How could she abuse Morrissey's trust in such a way?

I don't have time to tell you all my thoughts (I do have lyrics transcribed some songs as best I could; I think there's some Italian in You have Killed me, for instance).

It's very good; but disturbingly, I found my mind wandering off right around the middle of the album, and then by the 2nd or 3rd listening, i was kind of skipping around the CD.

Stronger, richer, fuller sound. In someways, more mainstream sound, some ways as idiosynchratic as eever.

So no one gets sued, here's only a partial lyric from the Arabesque Far off places-- about 2/3s of the way in, he sings:

It's so easy for us to sit together
but it's so hard for our hearts to combine
and why
and why
why
why
why
why
why
why
why

Destiny for some
is to save lives
but destiny for some
is to end lives
but there is no end
and I will see yoooooooou
in far off
places

so the song is different. it is heavy and certainly middle eastern sounding. it is a big big big sound with lots going on. i like is noises at the end classic morrissey using sounds insead of words. i dig

Strange song about Bin Laden....

I LOVE it. I can't wait to hear this blasting through my car's stereo.

I can't find it! Where is it? I want to hear it!

I like it. Big bombastic sound, will be better to hear it in the context of the whole album, but it's looking good! :)

Where can this song be downloaded?
Anyone with a link or copy of the file they can email me?
gpmozzer@totalise.co.uk

Plus has Mozza been down the pub with Wayne Hussey?

either the board crashed or it was pulled, because it aint there no more... can anyone say lawsuit?

Yes, Moz has that ol' "crooner's trill" down pat.

I can't wait to see him again in far-off places...

 

I f**king love it, really different sound and these lyrics:

"It's so easy for us to sit together
but it's so hard for our hearts to combine"

- as always Moz, relevent to my life.

...is all I can say - what a brilliant track!

Reminds me of Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir", which I always loved...

Wicked vocals. A masterpiece.

Mozzarella

the production is fantastic, love the booming bass on it, love the ending too, great atmospheric track.

Sadly I must admit it sounds a hell of alot like The Tea Party. Musically I mean. Or like any dark goth dance bar song, which sounds like what it's aiming for.... but It's a little too slow to work as a dance song and the lyrics too distracting and different for your average dance crowd.

I was hoping for something that sounded slightly personal, this misses the mark for me. I've been thinking about the album everyday for a long time and, like most of you, this is the first I've heard. I can only comment on my own impressions of course.

I must say it is GREAT to hear new Morrissey... That doesn't mean I can't be realistic. Can't wait for the rest...

Man of Vision

Very hypnotic. Lovely voice as always.

Maria.

Nothing Morrissey has ever released before. Awesome.

Led Zeppelin!!!

will moz belly dance on stage to this song?

this one gets the Good Housekeeping seal of approval!

what a week!

What magnificent vocal "warbling"...truely a return to his best.It sounds direct and confident, IT Swaggers!!!!! I can already picture the hip dislocating moves he will no doubt preform throughout the track when played live. I'm salivating for MORE!!!

I will resist listening to any new songs until "Ringleader" is released and then it will be a fantastic, unbelievable, life-altering listening party at my place...why would you ruin the suspense and anticipation that you can only get by going to the store, buying the cd, having a drink and hearing songs for the first time ever by your alltime favorite singer?!! Sometimes waiting is better.

I'm already singing along.

HA HA HA Its so exciting... and very Kashmir-esque. Maybe Mozzer has started to be all mystical and visits gurus! Or maybe its a less direct and better appropriation of his anti-American stance concerning its government whilst loving the country. Or is he allying himself with society's outsiders (in this case hardcore Islamic fundamentalists?)

Who knows?Cracking tune tho'

Sounds like an arresting opener...

And I laughed at the start of it. Always a good sign!

"Nobody knows what human life is
WHy we come?
Why we go?"

"its so easy for us to sit together
But its so hard for our hearts to combine...."

"Destiny for some is to save lives
But destiny for some is to end lives
BUT THERE IS NO END."

"And if your God bestows protection upon you
And if the U.... S.... A doesn't bomb you
I believe i WILL SEE YOU
Somewhere safe
Looking to the camera
Messing around and pulling faces."
(YES YES YES YES Mr Morrissey... more like this tune please.

It does have a Tower Of Strength quality to it tho' (goth band The Mission 1987ish)

I had to listen to this song- and it is bold, daring- and, above all, beautiful.

The timeliness of this song could not be more on target.

Morrissey's is very brave to write a song such as this- but these are desperate times.

Many celebrities are now identifying George W. Bush as a terrorist- and I cannot help but agree. Morrissey handles this topic with amazing sensitivity and creativity.

This may be the album the defines Morrissey from a broad musical and intellectual perspective.

I hear experimentation, hope, and a great deal of energy with this song- and I know there is only more amazing creativity to follow.

Morrissey isn't afraid to make a statement- I am hoping for a front cover, full-page photo on Rolling Stone- which is the worst periodical yet most famous music mag here in the US.

Love,
Ken Stavitzke

That's fuckin' AMAZING!

I can't get the stupid grin off my stupid face! Tony Visconti you little diamond! Mozzer you star!

Bet you anything it will open the live shows too!

!!!

and might I add;

!

http://s60.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2DYZV8T5SVK5Y26 HXIZG8ZNP5V

ok, you can thank me now.

Ok here we go; the song is everything I expected. Great vocals and slightly catchy song. As a Morrissey fan I love the song. I will listen to this song over and over until the album comes out or another single is leaked. However, with that said, this isn't a mainsteam song that will put him on the charts.

This song is a treat to all Morrissey fans, but won't recruit any new listeners.

Now let me put on my bullet proof vest, because I can already here the gunfire.

Dano even left his gong. Nice of him.

where's the melody?

I love it, but it seems, as with "Your Arsenal", "Maladjusted", "Viva Hate" and "Southpaw Grammar", Morrissey has put a sonically impressive, big heavy track with, to be honest, not that much of a tune behind it as the opning track. Tracks 2 and 3 will be typically catchy as hell, by this standard.

Jessica x

Tell me about the guitar playing. Do the guitars sound like any previous Moz song? What song does it compare to? A little nervous about the Led Zep references--I can't stand them. From what I've read, sounds almost heavy metalish...give me some perspective. No way Boz and Alain are playing on this song right???

clearly this is about somebody middle eastern.

"If your god bestows protection upon you / and if the u.s.a. doesn't bomb you...i will see you in far off places / destiny for some is to save lifes, but destiny for some is to end lifes, BUT THERE IS NOT END and i will see you in far off places - SOMEWHERE SAFE, LOOKING TO THE CAMERA, MESSING AROUND AND PULLING IN FACES."

that is so about the taliban and osama bin laden. thats an awesome song.

now i can listen to "america is not the world" and "irish blood english heart" with the knowledge...he writes what he see's.

i think its odd that morrissey fans seem to be concentrating on the sound and less on lyrical content.

but all together...i think the song is magnificent. sounds like a rough terrain tour of the middle east

Should this kind of thing be posted as a news item on this site? That doesn't seem wise.

So is this a "Whyte Song" or a song written by Tobias trying to sound like Alain?

It's magnificent; beautiful, rousing, real yet transcendent. Make way for the world-conquering festival of the ROTT!

i'm as mega-excited about the new CD as any longtime Moz fan but this track doesn't really do it for me. and i wish it did!

i don't like the end section vocal ad-lib at all. it feels like there isn't someone willing to tell him to pull it back a little sometimes. it's more AFFECTED than usual.

mostly my reaction is 'meh'. which is not what i want to be feeling. but y'know i'm sure something on the CD will break my heart (please). he always does!

Oh my god...this can't really be the 'real' first track can it? .....been here before...pretending that it's good, even making myself try to like it, kidding myself for weeks, "but it's mozzer so it must be good?" I'd tell myself.

Time will obviously tell, but as I say, I've been here before.....

Deflated

Yes! Yes! Yes! This is a great opener.

Does anyone else think it sounds (musically) like a sonic Morroccan version of 'Teachers'?

Crazy beautiful it conjours up images of Kafka and Andre Gide meeting down the local bazaar for tea and opium.

I love the openers for Moz's albums where he goes large and expansive.

Awaiting this album and with names/words/places linked to it such as Visconti, Rome, Morrocone, 3 guitarists I was hoping for an album with a vaster fuller sound matched to Moz'z beautful poetry and while this is only one song it bodes tremendously well for future releases.

Lyrically it sounds like the kind of letter Oscar Wilde would have written Lord Alfred Douglas had they been alive in 2005.

Visconti mentioned that it sounds like Morrissey has a new muse and if this is anything to go by it sounds like it has brought out the best in him.

Also if I had a criticism of YATQ it was that it sounded quite slickly produced in as much as Moz's voice sounded very lush, which is no bad thing, but I also like it when he has that kinda plaitive quality to it, which I think this song has without losing the 'croon'.

Mr Visconti take a bow.

Lastly Johnny Marr is always having a chip that he doesn't listen to Morrisssey's solo stuff coz he always knows how it's going to sound.

Pie Mr Marr? Of the humble variety perhaps?

A bonkers song and loving it more with every listen.

Did anyone get the opportunity to download the song and post it to a viable link? I've been trying deperately to find it with no luck! I must hear it!

He could have released a Fart and got the same reactions from you people !!!

- Tito

You don't think that the rest of the new lp will also sound like this do you?

Where is moz going?

I think mozz is just entertaining in general. He as been since i became a fan in 92 or way before then for others. I love the first few seconcds on the new single or song. I heard it was gonna be a little harder, and for mozz it is.
I give it *****. nothing really new but who cares at least we can see him live again. ViVa Los Angeles (mozz- angeles for some of us!)

Yes... Just without the guitars, drums and bass I assume.

Seriously, it really does seem to have a detached coldness to it and I hope there are some real warm tracks. His writing has been pretty distant and external for the most part lately. I know there are exceptions... many of which were B-sides on YATQ. Ah well. I don't think this will ever grow into my favourite songs but it has the illusion of a strong album opener. The lyrics are very strong, it's too bad the music is so generically dark goth dance.

-MOV

are reviewing the album next month and they are going to trash it.

Be warned. I will say no more.

& i am never wrong

maybe
;o]
Robby

mood-o.k.
music-Morrissey ~ I Will See You In Far Off Places

I love it. Its absolutly wonderful. Especially since I was very disappointed with the lackluster opening track 'america is not the world' off the last album. This song has power and its almost sexy in a very weird way. Fucking brilliant Moz!

Moz has a habit of picking those who are solid but unspectacular to co-write (after Marr that is). Tobias is another in this line. A musically generic track.

That's my opinion.

On first hearing, all I could hear during the "far out places" part was "is murderrrrr", then the ending reminds me of the mooing at the end of it too. So if you haven't heard it yet, just imagine hearing a cove of meat is murder in your local halal meat centre. (not exactly true, so don't panic), but for me it definatley lends itself to the classic.

I'm not too sure on the middle eastern sound on the track, when the guitars kick in, does sound a lot better, but I suppose we'll have to wait for the album to find out what we have been waiting for.

I agree with others, an opening track, but it'll never be a single, and it is a grower, so if you don't like it at first, take a few more listens.

Dont ya think?

Musically, it reminds me of My Life Is An Endless Succession of People Saying Goodbye; also, it is reminiscent of We Love You - early Rolling Stones, circa Satanic Majesty's Request (note trumpets at the end too).

Nice vocal ending, a touch of The Boy With The Thorn In His Side.

Oh dear. I had my doubts about YATQ, although, to be fair the best bits were stuck on B-sides (Teenage Dad and Daddy's Voice especially, which were superb stuff and a real return to form) but listening to this I can't bring myself to the same level of enthusiasm, that I find othe people expressing on this thread.
One, I prefer it when Moz avoids politics, because in most cases when singers tackle current affairs, they can end up putting their feet through their soapbox. What Moz does best is being intimate and emphathetic, from the gutter looking at the stars and I don't get that on this song.
Two, it has stopped sounding like a Morrissey song. His voice is on top form, he delivers beautifully but it is getting swallowed up behind too many pyrotechnics and samples and just sounds over produced. In fact, if just sounds, as someone pointed out earlier, like Kashmir - I could add to that there is a whiff of Wayne Hussey about it too, neither of which are good things. I know Visconti is a great man but this doesn't make me feel like I am listening to a successor to Speedway or Nobody Loves Us for example, songs where Morrissey sounded almost desperate to engage the listener.
I am sure this will piss off a lot of people, but c'est la vie. I know it will grow on me and I am sure with repeated listenings, it will sound like a classic - but Bigmouth, or There is A Light, or National Front Disco, or Dagenham Dave or a 101 other songs never had to be heard more than once for me to realise that they were pure genius.