0476. The Smiths
The Queen Is Dead

Today goes more into the continuing review of 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die as a book, than the importance of this album, but at this moment I can see a future where all albums by The Smiths are on the list, as are all solo-ventures by Morrissey and you know what? - It's bogus.

Sorry for making this an official Rant Tuesday, but this is getting annoying. I can understand why the collected discography of this band and its singer is regarded as notable in the annals of popmusic history, but I can't agree that each and every one of the albums deserve a spot of their own. Just like I can't agree that all Nirvana albums had such a great influence on music as to deserve a solo spot, even though they have one of the definitive Got to Gets.

This was the second-to-last album before The Smiths went their separate ways and well, it's better than Strangeways, Here We Come. Interestingly, though, the backbeat-experimentation on this one is (one of) the lesser track(s) whereas it was the better track on Strangeways.
But the album nevertheless leaves me with one big question: the hell's the second (smurf) voice in Bigmouth Strikes Again doing there?

Another drunken idea?