The Smiths - 2012 European Rhino Label Remastered 10-track LP Reissue

Reissue of Manchester indie rock-post punk quartet... the debut displaying what Slant Magazine called the meet between a mordant, sexually frustrated disciple of Oscar Wilde who loved punk but crooned like a malfunctioning Sinatra and a fabulously inventive guitarist - Morrissey and Marr. 

Pressed using the 2012 mastering - packed in a picture cover featuring the original 1984 artwork designed by Morrissey and featuring American actor Joe Dallesandro in a cropped still from Andy Warhol's 1968 film Flesh. 

Music critic Garry Mulholland wrote that The Smiths made safe their early legend with a debut album about child abuse. The production was flat and dour, yet it succeeded in conjuring yet another Manchester-in-song, distinctly different from that of Ian Curtis and Mark E. Smith. But everything about The Smiths ran contrary to mid-80s pop, from Joe Dallesandro on the cover to the restrained jangling of the songs, but mainly through Moz's [Morrissey's nickname] dramatised disgust at sex, which here exists to ruin true love at best, and to ruin an entire young life at worst. when including the album in his list of the 261 greatest albums since 1976 in Fear of Music.

Tracklisting:

Side 1: 
1. Reel Around the Fountain 5:58
2. You've Got Everything Now 3:59
3. Miserable Lie 4:29
4. Pretty Girls Make Graves 3:44
5. The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (quotation from "Sonny Boy" by Ray Henderson, Lew Brown and Al Jolson) 4:38

Side two
6. Still Ill 3:23
7. Hand in Glove 3:25
8. What Difference Does It Make? 3:51
9. I Don't Owe You Anything 4:05
10. Suffer Little Children 5:28

All lyrics are written by Morrissey; all music is composed by Johnny Marr.