The Smiths (CD) | Mint (M) Mint (M)

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Label: Sire – R2 25065
Format: CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
Country: US
Released: 
Genre: Rock 
Style: Indie Rock

1        Reel Around The Fountain    5:55
2        You've Got Everything Now    3:58
3        Miserable Lie    4:27
4        Pretty Girls Make Graves
Voice [Female] – Annalisa Jablonska
3:41
5        The Hand That Rocks The Cradle    3:45
6        This Charming Man    2:41
7        Still Ill    3:19
8        Hand In Glove
Remix – John Porter
3:23
9        What Difference Does It Make?    3:49
10        I Don't Owe You Anything    4:04
11        Suffer Little Children
Voice [Female] – Annalisa Jablonska
5:29

Recorded At – Strawberry Studios
Recorded At – Matrix Studios
Recorded At – Eden Studios
Recorded At – Pluto Studios
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Warner Music UK Ltd.
Copyright © – Warner Music UK Ltd.
Manufactured By – Rhino Entertainment Company
Marketed By – Rhino Entertainment Company
Remastered At – Metropolis Studios
Glass Mastered At – Cinram, Olyphant, PA – Z111334
Pressed By – Cinram, Olyphant, PA
Bass – Andy Rourke
Drums – Mike Joyce
Engineer – Neil King*, Phil Bush
Guitar, Harmonica – Johnny Marr
Model [Cover Star] – Joe Dallesandro
Music By – Johnny Marr
Photography By [Andy Rourke, Mike Joyce] – Joelle Depont*
Photography By [J.m] – Andy Catlin*
Photography By [Morrissey] – Romi (8)
Piano, Organ – Paul Carrack (tracks: 1, 2, 10)
Producer – John Porter
Remastered By – Frank Arkwright
Remastered By [Assisted] – Johnny Marr
Sleeve – Morrissey
Voice – Morrissey
Words By – Morrissey
Recorded at Pluto (Manchester), Eden (London), Matrix (London) and Strawberry (Manchester), winter 1983.

℗ 2011 Warner Music UK Ltd.
© 1984 Warner Music UK Ltd.

FBI Anti-Piracy warning on back cover.

Purple sticker states: Remastered by Johnny Marr as featured in The Smiths 'Complete'.
Barcode (As Printed): 8 25646 60488 3
Barcode (Scanned): 825646604883

The Smiths: Morrissey (vocals); Johnny Marr (guitar, harmonica); Andy Rourke (bass); Mike Joyce (drums). Recorded at Pluto and Eden Studios, Manchester, and Matrix and Strawberry Studios, London in the winter of 1983. Personnel: Morrissey (vocals); Johnny Marr (guitars, harmonica); Andy Rourke (bass guitar); Mike Joyce (drums). Recording information: Eden, London (1983); Matrix, London (1983); Pluto, Manchester (1983); Strawberry, Manchester (1983). This self-titled opening salvo of the Smiths' four-year war with mediocrity stands proud as one of the era's most innovative and unique works. Flying in the face of the pomp and artifice that prevailed in pop music at the time, the Smiths raged against their makeup- wearing, synth-playing contemporaries and squarely put rock back on the agenda. Guitarist Johnny Marr married the tunesmanship and harmonic richness of his Motown heroes with the rage of punk, while Morrissey's bedroom confessionals were catnip to England's (and later the world's) disenfranchised youth. THE SMITHS demanded, and received, instant attention, desirable and otherwise, making a reluctant guitar hero out of Marr and a poster boy out of Morrissey. The jarring juxtaposition between Marr's lilting, densely-layered guitar lines and Morrissey's lyrics and plaintive delivery makes magic of "This Charming Man" (whose theme of sexual ambiguity was to remain prevalent in the group's work) and the gentle major-seventh chords of "I Don't Owe You Anything." The tender "Suffer Little Children," a paean to a group of murdered children in the band's native Manchester, gave the band their first (though far from their last) taste of public controversy.

• Media Condition: Mint (M)
• Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
• Format Detail: CD
• Format: CD
• Genre: ALT/INDIE
• Format Type: CD
• Released: 04/03/2012