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The Queen Is Dead is the third studio album by English rock band the Smiths. It was released on 16 June 1986 in the United Kingdom by Rough Trade Records, and in the United States on 23 June 1986 through Sire Records.
The album spent twenty-two weeks on the UK Albums Chart, peaking at No. 2. It also reached No. 70 on the US Billboard 200 chart, and was certified Gold by the RIAA in late 1990. It has sold consistently well ever since and has received unanimous critical acclaim, with NME listing it as the greatest album of all time in 2013.[2]
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Songwriting[edit]
Guitarist Johnny Marr wrote several songs that would later appear on The Queen Is Dead while the Smiths toured Britain in early 1985, working out song arrangements with bassist Andy Rourke and drummer Mike Joyce during soundchecks.[3] The title of the album is from Hubert Selby Jr.'s 1964 novel Last Exit to Brooklyn.[4]
'The Boy with the Thorn in His Side' was, according to Marr, 'an effortless piece of music', and was written on tour in the spring of 1985. The song's lyrics refer allegorically to the band's experience of the music industry that failed to appreciate it.[5]:48 In 2003, Morrissey named it his favourite Smiths song.[6]
A demo of the music for 'Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others' was posted by Marr through Morrissey's letterbox in the summer of 1985. Morrissey then completed the song by adding lyrics. Marr has stated that he 'preferred the music to the lyrics'.[5]:405
'Frankly, Mr. Shankly', 'I Know It's Over' and 'There Is a Light That Never Goes Out' were written by Morrissey and Marr in a 'marathon' writing session in the late summer of 1985 at Marr's home in Bowdon, Greater Manchester.[5]:136 The first of these is reputed to have been addressed to Geoff Travis, head of the Smiths' record label Rough Trade. Travis has since described it as 'a funny lyric' about 'Morrissey's desire to be somewhere else', acknowledging that a line in the song about 'bloody awful poetry' was a reference to a poem he had written for Morrissey.[7]:86
'There Is a Light That Never Goes Out' features lyrics drawn from 'Lonely Planet Boy' by the New York Dolls. Paramore riot deluxe rar. According to Marr: 'When we first played it, I thought it was the best song I'd ever heard'.[5]:442 The song's guitar part drew on the Rolling Stones' cover of Marvin Gaye's 'Hitch Hike', whose original version by Gaye himself had acted as an inspiration for the Velvet Underground's 'There She Goes Again'.[8]
The music for 'Never Had No One Ever', completed in August 1985, was based on a demo which Marr had recorded in December 1984, itself based on 'I Need Somebody' by the Stooges.[5]:281 According to Marr: 'The atmosphere of that track pretty much sums up the whole album and what it was like recording it.'[5]:282 The lyric to the song reflects Morrissey's feeling unsafe and, being from an immigrant family, not at home on the streets of Manchester.[9]
'The Boy with the Thorn in His Side', 'Bigmouth Strikes Again' and 'Frankly, Mr. Shankly' were debuted live during a tour of Scotland in September and October,[10]:120–2 during which 'The Queen Is Dead' and 'There Is a Light That Never Goes Out' were soundchecked.[11]:78 'The Queen is Dead' was based on a song Marr began writing as a teenager.[11]:78
'Cemetry Gates' (sic) was a late addition to the album. Marr had not believed that the guitar part was interesting enough to be developed into a song, but Morrissey disagreed when he heard Marr play it.[5]:70 The 'All those people .. I want to cry' section is largely taken from the film The Man Who Came To Dinner, which also inspired one of Morrissey’s aliases, Sheridan Whitehead. The words the song's narrator has heard 'said a hundred times (maybe less, maybe more)' come from Shakespeare's Richard III. The song evokes Morrissey's memories of visiting Southern Cemetery in Manchester with photographer Linder Sterling.
Recording[edit]
The album was produced by Morrissey and Marr, working predominantly with engineer Stephen Street, who had engineered the band's 1985 album Meat Is Murder. Street recalled: 'Morrissey, Johnny and I had a really good working relationship – we were all roughly the same age and into the same kind of things, so everyone felt quite relaxed in the studio'.[12]
At the time the group was having difficulty with its record label Rough Trade. However, according to Street 'this didn't get in the way of recording because the atmosphere in the studio was very, very constructive.'[12]
The first song from the album to be recorded, in July 1985, was 'The Boy with the Thorn in His Side'. The recording, made with engineer Stephen Street at a small studio in Manchester and initially intended as a demo, was considered by the band to be good enough for release as a single. It went on sale on 16 September 1985 and made number 23 in the UK Singles Chart.[10]:120–1
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In August 1985, 'Bigmouth Strikes Again' and 'Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others' were recorded at RAK Studios in London, along with the B-sides to 'The Boy with the Thorn in His Side', 'Asleep' and 'Rubber Ring'.[10]:121[12]Kirsty MacColl sang a backing vocal for 'Bigmouth Strikes Again' but it was considered 'really weird' by Marr, and was replaced with a sped-up vocal by Morrissey in the final mix, for which he is credited as Ann Coates on the sleeve of The Queen Is Dead.[5]:32–3 'Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others' includes a false fade near the start, intended by Street to give the impression of a door closing and opening again.[5]:405 During the same session, a first version of 'Never Had No-one Ever' was recorded.[5]:337
The bulk of the album was recorded in the winter of 1985 at Jacob Studios in Farnham, under the working title 'Margaret on the Guillotine'.[10]:124
'Frankly, Mr. Shankly' was an attempt to recreate the 'vibe' of Sandie Shaw's 'Puppet on a String', although 'it didn't quite work out that way', according to Marr. Linda McCartney was asked to play piano on the track, but declined,[13] and a first take featuring a trumpeter was scrapped. The version originally intended for inclusion on The Queen Is Dead was ruined by a technical glitch on the tape, and so the song was re-recorded with John Porter at Wessex Studios in London.[5]:136
'The Queen Is Dead' was among the last songs to be recorded. Its distinctive tom-tom loop was created by Mike Joyce and Stephen Street using a sampler. A line of guitar feedback was played by Marr through a wah-wah pedal throughout the song.[12]
Composition[edit]
The song 'There Is a Light That Never Goes Out' was a contender for lead single from the album, but was passed over in favour of 'Bigmouth Strikes Again'. (Later in 1986 it was released as a 7'-only single in France.) It received a belated release in 1992, when it became one of WEA's singles in a programme to promote Smiths re-releases (see the entry on ..Best II). In 1990 the song was voted no. 1 on a list of the greatest songs of all time by the readers of SPIN magazine in the US.
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'Cemetry Gates' was Morrissey's direct response to critics who had cried foul over his use of texts written by some of his favourite authors, notably Shelagh Delaney and Elizabeth Smart. Oscar Wilde, who was also accused of plagiarism, figures as a patron saint of Morrissey's in the song's lyrics. A Wilde quote, 'Talent borrows, genius steals', was etched in the vinyl run-out grooves of the first single off the album, 'Bigmouth Strikes Again'.[14] These etchings appear almost exclusively on the UK releases (denoted by the RT and RTT prefixes on the catalogue number).
'The Queen Is Dead', which leads off the album and notably became an expressionistic music video directed by Derek Jarman, starts with a soundbite from Bryan Forbes' 1962 British film The L-Shaped Room.[15] Another instance of Morrissey's fascination with 1960s British cinema, the film featured performances by Pat Phoenix (who had already appeared as a cover star on the 1985 single 'Shakespeare's Sister') and Cicely Courtneidge as an elderly lesbian veteran of the music halls. The soundbite is Courtneidge's character nostalgically singing the First World War song 'Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty'. The actress had also appeared in a gala performance for the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II, entitled God Save the Queen; she died in 1980.
A few songs, including 'The Queen Is Dead' and 'Bigmouth Strikes Again', feature pitch-shifted backing vocals by Morrissey. Morrissey liked to experiment with effects on his voice, so Street ran his voice through a harmoniser for the backing tracks. Street recalled, 'At that time, apart from the harmoniser, he didn't go for much backing vocal or harmony work – he's done that more on recent albums – but he did like to experiment'. The backing vocals are attributed to 'Ann Coates' on the record sleeve (Ancoats is a district in Manchester, just north-east of the city centre).[12]
Release[edit]
The Queen Is Dead finally emerged in June 1986, and was previewed by the release of 'Bigmouth Strikes Again' as a single in May—the only single taken from the album. Many encouraged the band to release 'There Is a Light That Never Goes Out' as a single, but Johnny Marr is said to have wanted an explosive, searing single, along the lines of the Rolling Stones' 'Jumpin' Jack Flash', to announce that the Smiths had returned from hiatus. It did not fare as well as expected, stalling at number 26 on the British charts.
The album cover, designed by Morrissey, features Alain Delon from the 1964 film L'Insoumis.[13]
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Critical reception[edit]
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 99/100 (deluxe edition)[16] |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [17] |
Blender | [18] |
Chicago Tribune | [19] |
Mojo | [20] |
Pitchfork | 10/10[21] |
Q | [22] |
Rolling Stone | [23] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [24] |
Uncut | [25] |
The Village Voice | B+[26] |
The Queen Is Dead received critical acclaim, and is considered to be a defining album of the 1980s, as well as one of the greatest albums of all time. In a contemporaneous review of the album, Mark Coleman of Rolling Stone remarked on Morrissey's sense of humour and singled out the singer's performance on 'Cemetry Gates' as a highlight, concluding that 'like it or not, this guy's going to be around for a while.'[27] Writing in pop magazine Smash Hits, Tom Hibbert gave a favourable review, stating that 'the guitars are great, some of the words are marvellous, others like scratchings on a Fifth Form desk', as well as describing Morrissey as 'half genius half buffoon'.[28]Robert Christgau of The Village Voice wrote that despite his dislike of the Smiths' previous albums, he held an 'instant attraction' to The Queen Is Dead, where he found that 'Morrissey wears his wit on his sleeve, dishing the queen like Johnny Rotten never did and kissing off a day-job boss who's no Mr. Sellack', which 'makes it easier to go along on his moonier escapades'.[26]
Pitchfork listed The Queen Is Dead as the sixth-best album of the 1980s.[29] In 2003, The Queen Is Dead was ranked number 216 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.[30] In 2006, it was named the second-greatest British album of all time by the NME.[31] In 2006, Q magazine placed the album at number three in its list of '40 Best Albums of the '80s'.[32] UK-based magazine Clash added The Queen Is Dead to its 'Classic Album Hall of Fame' in its June 2011 issue, saying it 'is an album to lose yourself in; it has depth, focus and some great tunes. It's easy to see why the album is held in such high esteem by Smiths fanatics and why, a decade later, it became a key influence for all things Britpop.'[33] In 2012, Slant Magazine listed the album at number 16 on its list of 'Best Albums of the 1980s' and said: 'There may never again be an indie-rock album as good as The Queen Is Dead'.[34] In 2013, The Queen Is Dead was ranked the greatest record of all time on the NME's Greatest Albums of All Time list.[35] At Rolling Stone, Gavin Edwards retrospectively viewed the album as 'one of the funniest rock albums ever', noting that Morrissey had 'learned to express his self-loathing through mockery' while Johnny Marr 'matched his verbal excess with witty, supple music', and concluded, 'If the queen's reaction to Morrissey was 'We are not amused,' then she was the only one.'[23]
Track listing[edit]
All lyrics written by Morrissey; all music composed by Johnny Marr.
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | 'The Queen Is Dead' (includes 'Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty' (medley), written by A. J. Mills, Fred Godfrey and Bennett Scott) | 6:24 |
2. | 'Frankly, Mr. Shankly' | 2:17 |
3. | 'I Know It's Over' | 5:48 |
4. | 'Never Had No One Ever' | 3:36 |
5. | 'Cemetry Gates' | 2:39 |
6. | 'Bigmouth Strikes Again' | 3:12 |
7. | 'The Boy with the Thorn in His Side' | 3:15 |
8. | 'Vicar in a Tutu' | 2:21 |
9. | 'There Is a Light That Never Goes Out' | 4:02 |
10. | 'Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others' | 3:14 |
Total length: | 36:48 |
2017 collector's edition[edit]
Disc one features the 2017 master of the album. Europe in the twentieth century paxton pdf creator. Disc four DVD features the 2017 master in 96 kHz / 24-bit PCM stereo.
Disc two: Additional recordings | ||
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No. | Title | Length |
1. | 'The Queen Is Dead' (full version) | 7:14 |
2. | 'Frankly, Mr. Shankly' (demo) | 2:18 |
3. | 'I Know It's Over' (demo) | 5:48 |
4. | 'Never Had No One Ever' (demo) | 4:40 |
5. | 'Cemetry Gates' (demo) | 3:01 |
6. | 'Bigmouth Strikes Again' (demo) | 3:06 |
7. | 'Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others' (demo) | 3:57 |
8. | 'The Boy with the Thorn in His Side' (demo) | 3:18 |
9. | 'There Is a Light That Never Goes Out' (take 1) | 4:25 |
10. | 'Rubber Ring' (single B-side) | 3:54 |
11. | 'Asleep' (single B-side) | 4:02 |
12. | 'Money Changes Everything' (single B-side) | 4:41 |
13. | 'Unloveable' (single B-side) | 3:55 |
Total length: | 54:19 |
Disc three: Live in Boston | ||
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No. | Title | Length |
1. | 'How Soon Is Now?' | 5:25 |
2. | 'Hand in Glove' | 2:58 |
3. | 'I Want the One I Can't Have' | 3:24 |
4. | 'Never Had No One Ever' | 3:26 |
5. | 'Stretch Out and Wait' | 3:12 |
6. | 'The Boy with the Thorn in His Side' | 3:34 |
7. | 'Cemetry Gates' | 3:01 |
8. | 'Rubber Ring / What She Said / Rubber Ring' | 4:17 |
9. | 'Is It Really So Strange?' | 3:22 |
10. | 'There Is a Light That Never Goes Out' | 4:09 |
11. | 'That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore' | 4:51 |
12. | 'The Queen Is Dead' | 5:05 |
13. | 'I Know It's Over' | 7:36 |
Total length: | 54:14 |
Disc four – DVD: The Queen Is Dead – A Film by Derek Jarman | ||
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No. | Title | Length |
11. | 'The Queen Is Dead' | 6:28 |
12. | 'There Is a Light That Never Goes Out' | 4:03 |
13. | 'Panic' | 2:18 |
Total length: | 12:49 |
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Personnel[edit]
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Charts[edit]
Album
Year | Chart | Position |
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1986 | Canadian Albums[37] | 28 |
1986 | Dutch Albums[38] | 11 |
1986 | German Albums[39] | 45 |
1986 | New Zealand Albums[40] | 17 |
1986 | Swedish Albums[41] | 39 |
1986 | UK Albums Chart[42] | 2 |
1986 | US Billboard 200[43] | 70 |
2017 | German Albums[39] | 33 |
2017 | Greek Albums[44] | 11 |
Certifications[edit]
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil)[45] | Gold | 100,000* |
United Kingdom (BPI)[46] | Platinum | 300,000^ |
United States (RIAA)[47] | Gold | 500,000^ |
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Smiths Station | |
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Coordinates: 32°32′21″N85°05′55″W / 32.53917°N 85.09861°WCoordinates: 32°32′21″N85°05′55″W / 32.53917°N 85.09861°W | |
Country | United States |
State | Alabama |
Counties | Lee |
Government | |
- Mayor | LaFaye Dellinger |
Elevation | 370 ft (113 m) |
Population | |
- Total | 21,756 |
Time zone | Central (CST) |
ZIP codes | 36877 |
Area code(s) | 334 |
Website | http://www.smithsstation.us/ |
Smiths Station is a city in Lee County, Alabama, United States. It is a part of the Columbus, Georgia-Alabama Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city is also known by locals as Smiths, although the official name is Smiths Station. According to the local legend, a postmaster around 1960 grew tired of writing Smiths Station, so he took it upon himself to drop 'Station' from the name of the community. Smiths Station was officially incorporated in June 2001, and is as of 2004 Alabama's second newest city next to Center Point. At the time of the 2000 census, it was still a census-designated place (CDP), and its population was 21,756. Smiths Station is a bedroom community of Columbus, Georgia and Phenix City, Alabama. Smiths Station High School has an enrollment of 2,500+ students and is the 10th largest high school in the state.
Geography
Smiths is located at 32°32′21″N85°05′55″W / 32.539259°N 85.098703°W.[1]
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the CDP had a total area of 71.9 square miles (186.2 km²), of which, 71.2 square miles (184.3 km²) of it was land and 0.7 square miles (1.9 km²) of it (1.00%) was water.
Demographics
As of the census[2] of 2000, there were 21,756 people, 7,806 households, and 6,252 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 305.7 people per square mile (118.0/km²). There were 8,437 housing units at an average density of 118.6/sq mi (45.8/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 84.79% White, 12.67% Black or African American, 0.38% Native American, 0.39% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.74% from other races, and 1.03% from two or more races. 2.08% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
There were 7,806 households out of which 44.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 64.4% were married couples living together, 11.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 19.9% were non-families. 16.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 4.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.79 and the average family size was 3.12.
In the CDP the population was spread out with 30.4% under the age of 18, 7.9% from 18 to 24, 34.9% from 25 to 44, 19.6% from 45 to 64, and 7.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 32 years. For every 100 females there were 98.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.7 males.
The median income for a household in the CDP was $43,977, and the median income for a family was $47,765. Males had a median income of $32,246 versus $23,707 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $17,608. About 7.2% of families and 8.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 11.6% of those under age 18 and 11.2% of those age 65 or over.
Year | Population |
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1960 | 600 |
1970 | 600 |
1980 | 900 |
1990 | 3,500 |
2000 | 21,756 |
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There is one high school in Smiths, Smiths Station High School. The school colors are that of Black and White with a secondary use of Silver. The sports teams are called 'The Panthers.' The schools 'cheer squads' are award winning and appear at all football and basketball games. In years past the football team had more success being the states third most school to appear in state championship games. The 'Panther Spirit Marching Band' has been invited to march for the Queen of the United Kingdom and has performed in the Boscov's Thanksgiving day Parade in Philadelphia, PA. The band holds three Grand Championship awards and numerous best in class awards. The Track and Field team has been nationally ranked several times in the past and has numerous alumni throughout the nation competing at the DI, DII, and professional levels.
References
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- ^'US Gazetteer files: 2000 and 1990'. United States Census Bureau. 2005-05-03. http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/gazette.html. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
- ^'American FactFinder'. United States Census Bureau. http://factfinder.census.gov. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
- ^UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - ALABAMA : urban population
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