Rank (album)

Rank
Live album by
the Smiths
Released5 September 1988
Recorded23 October 1986
Genre
Length55:56
LabelRough Trade
ProducerPete Dauncey and Grant Showbiz
The Smiths chronology
Strangeways, Here We Come
(1987) 		Rank
(1988) 		Best... I
(1992)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Blender[2]
Chicago Tribune[3]
Christgau's Record GuideB[4]
NME10/10[5]
Pitchfork5.4/10[6]
Q[7]
Rolling Stone[8]
Select4/5[9]
Uncut[10]

Rank is the only official live album by English band The Smiths. It was released a year after the band’s breakup, in September 1988, through Rough Trade Records, and reached No. 2 in the British charts. In the United States, the album was released on Sire Records and made No. 77.

  1. ^ DiGravina, Tim. "Rank – The Smiths". AllMusic. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
  2. ^ Power, Tony (October 2004). "The Smiths: Rank". Blender. Vol. 3, no. 8. Archived from the original on 30 June 2006. Retrieved 9 November 2015.
  3. ^ Kot, Greg (7 July 1991). "The Smiths And Solo". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 10 November 2015.
  4. ^ Christgau, Robert (1990). "The Smiths: Rank". Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s. Pantheon Books. p. 375. ISBN 0-679-73015-X. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  5. ^ Brown, James (3 September 1988). "Ballroom Blitz". NME. p. 30.
  6. ^ Wolk, Douglas (18 November 2011). "The Smiths: The Smiths Complete". Pitchfork. Retrieved 6 March 2012.
  7. ^ Sandall, Robert (October 1988). "Stinging". Q. No. 25.
  8. ^ Farber, Jim (17 November 1988). "Rank". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 6 March 2012.
  9. ^ Harrison, Andrew (May 1993). "Buy the Big Reissue...". Select. No. 35. pp. 104–105.
  10. ^ Dalton, Stephen (August 1998). "The Smiths Discography". Uncut. No. 15. p. 67.