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Title: some bands are better than others...
Review: Most would call it The Smiths best album, and they would be both right and wrong. In many ways, the sharp pop songs that comprise The Queen Is Dead represents the band at their zenith. The Smiths were fast and furious, and their four year streak resulted in many moments of brilliance that tend to run together, making labelling any one work as 'the best' a near impossibility. However, The Queen Is Dead captures Morrissey at his peak-he leaps from rockabilly to ballad crooner with suprising agility (and plenty of attitude), as does Johnny Marr with his melodic, precise guitar work. All the band's best elements form a solid stream of music that expresses everything from gay love on "The Boy With the Thorn in His Side'" to the out-reach odditty 'Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others." It's a shame they disapeared from the music world so quickly- and yet it seems almost merciful. Watching them waste away into mediocrity would have been a shame.
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