St rangeways, Here We Come (1987)

The Smiths

4 The Smiths’ final burst of brilliance. Marr went into Bath’s Wool Hall studio with a fresh ethos – fewer overdubs, less jangle, more space. Some songs didn’t feature any guitar at all, but the balance was redressed by the arpeggiated dazzle of Girlfriend In A Coma and the dovetailing licks of Stop Me If You Think

You’ve Heard This One Before. Morrissey and Marr both cited Strangeways as their favourite Smiths album, but before it even hit the shelves, the exhausted guitarist had split. “With everything that had happened,” he wrote in his autobiography, “I just thought, ‘Fuck you’.” Download: Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before