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Morrissey and The Smiths show up on Out Magazine's "100 Greatest, Gayest Albums of All Time".
The magazine polled more than 100 actors, comedians, musicians, writers and others. Number 1 is David Bowie's "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars."
100-51 http://www.out.com/exclusives.asp?id=26266
50-1 http://www.out.com/exclusives.asp?id=26275
#92 Viva Hate
http://www.out.com/gayestAlbumsPart1SS.asp?pagenumber=9
Morrissey released Viva Hate less than a year after leaving the Smiths. One of its best tracks, “Bengali in Platforms,” is about a young Bengali man living in the U.K. and not fitting in. Many believe the song to be an allegory for Morrissey’s youth.
#33 Hatful of Hollow
http://www.out.com/gayestAlbumsPart2SS.asp?pagenumber=18
Wasn’t Hatful’s track “Accept Yourself” the soundtrack for so many lonesome, questioning gay teenagers? With the lyrics “Others conquered love, but I ran / I sat in my room and I drew up a plan,” how could it not be?
#32 Meat is Murder
http://www.out.com/gayestAlbumsPart2SS.asp?pagenumber=19
An eclectic mix of club-style dance music, punk, balladry, alt-rock, and militant vegetarianism, Meat is Murder is the Smiths at their most politically active. Conceived as an indictment of the Thatcher administration, Band Aid, and the meat industry, the record found lead singer Morrissey forbidding all members of the group from being photographed while eating meat.
#6 The Queen is Dead
http://www.out.com/gayestAlbumsPart2SS.asp?pagenumber=45
After their sullen eponymous 1984 debut and strident 1985 successor Meat Is Murder, this guitar-based Manchester quartet turned soulful on its third album the following year -- albeit not in a traditional R&B sense, and certainly not thoroughly. The lightest, most music-hall-esque tunes are sequenced to set up songs of pure vulnerability. For penultimate track “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out,” Morrissey returns to the passenger seat first celebrated in “This Charming Man” to declare that death from collision with a 10-ton truck while in love is better than a miserable life at what was once home. What homo hasn’t felt like that?
#2 The Smiths
http://www.out.com/gayestAlbumsPart2SS.asp?pagenumber=49
After glam rock faded in the mid ’70s, the gay sensibility so integral to British culture was redirected in the ’80s to its pop and dance music. But the Smiths proved themselves the exception to that rule, particularly on a 1984 debut with Warhol hunk Joe Dallesandro on its front cover. As the chiming guitars of Johnny Marr suggest both despair and its transcendence, charismatic singer Morrissey articulates alienated longings that gain extra poignancy if one understands them as queer. “You can pin and mount me like a butterfly,” he croons on “Reel Around the Fountain.” Many have dreamed variations on that theme.
And the Critics picks: http://www.out.com/exclusives.asp?id=26274
Of them, Nate Burkus has Meat is Murder on his Top 10 and Darren Hayes (Savage Garden) has The World Won't Listen on his, but Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu) has the best Top 10 of all.
http://www.out.com/gayestAlbumsCriticsPicksSS.asp?pagenumber=25
The magazine polled more than 100 actors, comedians, musicians, writers and others. Number 1 is David Bowie's "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars."
100-51 http://www.out.com/exclusives.asp?id=26266
50-1 http://www.out.com/exclusives.asp?id=26275
#92 Viva Hate
http://www.out.com/gayestAlbumsPart1SS.asp?pagenumber=9
Morrissey released Viva Hate less than a year after leaving the Smiths. One of its best tracks, “Bengali in Platforms,” is about a young Bengali man living in the U.K. and not fitting in. Many believe the song to be an allegory for Morrissey’s youth.
#33 Hatful of Hollow
http://www.out.com/gayestAlbumsPart2SS.asp?pagenumber=18
Wasn’t Hatful’s track “Accept Yourself” the soundtrack for so many lonesome, questioning gay teenagers? With the lyrics “Others conquered love, but I ran / I sat in my room and I drew up a plan,” how could it not be?
#32 Meat is Murder
http://www.out.com/gayestAlbumsPart2SS.asp?pagenumber=19
An eclectic mix of club-style dance music, punk, balladry, alt-rock, and militant vegetarianism, Meat is Murder is the Smiths at their most politically active. Conceived as an indictment of the Thatcher administration, Band Aid, and the meat industry, the record found lead singer Morrissey forbidding all members of the group from being photographed while eating meat.
#6 The Queen is Dead
http://www.out.com/gayestAlbumsPart2SS.asp?pagenumber=45
After their sullen eponymous 1984 debut and strident 1985 successor Meat Is Murder, this guitar-based Manchester quartet turned soulful on its third album the following year -- albeit not in a traditional R&B sense, and certainly not thoroughly. The lightest, most music-hall-esque tunes are sequenced to set up songs of pure vulnerability. For penultimate track “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out,” Morrissey returns to the passenger seat first celebrated in “This Charming Man” to declare that death from collision with a 10-ton truck while in love is better than a miserable life at what was once home. What homo hasn’t felt like that?
#2 The Smiths
http://www.out.com/gayestAlbumsPart2SS.asp?pagenumber=49
After glam rock faded in the mid ’70s, the gay sensibility so integral to British culture was redirected in the ’80s to its pop and dance music. But the Smiths proved themselves the exception to that rule, particularly on a 1984 debut with Warhol hunk Joe Dallesandro on its front cover. As the chiming guitars of Johnny Marr suggest both despair and its transcendence, charismatic singer Morrissey articulates alienated longings that gain extra poignancy if one understands them as queer. “You can pin and mount me like a butterfly,” he croons on “Reel Around the Fountain.” Many have dreamed variations on that theme.
And the Critics picks: http://www.out.com/exclusives.asp?id=26274
Of them, Nate Burkus has Meat is Murder on his Top 10 and Darren Hayes (Savage Garden) has The World Won't Listen on his, but Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu) has the best Top 10 of all.
http://www.out.com/gayestAlbumsCriticsPicksSS.asp?pagenumber=25
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