Rhyssy

if i’m putting the smiths on, it’s always this compilation album from their first two active years - it’s everything! romantic, cryptic, energetic in a morbid way… and i like everything in the smiths catalogue enough to listen to it regularly, but this album is teeming with that quality of young artists desperate to make an impression which is at once invigorating and exciting. 100/100!

I think this is the greatest rock and roll album of all time.
The reasons are thus:
- A band at the peak of their powers (the lineup of which would never perform on an album again)
- A frontman with the lyrical ability of Dylan, the charisma of a beatle and a voice like an alcoholic under a bridge
- A perfect three-track second side complete with theatricality without becoming camp, & with romance without resorting to stereotype
- A perfect lightning-in-a-bottle jazz-funk-rock opener that ... read more

Great first half, second half a bit dreary for me. Here’s The Thing is a wicked non-single hidden gem. The singles are the best songs on the album. Peace and Love

Thunder Road, Backstreets, Born To Run, Jungleland.
Mental. Tenth-Avenue Freeze Out also rocks, and then the rest of the songs pale in comparison, but if they were on any ither album they’d be standout tracks.