...I guess this is okay for a re-release. I mean, all of us already have all these tracks.

Thats very disappointing consider the size of USA compared to the UK, where they sold far more!! Just goes to prove that in general the Brits are the most hardcore fans of Morrissey and The Smiths! Amercia Is NOT The World!

it'll be out there for the gift giving season, and iTunes has it featured on their main store page. Did yesterday, anyway. It will sell ok.

It sold too many. Morrissey and Marr should have put their shit feud aside and released this album years ago...way before the other "greatest shits" albums!

srsly

where is this so called huge
latino following ??????????????

Maybe the fans in the US who would normally go out and buy a Smiths record feel that this release just doesn't offer anything worth the cost. Even what they call *bonus* tracks are pretty easy to find; they have floated around the internet for years. And sure you can argue that it's a remaster, but really, there are more than a few people who don't give a shit about that and cannot hear any difference anyway.

I'm sure a few copies will be picked up for the holidays (not by me) but I don't see it climbing to #1 anytime soon.

Frankly, the Smiths generation is more likely to be found there than in a record store (or even, dare I say it, even in than in iTunes.)

Rhino is usually VERY careful with sound, which is why it's so disappointing to discover that this release is hot mastered, just like everything else these days. Open any of the tracks in an audio editor and you'll see what I mean. Heck, "The Headmaster Ritual" is as loud and clipped as anything off the new Smashing Pumpkins album!

okay, let's face it, soundscan is about as accurate as the tv ratings in America- by this I mean, completely made up and simply a marketing tool. In America, red cars are involved in more accidents than any other car color. Oddly f---ing enough, red is the most popular color choice for a car in america.

Alas, the only people that really buy music in America do it on amazon. Anyone who denies this is an idiot, but most importantly simiply WRONG.

Anyways, you can't compare a Cure album of new material to a remastered collection of 25 year old hits, BUT if want to take the Cure/Smith Pepsi challenge, then here goes, you have to compare greatest hits albums. Soooo, the amazon sales rank for the Cure Greatest hit is 1045 (gift wrap is optional). On the Smiths side of the fence, the amazon sales rank for the more expensive 2 disc version of Sound of the Smiths is 300.

Winner by knockout, the Smiths.

Not too bad for a greatest hits collection that has been re-re-released.

Now, if there ever were a NEW Smiths Album, I am willing to bet that it would make the new Cure album sales look like f----ing sales tax as opposed to sales.

29 feb 2009 doesn't exist

there every 4 year 29 februari, and we had it
past feb

So Morrissey, care to explain?

Hands up all those read more than one sentence of that....come on, there has to be at least one?

Once again, an amazingly dull chat room log. But, then, Miharu always makes the chat room boring.

this comes pretty close how and what Frusciante
said , when he quit the Peppers the firtt time,
and Bram van Splunteren tracked him down living
on the dole, and was living [dunno how long,maybe 1 one week stand] and just was totally
stoned, i posted a bit in another newsitem of
Frusciante

It's still oddthey never let him speak in front
of the camera when they're doing a TV show, or
live coverage of a festival, and doing an intervieuw :)

your obviously the same guy who does the weird track listings