Preview first track new Rational Youth vinyl release + TOP 6 80s albums according to the band
The Smiths – How Soon Is Now?
Tracy Howe: “OK I thought this is obviously too big to mention and that I should make a more clever choice but if you’re going to pick six tracks from the 80’s how could you possibly omit this absolutely unique and brilliant record? I wouldn’t want to have breakfast with Morrissey every morning but the vocal and lyrics are epic, and Johnny Marr is the Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart of electric guitar.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEq8DBxm0J4
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