The Smiths

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    The Smithsザ・スミス

    80年代UKロック・シーンにおける最大の事件——それはザ・スミスの出現ならびに解散である。
    サウンド/詞世界/イデタチ/発言/アティテュード、すべてにおいて最高にクールなこの至宝グループは82年、モリッシー(vo)とジョニー・マー(g)の邂逅をきっかけに結成。84年に、UKインディーの名門<ラフ・トレード>より記念すべき1st『ザ・スミス』を発表する。イギリス労働者階級のワカモノに蔓延する“絶望と混乱”を綴った美しくも儚いコトバの数々。それらはモリッシー節ともいえるフニャフニャ・ヴォイス、マーによるロジャー・マッギン直系の流麗なギター・サウンドを媒体とし、ディスコミュニケーションに悩む全世界のロック・リスナーの胸に激しく突き刺さっていったのだ。85年には衝撃作『ミート・イズ・マーダー』をドロップ。メッセージ/演奏、共にアグレッシヴなモノへと変貌を遂げていく。ちなみに、個人的にはこの頃がベストである。そして86年、UKロック史上に燦然と輝く問題作『ザ・クイーン・イズ・デッド』をリリース。“王室に対する非難”という最大タブーを公然とやってのけ、イギリス全土にセンセーションを巻き起こしたのであった。
    ——こうして名実ともに頂点を極めたザ・スミス、もはや向かうところ敵なしの状況にあったが、87年にマーが突然の脱退を表明。結局、バンドは解散の道をたどっていく。

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    • Rank

      2014年02月07日リリース
      アルバム・14曲

      • 1 London (Live in London, 1986)
      • 2 Ask (Live in London, 1986)
      • 3 Panic (Live in London, 1986)
      • 4 The Draize Train (Live in London, 1986)
      • 5 I Know It's Over (Live in London, 1986) (Extended Mix)
      • 6 Still Ill (Live in London, 1986)
      • 7 The Boy With the Thorn In His Side (Live in London, 1986)
      • 8 Vicar In a Tutu (Live in London, 1986)
      • 9 Is It Really So Strange? (Live in London, 1986)
      • 10 The Queen Is Dead (Live In London, 1986)
      • 11 Bigmouth Strikes Again (Live in London, 1986)
      • 12 His Latest Flame/Rusholme Ruffians (Live in London, 1986)
      • 13 Rubber Ring/What She Said (Live in London, 1986)
      • 14 Cemetary Gates (Live in London, 1986)

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    • Louder Than Bombs (Remastered By Johnny Marr)

      2011年09月23日リリース
      アルバム・24曲

      • 1 Sweet and Tender Hooligan (John Peel Session 12/2/86)
      • 2 Stretch Out and Wait (Original Version)
      • 3 Ask
      • 4 Hand In Glove
      • 5 Asleep
      • 6 Sheila Take a Bow
      • 7 Shakespeare's Sister
      • 8 Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
      • 9 Panic
      • 10 Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
      • 11 Is It Really So Strange? (John Peel Session 12/2/86)
      • 12 Golden Lights
      • 13 London
      • 14 William, It Was Really Nothing
      • 15 Rubber Ring
      • 16 Oscillate Wildly
      • 17 Back to the Old House
      • 18 You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby (US Mix)
      • 19 These Things Take Time
      • 20 Girl Afraid
      • 21 Half a Person
      • 22 Shoplifters of the World Unite
      • 23 Unloveable
      • 24 This Night Has Opened My Eyes

      Louder Than Bombs (Remastered By Johnny Marr)

    • Complete (Remastered)

      2011年09月22日リリース
      アルバム・112曲

      • 1 Sweet and Tender Hooligan (John Peel Session 2/12/86)
      • 2 Still Ill (John Peel Session 14/9/83)
      • 3 Still Ill
      • 4 Meat Is Murder
      • 5 Handsome Devil (John Peel Session 18/5/83)
      • 6 Hand In Glove
      • 7 You've Got Everything Now
      • 8 Handsome Devil (Live at Manchester Hacienda 4/2/83)
      • 9 Suffer Little Children
      • 10 Miserable Lie
      • 11 Pretty Girls Make Graves (Troy Tate Version)
      • 12 Pretty Girls Make Graves
      • 13 I Don't Owe You Anything
      • 14 Accept Yourself (David Jensen 25/8/83)
      • 15 Asleep
      • 16 Stretch Out and Wait
      • 17 Barbarism Begins At Home (7" Version)
      • 18 Back to the Old House
      • 19 You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby (UK Mix)
      • 20 These Things Take Time (David Jensen Session 26/6/83)
      • 21 This Charming Man (John Peel Session 14/9/83)
      • 22 Back to the Old House (John Peel Session 14/9/83)
      • 23 Stretch Out and Wait (Alternate Vocal Version)
      • 24 Still Ill (Live In London 1986)
      • 25 These Things Take Time
      • 26 What Difference Does It Make? (John Peel Session 18/5/83)
      • 27 What Difference Does It Make? (Single Edit)
      • 28 Girl Afraid
      • 29 What Difference Does It Make?
      • 30 Meat Is Murder (Live At Oxford Apollo 18/3/85)
      • 31 Barbarism Begins At Home
      • 32 The Headmaster Ritual
      • 33 You've Got Everything Now (David Jensen Session 26/6/83)
      • 34 Half a Person
      • 35 You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby (US Mix)
      • 36 Hand in Glove
      • 37 Reel Around the Fountain (John Peel Session 18/5/83)
      • 38 Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
      • 39 I Won't Share You
      • 40 Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
      • 41 The Queen Is Dead (A Film By Derek Jarman)
      • 42 Death At One's Elbow
      • 43 Death of a Disco Dancer
      • 44 Sheila Take a Bow
      • 45 The Boy With the Thorn In His Side (Live In London 1986)
      • 46 The Boy With the Thorn In His Side
      • 47 His Latest Flame / Rusholme Ruffians (Live In London 1986)
      • 48 Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
      • 49 Is It Really So Strange? (John Peel Session 2/12/86)
      • 50 Girlfriend In a Coma
      • 51 Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
      • 52 Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
      • 53 Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
      • 54 Ask (Live In London 1986)
      • 55 Is It Really So Strange? (Live In London 1986)
      • 56 Panic (Live In London 1986)
      • 57 Cemetary Gates (Live In London 1986)
      • 58 The Draize Train (Live In London 1986)
      • 59 I Know It's Over (Extended Mix) {Live In London 1986}
      • 60 Bigmouth Strikes Again (Live In London 1986)
      • 61 Vicar In a Tutu (Live In London 1986)
      • 62 London (Live In London 1986)
      • 63 Rubber Ring / What She Said (Live In London 1986)
      • 64 The Queen Is Dead (Live In London 1986)
      • 65 Unhappy Birthday
      • 66 Ask
      • 67 Panic
      • 68 How Soon Is Now
      • 69 Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
      • 70 This Charming Man
      • 71 There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
      • 72 How Soon Is Now?
      • 73 How Soon Is Now? (Single Edit)
      • 74 I Know It's Over
      • 75 The Draize Train
      • 76 Never Had No One Ever
      • 77 I Want the One I Can't Have
      • 78 Work Is a Four-Letter Word
      • 79 Reel Around the Fountain
      • 80 I Keep Mine Hidden
      • 81 Ask
      • 82 Bigmouth Strikes Again
      • 83 Nowhere Fast
      • 84 Reel Around the Fountain (Troy Tate Reel)
      • 85 Girlfriend In a Coma
      • 86 London
      • 87 Golden Lights
      • 88 William, It Was Really Nothing
      • 89 Rusholme Ruffians
      • 90 Frankly, Mr. Shankly
      • 91 Rusholme Ruffians (John Peel Session 9/8/84)
      • 92 The Queen Is Dead
      • 93 Panic
      • 94 Shoplifters of the World Unite
      • 95 I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
      • 96 Jeane
      • 97 A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours
      • 98 Cemetary Gates
      • 99 This Night Has Opened My Eyes
      • 100 The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
      • 101 That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore (Single Version)
      • 102 Well I Wonder
      • 103 Oscillate Wildly
      • 104 Money Changes Everything
      • 105 Paint a Vulgar Picture
      • 106 Rubber Ring
      • 107 What She Said
      • 108 That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
      • 109 Shakespeare's Sister
      • 110 Shakespeare's Sister
      • 111 Vicar In a Tutu
      • 112 Unloveable

      Complete (Remastered)

    • The Sound of the Smiths (Deluxe Edition) [Remastered]

      2008年11月11日リリース
      アルバム・40曲

      • 1 Handsome Devil (Live At Manchester Hacienda 4/2/83)
      • 2 There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
      • 3 Girl Afraid
      • 4 Pretty Girls Make Graves (Troy Tate Version)
      • 5 These Things Take Time
      • 6 The Headmaster Ritual
      • 7 Meat Is Murder (Live At Oxford Apollo 18/3/85)
      • 8 This Charming Man (New York Vocal)
      • 9 Barbarism Begins At Home (7" Version)
      • 10 Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
      • 11 You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby
      • 12 Half a Person
      • 13 Stretch Out and Wait
      • 14 Still Ill
      • 15 What Difference Does It Make? (BBC Peel Session)
      • 16 Hand In Glove
      • 17 Back to the Old House
      • 18 Asleep
      • 19 This Charming Man
      • 20 The Boy With the Thorn In His Side
      • 21 Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
      • 22 Sweet and Tender Hooligan (BBC Version)
      • 23 William, It Was Really Nothing
      • 24 Cemetry Gates
      • 25 London (Live At National Ballroom, Kilburn, London 23/10/86)
      • 26 Panic
      • 27 What's the World? (Live In Glasgow 1985)
      • 28 Money Changes Everything
      • 29 Ask
      • 30 Sheila Take a Bow
      • 31 Vicar In a Tutu
      • 32 Bigmouth Strikes Again
      • 33 How Soon Is Now?
      • 34 Medley: The Queen Is Dead / Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty
      • 35 Jeane
      • 36 Wonderful Woman
      • 37 Shakespeare's Sister
      • 38 Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
      • 39 Nowhere Fast
      • 40 Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now

      The Sound of the Smiths (Deluxe Edition) [Remastered]

    • Rank

      2008年11月11日リリース
      アルバム・14曲

      • 1 Still Ill (2011 Remastered Version)
      • 2 I Know It's Over (2011 Remastered Version) (Extended Mix)
      • 3 The Boy With The Thorn In His Side (2011 Remastered Version)
      • 4 His Latest Flame/Rusholme Ruffians (2011 Remastered Version)
      • 5 Bigmouth Strikes Again (2011 Remastered Version)
      • 6 Ask (2011 Remastered Version)
      • 7 Rubber Ring/What She Said (2011 Remastered Version)
      • 8 Vicar In A Tutu (2011 Remastered Version)
      • 9 Is It Really So Strange? (2011 Remastered Version)
      • 10 Cemetary Gates (2011 Remastered Version)
      • 11 The Queen Is Dead (2011 Remastered Version)
      • 12 The Draize Train (2011 Remastered Version)
      • 13 Panic (2011 Remastered Version)
      • 14 London (2011 Remastered Version)

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