Is The Queen is Dead the best Smiths album?

[Otto42]

If not which, and compilations don’t qualify.

Edited: Removing any specific reference to Hatful of Hollow

 

[The Card Cheat]

It probably is the best but I like Meat is Murder. Underrated I think.

 

[Lemmy_kilmister]

Definitely AFAIAC

 

[Ebor]

Well if Hatful of Hollow doesn't count (and it should!) then it's the first album easily, for me

 

[Big_Fat_Parmo]

Yes.

 

[Aet290204]

Strangeways Here we come for me.

But then I was a late bloomer to The Smiths.

 

[Aet290204]

Anyway……can we not have a thread about their best song, rather than best album?

I vote for “you just haven’t earned it yet baby”

 

[Ebor]

Anyway……can we not have a thread about their best song, rather than best album?

I vote for “you just haven’t earned it yet baby”

In that case I vote for This Charming Man

 

[Aet290204]

In that case I vote for This Charming Man

Second place - How Soon Is now.

Just to have a pop at those that said Hatfull of Hollow wasn’t allowed.

 

[Otto42]

I know it’s over will be a big one at funerals in 2030s & 40s

 

[asredastheycome]

The first album for me is unbeatable.

 

[Otto42]

Suffer Little Children wouldn’t be a track today, but it had my peers and I thinking. Education is the thing that we seem to have lost.

 

[atypical_boro]

For me it’s pretty much a dead heat between the first 3 albums jointly.

Sorry to fans of Strangeways.

And I agree Hatful doesn’t count.

 

[bungydinsdale]

I know it’s over will be a big one at funerals in 2030s & 40s

There Is A Light That Never Goes out will be a bigger funeral request I reckon. It's one of mine to send me off this mortal coil anyway.

 

[bungydinsdale]

Okay, QID for me, BUT ONLY cos HoH is not allowed for some strange, bizarre reason...

 

[HarryVegas]

The Queen Is Dead for me, definitely. But I'm afraid I stopped listening ever since the singer decided to take a dump all over the band's legacy.

 

[atypical_boro]

Okay, QID for me, BUT ONLY cos HoH is not allowed for some strange, bizarre reason...

It’s a compilation of mostly live tracks and miscellaneous tracks! It’s not a studio album.

World Won’t Listen and Louder Than Bombs also not allowed for obvious reasons.

 

[atypical_boro]

The Queen Is Dead for me, definitely. But I'm afraid I stopped listening ever since the singer decided to take a dump all over the band's legacy.

I stopped listening to MJ in 2019 but Wanna Be Startin’ Something came on the radio recently and I didn’t turn it off (I grew up a super-fan).

Do you eventually just have to accept music despite the artist? I’ve never cancelled the Smiths/Morrissey personally.

 

[HarryVegas]

I stopped listening to MJ in 2019 but Wanna Be Startin’ Something came on the radio recently and I didn’t turn it off. Do you eventually just have to accept music despite the artist? I’ve never cancelled the Smiths/Morrissey personally.

It's definitely a grey area/personal choice thing. MJ I never had any interest in but all artists are flawed and you can't boycott everyone with a character fault. But for me the Smiths singer represents pure racism and I just can't stomach that.

 

[Wiseman_Vaughn]

The smiths (album 1) was shockingly different to anything I’d ever heard before. The rest sounded like the smiths