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加熱するライヴ、ことごとくヒットチャートを駆けあがるシングル。本作は、英国のみならず、アメリカにおいても評価を高めていた彼らが86年にリリースした最高傑作だ。
自虐的なユーモアと鋭い社会風刺が同居したライム、タイトで荒々しいビート、ますます精緻さを増したギター、楽曲全体を華麗に包み込むストリングス。いつ壊れてもおかしくないほど危ういバランスの上に成り立っていた今作は、バンドというきわめて青春的な表現形態だけに許された、まぶしい輝きに満ちている。(森 朋之)
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This is the value of working at cross-purposes: The Smiths were Morrissey's excuse to undulate his wry, disaffected lyrics, and Johnny Marr's vehicle for his sharp, chiming, pop songs. Their favorite kind of compromise made them essentially a singles band, and
The Queen Is Dead has a couple of their best (notably "The Boy with the Thorn in His Side," one of the greatest pop expressions of the Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name). But it also has some wonderful compromises of different kinds: the bizarrely romantic "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out," and "Cemetry Gates," where Marr covers up for Morrissey's floridity with shimmying rockabilly.
--Douglas Wolk