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The Smiths, The Smiths
Audio CD
Disk ID: 1244923
Disk length: 54m 37s (14 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 1990
Label: Unknown
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Tracks & Durations
| 1. Reel Around The Fountain | 5:56 |
| 2. You've Got Everything Now | 3:59 |
| 3. Miserable Lie | 4:27 |
| 4. Pretty Girls Make Graves | 3:43 |
| 5. The Hand That Rocks The Cradle | 4:36 |
| 6. Still Ill | 3:21 |
| 7. Hand In Glove | 3:22 |
| 8. What Difference Does It Make? | 3:50 |
| 9. I Don't Owe You Anything | 4:04 |
| 10. Suffer Little Children | 5:26 |
| 11. This Charming Man | 2:44 |
| 12. These Things Take Time | 2:23 |
| 13. Hand In Glove (version) | 3:01 |
| 14. Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now | 3:35 |
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Review
With their debut album, the Smiths launched an all-too-brief, but profound career that, largely owing to their outspoken lead singer, would be enshrouded in controversy and cultlike devotion. Lyrically, Steven Patrick Morrissey waxed haute poetic about homosexuality ("Hand in Glove") and child murders ("Suffer Little Children"). Musically, this album kicked a hole through the lip-glossed synth-pop that dominated the early-'80s music scene. Still cloaked in the lingering influences of New Romantic new wave and Clash-like punk, this album, like most great rock debuts, represents the group at its most raw and stark. But the core elements of the Smiths' sound, rooted in Morrissey's subtly off-key, morose crooning and nearly freeform lyrical arrangements floating over guitarist Johnny Marr's plucky, concise guitar riffs, are well-established here. The rhythm section displayed a similar relationship: Andy Rourke's mobile bass lines seemed almost to disregard any supportive undertones they could have lent to Mike Joyce's straight-ahead, no nonsense drum patterns. All the tugging and pulling worked brilliantly, cementing the sound that made the Smiths a landmark band of the 1980s. --Beth Bessmer
Other Versions
Albums are mined from the various public resources and can be actually the same but different in the tracks length only. We are keeping all versions now.
Tracks: 16 (+2 tracks), Disk length: 60m 6s (+5m 29s)
Tracks: 11 (-3 tracks), Disk length: 45m 39s (-9m 2s)
Tracks: 11 (-3 tracks), Disk length: 45m 38s (-9m 1s)
Tracks: 11 (-3 tracks), Disk length: 45m 37s (-9m)
Tracks: 11 (-3 tracks), Disk length: 45m 37s (-9m)
Tracks: 11 (-3 tracks), Disk length: 45m 22s (-10m 45s)
Tracks: 10 (-4 tracks), Disk length: 42m 53s (-12m 16s)
Tracks: 10 (-4 tracks), Disk length: 42m 53s (-12m 16s)
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