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Opening with the storming track the album is harder rocking record than anything the band had attempted before.
I don t think morrissey ever sounded better on a record than he does on the queen is dead.
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The vinyl edition is also very nice as the artwork is bigger and inside the gatefold has the lyrics printed with a nice record sleeve too.
The queen is dead is the third studio album by english rock band the smiths released on 16 june 1986 in the united kingdom by rough trade records and on 23 june 1986 in the us by sire records it spent 22 weeks on the uk albums chart peaking at number two.
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70 on the us billboard 200 and was certified gold by the riaa in late 1990.
In 2009 rolling stone ranked the.
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Widely considered to be both the smiths finest work and one of the greatest albums ever made the queen is dead has cast a significant influence over subsequent generations since it was first released in the summer of brand.
The queen is dead really sets the mood for what s to come from the rest of the album with incredible guitar from johnny marr and plenty of humour yet naturally with a touch of sadness from morrissey s lyrics.
The queen is dead is a perfect album and i don t say that about many albums.
Johnny marr has created here a wide range of guitar styles that provide a musical bed for morrissey s best set of lyrics.
The queen is dead is the smiths great leap forward taking the band to new musical and lyrical heights.
It also reached no.
The queen is dead was rhythmic strafing to the same effect as how soon is now but the devastating melancholia shifts into the sardonic tone that led morrissey to be labelled the pope of mope by the 1980s press an unfair term considering he is whip smart and slyly jovial on a good portion of the album.
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