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。
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。
The Smithsのニュース
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The Smithsの連載コラム
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曲・アルバム
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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