№ 56 of 100
The Queen Is Dead
The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths (1986), № 56 in The Lead-In’s 100 greatest albums. Kendrick's novel. A long day in Compton structured like one, paced like one, and written from inside the perspective of the kid who survived it.
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