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VA - The Smiths Is Dead (1996)

Posted By: Designol

Date: 7 Nov 2023 18:00:07

The Smiths Is Dead is a tribute album to the 1980s' English alternative rock band The Smiths, released in 1996. It was compiled by the French cultural magazine Les Inrockuptibles and released to celebrate the 10th anniversary of 1986's The Queen Is Dead. The album was released at the height of the Britpop phenomenon and contained covers by many popular Britpop acts such as The Boo Radleys, Supergrass, Bis and Placebo.

By the mid-'90s, tribute albums had become a tiresome record industry phenomenon, primarily because they had become so predictable. Organized by the French music magazine Les Inrockuptibles, The Smiths is Dead, a song-by-song recreation of the Smiths' masterpiece The Queen is Dead, seems to throw a curveball to the traditional tribute album by limiting its scope, but that isn't quite the case. The record is as maddeningly uneven as any other tribute album, but what distinguishes The Smiths Is Dead is the number of bands wanting to completely deconstruct the Smiths. Some, like the Boo Radleys, who make the title track into a weird trip-hop and dub excursion, do it with respect, but many just want to tear the band apart. In particular, the Bis utterly disembowel "The Boy with the Thorn in His Side" with a single-minded stupidity that is just bewildering. The rest of the album isn't that bad, but it isn't particularly good, either. Supergrass' nervy "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others" is cool, as is Billy Bragg's straightforward "Never Had No One Ever" and the Divine Comedy almost remakes "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" into a Scott Walker ballad. But the rest is simply tedious and often infuriating, proving that the power of the Smiths was as much in the performance as it was in the songs.

Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Allmusic.com

To be fair, I haven't actually listened to this whole CD, but I felt compelled to defend Placebo's cover of "Bigmouth Strikes Again" after reading the other reviewers opinion of it. I completely disagree. I think it's an absolutely great cover of a great Smiths song (their best in my opinion). I mean, you can't expect another band to do a song in EXACTLY the same way as the original, that's the whole point of a cover: to hear another band's take on a song. I think it's great, they've kept the song pretty close to the original, while infusing it with their own personal sound. And I also think that Brian Molko sounds good singing it. My point: I don't know about the rest of the CD, but Placebo's cover is definitely worth a listen.

Review by Joshua Sperling, Amazon.com

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Tracklist:

01. The Boo Radleys - The Queen Is Dead (5:33)
02. The High Llamas - Frankly, Mr Shankly (3:55)
03. The Trash Can Sinatras - I Know It's Over (6:16)
04. Billy Bragg - Never Had No-One Ever (3:36)
05. The Frank & Walters - Cemetry Gates (4:15)
06. Placebo - Bigmouth Strikes Again (3:51)
07. Bis - The Boy With A Thorn In His Side (3:21)
08. Therapy? - Vicar In A Tutu (2:42)
09. The Divine Comedy - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (5:18)
10. Supergrass - Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others (3:35)

EAC log

Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 3 from 28. July 2007

EAC extraction logfile from 21. November 2009, 0:57

Various / The Smiths Is Dead

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Bis / The Smiths Is Dead (2)
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Supergrass / The Smiths Is Dead (2)
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