THE SMITHS (Morrissey) LP Meat Is Murder Sire 9252691 How Soon Is Now RARE

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THE SMITHS (MORRISSEY) LP VINYL RECORD ALBUM
(NM/M) Cover Has Tiny Stain At Opening Front Cover/Min. Wear/Printed Inner Sleeve Photo/Lyrics (See Scan)/Vinyl Super Clean
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The Smiths ?– Meat Is Murder Label:Sire ?– 1-25269, Sire ?– 9 25269-1, Rough Trade ?– 1-25269, Rough Trade ?– 9 25269-1 Format:Vinyl, LP, Album  Country:US Released:11 Feb 1985 Genre:Rock Style:Alternative Rock, Indie Rock Tracklist A1 The Headmaster Ritual 4:52 A2 Rusholme Ruffians 4:19 A3 I Want The One I Can't Have 3:13 A4 What She Said 2:40 A5 That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore 4:57 B1 How Soon Is Now? 6:43 B2 Nowhere Fast 2:35 B3 Well I Wonder 4:00 B4 Barbarism Begins At Home 6:55 B5 Meat Is Murder 6:02 Companies, etc. Recorded At – Amazon Studios Recorded At – Ridge Farm Studios Mixed At – Island Studios Mastered At – CBS Studios, London Pressed By – Specialty Records Corporation Marketed By – Warner Bros. Records Inc. Published By – Morrissey / Marr Songs, Ltd. Phonographic Copyright (p) – Sire Records Company Copyright (c) – Sire Records Company Credits Bass – Andy Rourke Drums – Mike Joyce Engineer – Stephen Street Guitar, Piano – Johnny Marr Layout [Sleeve] – Caryn Gough Mastered By – Tim Young Music By – Johnny Marr Producer – The Smiths Sleeve – Morrissey Vocals, Words By – Morrissey Notes ?© 1985 Sire Records Company 
Custom inner sleeve includes lyrics/credits 
Track B1 not listed on cover 
Recorded at Amazon Studios, Liverpool and Ridge Farm, Surrey  Mixed at Island Studios, London, Winter 1984 
Barcode and Other Identifiers Barcode (Print): 0 7599-25269-1
more...Meat Is Murder is the second studio album by English rock band the Smiths. It was released on 11 February 1985 by Rough Trade Records and became the band's sole number one album in the UK charts during the band's lifetime, staying on the chart for thirteen weeks. The album reached number 40 in Canada and number 110 in the US.
Cover  The album's sleeve uses a 1967 photograph of Marine Cpl. Michael Wynn in the Vietnam War, though with the wording on his helmet changed from "Make War Not Love" to "Meat Is Murder". The original image was used for Emile de Antonio's 1968 documentary In the Year of the Pig.
Legacy  In 2003, Meat Is Murder was ranked number 295 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.  The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
*The Smiths* were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1982. The band consisted of vocalist Morrissey, guitarist Johnny Marr, bassist Andy Rourke and drummer Mike Joyce. Critics have called them the most important alternative rock band to emerge from the British independent music scene of the 1980s. Q magazine's Simon Goddard argued in 2007 that the Smiths were "the one truly vital voice of the '80s", "the most influential British guitar group of the decade" and the "first indie outsiders to achieve mainstream success on their own terms".[2] The NME named the Smiths the "most influential artist ever" in a 2002 poll, over the Beatles. 
Based on the songwriting partnership of Morrissey and Marr, the group signed to the independent record label Rough Trade Records, on which they released four studio albums, The Smiths (1984), Meat Is Murder (1985), The Queen Is Dead (1986) and Strangeways, Here We Come (1987). Four of their albums (including three studio albums) appeared on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. They have also released several compilations, and numerous non-album singles. The Smiths had several singles reach the UK top 20 and all four of their studio albums reached the UK top 5, including one which hit #1. They won a significant following and remain cult favourites, although they had limited commercial success outside the UK while they were still together. The band broke up in 1987 due to internal tensions and have turned down several offers to reunite. 
The band's focus on a guitar, bass, and drum sound, and their fusion of 1960s rock and post-punk, were a repudiation of synthesiser-based contemporary dance-pop – the style popular in the 1980s. Marr's guitar work, using a Rickenbacker, often had a jangle pop sound reminiscent of Roger McGuinn of the Byrds, and influenced later Manchester bands including the Stone Roses and Oasis. Morrissey's complex, literate lyrics combined themes about ordinary people with mordant humour. In 2014 and 2015, they were nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.