Article: "Viva Hate" (remastered by Stephen Street) released (UK - April 2, 2012)

[davidt]

You can view the page at http://www.morrissey-solo.com/content/694-Viva-Hate-(remastered-by-Stephen-Street)-released-(UK-April-2-2012)

[Anonymous]

Not a great birthday present but there we are!

[!Viva Hate! (Remastered)]

I absolutely love the sound to this remaster. With the exception of "Treat Me Like A Human Being", each track has new layers brought more to the surface that you may have never noticed before. Ignore the bad sleeve design, omission of original tracks and elements, and lack of anything new to your ears and buy this album...for the second or third time!

[Eric Hartman]

Woohoooo! I can't wait to buy this!

For the record, this will be the 27th time I will pay for Suedehead and Sunday.

Go buy yourself another Jaguar Morrissey, the check is in the mail!

[Thesmithsmorrissey]

I still say this cover/typeface is a marked improvement over the original.

[Eric Hartman]

The perfect version of Viva Hate:

1. "Alsatian Cousin"
2. "Little Man, What Now?"
3. "Everyday Is Like Sunday"
4. “Sister, I’m a Poet”
5. "Bengali in Platforms"
6. "Angel, Angel, Down We Go Together"
7. "Late Night, Maudlin Street" (full length version)
8. "Suedehead"
9. "Break Up the Family"
10. "The Ordinary Boys"
11. "Hairdresser on Fire"
12. “Will Never Marry”
13. “Disappointed”
14. "Margaret on the Guillotine"

[Thesmithsmorrissey]

I think it's sad we now have to refer to LNMS as "the full-length version"

[FROSTY]

I think it's sad we now have to refer to LNMS as "the full-length version"


...AGREED... such a perplexing release, i can only assume that Morrissey wanted to excite fans buy re-re-re building this album in a handfull of years for a new record label that takes him on...

" 30 year ANNIVERSARY! : NOW IN ORIGINAL FORM WITH EXTRA TRACKS! (2018) "

[grant gauld]

buying viva hate tomorrow morning : )))))

[Andrew Dickson]

At least the sound quality sounds superb, MUCH better than both the original and 1997 version. Best 'remastering' i've heard in a long time.

[CrystalGeezer]

I absolutely love the sound to this remaster. With the exception of "Treat Me Like A Human Being", each track has new layers brought more to the surface that you may have never noticed before. Ignore the bad sleeve design, omission of original tracks and elements, and lack of anything new to your ears and buy this album...for the second or third time!

Hey what's your opinion on what Street described at the "butchered" Maudlin Street? Does it work?

[Anonymous]

Here's a good way to compile your own "VIVA HATE" Deluxe Editon

Use the 2012 Remaster
Swap "Treat Me Like a Human Being" with "The Ordinary Boys" from the 1997 version
After the original running order, add:

"Hairdresser on Fire" (why first? It was part of the original 1988 U.S. Release) *
"I Know Very Well How I Got My Name" *
"Sister, I'm a Poet" (studio) *
"Oh Well, I'll Never Learn" *
"Disappointed" *
"Will Never Marry" (full version) *
"Treat Me Like A Human Being" (demo from 2012 release)
"Striptease With a Difference" (taken from "Revelation")
"I Know Very Well How I Got My Note Wrong"
"Late Night Maudlin Street" (original version)

I need to see if all of this fits on a single CD, but I bet it does...
sank,

[CrystalGeezer]

Here's a good way to compile your own "VIVA HATE" Deluxe Editon

Use the 2012 Remaster
Swap "Treat Me Like a Human Being" with "The Ordinary Boys" from the 1997 version
After the original running order, add:

"Hairdresser on Fire" (why first? It was part of the original 1988 U.S. Release) *
"I Know Very Well How I Got My Name" *
"Sister, I'm a Poet" (studio) *
"Oh Well, I'll Never Learn" *
"Disappointed" *
"Will Never Marry" (full version) *
"Treat Me Like A Human Being" (demo from 2012 release)
"Striptease With a Difference" (taken from "Revelation")
"I Know Very Well How I Got My Note Wrong"
"Late Night Maudlin Street" (original version)

I need to see if all of this fits on a single CD, but I bet it does...
sank,

What do the asstricks indicate? :squiffy:

[billybu69]

Up on spotify

[Anonymous]

To all music lovers the world over,

Can I just add say that for someone who only has this album on cassette - and now with no means of playing said tape whatsover - then I am quitehappy (to put it mildy) that the album has been reissued in CD-ROM format and remastered. I don't really care who remastered it currently because my akai cassette tape was great but I gave it to my brother complete with seperate amp, seperate record player and promptly never saw them again....

Irrespective of the final tracklisting. I am happy. Ordinary boys - happy going nowhere except around here - sums up my estate or neighbourhood too. So I am happy to let it go - Preston's Ordinary Boys naming a 'band' after the track and so on has somewhat overshadowed that song as stated above. I do like the drumming throughout the album. It was a blessed release after hearing the drumming in The Smiths which truly dissapointed me for some years after the 2nd album being totally honest. Then again, that's another story and off-subject here.

Back then in 198x, you have to feel sorry and sympathy for Morrissey. He had the hounds at EMI hanging over him for months. And he also had to release SOMETHING.

Just what he did therefore - given The Smiths had just ended and the embers were black and smokey - was lovely and courageous with Viva Hate. Not just the released songs - which are fanstastic today and have amazing lyrics, but also the other song like Happy Lovers United, Dial a Cliche accoustic, Lifeguard saving my life and Oh Well' I'll Never Learn, Safe Warm Yorkshire Home and so on.... it's quite funny looking back. That speeding golf was too !

I can remember when I received this album as it was an xmas present. Lovely,

Strawberry.

[Anonymous]

I still say this cover/typeface is a marked improvement over the original.

and you're still wrong.

[FROSTY]

Here's a good way to compile your own "VIVA HATE" Deluxe Editon

Use the 2012 Remaster
Swap "Treat Me Like a Human Being" with "The Ordinary Boys" from the 1997 version
After the original running order, add:

"Hairdresser on Fire" (why first? It was part of the original 1988 U.S. Release) *
"I Know Very Well How I Got My Name" *
"Sister, I'm a Poet" (studio) *
"Oh Well, I'll Never Learn" *
"Disappointed" *
"Will Never Marry" (full version) *
"Treat Me Like A Human Being" (demo from 2012 release)
"Striptease With a Difference" (taken from "Revelation")
"I Know Very Well How I Got My Note Wrong"
"Late Night Maudlin Street" (original version)

I need to see if all of this fits on a single CD, but I bet it does...
sank,


WELL BUILT! before the demos I'd place 'NOTE Wrong' from Fact244+ somewhere ~Frost

[FROSTY]

WELL BUILT! before the demos I'd place 'NOTE Wrong' from Fact244+ somewhere ~Frost

...oops... I can't read LOL you did it

[Anonymous]

Sorry, asterisks indicate that you can find these songs on the very affordable and well-compiled Parlophone Singles 88-95 Collection 3 CD Set...

[Anonymous]

Not a great birthday present but there we are!
What? It's absolutely superb sound quality, so much crisper and sharper in sound, quality re-mastering. I'm thrilled with it, Alsation Cousin is fantastic remastered!

[Thesmithsmorrissey]

and you're still wrong.

No I'm not. You're wrong.

Chew on that.

[Anonymous]

At least the sound quality sounds superb, MUCH better than both the original and 1997 version. Best 'remastering' i've heard in a long time.

Street didn't just crank up all the levels, did he?

[Anonymous]

Hey what's your opinion on what Street described at the "butchered" Maudlin Street? Does it work?

Late Night I just can't believe, it jumps in at the start (I thought the cd was knackered) then a very abrupt cut off/very quick fade out with ages left to go at the 'end'. It's truely dire I've no idea what the point of it is.

The remastering is good but I won't be playing this incomplete version of the album again, I'll stick to my multiple other complete versions to play and the GG single to hear the 'bonus' track.

IHaving said all that if it was reissued next week with another track missing and called superdeluxe I'd still buy it again though !

[Death Disco]

The songs sound the same, and one song has been swapped with another one that doesn't sound very good.
That is my review. He can put that on a sticker on the front cover, copyright free, if he wants.

[Maurice E]

Looks like the re-issue missed the top 100.
http://www.officialcharts.com/albums-chart/
If memory serves, the re-issues of Southpaw and Maladjusted both made the top 75...