Meat Is Murder

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).

Meat Is Murder
Studio album by
the Smiths
Released11 February 1985 (1985-02-11)
Recorded1984
Studio
Genre
Length39:46
LabelRough Trade
ProducerThe Smiths
The Smiths chronology
Hatful of Hollow
(1984) 		Meat Is Murder
(1985) 		The Queen Is Dead
(1986)
Singles from Meat Is Murder
  1. "Barbarism Begins at Home"
    Released: April 1985
  2. "That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore"
    Released: 1 July 1985
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
Blender[4]
Chicago Tribune[5]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[6]
Pitchfork8.1/10[7]
Q[8]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[9]
Select4/5[10]
Sounds[11]
Uncut[12]
The Village VoiceC+[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.

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  4. ^ Power, Tony (15 September 2004). "The Smiths: Meat Is Murder". Blender. Archived from the original on 30 June 2006. Retrieved 9 November 2015.
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  8. ^ "The Smiths: Meat Is Murder". Q (87): 139. December 1993.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ Harrison, Andrew (May 1993). "The Smiths". Select (35): 104.
  11. ^ Black, Bill (16 February 1985). "Steak Your Claim". Sounds.
  12. ^ Dalton, Stephen (1998). "The Smiths: Meat Is Murder". Uncut.
  13. ^ Christgau, Robert (25 June 1985). "Christgau's Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
  14. ^ "European Hot 100 Albums Chart" (PDF). Music & Media. 6 May 1985. p. 26. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
  15. ^ "European Hot 100 Albums Chart" (PDF). Music & Media. 4 March 1985. p. 26. Retrieved 14 October 2019.