"Meat is Murder" supposedly great

First one I bought, still my favorite.

Even my least favorite Smiths album is great, though.
 
I love this album. It's been in my car cd player for the last 2 weeks. Not a bad song on there.
 
My problem is that I bought Rank first and I like those versions better. I wasn't knocking it. I'm just surprised when it is someone's favorite.
 
Got to agree on his assessment of "Barbarism"

Sounds like Level 42 to me:aaagghh!!!
 
wolve said:
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,2102907,00.html

The Smiths Meat Is Murder
Nominated by Jackie McKeown of 1990s

I'm a Smiths fan and I like most of their records, but this is the weakest link in the canon. With the debut and The Queen Is Dead, you could cut up Morrissey's lyrics and they could be pages from the same book. For Meat Is Murder, he seemed to make a list of topics to write about. It was a protest album, which defeats the idea of Morrissey as romantic. The cool-guy cover with Meat Is Murder written on his helmet rams it down your throat. The title track is offensive, not least because of the loud, gated drums and 80s production that you get on Huey Lewis and the News records. Morrissey was obviously suffering from a loss of nerve or lack of faith when he wrote these songs. It took him years to write the first album in his bedroom. By the second album, he started panicking and pointing fingers at teachers at school and thinking up things like, "Oh, meat is murder and, oh, we're going to get attacked by thugs in Rusholme." Barbarism Begins at Home is where the Smiths betray their jazz-funk session-guy roots; it's absolutely treacherous to listen to, even if it was brilliant fun to record. You can just see the rolled-up jacket sleeves. It's everything Morrissey hated. Meat Is Murder is Red Wedge music for sexless students. It's like being stuck in a lift with a Manchester University Socialist Workers' Party convention.
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SOOO...what's wrong with this album again??? It's one of the best they made, my first heard Smith's album and one of my favorites, tied with Strangeways. Well I Wonder was my first favorite song off of this album. The whole album has a lot of feeling and meaning into it, esp the songs this person mentioned.....seriously what was this person smoking?? He/she is not right in the head. Not one bit.
 
mozmal said:
I think Jackie McKeown should sit down and really listen to the album again. Songs such as Nowhere Fast, Well I Wonder and That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore are simply brilliant and right up there as some of the best songs The Smiths ever recorded.
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Don't forget "I Want the One I Can't Have." MIM is truly one of the best Smiths records; this Jackie person just doesn't get it.
 
wolve said:
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,2102907,00.html

The Smiths Meat Is Murder
Nominated by Jackie McKeown of 1990s

I'm a Smiths fan and I like most of their records, but this is the weakest link in the canon. With the debut and The Queen Is Dead, you could cut up Morrissey's lyrics and they could be pages from the same book. For Meat Is Murder, he seemed to make a list of topics to write about. It was a protest album, which defeats the idea of Morrissey as romantic. The cool-guy cover with Meat Is Murder written on his helmet rams it down your throat. The title track is offensive, not least because of the loud, gated drums and 80s production that you get on Huey Lewis and the News records. Morrissey was obviously suffering from a loss of nerve or lack of faith when he wrote these songs. It took him years to write the first album in his bedroom. By the second album, he started panicking and pointing fingers at teachers at school and thinking up things like, "Oh, meat is murder and, oh, we're going to get attacked by thugs in Rusholme." Barbarism Begins at Home is where the Smiths betray their jazz-funk session-guy roots; it's absolutely treacherous to listen to, even if it was brilliant fun to record. You can just see the rolled-up jacket sleeves. It's everything Morrissey hated. Meat Is Murder is Red Wedge music for sexless students. It's like being stuck in a lift with a Manchester University Socialist Workers' Party convention.
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:confused: Wow... this person seems to know more about Morrissey and what he would hate than Morrissey himself does. :confused: :rolleyes:

Meat Is Murder is a great album. Their most consistent one, in any case. There is not an average song on it.

What a load of rubbish this review is. "Treacherous to listen to"? WTF?! And apparently, some people just can't stand it when someone in pop music dares to venture into social commentary (shock! horror!) I hate to think what he/she must think about Dylan... I suppose Morrissey should only be allowed to write songs about pining in your bedroom and unrequited love (not that MIM doesn't have those).
 
wolve said:
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,2102907,00.html

The Smiths Meat Is Murder
Nominated by Jackie McKeown of 1990s

I'm a Smiths fan and I like most of their records, but this is the weakest link in the canon. With the debut and The Queen Is Dead, you could cut up Morrissey's lyrics and they could be pages from the same book. For Meat Is Murder, he seemed to make a list of topics to write about. It was a protest album, which defeats the idea of Morrissey as romantic. The cool-guy cover with Meat Is Murder written on his helmet rams it down your throat. The title track is offensive, not least because of the loud, gated drums and 80s production that you get on Huey Lewis and the News records. Morrissey was obviously suffering from a loss of nerve or lack of faith when he wrote these songs. It took him years to write the first album in his bedroom. By the second album, he started panicking and pointing fingers at teachers at school and thinking up things like, "Oh, meat is murder and, oh, we're going to get attacked by thugs in Rusholme." Barbarism Begins at Home is where the Smiths betray their jazz-funk session-guy roots; it's absolutely treacherous to listen to, even if it was brilliant fun to record. You can just see the rolled-up jacket sleeves. It's everything Morrissey hated. Meat Is Murder is Red Wedge music for sexless students. It's like being stuck in a lift with a Manchester University Socialist Workers' Party convention.
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It's nonsense, of course, but I've read far more treacherous statements on these forums over the years ;);)
 
snapyou said:
Got to agree on his assessment of "Barbarism"

Sounds like Level 42 to me:aaagghh!!!
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I concur. Mark King slap happy bass. But another example of Morrissey's assertion of "those tremendous basslines."
 
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