The Warner Bros. Music Show Tracklist
Sire Records chief Seymour Stein called it “the ‘Stairway to Heaven’ of the Eighties”, while co-writer Johnny Marr described…
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It’s safe to say that nobody else, before or since, has opened a significant rock album by hammering the bejesus out of the…
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“Rusholme Ruffians”, with Johnny Marr’s rockabilly riff, is about Manchester and makes the city (home of much of the history…
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This is a record full of yearning, the humiliating obviousness of when you want something, low expectations, the melodrama…
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“What She Said” is told from a female perspective – it’s rare for male songwriters to write about women with empathy rather…
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The gorgeous, swirling “That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore” might be the emotional peak of Meat Is Murder. It was released as the…
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“Nowhere Fast” shows Meat Is Murder from its funny side as Morrissey croons:
I’d like to drop my trousers to the Queen
It’…
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“Well I Wonder”’s narrator is gone, with no hope of return. The song isn’t so much a cry for help as a futile, bleak, almost…
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The brilliantly titled “Barbarism Begins at Home”, during which Morrissey yelps as if in pain, is also about children being…
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“Meat Is Murder”, with its simulated bovine cries and buzz-saw guitars, took vegetarianism to a new height in popular media…
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“Shakespeare’s Sister” was released as a single in March 1985, and later appeared on the Louder Than Bombs compilation.
The…
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A song from the Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino film From Dusk till Dawn. The song holds some undertones about racism…
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