The Smiths
The Queen Is Dead
Label:  Sire 
Date:  1986
Length:  0:00
Format:  CD
Genre:  Rock; Alternative
  Category:  rock
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 Queen Is Dead (Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty) [Medley]    
      2.  
      		 Frankly, Mr. Shankly    
      3.  
      		 I Know It's Over    
      4.  
      		 Never Had No One Ever    
      5.  
      		 Cemetry Gates    
      6.  
      		 Bigmouth Strikes Again    
      7.  
      		 Boy With the Thorn in His Side    
      8.  
      		 Vicar in a Tutu    
      9.  
      		 There Is a Light That Never Goes Out    
      10.  
      		 Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others    
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      This is the value of working at cross-purposes: The Smiths were Morrissey's excuse to undulate his wry, disaffected lyrics, and Johnny Marr's vehicle for his sharp, chiming, pop songs. Their favorite kind of compromise made them essentially a singles band, and The Queen Is Dead has a couple of their best (notably "The Boy with the Thorn in His Side," one of the greatest pop expressions of the Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name). But it also has some wonderful compromises of different kinds: the bizarrely romantic "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out," and "Cemetry Gates," where Marr covers up for Morrissey's floridity with shimmying rockabilly. --Douglas Wolk