The Smiths
Meat Is Murder LP vinyl

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 seen as the most important British band since Joy Division.

Above all though, there was no other British group making music quite like this in 1985.

NEW / Released in 1985 / Reissue 2012

Tracklist:

A1 The Headmaster Ritual

A2 Rusholme Ruffians

A3 I Want The One I Can't Have

A4 What She Said

A5 That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore

B1 Nowhere Fast

B2 Well I Wonder

B3 Barbarism Begins At Home

B4 Meat Is Murder