Well-laid-out, great colors, still gives me the creeping horrors. He...has...no...face!

...I'm really afraid that Years of Refusal will be TOO LOUD. It will surely become Morrissey's loudest studio album to date (discounting any remasters, of course).

“Music released today typically has a dynamic range only a fourth to an eighth as wide as that of the 1990s. That means if you play a newly released CD right after one that’s 15 years old, leaving the volume knob untouched, the new one is likely to sound four to eight times as loud."

Its funny how in this day and age of super sophisticated technology, year after year, quality seems to drop further down the list of priorities.

Books are static. This should be an online project.

544 pages? 300,000 words? Great cover?

This might just be a must.

Oh, that reminds me. A friend and I were playing a game the other day called 'Invent A Morrissey B-Side Title.' Basically you have to come up with a fictional title that could easily be a recent flip track to a new Morrissey release.

I got reminded of this when I wrote 'This Might Just Be A Must' above, because that could be one. 'We Might Just Be A Must' or 'He Might Just Be A Must' perhaps would suit better.

Anyway, have a go yourselves! It's easy! A few tips...

Come up with a popular saying like "Everything comes out in the wash" and simply reverse it; "Nothing Comes Out In The Wash" - Da-Daa! Morrissey B-Side!

Or change a word in a popular phrase to better suit and sound funny, for example the phrase "the north shall rise again" can easily be changed to "The North Shall Despise Again".

Forgetting puns, just come up with titles that sound right.

'Lurching Sidelong'
'Willing It Off'
'Mischievous Miles'
'Look Without Laughing'
'Withering Heights'
'From One Hand Fell A Letter Bomb'
'She Sang Of The Much Missed'
'Hardly Able'
and
'My Hand On The Tiller' for example.

I mean, you can come up with HUNDREDS. My friend managed the best though;

'Abominable Houseguest'

Tell me you wouldn't kill to hear Morrissey release 'Abominable Houseguest'!?

enough with all this shit. morrissey needs to get his new album the fuck out already then just go away for a couple of years until he has another one ready to be pooped out.

Were The Smiths influential? Certainly not lyrically. After The Smiths, we just went back to the same old boring lyrics about love's labour's lost, drugs and how tough things are being a rock star (e.g. Fools' Gold, Animal Nitrate, Wonderwall, Fake Plastic Trees, etc, etc)- the intelligence, the humour, the drama, the wit, the literary references all but disappeared. I wish the Smiths really were influential. Just a thought.

Thats how you spell it, nothing more drab than misspelling and for all you dyslexics. ADIS

Sounds really great.

there's more to life than books you know

but only your bio's missing

as a Dutchman I know now what kegs are, that's enough for Mozipedia for me

I agree with the cover critiques, it gives me the creeps, too, and I'd probably walk away if I saw it at bookstores. Why not use M's face? Perhaps not given permission?? Is it too late to change it?

Well, looks like interesting content. The packaging should look half as good. An illustration? hmm...

This has got to be the most expensive Morrissey book yet! Don't they know there's a credit crunch!

But I quite like the cover, especially the hair.

If Morrissey hadn't been invented what would people like Simon Goddam do with their lives?
What I think I'm saying is, enough squeezing a living out of somebody else. Move on.

Will there be a book about the books about the books about Morrissey and why Morrissey has books written about him by people who have already written books about Morrissey?

Let's just forget the whole thing and put a record on.

Yours, doing the Wythenshawe Waltz in Civic.

It's called passionsjustlikemine.com.
Doh!

I think the book is interesting. As a long term Morrissey fan, I wouldn't mind to have all the info about Morrissey's career and The Smiths together in one book. The cover... I think it's simply awful! Trying to be trendy? It looks a bit girly and it gives me the "creeps", as other people said. It's not what a admirer of this charming man would like to see. Why not a photo from a film he likes? Or a nice portrait with face!? Or the title with records in the background? Please, change the cover!!!!

is to listen to his music. Goddard get a life mate and that sleeve is amateur hour and very creepy.

This chap is trying to be the Mark Lewisohn of The Smiths. Trouble is, he's not got a musical background and so his detailing of, for example, chord progressions makes him sound like an amateur amd a poseur. With a few notable exceptions (Shoplifters, Panic), The Smiths' sound had nothing to do with chord riffs but delicate and extraordinary melodies played out like some celestial arpeggio. Also, failing to mention the woeful inadequacies of some of Morrissey's early melodies and singing is either because he's being over-generous (and therefore dishonest) or because he can't hear them. Morrissey sings out of tune on several songs: I Want the One I Can't Have, Shakespeare's Sister, I Know It's Over, There Is a Light That Never Goes Out. After that, we have to wait until the outro of Wide to Receive to hear some off-key Moz. I think there was a certain dishonesty from Morrissey and Marr about their songwriting process - the credits state Words ny Morrissey and Music by Marr, yet Morrissey made up all of the sung melodies (which explains their banality). One day I shall compile a full list of identical sung phrases in the work of The Smiths.