{"id":2353,"date":"2014-02-20T08:29:11","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T14:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thesenseofdoubt.com\/?p=2353"},"modified":"2014-05-06T02:58:45","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T01:58:45","slug":"smiths-debut-album-30-years-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/smiths-debut-album-30-years-today\/","title":{"rendered":"The Smiths debut album: 30 years today"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">The Smiths debut album: 30 years today<\/span><\/h2>\n<h5><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">Alejandro De Luna<\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>\u2018Born to suffer; born to write; born to sing\u2019,<\/i> writes <b>Simon Goddard <\/b>about <b>Morrissey <\/b>on his essential book <i>Songs that saved your life \u2013 The art of The Smiths 1982-87<\/i>. He continues: <i>\u2018Morrissey aged 22 and perishing fast. Unemployed and unemployable, his existence hangs in the balance of dwindling hope, barbitures and a box of seven-inch singles including Rita Pavone, Billy Fury and The Marvelettes\u2019.<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The story is well known. <b>Johnny Marr;\u00a0<\/b>this talented kid obsessed with <b>T. Rex, Iggy &amp; The Stooges, Keith Richards <\/b>and pop music from the 60s, decided to save his own life, <b>Morrissey\u00b4s<\/b> and ours after knocking that door \u2013 former <b>Morrissey\u00b4s<\/b> home in 384 Kings Road, Manchester. His mission: to convince <strong>Morrissey<\/strong>\u00a0(even more lost and obsessed with pop music) on forming a band with the promise of providing him with unique timeless riffs. He passed the test and\u00a0the last greatest partnership of pop music was born\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Morrissey\u00b4s<\/b> witty genius, brutal honesty, unconventional look for a pop star looking more like a unfulfilled intellectual and androgynous lyrics mixed with\u00a0<b>Marr\u00b4s <\/b>guitar, created the most original pop band in Britain.\u00a0\u00a0It was not\u00a0<i>glammy<\/i>\u00a0enough to be called glam, not punk-like enough to be called punk, not pop-like enough to be called pop, not rock-like enough to be called rock and not to\u00a0<i>something-like<\/i>\u00a0to be called\u00a0<i>whatever-like<\/i>. <b>The Smiths<\/b>\u00a0sounded like nobody else.This was unique. This was real.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was time that someone spoke about everybody\u2019s life like no one had the courage, the guts or the genius to do it. So they were called <b>The Smiths<\/b> as a celebration of ordinariness. They were working class, with Irish blood and English heart, with tons of talent and they had a lot to say.\u00a0Poetry for working class people. For people like you and me; for everybody. A true independent and punk statement.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Hand In Glove&#8221; Single<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thesenseofdoubt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/hi_1983_handinglove7_manchester_1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2355 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thesenseofdoubt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/hi_1983_handinglove7_manchester_1-300x300.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"hi_1983_handinglove7_manchester_1\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Signed by <i>Rough Trade<\/i> records in 1983, <b>The Smiths<\/b> with<b> Andy Rourke\u00b4s<\/b> thoughtful bass lines and <b>Mike Joyce\u00b4s<\/b> punk-like drums on board, released their essential single \u201cHand In Glove\u201d with\u00a0\u201cHandsome Devil\u201d as a B-side recorded at the legendary club, The Ha\u00e7ienda.\u00a0With a guitar riff inspired by \u201cGimme Power\u201d from\u00a0<b>Iggy &amp; The Stooges<\/b>\u00a0and the androgynous lyrics written within 2 hours and inspired by the likes of\u00a0<b>Sandie Shaw\u00a0<\/b>and<b>\u00a0Shelagh Delaney\u00b4s<\/b>\u00a0work, this was the first piece of art delivered by the Manchester band recorded on black plastic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The visual aesthetics of the single\u00a0showing a nude model in a monochromatic <i>Warholesque<\/i> style instead of the band on the cover sleeve, proved something else: <strong>Morrissey\u00b4s<\/strong> obsession with pop culture. This is the first of a long list of singles that followed the same pattern: Monochromatic, beautiful and unique pop-art sleeves. Something that never occurred before.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0The Lost Album<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The lost album came.\u00a0The so-called <i>The Hands That Rock The Cradle<\/i> produced by <b>Troy Tate<\/b>. Never released officially due to the disappointment of the band but worked as a draft for the full-length debut. \u2018<i>Tate\u00b4s rough and ready blueprint admittedly captured something of the thrilling rawness of the early Smiths in a way that their eventual eponymous debut perhaps failed to grasp\u2019.<\/i> (Simmon Goddard)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N6RtTS6rJyQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;This Charming Man&#8221; Single<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After a failed attempt of releasing \u201cReel Around The Fountain\u201d as a single, \u201cThis Charming Man\u201d was next. Another timeless piece or art recorded on plastic with \u201cWonderful Woman\u201d and \u201cAccept Yourself\u201d as B-sides for the 12-inch format and \u201cJeane\u201d for the 7-inch. This would be the end of 1983.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">A punctured bicycle<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">On a hillside desolate<br \/>\nWill nature make a man of me yet ?<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">When in this charming car<br \/>\nThis charming man<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Why pamper life&#8217;s complexity<br \/>\nWhen the leather runs smooth<br \/>\nOn the passenger seat<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">I would go out tonight<br \/>\nBut I haven&#8217;t got a stitch to wear<br \/>\nThis man said &#8220;It&#8217;s gruesome that someone so handsome should care&#8221;<\/div>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;What Difference Does It Make?&#8221; Single<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">1984 came and with it another brilliant single: \u201cWhat Difference Does It Make?\u201d with \u201cBack To The Old House\u201d \u2013 one of <strong>Morrissey\u00b4s<\/strong> saddest songs \u2013\u00a0 and \u201cThese Things Take Time\u201d filled with cleverness and honesty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">All men have secrets and here is mine<br \/>\nSo let it be known<br \/>\nFor we have been through hell and high tide<br \/>\nI can surely rely on you &#8230;<br \/>\nAnd yet you start to recoil<br \/>\nHeavy words are so lightly thrown<br \/>\nBut still I&#8217;d leap in front of a flying bullet for you<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So, what difference does it make ?<br \/>\nSo, what difference does it make ?<br \/>\nIt makes none<br \/>\nBut now you have gone<br \/>\nAnd you must be looking very old tonight<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Smiths &#8211;<em> The Smiths:\u00a0<\/em>The full-length debut<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thesenseofdoubt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/hi_1984_smiths10_1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2359 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thesenseofdoubt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/hi_1984_smiths10_1-300x300.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"hi_1984_smiths10_1\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With a faithful Manchester crew of fans, it was the moment to attack with a full-length album. Their debut and the rawest version from\u00a0<b>The Smiths<\/b> on a studio as a polished production was called simply:\u00a0<em>The Smiths. <\/em>Ten\u00a0tracks recorded in 1983; <b>John Porter<\/b> as a producer and a cover sleeve from gay icon <b>Joe Dallesandro<\/b> as featured in <strong>Warhol\u00a0<\/strong>1968\u00b4s <em>Flesh <\/em>film.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Is clear that <b>Morrissey<\/b> dislikes the result as he wrote in his acclaimed autobiography: <i>\u2018I look back on the album that became The Smiths and I see nothing at all that had anything to do with me. Although the songs were very strong, the recording of those songs failed everyone. Live, Mike\u00b4s drumming had an incredible thunderbolt quality, and Andy\u00b4s bass had a pealing swagger \u2013 neither sound vaguely evident on The Smiths album. In fact the album sounds exactly how the Smiths were not: pasty and thin\u2019.<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i><\/i>Is not their best album; &#8220;Hand In Glove\u00b4s&#8221; and &#8220;What Difference Does It Make\u00b4s&#8221; version are inferior in comparison to the single versions but the album feels like a DIY-like satisfying experiment. A bunch of unexperienced musicians not knowing clearly what to do in a studio but with a masterplan in their minds for the future.\u00a0<strong>Marr\u00b4s<\/strong> guitar is still not at his best and explosive as in\u00a0<em>Meat Is Murder <\/em>or<em> The Queen Is Dead <\/em>and <strong>Rourke\u00b4s<\/strong> bass is not that sharpy as he proved after in tracks like &#8220;Barbarism Begins At Home&#8221; or the epic &#8220;The Death Of The Disco Dancer&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was the first time that essentials like \u201cMiserable Lie\u201d, \u201cStill Ill\u201d, \u201cYou\u00b4ve Got Everything Now\u201d or \u201cPretty Girls Make Graves\u201d were released but probably overshadowed by the melancholy and sadness of some <strong>Smiths<\/strong> obscurities like\u00a0&#8220;Reel Around The Fountain&#8221; pedophile tale that feels like a good companion of <strong>The\u00a0Velvet Underground\u00b4s<\/strong> \u00a0&#8220;Venus In Furs&#8221; or &#8220;Suffer Little Children&#8221; inspired on the terrible case of the Moors murders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is definitely the darkest album from\u00a0<b>The Smiths<\/b>\u00a0with\u00a0<b>Morrissey\u00a0<\/b>at his most depressing compared only to future songs like\u00a0\u201cAsleep\u201d, \u201cHeaven Knows I\u00b4m Miserable Know\u201d and \u201cLast Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me\u201d. Maybe not even those ones&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is an essential album to understand British pop music from 1984 onwards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A band that saved many people\u00b4s lives including mine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sqelcupWcPg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yxLFav1Z9EY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is definitely the darkest album from The Smiths with Morrissey at his most depressing compared only to future songs like \u201cAsleep\u201d, \u201cHeaven Knows I\u00b4m Miserable Know\u201d and \u201cLast Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[316,485,286],"tags":[343,361,360,358,362,359,357],"class_list":["post-2353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-features","category-music","tag-iggy-the-stooges","tag-johnny-marr-en","tag-manchester-en","tag-morrissey-en","tag-sandie-shaw-en","tag-t-rex-en","tag-the-smiths-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Smiths debut album: 30 years today \/\/ TSOD<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Smiths sounded like anybody else. And the lyrics were just pure genius. Poetry for working class people. For people like you and me, for everybody. With a guitar riff inspired by \u201cGimme Power\u201d from Iggy &amp; The Stooges and the androgynous lyrics written within 2 hours and inspired by Sandie Shaw and Shelagh Delaney\u00b4s work, this was the first piece of art delivered by the Manchester band recorded on black plastic.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/smiths-debut-album-30-years-today\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Smiths debut album: 30 years today \/\/ TSOD\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Smiths sounded like anybody else. And the lyrics were just pure genius. Poetry for working class people. For people like you and me, for everybody. With a guitar riff inspired by \u201cGimme Power\u201d from Iggy &amp; The Stooges and the androgynous lyrics written within 2 hours and inspired by Sandie Shaw and Shelagh Delaney\u00b4s work, this was the first piece of art delivered by the Manchester band recorded on black plastic.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/smiths-debut-album-30-years-today\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Sense of Doubt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thesenseofdoubt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thesenseofdoubt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-02-20T14:29:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-05-06T01:58:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.thesenseofdoubt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/hi_1983_handinglove7_manchester_1-300x300.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Alejandro De Luna\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@TheSenseOfDoubt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@TheSenseOfDoubt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Alejandro De Luna\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/smiths-debut-album-30-years-today\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/smiths-debut-album-30-years-today\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Alejandro De Luna\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/#\/schema\/person\/7a7ad07d81d9a930fe6d24facd60602e\"},\"headline\":\"The Smiths debut album: 30 years today\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-02-20T14:29:11+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-05-06T01:58:45+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/smiths-debut-album-30-years-today\/\"},\"wordCount\":1217,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/smiths-debut-album-30-years-today\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.thesenseofdoubt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/hi_1983_handinglove7_manchester_1-300x300.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"iggy &amp; the stooges\",\"johnny marr @en\",\"manchester @en\",\"morrissey @en\",\"sandie shaw @en\",\"t. rex @en\",\"the smiths @en\"],\"articleSection\":[\"ALBUM REVIEWS\",\"FEATURES\",\"MUSIC\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/smiths-debut-album-30-years-today\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/smiths-debut-album-30-years-today\/\",\"name\":\"The Smiths debut album: 30 years today \/\/ TSOD\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/smiths-debut-album-30-years-today\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/smiths-debut-album-30-years-today\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.thesenseofdoubt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/hi_1983_handinglove7_manchester_1-300x300.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-02-20T14:29:11+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-05-06T01:58:45+00:00\",\"description\":\"The Smiths sounded like anybody else. And the lyrics were just pure genius. Poetry for working class people. For people like you and me, for everybody. With a guitar riff inspired by \u201cGimme Power\u201d from Iggy & The Stooges and the androgynous lyrics written within 2 hours and inspired by Sandie Shaw and Shelagh Delaney\u00b4s work, this was the first piece of art delivered by the Manchester band recorded on black plastic.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/smiths-debut-album-30-years-today\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/smiths-debut-album-30-years-today\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/smiths-debut-album-30-years-today\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.thesenseofdoubt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/hi_1983_handinglove7_manchester_1-300x300.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.thesenseofdoubt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/hi_1983_handinglove7_manchester_1-300x300.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/smiths-debut-album-30-years-today\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The Smiths debut album: 30 years today\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/#website\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/\",\"name\":\"The Sense of Doubt\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/#organization\",\"name\":\"The Sense of Doubt\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/cropped-cropped-cropped-TSOD-LOGO.jpg?fit=512%2C384\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/cropped-cropped-cropped-TSOD-LOGO.jpg?fit=512%2C384\",\"width\":512,\"height\":384,\"caption\":\"The Sense of Doubt\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thesenseofdoubt\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheSenseOfDoubt\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thesenseofdoubt\/\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/#\/schema\/person\/7a7ad07d81d9a930fe6d24facd60602e\",\"name\":\"Alejandro De Luna\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c4ff007f0049b2b25185845124e2f86b2f0bd13d0af8f089eca344bb868838da?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c4ff007f0049b2b25185845124e2f86b2f0bd13d0af8f089eca344bb868838da?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Alejandro De Luna\"},\"description\":\"Founder @The Sense Of Doubt\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/shop.thesenseofdoubt.com\/\",\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thesenseofdoubt\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thesenseofdoubt\/\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The Smiths debut album: 30 years today \/\/ TSOD","description":"The Smiths sounded like anybody else. And the lyrics were just pure genius. Poetry for working class people. For people like you and me, for everybody. With a guitar riff inspired by \u201cGimme Power\u201d from Iggy & The Stooges and the androgynous lyrics written within 2 hours and inspired by Sandie Shaw and Shelagh Delaney\u00b4s work, this was the first piece of art delivered by the Manchester band recorded on black plastic.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/smiths-debut-album-30-years-today\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"The Smiths debut album: 30 years today \/\/ TSOD","og_description":"The Smiths sounded like anybody else. And the lyrics were just pure genius. Poetry for working class people. For people like you and me, for everybody. With a guitar riff inspired by \u201cGimme Power\u201d from Iggy & The Stooges and the androgynous lyrics written within 2 hours and inspired by Sandie Shaw and Shelagh Delaney\u00b4s work, this was the first piece of art delivered by the Manchester band recorded on black plastic.","og_url":"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/smiths-debut-album-30-years-today\/","og_site_name":"The Sense of Doubt","article_publisher":"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thesenseofdoubt","article_author":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thesenseofdoubt","article_published_time":"2014-02-20T14:29:11+00:00","article_modified_time":"2014-05-06T01:58:45+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.thesenseofdoubt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/hi_1983_handinglove7_manchester_1-300x300.jpg"}],"author":"Alejandro De Luna","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@TheSenseOfDoubt","twitter_site":"@TheSenseOfDoubt","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Alejandro De Luna","Estimated reading time":"6 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/smiths-debut-album-30-years-today\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/smiths-debut-album-30-years-today\/"},"author":{"name":"Alejandro De Luna","@id":"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/#\/schema\/person\/7a7ad07d81d9a930fe6d24facd60602e"},"headline":"The Smiths debut album: 30 years today","datePublished":"2014-02-20T14:29:11+00:00","dateModified":"2014-05-06T01:58:45+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/smiths-debut-album-30-years-today\/"},"wordCount":1217,"publisher":{"@id":"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/smiths-debut-album-30-years-today\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.thesenseofdoubt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/hi_1983_handinglove7_manchester_1-300x300.jpg","keywords":["iggy &amp; the stooges","johnny marr @en","manchester @en","morrissey @en","sandie shaw @en","t. rex @en","the smiths @en"],"articleSection":["ALBUM REVIEWS","FEATURES","MUSIC"],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/smiths-debut-album-30-years-today\/","url":"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/smiths-debut-album-30-years-today\/","name":"The Smiths debut album: 30 years today \/\/ TSOD","isPartOf":{"@id":"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/smiths-debut-album-30-years-today\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/smiths-debut-album-30-years-today\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.thesenseofdoubt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/hi_1983_handinglove7_manchester_1-300x300.jpg","datePublished":"2014-02-20T14:29:11+00:00","dateModified":"2014-05-06T01:58:45+00:00","description":"The Smiths sounded like anybody else. And the lyrics were just pure genius. Poetry for working class people. For people like you and me, for everybody. With a guitar riff inspired by \u201cGimme Power\u201d from Iggy & The Stooges and the androgynous lyrics written within 2 hours and inspired by Sandie Shaw and Shelagh Delaney\u00b4s work, this was the first piece of art delivered by the Manchester band recorded on black plastic.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/smiths-debut-album-30-years-today\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/smiths-debut-album-30-years-today\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/smiths-debut-album-30-years-today\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/www.thesenseofdoubt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/hi_1983_handinglove7_manchester_1-300x300.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/www.thesenseofdoubt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/hi_1983_handinglove7_manchester_1-300x300.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/smiths-debut-album-30-years-today\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Smiths debut album: 30 years today"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/#website","url":"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/","name":"The Sense of Doubt","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/#organization","name":"The Sense of Doubt","url":"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/cropped-cropped-cropped-TSOD-LOGO.jpg?fit=512%2C384","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/cropped-cropped-cropped-TSOD-LOGO.jpg?fit=512%2C384","width":512,"height":384,"caption":"The Sense of Doubt"},"image":{"@id":"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thesenseofdoubt","https:\/\/x.com\/TheSenseOfDoubt","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thesenseofdoubt\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/#\/schema\/person\/7a7ad07d81d9a930fe6d24facd60602e","name":"Alejandro De Luna","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c4ff007f0049b2b25185845124e2f86b2f0bd13d0af8f089eca344bb868838da?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c4ff007f0049b2b25185845124e2f86b2f0bd13d0af8f089eca344bb868838da?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Alejandro De Luna"},"description":"Founder @The Sense Of Doubt","sameAs":["https:\/\/shop.thesenseofdoubt.com\/","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thesenseofdoubt","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thesenseofdoubt\/"]}]}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bPLV-BX","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}