Cemetry Gates - the Smiths

This song was the first Smiths song I ever heard, probably around 1985, and remains one of my favorites. The tight strumming, the chord changes, Morrissey's velvet lilt. A completely new sound to my ears then and has yet to be duplicated by anyone. I built a mystique around this sound. It seemed so sophisticated. It helped that artsy college kids who I thought were immensely cool liked this music. But it was still mostly the music itself.