History Music / TheQueenIsDead

* LongTitle: "The Boy with the Thorn in His Side", "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out", and "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others".

* TheVicar[=/=]WholesomeCrossdresser: The subject of the aptly named "Vicar in a Tutu".

He just wants to live life this way''

''The Queen Is Dead'' is the third studio album by Music/TheSmiths, released on 16 June 1986. It was intended to be a NewSoundAlbum, with more production value than their previous self-titled effort and ''Meat is Murder'', and featured more humorous lyrics compared to its contemporaries. It was backed by the single "Bigmouth Strikes Again", and other well-known songs are "Cemetry Gates", "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out", "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others", and the TitleTrack. The album has sold consistently well, peaking at #2 on the UK Albums Chart, though it did not chart in the United States, it would later go gold down the line.

''The Queen Is Dead'' is the third studio album by Music/TheSmiths, released on 16 June 1986. It was intended to be a NewSoundAlbum, with more production value than their previous self-titled effort and ''Meat is Murder'', and featured more humorous lyrics compared to its contemporaries. It was backed by the single "Bigmouth Strikes Again", and other well-known songs are "Cemetry Gates", "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out", "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others", and the TitleTrack. The album has sold consistently well, peaking at #2 on the UK Albums Chart, though it did not chart in the United States, though it received positive reviews there and would later go gold.

''The Queen Is Dead'' is the third studio album by Music/TheSmiths, released on 16 June 1986. It was intended to be a NewSoundAlbum, with more production value than their previous self-titled effort and ''Meat is Murder'', and featured more humorous lyrics compared to its contemporaries. It was backed by the single "Bigmouth Strikes Again", and other well-known songs are "Cemetry Gates", "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out", "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others", and the TitleTrack. The album has sold consistently well, peaking at #2 on the UK Albums Chart, though it did not chart in the United States, though it received positive reviews there and would later go gold. It was ranked the greatest album of all time on ''Magazine/{{NME}}''[='=]s [[UsefulNotes/NME500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]] list, and at #218 on ''Magazine/RollingStone''[='=]s [[UsefulNotes/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime similar list]], and is currently the 22nd-most-acclaimed album on Website/AcclaimedMusic's [[UsefulNotes/AcclaimedMusicAllTimeTopAlbums compilation of various critics' lists]].

[[caption-width-right:350:''Past the pub that wrecks your body/And the church - all they want is your money/The Queen is dead, boys/And it's so lonely on a limb '']]

* SelfDeprecation: "The Queen Is Dead" features the lyric "I know you and you can't sing/That's nothing, you should hear me play the piano".[[note]]Morrissey later fulfilled his threat on "Death of a Disco Dancer" on later album ''Strangeways, Here We Come''.[[/note]]

''The Queen Is Dead'' is the third studio album by Music/TheSmiths, released on 16 June 1986. It was intended to be a NewSoundAlbum, with more production value than their previous self-titled effort and ''Meat is Murder'', and featured more humorous lyrics compared to its contemporaries. It was backed by the single "Bigmouth Strikes Again", and other well-known songs are "Cemetry Gates", "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out", "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others", and the TitleTrack. The album has sold consistently well, peaking at #2 on the UK Albums Chart, though it did not chart in the United States. It was ranked the greatest album of all time on ''Magazine/{{NME}}''[='=]s [[UsefulNotes/NME500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]] list, and at #218 on ''Magazine/RollingStone''[='=]s [[UsefulNotes/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime similar list]], and is currently the 22nd-most-acclaimed album on Website/AcclaimedMusic's [[UsefulNotes/AcclaimedMusicAllTimeTopAlbums compilation of various critics' lists]].

''The Queen Is Dead'' is the third studio album by Music/TheSmiths, released on 16 June 1986. It was intended to be a NewSoundAlbum, with more production value than their previous self-titled effort and ''Meat is Murder'', and featured more humorous lyrics compared to its contemporaries. It was backed by the single "Bigmouth Strikes Again", and other well-known songs are "Cemetery Gates", "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out", "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others", and the TitleTrack. The album has sold consistently well, peaking at #2 on the UK Albums Chart, though it did not chart in the United States. It was ranked the greatest album of all time on ''Magazine/{{NME}}''[='=]s [[UsefulNotes/NME500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]] list, and at #218 on ''Magazine/RollingStone''[='=]s [[UsefulNotes/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime similar list]], and is currently the 22nd-most-acclaimed album on Website/AcclaimedMusic's [[UsefulNotes/AcclaimedMusicAllTimeTopAlbums compilation of various critics' lists]].

# "Cemetery Gates" (2:39)

[[caption-width-right:350:''So, I broke into the palace/With a sponge and a rusty spanner/She said: 'Eh, I know you, and you cannot sing'/I said: 'That's nothing - you should hear me play piano.''']]

--''Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head!''\\
* CreditsGag: According to the liner notes to ''The Queen Is Dead'', the backing vocals to "Bigmouth Strikes Again" are performed by Ann Coates... In reality, those vocals were Morrissey's own voice sped up, and "Ann Coates" is a pun on Ancoats, a district of Manchester.

!!There Is a Trope That Never Goes Out:

-->''As the flames rose to her Roman nose''\\
-->''And her Walkman[=/=]hearing aid began to melt''

-->He's not strange\\
-->He just wants to live life this way''

''The Queen Is Dead'' is the third studio album by Music/TheSmiths, released on 16 June 1986. It was intended to be a NewSoundAlbum, with more production value than their previous self-titled effort and ''Meat is Murder'', and featured more humorous lyrics compared to its contemporaries. It was backed by the single "Bigmouth Strikes Again", [[ChartDisplacement but the more well-known songs off the album]] are "Cemetery Gates", "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out", "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others", and the TitleTrack. The album has sold consistently well, peaking at #2 on the UK Albums Chart, though it did not chart in the United States. It was ranked the greatest album of all time on ''Magazine/{{NME}}''[='=]s [[UsefulNotes/NME500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]] list, and at #218 on ''Magazine/RollingStone''[='=]s [[UsefulNotes/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime similar list]], and is currently the 22nd-most-acclaimed album on Website/AcclaimedMusic's [[UsefulNotes/AcclaimedMusicAllTimeTopAlbums compilation of various critics' lists]].

* EpicRocking: The TitleTrack (6:24).
* FakeOutFadeOut: Inverted with "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others" where the song fades out rapidly and then fades slowly back in at the ''beginning'' of the song.

-->"Sweetness, sweetness, I was only joking when I said I'd like to smash every tooth in your head..."

* SelfDeprecation: "The Queen Is Dead" features the lyric "I know you and you can't sing/That's nothing, you should hear me play the piano".[[note]]Morrissey later fulfilled his threat on "Death of a Disco Dancer" on ''Strangeways, Here We Come''.[[/note]]
* TheVicar[=/=]WholesomeCrossdresser: The subject of the aptly named "Vicar in a Tutu".

''The Queen Is Dead'' is the third studio album by Music/TheSmiths, released on 16 June 1986. It was intended to be a NewSoundAlbum, with more production value than their previous self-titled effort and ''Meat is Murder'', and featured more humorous lyrics compared to its contemporaries. It was backed by the single "Bigmouth Strikes Again", [[ChartDisplacement but the more well-known songs off the album]] are "Cemetery Gates", "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out", "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others", and the TitleTrack. The album has sold consistently well, peaking at #2 on the UK Albums Chart, though it did not chart in the United States. It was ranked the greatest album of all time on ''Magazine/{{NME}}''[='=]s [[UsefulNotes/NME500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]] list, and at #218 on ''Magazine/RollingStone''[='=]s [[UsefulNotes/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime similar list]], and is currently the 22nd-most-acclaimed album on Website/AcclaimedMusic's [[UsefulNotes/AcclaimedMusicAllTimeTopAlbums compilation of various critics' lists.

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!!There Is a Trope That Never Goes Out: