first true musical love, and thankfully they were something I could stick with. However, the production on much of what they do is so eighties, in the same way The Cocteau Twins are eighties. The drums sound like rain hitting a tin can. But I adore them, although these days, Mozzer needs to give it up.
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