Stop Me If You Think This Is The Best Smiths Album…
Posted by Douglas Anderson June 13, 2011 Morrissey, music, The Smiths Comments(0)
I was listening to a series of repeated Morrissey documentaries on BBC 6Music last week and it still amazes me that The Queen Is Dead is still viewed as the crowning glory of The Smiths. Don’t get me wrong, I love that album and as I have mentioned before The Smiths will always be one of my favourite bands of all time. However, having chatted to friends on the subject more than once I find I’m not alone in preferring Meat Is Murder and Strangeways Here We Come (famously purported to be the bands favourite album they ever recorded). I was reminded about this ongoing debate when reading an article from The Guardian today about photographer Stephen Wright’s favourite shot which appeared on the inside sleeve of The Queen Is Dead and is certainly one of the most iconic photographs of the band. The article can be found here. Whatever the case, it gives me the opportunity to post a very good half hour documentary on The Smiths first broadcast in 2001 which I still have on VHS somewhere, not that this fact bears much significance at all. The documentary is well worth the watch and leaves you thinking “Wouldn’t it be nice to spend some time in the pub with Johnny Marr talking about music”.