Feb 29,  · The contents within Meat Is Murder offer ample proof of this, beyond the headline-grabbing title and the sleeve artwork (a not-so-subtly altered photograph of a young Vietnam soldier, whose helmet was originally daubed with the charming slogan “Make War Not Love” This is The Smiths at their most full-on, muscular and almost feral at times.

Dec 28,  · Meat is Murder () Full Album.

Meat Is Murder is a gem in the Smiths small catalog. It's a really excellent selections of songs that work well as a whole album. With top notch lyrics and a good variety in music. It opens with the masterpiece "The Headmaster Ritual" which is Johnny Marr at his best with cool jangly riffs and layered guitars/5().

Nov 18,  · Meat Is Murder-- which followed Hatful by a mere three months-- is better recorded than The Smiths, although it's more a bunch of songs that didn't fit .

NOTE: This album is # on Rolling Stone's Top Albums of All Time. The Smiths had released their debut album The Smiths one year before, and had also released a collection of B-sides, BBC recordings, alternate tracks and such as Hatful of ostifurtvingfuncnachreyprotadmaconnibb.xyzinfo is Murder was their second album of all-new material (save "How Soon is Now?" which was also available on Hatful).

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Meat Is Murder is the second studio album by English rock band the Smiths, released on 11 February by Rough Trade Records. The album became the band's only number one on the UK Albums Chart, and stayed on the chart for thirteen weeks/5().

The Smiths produced Meat Is Murder themselves, assisted only by engineer Stephen Street, whom they had first met on the session for "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now."Street recalled his contribution to this song in a interview with Uncut magazine: "There was no demo. The chords are quite strange with that song and they wanted to create an atmosphere.