The Queen Is Dead

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At the time the group was having difficulty with its record label Rough Trade. However, according to Street, "this didn't get in the way of recording because the atmosphere in the studio was very, very constructive." [19] Two other loose categories could be formed out of the songs on The Queen Is Dead: Beside the meta, there’s the merry and the melancholy. Despite the morbid (and misspelled) title, “Cemetry Gates” is sprightly and carefree. Even though they’re strolling among the gravestones quoting poetry at each other to show how intensely they feel the sorrow of mortality, the life-force is strong in these precocious youngsters. As so often with Morrissey, the frissons come with the tiny quirks of unusual word-choice or phrasing—the little jolt of the way he pronounces “plagiarize” with an incorrect hard “g,” for instance. Featuring the album’s second instance of cross-dressing, “Vicar in a Tutu” is a slight delight with just a casual twist of subversiveness in a passing reference to the priest’s kinky antics being “as natural as rain”: This freak is just as God made him. Almost cosmic in its insubstantiality, “Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others” seemed at the time an anticlimactic ending to such an Important Album. Now I think the understatement is just right, rather than the obvious curtain-closer, “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out”—the glide and glisten of Marr’s playing on “Some Girls” is that never-fading light. a b Blais-Billie, Braudie (20 July 2017). "The Smiths Announce Deluxe Reissue of The Queen Is Dead". Pitchfork . Retrieved 22 April 2020. Original 1986 Release. EMI Pressing (A1-B2). Gatefold Sleeve, Which Has A Touch Of Edge/Spine Wear. Glossy Picture Inner, Which Has A Little Wear-Through At The Bottom. Record Has Some Generally Light/Superficial Marks

Matrix / Runout (E side, etched): QIDLP-2017∙E G∙1 RM 0190295785703 +s BH83469-03 E1 CUTS? AXE THE MONARCHY. Cemetry Gates" was Morrissey's direct response to critics who had cried foul over his use of texts written by some of his favourite authors, notably Shelagh Delaney and Elizabeth Smart. Oscar Wilde, who was also accused of plagiarism, figures as a patron saint of Morrissey's in the song's lyrics. A Wilde quote, "Talent borrows, genius steals", was etched in the vinyl run-out grooves of the single single off the album, "Bigmouth Strikes Again". [21] These etchings appear almost exclusively on the UK releases (denoted by the RT and RTT prefixes on the catalogue number). A demo of the music for " Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others" was posted by Marr through Morrissey's letterbox in the summer of 1985. Morrissey then completed the song by adding lyrics. Marr has stated that he "preferred the music to the lyrics". [12] :405 a b Considine, J. D. (6 September 1986). "Joel's Bridge Doesn't Cross River". The Californian. p.30 . Retrieved 12 August 2020. The album is generally considered to be the band’s best work (although for this writer Strangeways, Here We Come gives it a good run for its money) and features the classic There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (only a single in France at the time, fact fans).a b "Offiziellecharts.de – The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 5 August 2023. The Smiths' 'The Queen Is Dead' tops NME's list of 500 greatest albums of all time". NME. 23 October 2013 . Retrieved 23 October 2013. There Is a Light That Never Goes Out" features lyrics drawn from "Lonely Planet Boy" by the New York Dolls. According to Marr: "When we first played it, I thought it was the best song I'd ever heard". [12] :442 The song's guitar part drew on the Rolling Stones' cover of Marvin Gaye's " Hitch Hike", whose original version by Gaye himself had acted as an inspiration for the Velvet Underground's " There She Goes Again". [16] Johnny Marr – guitars, orchestration (credited as The Hated Salford Ensemble), string synthesizer, harmonium, marimba ("The Boy with the Thorn in His Side") [52] Italian album certifications – The Smiths – Queen Is Dead" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana . Retrieved 27 June 2022. Select "2022" in the "Anno" drop-down menu. Select "Queen Is Dead" in the "Filtra" field. Select "Album e Compilation" under "Sezione".

Wikipedia - MESSAGES FROM MORRISSEY - MORRISSEY CENTRAL - Wikipedia". MORRISSEY CENTRAL . Retrieved 8 June 2021. Yoo, Noah (16 June 2017). "The Smiths Announce "The Queen Is Dead" Single Reissues". Pitchfork . Retrieved 22 April 2020. A steal for 20 quid. I compared this to my original pressing and as expected nothing will beat the original but to the untrained ear this is also an excellent press. The only print error is in the gatefold pic of the band outside Salford lads club. On the original you Coleman, Mark (11 September 1986). " The Queen Is Dead". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 15 October 2007 . Retrieved 10 April 2008.Marcos Gendre - The Smiths 15 Minutos Contigo. 1984: El Año De The Smiths y Hatful Of Hollow (2015) Weisbard, Eric; Craig Marks (1995). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. ISBN 0-679-75574-8. And then there’s the life-and-death serious stuff. Both songs of unrequited love, “I Know It’s Over” and “There Is a Light” make a pair: The first spins majesty out of misery, the second transcends it with a sublime and nakedly religious vision of hope-in-vain as an end in itself. The writing in “I Know It’s Over” is a tour de force, from the opening image of the empty—sexless, loveless—bed as a grave, through the suicidal inversions of “The sea wants to take me/The knife wants to slit me,” onto the self-lacerations of “If you’re so funny, then why are you on your own tonight?” and finally the unexpected and amazing grace of “It’s so easy to hate/It takes strength to be gentle and kind.” Not a strong or sure singer by conventional standards, Morrissey gives his all-time greatest vocal performance, something ear-witness Johnny Marr described as “one of the highlights of my life.”