The Smiths- Meat Is MurderLabel: WEA Rhino Reissued 1 31 2025, Originally released 1985 With their second proper album Meat Is Murder, The Smiths began to branch out and diversify, while refining the jangling guitar pop of their debut. "The Headmaster Ritual" and "I Want The One I Can't Have" are fine elaborations of the formula they laid out on the debut, while "Rusholme Ruffians" is an infectious stab at rockabilly. Such was their creative thrust at this point; they were

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They placed four songs from the album on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time: "Purple Haze" (17)

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Fiction Romance

the band's debut EP

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Joey Ramone

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Throughout the second half of 2017

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