English pop Source absolute The queen is dead, but the disc seems immortal

English pop Source absolute The queen is dead, but the disc seems immortal

The Queen Is Dead (CD)

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Album marking the climax of Mancunian band, a current (English pop guitars), and a particular aesthetic, "The Queen Is Dead" is the masterpiece of the band to Morrissey delivering ten plays at the unsettling delicacy pop jewelry crafted in soft melancholy and full of vitriolic texts from full cynicism exacerbated romanticism.
The Smiths, it was primarily the alliance between two quite different personalities: the technician Johnny Marr and the whimsical, flamboyant and paranoid Morrissey (fed dandy Oscar Wilde and David Bowie, and the literary work of Shelagh Delaney). However, they have some things in common: they are both from the working-class Manchester and thus concerned by the ultraliberal policy of the time, and express a rather pronounced taste for provocation.
First major observation about "The Queen Is Dead": the album is almost best of all by himself, as the beads succeed (especially with "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out", which has never expressed as well the feeling of anxiety and the need to be loved by any teenager).
Second observation: the album aging well, and we are still amazed face this combo has always avoided the pitfall macho clichés and stars smashed the sacrosanct myth Sex Drugs & Rock'N'Roll.
Third observation: the album, even more than the others, is hyper "Anglo-centric" swinging furious charges against the monarchy, the Thatcher administration and traditional education in England. In this sense, "The Queen Is Dead" is a luminous testimony of the 80 in the UK.
Last observation: Smiths have marked the history of pop music with a valuable and yet so special aesthetic that could fail him, a sexual ambiguity and homo-erotic album art, strange inflections Morrissey concert (when he wore gladioli slipped into his pockets and threw it in public or with which he whipped (!)), and shocking texts (Morrissey sang sometimes terrible things with Olympian detachment inside melodies sweet pop ...). This is probably due, as Morrissey himself said in 1984 that "the image of the Smiths is so strong that it triggers the total adoration as the fiercest hatred."
A thousand miles of rock made in the USA, "The Queen Is Dead" album is a must to intact class: we will return to long drink as a source of absolute English pop.

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