The Smiths

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A similar pressing, [Invalid Release], has a similar runout but no E A S T emboss in the center ring. Annotation on leaflet packaged with the box: "All eight albums by The Smiths remastered from the original tape sources and packaged together for the first time. Smith fans are fanatics, almost boarding on the religious, right down to their hipster skinny jeans, even making excuses fro Morrissey’s inherent racism [or has he turned a corner since those bygone days?

Recorded at Pluto (Manchester), Eden (London), Matrix (London) and Strawberry (Manchester), winter 1983. Reissues of the first ten UK-issued 7-inches plus the Dutch only release of The Headmaster Ritual and the Still Ill / You've Got Everything Now DJ promo. For me, Morrisey has bland vocals, and an even more white bread style of poetry, deeply rooted in his sincere struggles with depression and gay theatrics. Yes, I’ll freely admit that I’m a huge Galaxie 500 fan, and there is some darkness there, though mostly from inner band struggles, and not from a genuine or imposed sense of gloom and doom depression.Sincerely, how long can fans carry this weight before they are drawn under, stifled from air, and sink beneath the waters of some mossy dark pond. I know, you don’t have to lecture me, it’s easy to ignore music one doesn’t like, yet in the same breath, when that music was such a part of the scene, it does make me want to comment on it without passing judgement, without making anyone feel badly, because music represents who we are, and if I dislike something you value, that in turn often leads to the notion that I don’t value others personally, and thats just not the case. But the world is too large for anyone to allow themselves to be laced into the sad life of a lonely man, who seems to grow ever lonelier. It also has a wider outside pressing ring, the Sire name at the upper R of the logo instead of underneath, and ring text at the bottom of the label.

If The Smiths have managed to help anyone though difficult times I’m most glad that you found somewhere to turn, some voice for your frustrations.So perhaps once Morrissey didn’t fit in, but now, now I just see an older man who’s got to keep the depression thing going, it’s all he’s got, it’s all he’s selling, and I [? I’ve actually begun to believe that people only pretend to love The Smiths, just as anyone who tells you they love Sonic Youth or Radiohead is partly lying, because just because these bands got you though a rough time in your late teens or early twenty’s, doesn’t mean that you’re always going to feel that way. Sleeve, labels and illustrated inner sleeve with lyrics and credits printed in maroon on grey-blue background.

Sell your first edition Smith albums, purchase yourself something nice, perhaps take a friend to dinner. Today I’m saddened that I forced myself to listen to this music because it was supposed to be cool, topping the college radio charts, because in fact, what I wanted to hear, and denied myself, was music that sounded as if it were fun to make and fun to sing about.The US edition adds "This Charming Man," for which John Porter provided a flattering and dynamic production. The group consisted of vocalist Morrissey, guitarist Johnny Marr, bassist Andy Rourke, and drummer Mike Joyce. Whose idea was it to open with "Reel Around the Fountain," with that awful, leaden drum sound introducing the record? But I could only listen to these songs a few times before the sheer weight of them locked me into an angst that one does not instantly see coming on.