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See, we even have similar favourite Smiths songs

Unknown Pleasures is pretty much imperious, so no-one say Joy Division, OK?

You're merely illustrating the value of pedantry. Corrected I stand on MMT and YS (which are film scores -- or something else entirely -- rather than albums), although I will differ on SP -- it's nowhere near as good as Revolver but you're being a bit harsh (and it's popularly regarded to be...

It did. We can all get precious about alighting on a band early (which I did with The Pixies), but there's something about the sheer exuberant rawness, raucousness and rapidity about their earlier stuff that still does it for me (the joy of Isla de Encanta, for instance). The tunes probably got...

They continued improving until Let it Be, with the exception of Revolver (which is nearly as good as Abbey Road) and The White Album (which is too erratic; my missus characterises it as self-indulgent).

Isn't that a regression?

I'm not sure that this actually involves an upward trajectory, although I'm also not sure how to rank those four albums, which is utterly mood-dependent. I'm also not sure how to rank PJ Harvey's albums but, as with Radiohead, the output is simply staggering.