By a milestone!

my eyes..... MY EYES.....

much better than the last single and i'd wager to say better than the lp.

The last one was behind that crystalized glass/plastic of a shower door and this one's in front of a fancy shower curtain. Any pics of Morrissey plucking eyebrows or sitting on the throne? ;)

www.friday-mourning.org

This is a website owned by:

Domain Name:FRIDAY-MOURNING.ORG

Registrant Name:Malinda Bernard
Registrant Street1:48 Thorn Heights
Registrant City:Banbridge
Registrant State/Province:Down
Registrant Postal Code:BT32 4BF
Registrant Country:GB

The quote on the homepage of this site is:

"I am it brother,
its mother and its son,
And I the product of everything it's done,
Am I a woman because I'm scared to be a man?
I'm reaching deep inside
With everything i am.

One by one the voices make their rounds,
I can't believe
the monster I have hidden in my mouth,
It has to scream."

Credited as "Monster - Charlotte Martin"

Charlotte Martin is a singer influenced by artists like Joni Mitchell, Tori Amos, The Cure , The Smiths and The Cocteau Twins.

There is a reference on this site to her having met Morrissey. See here:

http://www.morrissey-solo.com/articles/03/08/01/1510243.shtml

Now, call me old fashioned but isnt all this too much of a coincidence? Who is Malinda bernard who owns friday-mourning.org, why does she have a quote from an artsist there who obviously loves Morrissey? Which came first Morrisseys song, or Malindas website?

My head is exploding....Intriguing though...any thoughts anyone?

...but I think the covers of albums past have been more creative and imaginative than these from Quarry.
It reminds me of pictures of Liberace.

yeah........that's hot. um, why can't i run over to threcord store and buy this RIGHT NOW?! i don't wanna wait!!!!!!release dates are so far.

The sleeves of all of the Quarry singles have been terribly poor compared with the fantastic artwork of all of Moz's other singles. Even Southpaw I think has great single sleeves. Also on this pic, Moz looks like a business man boss or something. Infact, thinking about it, the whole morrisseymusic.com website looks like a company with Moz as the boss in his boss suit.
I dont like this boss attitude he is taking these days.
From Ripchord (www.ripchord.vze.com)(forgot password)

I think it's an improvement over the last one but only slighltly.
We've seen these shots already and thats what made my heart sink, why didn't he sit for a New Shoot?
I have every single he's ever released and a few weeks ago I got really high and I lined them up in chronological order just to see...and like many of you here, decided the ones from Quarry are my least favourite.
This one would have worked a whole lot better for 'Don't Make Fun of Daddy's Voice' if he had decided to realease that as an A-side.

b o r i n g

yawn.....

people, ha ha ha

But then I like the new "cheesy" covers. They are cheesy but they are "Moz" cheesy if you get what I mean.

He is having a bit of a laugh with all the old cheesy elvis comeback crooner imagery. It goes well with the music which has a lot of knowing winks to that sort of thing as well.

He's decided "tasteful" is old hat and a bit too safe. Good on him, the last thing he wants is to do tasteful black and white pictures that just repeat what he's done before.

I think the single cover is AWESOME! Morrissey is very stylish- and very suave.

This is his best cover so far for this album. I like it better than the album cover for YATQ.

I will be in line at the Aragon with flowers in hand...

Love,

Ken Stavitzke

A bit better than IBEH and FOTGTD - but it does look rather tacky nevertheless, or maybe 'gaudy' is the better word. It's probably the campest sleeve yet, with none of his erstwhile sophistication. I disagree with the person who says it's a good idea for Moz to abandon the "tasteful" black and white pics of old. He may be "having a laugh" but the laugh's on him, because this is the kind of sleeve one might associate with Tom Jones, Elton John, or, as someone said, Liberace. Is this the image he really wants to cultivate? I can only assume he must be having a laugh, cos I can't believe that the guy who designed the cover of 'The Queen Is Dead' can't see the difference. It's not like he lost this ability in his solo career - even the Southpaw and Maladjusted singles have far superior artwork. It has to be said, this bunch of artwork is the worst he's ever done as on overall entity, from the utterly awful album cover to the garish IBEH cover to the cheap FOTGTD cover. If it's an in-joke, well, great for him, but at the end of the day it looks tacky. I think this new sleeve could be worse, but then again, it could be a hell of a lot better. In fact, it's rather like an OK Magazine Dale Winton publicity shot. Bring back the stills from films/Linder's photography - those are the sleeves that will last into the future. Also, as someone noted, his previous tendency to use cover stars and poses of himself (much more tasteful than this - i.e. 'Your Arsenal' album cover) meant that the cover had as much meaning as the song - like the utterly wondrous Viv Nicholson shot on the front of 'Heaven Knows.....', one of his best ever and utterly encapsulating everything that needed to be said in one photograph. But if he is going to use his own pic, at least get the colours right, as with the 'Vauxhall and I' sleeve or 'The More You Ignore Me', both of which are aesthetically pleasing. I hope he abandons this obsession with cheesy artwork very soon indeed.

Because, as has been pointed out, he has been playing with the "comeback" imagery (i.e.- the big MORRISSEY lights at concerts, the cheesy "classy" album covers, and even the collaboration with Nancy Sinatra seem to make this obvious). Morrissey has always had an obsession with popstardom, but is he taking it too far?

Is this the beginning of the end?

they have all been horrible to be honest. And that earring is a bit David Beckham. Luckily, the music and the man more than make up for it!

willing to dig one and I think I've dug mine.

Continuing the tradition of offering alternate covers for Morrissey's new singles, here's mine. [morrissey-solo.com] I encourage others to post theirs.

It just gets worser and worser... Somehow like the music.

This looks really cheap.

If you don't like Moz's style anymore you can always defect to Prince. You don't have to pretend to like Moz. Nobody's making you but yourselves.

At least it's better than the awful Paint Shop Pro'd First Of The Gang To Die cover but I still think it's not as memorable as the earlier sleeves like Suedehead, the Vauxhall period, or even Roy's Keen. It does look a bit too "posed" and not very spontaneous. Indeed, from certain angles he looks as though he's posing for a clothing catalogue. Similarly with the YATQ sleeve, I thought that photo of him should've been put on Attack press releases rather than the actual LP.

I wonder if Jo Slee is still involved with the sleeves as I really enjoyed her Peepholism book. Actually whatever happened to her, she used to be his PA didn't she? Was she frozen out too? Or simply 'retired' but still friends with Mozzer?

Ally.

... made Moz look sort of STUPID!

Like, he looks really old, and like, weird! =/ I know this is not succint at all, but, I just don't like these photos very much!

Has everyone forgotten how long we waited for a new album as well as new singles? how can so many of you bitch about SLEEVE COVERS!? i mean moz has made a huge "comeback" (whatever that means) has toured like hell released a beautifull new album! just be happy for him and say "well done".

Christ! i hate morrissey fans!!!

Is it just me or have all of these covers looked to have been shot in the same cheap hotel bathroom somewhere in Las Vegas? Nice tie, however.....

In recent interviews Moz had been critical of the malajusted cover. I my honest opinion that cover is leaps and bounds better than this. Just really poor art direction on these and very uninspiring.

He could do alot better.

Dial-a-cliche. Morrissey must leave America, it's the only way to rescue his taste as well as his music.

photosessions! See Esquire, GQ or Entertainment Weekly! (for example)

...old...why would anyone go out of their way to look old on purpose?

they want their "Publisher" fonts back. I have no idea why,

In all seriousness, who designs covers this terrible? All the singles have had average photos, and terrible, terrible fonts.

I think you're all a bunch of bitches! Morrissey fans are NEVER happy. Ungrateful bitches! Always complaining and never satisfied. I bet you're all on Zoloft!

I can't wait for the new single...the rest of you can cram the sleeve up your arses if you don't like it!!!

made by Linder / Corbijn over the Quarry
one's.

once his albumcovers were artworks,now they're just simple studio made photographs

sit, smile,pose, flash and done in 5 minutes

as for a change why wouldn't they use a live cover
shot of Morrissey and band.

Morrissey is so fucking self centred, always sticking his big fat head on every sleeve.. and he looks terrible on this one as well. When will he lose his vanity?

You are too perfect.

If you look carefully, Moz looks to be wearing an earing in his left ear- a bit Picadilly pillare in my opinion. Will it be worn at Earls court? Or is the shiny backdrop and his left ear merely just unfortunately close together?? Any comments??

these photos just get worse and worse !
it is apparent to me that the artwork is no longer controlled by morrissey.
you only have to flick through vinyl collection and peepholism to see the intricate planning morrissey had in each single/album produced from cover star to style of sleeve to messages on disk matrix etc .
ok i admit that we are no longer buying vinyl and the cover of a cd is never going to match that but surely better photos at least could be produced.

The portrait of him dressed in the grey pinstrip suit with the pink tie has got be Morrissey at his most stylish in recent years. Grey really is his colour, it compliments the skin tones of his complexion, light blue eyes, and the hue of his hair. He doesn't wear enough of it as far as I'm concerned.

One of my favourite photos in recent years is one where he wearing grey woolen trousers under steely grey pullover with black shoes and he's stepping off a coffee table. Superb.

If you think he looks bad in a grey suit then remember those hideous tailored blazers he's been wearing recently including the primary red one he wore on Jonathan Ross - absolutely gross!

I think he should study the grey pinstripe suit and pink tie picture with great intensity and appreciate that my views on style and colour co-ordination are absolutely correct.

THEN he should make every attempt possible to hire me as his stylist!

We've seen those pictures everywhere , some new orginial art worlk please, this is all unbelievebly boring!!

For all those who say it's Morrissey purposely being cheesy - not true. After all the input/say/control he has had on all past covers (inc. and especially Smiths covers), he is not now about to just release any old crap in the name of cheesiness. He is not that sort of person, and simply would not be so dismissive of something as 'big' as a cover.

I think he's just continuing to move away from covers of old and obviously rather likes the current favoured theme of him, not looking nearly as flattering as he has done live this tour, with a plain backdrop.

I do agree it's boring particularly compared to his old covers (The boy with a thorn in his side cover was particularly inspired!!) but it doesn't seem he'll ever go down that route again. Even his earlier solo stuff - the photos of himself were brilliant, and beautiful.

Another live photograph would have been nice - he's looked soooo fit on tour lately!!!

I don't think it's a flattering photograph, however I think it's good that he decided to go down the tailored suit/stylish older gentleman path that Bryan Ferry and Bowie have as they've aged. It would be a bit silly for him to go with the gauze and lamé that he wore when he was younger. I don't like the backdrop on this sleeve, I think they could have got a better shot of his face, but I doooo like the suit.

He looks like a lounge singer in one of those god-awful airport bars!!! LOL, I love Morrissey, I always will, but some guy on this post said he should go back to England, and by jove, I think he's right!

you would wouldn't you.....

I'm almost tempted to not buy this single because of the atrocious sleeve.

What happened to the cunning sleeve art that inspired Peepholism?
Where is the cryptic, cunning, complex Morrissey that we all grew to love?

I sense ol' Mozzer (or whoever's airing these crashingly boring sleeves) needs a 6 month trip to a Manchester council house to get him back into gear.

i like it. he looks great in that picture.

The Elvis lights are great - I liked that idea since I saw the Mojo Quarry review; the press photos are just about ok too; but these single sleeves are really starting to look terrible.

"First of the gang" was his worst single sleeve since "Hold On" - not that I care. It's just that you'd have thought someone with morrissey's taste would find a better line between tongue in cheek kitsch and tacky vulgarity. I think this one takes it just a little further towards the latter.