The Smiths - The Complete Picture

Although The Smiths' career coincided with the music-video boom of the 1980s, the band resisted using that medium to promote its recordings and relatively few clips were made to accompany Smiths singles. When the band did venture into video it did so only "under extreme pressure," as vocalist Morrissey once remarked. (This was perhaps ironic in that Morrissey's distinctive record sleeves attested to a very deliberate manipulation of visual imagery to package the band's music.) The Complete Picture is symptomatic of that reticence to work with video. Read More