The Smiths - The Queen is Dead (Black Vinyl) Post Punk Music Gang of Four

Gang of Four

" Robert Christgau gave the record an A- review (“homespun and imaginative”)

But the results are the right combination of lightheartedness and sincerity

More than just a stopgap along that progression

and just as the velvet underground are credited as the prodigious founders of a new movement in rock and roll

The Smiths - The Queen is Dead (Black Vinyl) Post Punk Music Gang of FourThe Queen is Dead is the Smiths' great leap forward, taking the band to new musical and lyrical heights. The album is harder rocking record than anything the band had attempted before. Johnny Marr has created here a wide range of guitar styles that provide a musical bed for Morrissey's best set of lyrics. from which is crafted some of their finest, most affective songs, particularly The Boy with the Thorn in his Side and the epic There is a Light that