![]() ![]() The Smiths had several singles reach the UK top twenty and all four of their studio albums reached the UK top five, including one which topped the charts. They have also released several compilations, and numerous non-LP singles. Four of their albums (including three studio albums) appeared on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The NME named the Smiths the "most influential artist ever" in a 2002 poll, even topping the Beatles.īased on the songwriting partnership of Morrissey and Marr, the group signed to the independent record label Rough Trade Records, on which they released four studio albums, The Smiths (1984), Meat Is Murder (1985), The Queen Is Dead (1986) and Strangeways, Here We Come (1987). Q magazine's Simon Goddard argued in 2007 that The Smiths were "the one truly vital voice of the '80s", "the most influential British guitar group of the decade" and the "first indie outsiders to achieve mainstream success on their own terms". Critics have called them the most important alternative rock band to emerge from the British independent music scene of the 1980s. The band consisted of vocalist Morrissey, guitarist Johnny Marr, bassist Andy Rourke and drummer Mike Joyce. The Smiths were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1982. The Smiths - Studio Discography (1984-1987) ![]()
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