This article is about the album. For the book, see Meat Is Murder (book). For the episode of The Simpsons, see Meat Is Murder (The Simpsons).
1985 studio album by the Smiths
Meat Is Murder
Studio album by
the Smiths
Released
11 February 1985 (1985-02-11)
Recorded
1984
Studio
Amazon (Liverpool)
Ridge Farm (Surrey)
Genre
Alternative rock
indie rock[1]
post-punk[2]
Length
39:46
Label
Rough Trade
Producer
The Smiths
The Smiths chronology
Hatful of Hollow (1984)
Meat Is Murder (1985)
The Queen Is Dead (1986)
Singles from Meat Is Murder
"Barbarism Begins at Home" Released: April 1985
"That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore" Released: 1 July 1985
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source
Rating
AllMusic
[3]
Blender
[4]
Chicago Tribune
[5]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
[6]
Pitchfork
8.1/10[7]
Q
[8]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide
[9]
Select
4/5[10]
Sounds
[11]
Uncut
[12]
The Village Voice
C+[13]
Meat Is Murder is the second studio album by English rock band the Smiths, released on 11 February 1985 by Rough Trade Records. It became the band's only studio album to reach number one on the UK Albums Chart, and stayed on the chart for 13 weeks. The album was an international success: it spent 11 weeks in the European Top 100 Albums chart,[14] peaking at number 29.[15] It also reached number 110 on the US Billboard 200 in the United States.
^Daley, David (9 December 2012). "The Smiths: Best band ever?". Salon. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
^Hayden, Mack (10 February 2015). "Meat Is Murder, 30 Years Later". Paste. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
^Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Meat Is Murder – The Smiths". AllMusic. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
^Power, Tony (15 September 2004). "The Smiths: Meat Is Murder". Blender. Archived from the original on 30 June 2006. Retrieved 9 November 2015.
^Kot, Greg (7 July 1991). "The Smiths And Solo". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 10 November 2015.
^Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
^Wolk, Douglas (18 November 2011). "The Smiths: The Smiths Complete". Pitchfork. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
^"The Smiths: Meat Is Murder". Q (87): 139. December 1993.
^Sheffield, Rob (2004). "The Smiths". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 753–54. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
^Harrison, Andrew (May 1993). "The Smiths". Select (35): 104.
^Black, Bill (16 February 1985). "Steak Your Claim". Sounds.
^Dalton, Stephen (1998). "The Smiths: Meat Is Murder". Uncut.
^Christgau, Robert (25 June 1985). "Christgau's Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
^"European Hot 100 Albums Chart" (PDF). Music & Media. 6 May 1985. p. 26. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
^"European Hot 100 Albums Chart" (PDF). Music & Media. 4 March 1985. p. 26. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
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