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's 1968 documentary In the Year of the Pig (the original legend on the soldier's helmet read "Make War Not Love").]]Meat Is Murder is the The Smiths' second studio album, released in February of 1985. It would become their only original release to hit No. 1 in the United Kingdom. In the United States, the album reached No. 110.
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About the album
Meat Is Murder is the most eclectic Smiths album, featuring such divergent styles as funk, rockabilly, ballad, and dance, along with the Smiths' signature indie rock. As such, it contains some of the most unique and lauded songs of the Smiths catalogue. However, because of the album's extreme diversity and lack of coherence, some fans believe it is the least listenable work from their catalogue. Considered a 'grower' rather than an instant favorite, the album is often overlooked in favour of more accessible work.
After the relative disappointment over the production of the band's debut album, Morrissey and Marr decided to produce the album themselves, only aided by engineer Stephen Street. Production was officially credited to The Smiths as a whole with Rourke and Joyce being allowed input on the sound level of their instruments in the mix, but the major productional decisions and arrangments were done by Morrissey and Marr.
Possibly detracting from the album's appeal is the fact that no popular single came from it. The only single taken from Meat Is Murder was "That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore," which stalled at No. 49. A beautiful ballad and the centrepiece of the album, its selection as a single was perhaps not that fortunate.
"How Soon Is Now?", included on the U.S. version of the album and the post-1992 WEA re-issues, was a single and reached No. 24 in the U.K. charts but was not, strictly speaking, a Meat Is Murder single as it did not originally appear on the album and because it had been released before: as the B-side to "William, It Was Really Nothing", an album track on Hatful of Hollow, and finally as a single release.
Two Meat Is Murder tracks served as B-sides to support contemporary singles and promote the album: "Well I Wonder" ("How Soon Is Now?" single) and "What She Said" ("Shakespeare's Sister" single).
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Side A
Side B
"How Soon Is Now?" was originally included on the American vinyl and CD releases of the record only, to compensate for the fact that Hatful of Hollow, the compilation album on which the song appeared, was not released in the U.S. When WEA acquired and re-released the Smiths back catalogue in 1992, Meat Is Murder was issued in its U.S. configuration.People involved
All songs written by Morrissey/Marr. Produced by The Smiths and engineered by Stephen Street except "How Soon Is Now?" produced by John Porter.