(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 Queen is dead
Year released: 1986
Year reissued: 2011
Details: Remastered, gatefold sleeve, part of box set that includes booklet and poster
The skinny: There was a brief difference of opinions between two commenters on last week’s post and I stepped in to say that I always found The Smiths’ singles preferable to their proper studio albums. Our friend at Aphoristic Album Reviews agreed, but commented that this third album by The Smiths, “The Queen is dead”, was ‘very good though’. And I’m with him. This one was my favourite of their studio albums. So many great tracks like “Frankly Mr. Shankly”, “There is a light that never goes out”, “Cemetry gates”, “The boy with the thorn in his side”, and the one below, “Bigmouth strikes again”. In fact, it’s near impossible to point out a weak link here. I defy you to try.
Standout track: “Bigmouth strikes again”
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6 replies on “Vinyl love: The Smiths “The Queen is dead””
I think there are a couple of weak tracks (Never Had No One Ever) but the good stuff is amazingly good.
Thanks for the shoutout. I didn’t actually mean to reply directly to Sarca – I meant it as a direct comment to the original post.
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I’m sure Sarca wasn’t truly offended. And yes, amazingly good describes a lot of this album for me.
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Glad to see Mr. Shankly name-checked!
Although I will concede ‘there is a light’ is the best track here, Frankly is my favourite.
But like you said, plenty of keepers from which to choose!
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There is a light is a very very good track.
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This is a good album. No arguments from me!
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Haha. I think we can all agree on this one.
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