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| Meat Is Murder |  | Artist: Smiths
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Seller: maddawgbooks
Rating:  68 reviews
Sales Rank: 7,078
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 075992526920
EAN: 0075992526920
ASIN: B000002L7J
Release Date: October 25, 1990
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| Tracks:
| • | Headmaster Ritual | | • | Rusholme Ruffians | | • | I Want the One I Can't Have | | • | What She Said | | • | That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore | | • | How Soon Is Now? | | • | Nowhere Fast | | • | Well I Wonder | | • | Barbarism Begins at Home | | • | Meat Is Murder |
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Singer Morrissey's brittle wit and guitarist Johnny Marr's incisive guitar helped make the Smiths create both an entranced cult following and pop music of the highest order. The U.S. edition of the band's second album includes the bonus single "How Soon Is Now?" and while it's a welcome addition, the rest of the tracks stand ably on their own. The militant vegetarianism is heavy-handed, but the sly humor of "That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore" and "I Want the One I Can't Have" present proof of the band's scope, as do the anthemic "The Headmaster Ritual" and "Rusholme Ruffians." --Rob O'Connor
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 Avaunt garde June 9, 2010
D. (USA)
Between the singer(Morrissey) and the superb bass/rhythm arrangements on this SIRE release this is definitely an amazing album release worthy of any avaunt-garde earlier music from the late last century. Keep the groove going!!
 Best of the Smiths. November 10, 2009
Joseph M. Perorazio (Columbus, OH USA)
Their best LP, with Johnny Marr's acoustic and electric guitars in the forefront of the mix and perfectly balancing Morrissey's deliberately off-key, crooning vocal delivery. Even the vegetarian sing-a-long "Meat is Murder" (easily the weakest track) cannot take away the fact that this is an essential Alternative Music album (recorded in the mid-80's, when the term "Alternative" actually meant something). "How Soon Is Now?" is the soundtrack for every lonely isolated boy, with its recurring themes of celibacy, isolation, and self-pity. The blatant dancefloor mix of "Barbarism Begins at Home" proves that this band covered all musical bases with equal earnestness. A masterwork LP, and one of the decade's essentials.
One of the best October 2, 2009
Ingemar Lundqvist (Sweden)
Besides The Queen is dead this is the best record made by the Smiths. Classic trackas all the way - a complete record
The Burgeoning Creative Growth of The Smiths. . . May 27, 2009
Leif Sheppard (United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Meat Is Murder, the sophomore effort from pioneering English band The Smiths, found the act experimenting with a myriad of genre bending styles. First of all, Morrissey's long time penchant for Elvis-esque rockabilly is in full gear (i.e. "Rusholme Ruffians") as well as more sensitive, introspective ballads ("I Want the One I Can't Have").
Not immediately accessible, and with no standout radio single, the record would remain one of The Smiths least favored records. It's remarkable, then, to recall that Meat Is Murder is the only original album to chart at #1 in the U.K. The inclusion of the immensely popular "How Soon Is Now" on the U.S. release ensured that Meat Is Murder would also sell reasonably well stateside.
The politically charged ideology is abjectly confrontational but never quite approaching tiresome. Lettuce love lullaby "Meat Is Murder" is, like veganism, an aquired taste. Though a bit preachy and self-righteous, the lyrical content does hold some sad truths. Just recently, to the shock of no one, it's come to light that some slaughterhouses routinely employed torture.
"Barbarism Begins At Home" and sister song "The Headmaster Ritual" serve as compelling odes decrying the stringent disciplinarian tactics of English schoolhouses.
Perhaps the most amusing track is "Nowhere Fast" with it's giddy declaration of "I'd like to drop my trousers to the Queen" amid typically dispiriting reflective imagery such as: "I think about life and I think about death, and neither one particularly appeals to me." Brilliant.
Meat Is Murder is primarily regarded as an important step in the creative growth of The Smiths which reaches its peak with the monumental third release The Queen Is Dead.
Splendid Ruffian May 17, 2009
Michael S. Mahoney (Louisville, KY United States)
The second long-player by The Smiths is a revelation even today. This reviewer lived in Manchester at the time of its release and can fully attest to the record's dead-center portrayal of a tender hooligan's fight to survive the soot of a disused city. The now classic "How Soon is Now?" warbles from its lair with the unforgettable post-clubbing line "You go home and cry and you want to die." Instead of suicide, Morrissey urges the like-minded to moon the queen in the defiant "Nowhere Fast." The lyricist par excellence routinely got bashed and parodied for his persona of mope (rightly so), but "Meat" comes rushing out of the gate with four breathless songs about sadistic headmasters, dodgy carnival rides, a railway rendez-vous that will never happen, and cigarettes intensely inhaled to bring an early death. Anyone trapped a whisper and a nudge from what they desire immediately senses in Morrissey a compatriot, a sensitive soul clutching secret treasures in a thuggish, merciless world. And as one perceptive critic once noted, Johnny Marr is the wind that blows Morrissey's clouds. The guitar work on "Meat" is simply superb. The twining figures and textures, buoyed by Andy Rourke's melodic bass lines, bring the bumps. "Every sensible child" knows what The Smiths mean.
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