- indie pop, jangle pop, indie rock, alternative rock
- 36 min
- 10 tracks
- Sire Records
Strangeways, Here We Come is the fourth and final studio album by the English rock band the Smiths. It was released on 28 September 1987 by Rough Trade Records, a few months after the band had broken up.
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Character
Character-led, spare, grave and classical in form.
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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- AllMusic4/5 ★
- Blender4/5 ★
- Chicago Tribune2/4 ★
- The Encyclopedia of Popular Music4/5 ★
- Los Angeles Times3.5/4 ★
- Pitchfork8.3/10
- Q4/5 ★
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide4/5 ★
- Uncut4/5 ★
- The Village VoiceB
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Tracks
- 1A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours3:00
- 2I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish3:48
- 3Death of a Disco Dancer5:26
- 4Girlfriend in a Coma2:03
- 5Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before3:33
- 6Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me5:06
- 7Unhappy Birthday2:45
- 8Paint a Vulgar Picture5:36
- 9Death at One’s Elbow2:02
- 10I Won’t Share You2:48
10 tracks, 36 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- The Smiths
- Label
- Sire Records
- Released
- 1987
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- US
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