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albummaster
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Gender: Male
Location: Spain
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- #1
- Posted: 06/04/2013 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#930): The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths
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Today's album of the day
The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1986.
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Overall rank: 24
Average rating: 85/100 (from 779 votes).
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Tracks:
1. The 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. The 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
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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Jasonconfused
If We Make It We Can All Sit Back and Laugh
Gender: Male
Location: Washington 
- #2
- Posted: 06/04/2013 20:03
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EDIT: Okay I don't hate it, but it's boring and I can't really see myself revisiting it much.
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Cymro2011
The Beatles were objectively average
Gender: Male
Age: 28
Location: In a deep, dark bubblegum graveyard 
- #3
- Posted: 06/04/2013 20:12
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Great album but does anyone else hate the high pitched vocals on Big Mouth Strikes Again? It drives me nuts and it keeps reminding me of Miss Piggy from The Muppets.
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Norman Bates
Gender: Male
Age: 51
Location: Paris, France 
- #4
- Posted: 06/04/2013 20:20
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See my reaction in a recent topic, and my chart, if you want to know how great I think this album is.
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Dingerbell
Gender: Male
Age: 27
- #5
- Posted: 06/04/2013 20:33
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Perfect, apart from Vicar in a Tutu and Some Girls of Bigger than Others.
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Norman Bates
Gender: Male
Age: 51
Location: Paris, France
- #6
- Posted: 06/04/2013 20:35
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| Dingerbell wrote: | | Perfect, apart from (...) Some Girls of Bigger than Others. |
 Best song in the record. Sublime guitar work. Musical lace.
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Dingerbell
Gender: Male
Age: 27
- #7
- Posted: 06/04/2013 20:54
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| Norman Bates wrote: | | Best song in the record. Sublime guitar work. Musical lace. |
No!!!! I hate the fade-out and fade back in at the start. Sounds so awful.
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HoldenM
To Pedantically Split Infinitives
Gender: Male
Age: 29
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- Posted: 06/04/2013 21:31
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I prefer Meat Is Murder, even though this is the one people generally go to in inquiring about the epitome of The Smiths' work. Still, this is a solid collection of songs that falls apart at around "Vicar in a Tutu," and ends poorly on "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others." So, basically what Dingerbell said. Other than that, I thoroughly love, or at least very much like every song on the album. Certainly a deserved classic.
Track picks
1. The Queen Is Dead (Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty (Medley))
3. I Know It's Over
6. Bigmouth Strikes Again
7. The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
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Applerill
Autistic Princess <3
Gender: Female
Age: 30
Location: Chicago
- #9
- Posted: 06/04/2013 21:50
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| Jasonconfused wrote: |
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EDIT: Okay I don't hate it, but it's boring and I can't really see myself revisiting it much. |
Jason is a very smart boy.
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hairymarx1
Gender: Male
Location: London
- #10
- Posted: 06/04/2013 22:11
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If your idea of great art is a combination of lightweight rock, Lonnie Donegan-skiffle, vaudeville pantomime, 60s Merseybeat and Anthony Newley inspired vocals, then this is for you. Thankfully, we've emerged the other side of the musical dark ages that this album represents. Like the Beatles, The Smiths retreated to a quaint nostalgic vision while the real innovators of the time were pushing things forward.
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