{"id":6319,"date":"2015-02-13T10:04:18","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T17:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6319"},"modified":"2015-02-24T10:35:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T17:35:30","slug":"30-years-of-meat-is-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/02\/13\/30-years-of-meat-is-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Years Of Meat Is Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"

from PASTE Magazine<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Meat Is Murder<\/i>, 30 Years Later<\/h1>\n

By\u00a0Mack Hayden<\/a>
\n\"<i>Meat<\/p>\n

Thirty years ago, The Smiths followed up a self-titled debut album which featured songs like \u201cThis Charming Man\u201d and \u201cHand in Glove\u201d with a record called\u00a0Meat is Murder<\/i>. It may not have the visceral punch of the debut, the gothic beauty and cohesion of\u00a0The Queen is Dead<\/i>\u00a0or the pop confidence of\u00a0Strangeways, Here We Come<\/i>, but it\u2019s still my favorite of their records, the reason for that being that this is the record in which all of the members of the band showed off their chops in equal measure to the best of their abilities. Don\u2019t believe me? Listen to the first 10 seconds of \u201cBarbarism Begins at Home\u201d and we can talk again after. The fact it was their only No. 1 album on the UK Charts is further testament to its greatness.<\/p>\n

To set the scene, let\u2019s talk about music in 1985. In February of that year, two songs held the No. 1 spot: \u201cI Want to Know What Love Is\u201d by Foreigner and \u201cCareless Whisper\u201d by Wham! Schmaltz and sax riffs were reigning supreme. The only other album of importance to the latter-day post-punk movement to be released that month was\u00a0Night Time<\/i>\u00a0by Killing Joke. Tears for Fears\u2019\u00a0Songs from the Big Chair<\/i>dropped too, just in case you were wondering what kind of rad pop music was available to consumers during that month. Then in walk The Smiths ready for their round two.<\/p>\n

Allow yourself to feel small in the presence of the group\u2019s overwhelming talent. Johnny Marr was 21 when this record was released. This means he\u2019d written \u201cHow Soon is Now?\u201d at that point in his life, and all I\u2019m doing is writing about how amazing that is. Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce\u2019s rhythm section never gripes for unnecessary authority over the songs but when they\u2019re in the spotlight, they always shine. Morrissey\u2019s eloquence and command over the English language can be deceptive. Sometimes it\u2019s easy to forget how recently these Manchester masterminds graduated from the institutions they decry. Their music is so fully formed it\u2019s hard to believe it was being written by people in their early to mid twenties.<\/p>\n

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from PASTE Magazine Meat Is Murder, 30 Years Later By\u00a0Mack Hayden Thirty years ago, The Smiths followed up a self-titled debut album which featured songs like \u201cThis Charming Man\u201d and \u201cHand in Glove\u201d with a record called\u00a0Meat is Murder. It may not have the visceral punch of the debut, the gothic beauty and cohesion of\u00a0The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}