Mozrebel is a stalker and his name is Art. He was the one with that hideous light blue shirt on, on those Moz 43 Birthday pictures.

about chuffing time! though the word on the street is that the alusive missing songs wont be on there.

I think this may be old news. The remastered singles were just released about 6 months ago. As I recall, Morrissey and Marr both urged that no one buy it. Surely this can't be a re-release ALREADY?

Well, nice if it happens, but what Morrissey says in passing to a fan isn't nearly as legit as a proper record company announcement.

But a box set of singles? That means either a Smiths version of those two EMI Moz solo replica single sets OR a compilation with every B-side (which'll only warrant 3 full CDs at a stretch).

So good news if that means "Jeane", "Wonderful Woman" and "I Keep Mine Hidden" finally get on an album, but it's still old rope at the end of the day.

Only last week we were told that there is at least one new song - so in the circumstances a singles compilation (box or otherwise) does seem a bit ludicrous, especially if there really is as the NME said, enough for a Beatles-Anthology affair. Moz and Marr should start trying to gauge what the world/fans actually WANT rather than hoisting another superfluous compilation on us.

if he sees any irony in re-releasing his work so many times? Did you ask him about a new album?

This past weekend I came across all the Smiths albums digitally remastered, but not as a box set. They were sold seperately and made in Germany I believe.

What marvellous news!Another re-issue of Smiths singles.I personally can't wait for the "Stars on 45" remix edition to come out.Here's a better idea.Why not take up yoga and listen to the singles in a different position every day.It may not make much difference to how you appreciate the songs,but at least you will have saved the cash you may be tempted to expend on this latest example of fucking shite barrel-scraping.

Christ knows what will be released when all members of the Smiths are dead. I wish I could still be making money from something I did fifteen years ago. I could stay in bed every day!

i've been there before on several occasions... the setup doesn't look like anything that would favorable for a morrissey concert. for one thing, the pit is way too small to accommodate your usual 100-200+ person morrissey pit crowd.

and while the civic is badly in need of some repair and refurbishing, i doubt it's in any sort of condition where the city doesn't give a shit if it gets thrashed... i mean, it's still in use today for award ceremonies and such.

and we all know how destructive morrissey crowds can get (pauley pavillion '91).

whatever... who knows... i might be wrong and the venue may be booked already.

When I hear that the Smiths' singles will be in a box set with Morrissey's apparent approval, I say... ALL RIGHT! COOL! Every other measly little compilation since the break-up has come without his input. To get a real authentic box set is actually pretty neat. Repackage-reissue blues may have struck the fans here, but I've been waiting for a comprehensive Smiths box set for years now. And we're going to get a really good one, without the queasy feeling that we're just lining corporate pockets by buying it.

What were you expecting - new smiths songs? Please.

The Apex Theory??Thats alittle strange.

i've always thought this was a good idea. Why? Although pretty much every b-side The Smiths did was re-released on a compliation, there are several live versions of songs that were b-sides as well that have not officially been released on cd. This is a valid repackaging.

Reissued singles would be excellent! The Smiths were the ultimate singles band, a lot of time and effort was put into the sleeves and I certainly don't own them all on vinyl.

Don't forget that a lot of the original b-sides are hard to track down:

Handsome Devil (live)
Jeanne
Wonderful Woman
Accept Yourself (original version)
Pretty Girls Make Graves (Troy Tate)
Nowhere Fast (live)
Stretch Out And Wait (live)
Shakespeares Sister (live)
Meat Is Murder (live)
The Draize Train
Is It Really So Strange? (Peel session)
Sweet And Tender Hooligan (Peel session)
Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others (live)
What's The World? (live)
Work Is A Four Letter Word
I Keep Mine Hidden
Rusholme Ruffians (Peel session)
Nowhere Fast (Peel session)
William, It Was Really Nothing (Peel session)

Do you really own all those?

Unless "remastered" means "new lyrics and new music" -- lord! if only it meant "new liner photos" -- I remain impassive.

I'm avid collector of Smiths and Morrissey-related items, going so far as to track down orginal Twiggy and Cilla Black and whatnot items, but I'm happily not a completist. I began listening and collecting because, fundamentally, the music and lyrics stirred in me feelings of empathy, comfort, and identification; those desires cannot in any way be satisfied by a new arrangement of imperceptibly altered music.

In fact, such reconfigurations can only do the original damage: imagine Picasso tweaking "Guernica" every few years, or The Estate of James Joyce periodically releasing "remastered" versions of "The Dubliners." (Of course, as is shown with new versions of old movies like "E.T." and "Star Wars," and "unearthed" half-written versions of books by James Baldwin and Hemingway, this sort of thing sadly does in fact happen quite a bit.)

Morrissey famously oppossed remixes of The Smiths' music. How really different is this current deluge of "remastereds"?

Jesus, what next. Morrissey appearing on every chronic daytime TV slot to promote this unnecessary package. Please don't let us down by appearing with a packet of salt and vinegar crisps and a penguin biscuit on Ready Steady Cook, and don't give way to temptation and appear on This Morning.......remain true to yourself Morrissey, and give your genuine fans a break.....record some new tracks, and concentrate on the future, not the past.......we love the past, but its becoming pricey........extending my remastered middle digit to this greedy proposal.

Great! I still don't have all the B-sides yet, so that's a welcome surprise. Now all we need is new Morrissey single and album and everything's perfect and life is beautiful again.

...filtered through my memory, from Morrissey's mouth (if even). Hearsay is hearsay, and this is at best hearsay unless someone submits a demonstrably undoctored video recording of Morrissey saying this or any other thing attributed to him without substantiation. You should also please remember....tickets were being sold for Halloween show in Clearwater, Florida in 2000 before it was discovered that the whole event was a never-was-gonna-happen.

I want a box set with unreleased tracks, outtakes, snippets of dialogue, great pics, informative (as opposed to pretentious ) liner notes and so on. I also don't think it's a good idea to remaster either the QID or the Strangeways tracks.

sod that! how about some some new stuff

If you didn't take a look at Echo & the Bunnymen's boxset "Crystal Days" too see what's a marvelous piece of work. Altough it has album tracks on it, lots of interesting stuff and a nice booklet with the history told by someone who lived the band history and an interview with Ian and Will (singer/guitarrist) about the tracks and things happened during the band's history. If someone could make the same thing with Morrissey and Marr what a masterpiece of reissue this would be... who knows? I think It's time the tale (to be)told

If you didn't take a look at Echo & the Bunnymen's boxset "Crystal Days", you should to see what's a marvelous piece of work is. Altough it has album tracks on it, it has also lots of interesting stuff and a nice booklet with the history told by someone who lived the band history and an interview with Ian and Will (singer/guitarrist) about the tracks and things that happened during the band's history. If someone could make the same thing with Morrissey and Marr what a masterpiece of reissue this would be... who knows? I think It's time the tale (to be)told.

what a poser this guy is, cheap ass punk who in 6 months will be listening to hip hop again. you go and stalk morrissey and get all your stuff signed but you neglect the man on his birthday and dont give him anything. if you think your visit was his gift, if i was moz i would want my money back and the cost of your cheap ass gas too.

Wow. Morrissey looks delicious, great, a young
god.
43, unbelievable.

sigh

Will be awesome if the boxset came with all singles, including the singles available only in vinyl at this time, like "Girlfriend In A Comma", "Hand In Glove", "Shoplifters of The World Unite", will be great see all this magnific sleeves in a CD Single format.

Totally disagree with "Moz Deserves His Privacy" political party. :-)

IMHO, Morrissey needs moral support, especially now... I know, I'm contradicting myself, I used to critisize Chris and others for "stalking", but reality is, Moz enjoys those impromptu visits... (Or those visits may be kind of staged by his close friends, I don't care) Therefore those visitors are not stalkers in Moz eyes, but something opposite, people providing moral support. Some patterns of behaviour acceptable for a teenager are not acceptable for a grown-ups. What I mean, if some guy at late 20s would show up at Moz doorstep, his natural reaction would be: "hey old chap, get a life and look for nearest employment agency"... But maybe 17-year-olds waiting for their hero to chat with him is fine, provided that Moz enjoys those visits. Truly, if I would be Moz, I would prefer to arrange those visits with Moz Court of close friends/agent(s) in advance, and, again, I suspect that both Mozrebel and Chris did just that, which is ok with me...

P.S.
Where is Moz now? Sweating hard recording his album... Come on, no way, he is watching Soccer, and this is the only right thing to do now...!!!

Clue for Los Angelenos: go to this Hollywood British pub Cat 'n Fiddle after 11PM, good chance to catch Moz watching 11:30AM started soccer game with British friends... Just my wild guess, Europeans hate to watch soccer by themselves, they go out to bars...

This has nothing to do with the "fabulous" singles reissue of reissue of reissue etc.
What I want to know is what team does Morrissey support in the World Cup and the Premiership?He probably supports Ireland and England in the Coppo Mundo and thats fair enough,although I remember him putting on the Irish team shirt whilst singing "Roy's Keen" in Dublin in December 99.But then he was also wearing a West Ham shirt during other gigs on that tour in England.I thought he was a Man U supporter.I was happy to see him in the Hammers shirt cos i'm a West Ham supporter myself.I wonder what he thinks of the whole Roy Keane thing.Maybe he could write a song about it!The above will probably mean little to our American friends but maybe a few Paddies or Brits might comment.

Let me tell you there's a Page with some Letters Steven wrote to a Scottish friend. Deeply revealing!!!!

www.torr.org/moz/letters.html

Hey,
Can anyone please translate this into Portuguese?

"Veering cliffwards"
"just when it seems like everything's evened out"
"Ready with ready-wit"

Thanks!!!!!

so cool dude he he

it was in time!

cool dude, so cool dude!

Moz likes Aphex Twin not Apex Theory. You must've "misheard" him in your imaginary conversation.