Just read a mention of Smiths & Morrissey in February '99 issue of Uncut magazine. The cover story is about New Order.

After that they have 2 related articles, The 20 Best Manchester Albums & Mancunian Candidates.

The first article has 2 of The Smiths' albums The Queen Is Dead & The Smiths listed as #5 & #8 respectively.

The complete list is as follows:

THE 20 BEST MANCHESTER ALBUMS

1-- JOY DIVISION---Closer.
2-- THE STONE ROSES---The Stone Roses.
3-- JOY DIVISION--- Unknown Pleasures.
4-- NEW ORDER--- Technique.
5-- THE SMITHS--- The Queen Is Dead.
6-- MAGAZINE--- Secondhand Daylight.
7-- OASIS--- Definitely Maybe.
8-- THE SMITHS--- The Smiths.
9-- NEW ORDER--- Power, Corruption & Lies.
10--THE CHAMELEONS--- What Does Anything Mean? Basically.
11-- ELECTRONIC--- Electronic.
12-- THE BUZZCOCKS--- Love Bites.
13-- THE FALL--- Grotesque (After The Gramme).
14-- NEW ORDER--- Low-Life.
15-- THE DURUTTI COLUMN--- LC.
16-- HAPPY MONDAYS--- Bummed.
17-- A CERTAIN RATIO--- To Each . . .
18-- THE CHARLATANS--- Tellin' Stories.
19-- MONACO--- Music For Pleasure.
20-- BLACK GRAPE--- It's Great When You're Straight, Yeah.

The details under the 2 Smiths' Albums are:

THE SMITHS
The Queen Is Dead

Recording of The Smiths' third album was beset by internal conflicts and Johnny Marr's near collapse. Nevertheless, The Queen Is Dead was the band's most complete statement yet and remains their most lauded. It balanced humour with brutality, repression with awakening, and offered glimpses of a mythical, rose-tinted "Dear Old Blighty" while remaining firmly rooted in contemporary England. One of the seminal releases of the Eighties.

Quintessentially ironic burst of jokingly(?) suicidal, ambiguous, asexual self-mockery: "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out"

THE SMITHS

The Smiths

The album that announced Morrissey and Marr as a song- writing duo to rival Jagger and Richards and Lennon and McCartney. With Marr's chimings at their most ebullient, Morrissey's unique worldview unleashed 10 masterful songs dealing in reclusiveness, infanticide, Moors murders, problematic sexual urges and illness with a baneful romanticism steeped in kitchen sink dramas and a difficult childhood.

Overnight the role of misfit and malcontent was suddenly unutterably fashionable and desirable Magical misery tour: "Reel Around The Fountain" - a dark tale of violent forbidden love.

The second article is:

MANCUNIAN CANDIDATES

Twenty mad-fer-it, bangin' reasons without which Manchester would not exist.

IAN CURTIS.
NOEL & LIAM GALLAGHER.
MORRISSEY.
IAN BROWN.
SHAUN RYDER / BEZ.
BERNARD SUMNER.
JOHNNY MARR.
PETER HOOK.
HOWARD DEVOTO.
PETE SHELLEY.
MARK E SMITH.
JOHN SQUIRE.
MARTIN HANNET.
ANTHONY H WILSON.
TIM BOOTH.
GODLEY & CREME.
GERALD (A GUY CALLED. . .)
SIMON TOPPING (A CERTAIN RATIO).
GRAHAM MASSEY (808 STATE).
STELLA (OF INTASTELLA) / WORLD OF TWIST.

About Morrissey they wrote:

MORRISSEY

Job: persecuted sometime yodeller

A TRUE one-off, Dublin-born Morrissey endured a difficult baptism in Manchester at the hands of Rusholme ruffians, penning sulky missives about the New York Dolls to the music press. Initially a reviled figure, as leader of The Smiths Morrissey's wonderful Mancunian brogue, studied Englishness and difficult lyrics earned the adulation of a generation. Following the band's breakup, Mozzer's subsequent patchy solo career has led to American success, boxers, skinheads, lawsuits, and a not entirely unreasonable persecution complex.

Current whereabouts: Altrincham, after paying ex-Smiths drummer Mike Joyce a million pounds.