Articles tagged "the smiths"

Sound Affects

(500) Days of Summer—The Music

by Jennifer Cooke

[8.Oct.09] :. Director Marc Webb's deft, nuanced use of pop music does more than just enhance an already great film.

Sound Affects

 

Mixed Media

Morrissey - “I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris” / “This Charming Man” live (video)

by Matt White

[17.Feb.09] :. Morrissey continues his promotion of Years of Refusal with a stop at Friday Night with Jonathan Ross last week, performing “I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris” and a...

Mixed Media

 
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Music Review

The Smiths: The Sound of the Smiths

by Michael Keefe

[10.Nov.08] :. The Smiths "re-package" themselves on this definitive single-disc encapsulation of one of the '80s best underground bands. A two-CD deluxe edition adds rarities, worthy b-sides, and some great album tracks.

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Music DVD Review

Queen Is Dead: Album Under Review

by Andrew Winistorfer

[17.Jul.08] :. By Brown's seventh bloviating appearance, you just want to shake him and break his worn copy of the album across his head.

Recent DVD reviews

 

Music DVD Review

The Smiths: Inside The Smiths [DVD]

by Dan MacIntosh

[4.Mar.08] :. Two out of four The Smiths ain’t bad. But it certainly ain’t best.

Recent DVD reviews

 

Music Review

The Smiths: Hatful of Hollow

by Sal Ciolfi

[27.Sep.04] :. There aren’t many bands within modern English language pop music that can elicit heartfelt sighs, and much less in today’s mainstream. Often it doesn’t seem possible that something...

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The Smiths: The Queen Is Dead

by Matt Keppel

[16.Dec.02] :. I had no idea what these album-opening lines meant, but I knew, somehow, it would change my life. It was August, 1986. I had just graduated from junior high that spring and felt on top of my game. I...

 

The Smiths: The World Won’t Listen

by Will Harris

[7.Nov.02] :. It began, as decidedly few things in this world do, with a cassette single of Rick Astley’s 1987 hit, “Never Gonna Give You Up”. In ‘87, my experience with alternative music...