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Title: Best of the Smiths.
Review: Their best LP, with Johnny Marr's acoustic and electric guitars in the forefront of the mix and perfectly balancing Morrissey's deliberately off-key, crooning vocal delivery. Even the vegetarian sing-a-long "Meat is Murder" (easily the weakest track) cannot take away the fact that this is an essential Alternative Music album (recorded in the mid-80's, when the term "Alternative" actually meant something). "How Soon Is Now?" is the soundtrack for every lonely isolated boy, with its recurring themes of celibacy, isolation, and self-pity. The blatant dancefloor mix of "Barbarism Begins at Home" proves that this band covered all musical bases with equal earnestness. A masterwork LP, and one of the decade's essentials.
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