(Vinyl Love is a series of posts that quite simply lists, describes, and displays the pieces in my growing vinyl collection. You can bet that each record was given a spin during the drafting of each corresponding post.)
Artist: The Smiths
Album Title: The Smiths
Year released: 1984
Year reissued: 2011
Details: Remastered, part of box set that includes booklet and poster
The skinny: To those of you who are not a fan of The Smiths, I apologize in advance and suggest you stay away from these pages for the next bunch of weekends. On the other hand, fans of the iconic post-punk and indie rock trailblazers can ready yourselves for a multiple week, multiple installment focus on The Smiths “Complete” box set I purchased a few years back. Rhino Records UK was responsible for this collection of all the band’s LP (in some cases, double LP) releases, remastered and repressed on heavyweight vinyl. It’s definitely a centrepiece in my collection. Today, I’m starting at the beginning with The Smiths’ self-titled debut. Their sound was fully realized from the beginning, sounding so different from everything else popular at the time. From Johnny Marr’s virtuoso jangle guitar to Morrissey’s sardonic lyrics and maudlin delivery. This pressing, like all the others in this set, follows the original track listing and so doesn’t include hit single, “This charming man”, that was added to later editions.
Standout track: “Hand in glove”
11 replies on “Vinyl love: The Smiths “The Smiths””
oh, drool!
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It’s a pretty lovely set. I’m going to have fun revisiting this over the next bunch of weeks.
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‘like’ is insufficient!
it’s Time that the tale were told about this LP set, JP – and I’m pleased to hear you’ll be doing so over the next several weekends!
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Steel yourself. It’s going to be epic.
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I like a lot of the Hatful of Hollow versions better for this one – it’s kind of unique how it’s been phased out of their discography a bit.
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Spoiler alert. We might see that one in a few weeks time.
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Can’t think of any other band where they’ve re-recorded material so quickly, and the new versions are the definitive ones. Plus Hatful of Hollow has awesome songs like ‘William…’.
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No!!!! It burns!! It burns!! Make that voice stop!!
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Oh man. I won’t stay away, but I’ll shake my head in disapproval. That okay?
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Haha. That’s fine.
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[…] skinny: If you missed last week’s post for this series, I’ll once again forewarn you that I am in the midst of a Smiths bender. This […]
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