This is fantastic news...credit to David T for being the eyes, ears and voice for Morrissey throughout the "dark" years. I hope all the tracks listed here are included on the record...I'm so starving for material...the more the better!

Slum Mum.
That's me, that is.

I think this must be my favourite news story in the history of Morrissey Solo!
John, England

great news, hey great!!!, funny song titles might be a foreshadowing for an excellent record...thanks moz....

... ... ...A smile can make it better.

If there's any chance of an advance copy of the album I'll be more than happy.

www.panic-central.com

Roll on April, by the way it's my birthday on the 6th.

...America is not the world and It's hard to walk tall when you're small.

News are really pouring down in these days. Wow!!!

I can't take it. I'm going to explode. I can't take it. Oh, I can't wait. Oh, dear.

How does Julia get her info?

Great news.Today is a happy day.Thank´s Moz.

after almost 7 years I'm sure he'll have enogh to say.

www.panic-central.com

i know not everyone was a fan of this track but it had its fans, me being one. maybe it's not album worthy but could definately be a gem of a b-side.

Great titles, and I'm glad to see "Mexico"'s not on the list either.
Can't wait.

Teenage dad on the housing estate,
A fifteen year old girl he did impregnate.
Teenage dad on his estate,
He’s sixteen years old, but acts more like eight.

;-)

Fantastic titles, leave it to him to bring this to the table.

good good good already very excited - i just gotta learn patience now **yay**

sounds like Moz is going punk.

think he's going to stir things up again...

(just heading down to the high street to start queueing outside my local record shop.)

"My Life Is A Series Of People Saying Goodbye"
"Don't Make Fun Of Daddy's Voice"

All these songs sound great! I definitely hold off until April! Does anyone know is that's the official release date?

has anyone noticed he's back.

And apparently we have a lot of piano on the new album. Who's Roger Manning?

When it rains, it pours.

"America Is Not The World" = Indeed.

"Come Back To Camden" = Camden Workers Social Club featured in "Sing Your Life" video. Area of London Moz lived near.

"The Never-Played Symphonies" = Oh my God, this sounds very promising...given all of the much talked about never released songs.

"Home Is A Question Mark" = It's not my home, it's their home, and I'm welcome no more + Moz is an expatriate.

All that time, he did not have a record deal, it looks like Mozzy's muse was strong & that he kept writing songs.

He may have been down, but not out for the count. The man is a fighter, and is a lot tougher than we imagine.

Thank you David Tseng, Julia Riley, The Lads, Janice Long, Merck Mercuriadis (CEO, Sanctuary Records), and um, Morrissey, for all you did, have done, and continue to do to make this happen.

I'm so excited that I'd like to drop my trousers to The Queen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"He overspeeds and he never gets pulled over!!!!"

Here's some info about the studio in England where Moz is recording...

http://www.sarmstudios.com/

Follow the link to "Hook End Manor" - you can see pictures of the house and Studio, plus a floor plan.

Recent clinents include:
"Recent clients to Hookend Manor include: Robbie Williams, Sade, Ocean
Colour Scene, James, Embrace, The Cure, Lee Griffiths, Thurderbugs, Zucchero,
Lucy Nation, Wet Wet Wet, The Marbles."

And here are some photos of the studio in Los Angeles:

http://www.conwayrecording.com/home.html

Enjoy!

- Finn

www.ivorybell.com

Of what he presented on his last tour, I found the hook on I Like You to be too trite. I was hoping he would drop the idea of recording it. Still very much looking forward to this release.

"America Is Not The World" how true that is.....
Morrissey Is A Prophet. All Hail!!

so what's to become of the song "mexico". will it be a b-side?

I'm really thrilled.Has someone other noticed the news about James Maker? Once Morrissey wanted to cover one Raymonde song (source:1998 KROQ interview).This seems very interesting because it shows the new job of morrissey:music manager at Attack label.

Sheridan Whitehead

where is "mexico", this is my favourite song, i hope it will join the tracklist....

There is no mention of that abomination of a song, Mexico!!Terrific! Now, if only we could get rid of I like you, we'd be all set.

... David for sticking to your guns to keep this website alive to keep informing us of these great news stories- it's really getting exciting for the World of Moz that we all are happilly living in!

As far as I know, it was planned as a b-side to TFOTGTD, but who knows if that's still the case...?

"There must be something worth living for
There must be something worth trying for
Even some things worth dying for
If just ONE man could stand tall
There would be some hope for us all
Somewhere, somewhere in the spirit of man"

...Thank you Morrissey, Thank You!

Is this the roger manning on the album?

http://www.digidesign.com/digizine/archive/digizine_september02/protechniques/ma nning/index.cfm

oh yes. reading this, i'm so excited that i can't stop smiling or kicking my legs (really)...
roll on april!

Please, please, please include Mexico. For those who didn't like it - I saw him perform it live in Portland Oregon, it was really amazing. The only new track that was as meaningful live was "I like you" IMHO.

I'd definitely pay for a double albumn for all the other tracks that didn't make side A.

rumoured to be the first single!

In the radio 2 Janice Long interview from 2002, she said: where do you call home these days?
To which Morrissey replied....'home is a question mark'
Hmm, I sense a false news story here, or perhaps morrissey just draws inspiration from the likes of Janice Long...!!!

For those who aren't familiar with the TRUE TO YOU fanzines (or any Morrissey fanzines...), here is an index of active and inactive Morrissey/Smiths fanzines that I have collected over the years:

vu.morrissey-solo.com/moz/zines/zinestart.htm [morrissey-solo.com]

I know I am missing quite a few!

Is he ditching Mexico because of the song itself, or because he does not have the guts to release it? He knows that his fans really like that song. Well, here in America.

Since it says he is playing keyboards I am guessing it is a forner member of Jellyfish. This is good news as Mr. Manning is very talented and may add some excellent backing vocals.

It's great seeing everyone go nuts! It really validates the dark years, where we all pored over news scraps about nowhere bands covering morrissey-songs and bad morrissey-inspired fan art, myself included (except for that Salford comic-style art - that was good).

The titles are Brilliant! You can tell Moz and his muse have on a lot of dates.

Surprised at all the "Mexico" lovers coming out of the woodwork, as well as the bashers. I guess the song has something if it can divide opinions like that. Album track? No. But it would make a very fine b-side to TFOTGTD.

2004 - Viva la Moz!

neta que que conmadre tener estas noticias, y tan nutridas ellas, y después de siete años, se la arrancó el mozzer!!!..... aunque todos deseamos que todas las canciones esten, ya sabemos que solo nos va a recetar unas once en el disco, enhorabuena para todos, mejor noticia en viernes no podía haber. saludos a los hispanoparlantes o como quien dice a los que hablamos español, a los demás: mis respetos!

Morrissey said these exact words during the Janice Long interview. I can think of some other quotes of his that he could name his own songs after...

"I still can't speak French"

"I'm quite shy"

"Thank you from the heart of my bottom"

etc.

Dean Is Murder!!!

Dean is the butcher of great songs.

that's 16 songs...I wonder what they are going to do with the other 5 that Boz was talking about (see Dec 31 archive).

He also said '4 more months in the studio'....I hope that means two albums this year (ala radiohead) :)

of exitement.

that's gonna be a long 2 and a half month

Thank to all the people for the info

Wee in April! That's only like three months from now! Woohoooo! The song titles look really interesting and I'm especially pleased that 'The first of the gang..' is on...

But that song 'America is not the world'... Hmm I hope not that Morrissey is ridin' that anti-american wave that the crappy Thom York and the even more crappy Damon Albarn has started among musicians.. It's so dull...

Anyway, VIVA Morrissey...!

As Morrissey's song titles are usually either part of the song's chorus or verse, can you even imagine how he would set these titles to music and deliver them?
I mean can you imagine singing "How Can Anybody Know How I Feel?"
"My Life Is A Series Of People Saying Goodbye" "Teenage Dad On His Estate"
?

Obviously this is going to be missing from the list, but what I want to know is was it just someone's idea of a joke or was it really going to happen?

Morrissey doesn't like spam.

I like it,
I like it,
I like the funny feeling when I am with you,
and I like it more with everyday,
and I like it more in everyway,
are you liking it too?
are you liking it too?