The Smiths - Rank (1988) [Full Live Album]

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.

Rank was released as a contractual obligation. It was recorded almost two years earlier on 23 October 1986 at National Ballroom in Kilburn, London, and is a fourteen-track distillation (of 21 songs) by singer Morrissey from the complete concert recording that had earlier been transmitted by BBC Radio 1. The album rode high on the Smiths nostalgia and the success of Morrissey's debut solo album, Viva Hate, earlier the same year.

Tracklist:
1. "The Queen Is Dead" 0:00
2. "Panic" 4:17
3. "Vicar in a Tutu" 7:24
4. "Ask" 9:55
5. "His Latest Flame/Rusholme Ruffians" (Medley) 13:18
6. "The Boy with the Thorn in His Side" 17:14
7. "Rubber Ring/What She Said" (Medley)
8. "Is It Really So Strange?"
9. "Cemetry Gates"
10. "London"
11. "I Know It's Over"
12. "The Draize Train"
13. "Still Ill" 46:12
14. "Bigmouth Strikes Again" 50:20

The band
Morrissey – vocals
Johnny Marr – lead guitar
Andy Rourke – bass guitar
Mike Joyce – drums
Craig Gannon – rhythm guitar

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