THE SMITHS "RANK" (LIVE LP) 1988 SIRE NM/NM- GATEFOLD PROMO STAMPED OOP LP

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ARTIST: THE SMITHS

TITLE- “RANK” (LIVE RECORDING)

TRACK LISTING-SEE PHOTOS & BELOW:

YEAR OF RELEASE- 1988

LABEL- SIRE/ROUGH TRADE RECORDS

CAT.#: 1-25786

RECORD CONDITION: THE RECORD IS IN NM/MINT- CONDITION, NICE SHINEY BLACK LUSTER. NO MARKS OR SCRATCHES,BOTH LABELS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.NICE SHINEY LUSTER TO THE VINYL. THE SONGS SOUND GREAT. PLAYS LIKE NEW! LOOKS & PLAYS GREAT.

JACKET CONDITION: THE JACKET IS IN NM/NM- CONDITION. NICE CLEAN EDGES, NO SEAM SPLITS, NO WRITING, BENDS, MARKS, WRITING ON IT. VERY TINY UPPER RIGHT CORNER “DING” HARD TO SEE JUST AN FYI.

MORE INFO : THIS RECORD IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT. COMES IN THE ORIGINAL INNER SLEEVE. SMALL SEAM SPLIT ON ONE EDGE (SEE PHOTO). ALLIED PRESSING. GOLD INK EMBOSSED PROMO STAMP.

ARTIST/ALBUM INFO:The Smiths were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1982. Consisting of vocalist Morrissey, guitarist Johnny Marr, bassist Andy Rourke, and drummer Mike Joyce, critics consider the band one of the most important to emerge from the British independent music scene of the 1980s. Internal tensions led to their break up in 1987 and subsequent offers to reunite have been refused.In 2012, all four Smiths' studio albums (and a compilation) appeared on Rolling Stone's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time", while "William, It Was Really Nothing" and "How Soon Is Now?" were included in the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list.

Based on the songwriting partnership of Morrissey and Marr, the Smiths' focus on a guitar, bass, and drum sound, and fusion of 1960s rock and post-punk, were a rejection of the synthesiser-based dance-pop of the time. Marr's Rickenbacker guitar work was reminiscent of the jangle pop sound of Roger McGuinn from the Byrds.[6] Morrissey's complex, literate lyrics combined themes of ordinary lives with mordant humour.

The Smiths were signed to the independent label Rough Trade Records. Several Smiths singles reached the top 20 of the UK Singles Chart and all of their studio albums reached the top five of the UK Albums Chart, including the number-one album Meat Is Murder (1985). They achieved mainstream success in Europe with The Queen Is Dead (1986) and Strangeways, Here We Come (1987), both of which entered the top twenty of the European Albums Chart.[7] Their live album Rank (1988) reached the top 10 in Europe.

Rank is the only live album by English band the Smiths. It was released in September 1988 by their British record company Rough Trade, and reached No. 2 in the British charts. In the United States, the album was released on Sire Records and made No. 77.

About the album

Rank was released as a contractual obligation. It was recorded almost two years earlier on 23 October 1986 at National Ballroom in Kilburn, London, and is a fourteen-track distillation (of 21 songs) by singer Morrissey from the complete concert recording that had earlier been transmitted by BBC Radio 1. The album rode high on the Smiths nostalgia and the success of Morrissey's debut solo album, Viva Hate, earlier the same year.

The songs omitted from the recording of the Kilburn show are: "I Want the One I Can't Have", "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out", "Frankly, Mr. Shankly", "Never Had No One Ever", "Meat Is Murder", and "How Soon Is Now?" Also, some edits can be readily heard in the concert itself, such as at the end of "I Know It's Over" when the crowd starts cheering. In late 2008 video footage appeared from the show on YouTube.

According to the Smiths biographers Johnny Rogan and David Bret, Morrissey originally titled the album The Smiths in Heat. Rough Trade objected and Morrissey proposed Rank, "as in 'J. Arthur'" (J. Arthur Rank is Cockney rhyming slang for "wank").

Packaging

The album cover for Rank, designed by Morrissey, is a photo of actress Alexandra Bastedo. The image is from photographer John D. Green's 1967 book Birds Of Britain. The gatefold album's interior features a photo of several Smiths fans ripping apart Morrissey's shirt. That picture was taken by Ian Tilton at the 1986 Factory Records "Festival of the Tenth Summer" concert at G-Mex Centre in Manchester, England.

Track listing

All tracks written by Johnny Marr and Morrissey except "His Latest Flame" (Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman), "The Draize Train" (Marr) and the very beginning of "The Queen Is Dead" where an audio recording of Sergei Prokofiev's classical piece "Montagues and Capulets" was played to introduce the band.

Side one

No.

Title

Length

1.

"The Queen Is Dead"

4:11

2.

"Panic"

3:07

3.

"Vicar in a Tutu"

2:40

4.

"Ask"

3:12

5.

"His Latest Flame/Rusholme Ruffians" (Medley)

3:55

6.

"The Boy with the Thorn in His Side"

3:47

7.

"Rubber Ring/What She Said" (Medley)

3:41

Side two

No.

Title

Length

8.

"Is It Really So Strange?"

3:45

9.

"Cemetry Gates"

2:50

10.

"London"

2:38

11.

"I Know It's Over"

7:49

12.

"The Draize Train"

4:23

13.

"Still Ill"

4:09

14.

"Bigmouth Strikes Again"

5:51

Label:

Format:

Vinyl, LP, Album, Allied Pressing

Country:

US

Released:

1988

Genre:

Rock

Style:

Alternative Rock, Indie Rock

Notes

Allied records pressing.
Cat# 1-25786 appears on the labels.
Cat# 9 25786-1 appears on the spine and inner sleeve.
Gatefold sleeve. Includes inner sleeve.

A5 title on vinyl label is printed as "Rusholme Ruffians (Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame (Medley)." The correct order is in tracklisting.
The medley is timed at 3:55 according to the label, but has been split for the purpose of this submission.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (Side A runout): 1-25786–A–SH1 [?] B-32492-SH1 ?22029 1–1

• Matrix / Runout (Side B runout): -25786–B–SH1 [?] B-32493-SH1 ?22029-X 1–1

• Barcode: 0 7599-25786-1 5

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