Part 5 of the 33 1/3 mini-book series that spotlights landmark albums. This one focuses on The Smiths' Meat Is Murder via a fiction story, here's the synopsis: "A Catholic high school near Boston in 1985. A time of suicides, gymnasium humiliations, smoking for beginners, asthma attacks, and incendiary teenage infatuations. Infatuations with a girl (Allison), with a band (The Smiths) and with an album, Meat is Murder, that was so raw, so vivid and so melodic that you could cling to it like a lifeboat in a storm." 102 pages.

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