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October 9, 1986

Keeping Up With the Smiths

The British group has spawned a new generation of evocative rock bands

Rank

Rank, a concert album from the late, great Smiths, offers the liveliest postmortem imaginable. Rather than being an exploitative rehash, it realizes the greatest goal of a live album, namely, to offer a full reinterpretation of a band's work.

The songs are significantly speeded up, compared with the...

1988 RS: 3of 5 Stars

Louder Than Bombs

1987

Strangeways, Here We Come

1987

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Biography

Articulate, broodingly charismatic frontman Morrissey and supple guitarist Johnny Marr made the Smiths one of the most significant English bands of the '80s. An avowed celibate whose lyrics disclosed a sexually ambiguous point of view, Morrissey was given to controversy, whether advocating animal rights or trashing Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and disco. The band's trancelike, guitar-based mus...

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