The Smiths - The Queen is Dead (1986)

After hearing a song from this album in my local music store, I decided to check out this very popular album on Youtube. It's a very solid collection of gentle, poppy songs with potent lyrics. Morrissey has a truly unique voice that simply melts into the music. The album does suffer somewhat from a lack of variety, but the outstanding quality of Morrissey's vocals does help to ameliorate that. Definitely an 80's classic.
8.5/10