Description
*This is a Vinyl LP*
Release Date: 2012
Label: Warner Brothers Records
Track List
Side A
A1. The Headmaster Ritual 4:52
A2. Rusholme Ruffians 4:19
A3. I Want The One I Can’t Have 3:13
A4. What She Said 2:40
A5. That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore 4:57
Side B
B1. Nowhere Fast 2:35
B2. Well I Wonder 4:00
B3. Barbarism Begins At Home 7:00
B4. Meat Is Murder 6:05
Personnel
Bass – Andy Rourke
Drums – Mike Joyce
Guitar, piano – Johnny Marr
Vocals – Morrissey
Notes
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.
