be the b-sides to make up the second disc.

The only reason it's called "Platinum Edition" is because of a desperate push to make it a platinum album. Lets see...i already bought the jewel case version, the limited gatefold edition, and the CD/DVD edition. I'm sure many of us bought multiple versions....and US sales were still only 300K.

Time to move on, and capitalize on the momentum. Release a live DVD, an EP of new tracks..... Just some ideas

In the Guardian today they were advertising a 2CD set of YATQ for Ģ7.99 - is this it? Hmmm...

two copies of the original YATQ CD just in case you lose or scratch one and don't want to run to the store to buy a new one and be stuck with two gatefold covers.

If the 2nd disc does have the B-sides it would be really great- Especially for the fans who paid all that money to buy the singles.

I fear this album is being done to death.
Just as the current U.K. December tour dates are being slowly added one by one ensuring maximum ticket sales all round, the 'spin-offs' from the album are gathering pace.
Truly Reissue Repackage Repackage this time.

I would definitely buy it if...

disc 2 is an unplugged-CD containing the whole album played unplugged

or

disc 2 contains live-versions of every YATQ-track

or

disc 2 is a DVD and contains a concert of the current tour

or

Johnny Marr is somehow involved in the making of disc 2

Re-evaluate the songs
Double pack with a photograph
Extra track (and a tacky badge)

And it hasn't even been anounced at the record company meeting that we have a dead star on our hands.

is Moz not being hypocritical with this repackage nonsense..is this what happens when one grows old? selling out maybe?

c a s h c o w ! ! !

mooooooissey!

He held out for 7 years for a 'decent' contract. Who did we think would pay for it eventually? If multiple re-releases, 2nd rate DVDs and what might be construed as shoddy packaging for many artists is the price we pay for a decent album and a handful of tasty B-sides, then we will endure it. (I just won't buy it)

the second cd will be a copy of maladjusted.

I doubt this is directed at hardcore fans. It's probably aimed at the Christmas market.

Morrissey isn't like artists like Dido or Keane who are bland enough for people to buy as presents. I'd guess most of his sales come from people buying it for themselves.

Maybe with an extra CD Sanctuary think they can persuade people to buy it as a present. Not sure how successful it will be though. Most people have a very fixed idea of whether they like him or not (although teenagers seem more openminded about him).

"No details yet" and already 3/4 of this forum's posters have decided this 2CD album (if indeed it materialises) is rubbish!

I'm not against a bit of speculation, I think that's part of the fun of being a fan of an artist; especially in Morrissey's case as there has been little or no new music for the past 7 years.

However, speculation isn't fun when it spills over into berating and downright slagging-off a new release that is only a rumour!

I can also understand that part of it is frustration; some fans feel that there should be more new releases (outtakes, demos, live versions etc) and I wholeheartedly agree with them. If and when this material is released I will be buying it.

This does not mean that I or any of us have to buy repackaged material we already have. If Sanctuary want to re-release "You are the Quarry" then let them - if it's good for his record label then it may also be good for Morrissey. We should remember that there are people out there who don't own every single piece of plastic that Morrissey has ever put his name to, and good luck to them in discovering his music and buying the albums and B-Side collections of the singles we already have!

In summary, let's just remember that there are more people out there than just the hardcore who have as much right to listen to Morrissey and to buy re-released records if they so wish. As other posters have said, without mainstream support it is unlikely Morrissey would've have been offered the excellent deal he seems to have with Sanctuary, and I'm pretty sure most of us are glad that he took it.

carlos_blakos

Dear Jim,

The second disc....has been....(vomits on the floor)...cancelled...(belch)

Sincerely,

Ian Brown

Who accesses Morrissey solo & other Morrissey internet sites?? Fans I thought!! Obviously not, because all I read these days is comment after comment slagging Morrissey off. Morrissey is an Icon, and I just can't get enough of him, especially after the last 7 years waiting! So yes, release this CD, and announce more tour dates, I'll take whatever I can get of the big man! Yes I would like a live DVD etc to be released too, but surely we can comment on that and petition to sanctuary for such a release in a positive manner, rather than attacking Morrissey. If you don't want to buy the CD, don't buy it, but don't knock Mozza, he's only giving his true fans what they want, more! more! more!

The thing is, if this contains all the Quarry B-sides to date (and let's face it, it would be useful!), it surely can't include the tracks on Let Me Kiss You? It will have only just been released, and surely the only people who will be buying the singles will be us - for the B-sides! So if those tracks are on this, the single will be yet another no. 54, I'm afraid.

I have it on good authority from a source at Sanctuary that the extra disc will be a DVD containing the MEN show, the MOVE festival show, the GLASTONBURY show, the MELTDOWN show, the recent shows in Blackpool and Bridlington (which weren't even filmed!!!, the footage having been miraculously worked on by George Lucas's Industrial Light & Magic CGI boffins), and a selection of new audio tracks including 01: IT'S HARD TO TAKE YOUR FANS SERIOUSLY AND TREAT THEM WITH RESPECT, BUT IT'S NOT ME, IT'S NOT ME, IT'S NOT ME, IT'S MY RECORD LABEL and 02: THE NEVER CONTRIBUTED PENSION SCHEME

It does seem a tad bit annoying that YATQ has been re-packaged a million times, it's almost like it is an old classic....if this rumour is true maybe the second disc is an alternate version not produced by Jerry Finn or the MEN show, or a full disc of the b-sides, plus some more unreleased tracks...and it will be in a real jewel case, not a stupid, cheap, fits nowhere gatefold....hell if it's good enough it may be able to push the album to the 500k mark, thus Moz would have a gold record on his hands....

It also must be said that this re-issue thing seems to be a trend these days with artists from Usher to Britney Spears re-releasing the album with added tracks to push sales....is that a good trend for Morrissey to follow? Only if he offers us something tasty!

Moz/Sanctuary will keep producing them until we stop buying them.

A proper cash-in is where there is minimal material unavailable elsewhere. I am hopeful that it will be a live album. If it is merely the b-sides (that we die-hards already own) then so what? Some people who were at Glastonbury, Reading or Leeds may decide to buy the album with the new material as a bonus. No one is forcing you to buy it so stop whinging.

Guess it pays off to be lazy, I'll just buy the platinum edition. I've been listening to the bootlegs i've had on my iPod since before it was released.

Besides, I'm sure a lot of non-Moz fans would be more willing to get it if they could find something besides the stupid gatefolds.

...who was curious himself, he queried this with the distributor and was told that it's just the already available CD+DVD package repackaged in a normal jewel case. There's nothing on it that wasn't on the original.

This happens quite a lot when albums sell enough to justify being re-pressed, as the card sleeves are custom-made and cost more to make. Plus it guarantees them a boost in sales to the completists.

The more shit I hear about morrissey- the more Im starting not to like morrissey. I wish he wouldnt haVE released an album. WHAT A FUCKIN SELLOUT!!! A VAIN FUCKIN AVERAGE POPSTAR. gotta second chance and look how he treats it. what a disapointment

The teenagers who love you

They will wake up

Yawn

And kill you...

What makes people think this isn't just the original 2-disc release with the cover changed to reflect it went platinum? Some people seem awful hasty to attack Morrissey. Even if it does have new stuff on it, perhaps we should be grateful the new music is getting to our ears after so many years of silence.

Or do people maybe just WANT to be able to complain?

SirenCD have the platinum edition listed now as:

You Are The Quarry PLATINUM EDITION
New cover art and booklet plus bonus audio tracks "Slum Mums", "I'm Playing Easy To Get" & "No One Can Hold A Candle To You" and video tracks "Irish Blood, English Heart", "First Of The Gang To Die" & "Let Me Kiss You (Live On Jools Holland).
Country: U.K.
Format: 2-CD
Expected Release Date: 18-Oct-04

I'm also reliably informed that there is NO gun pointing at anyone's head to buy this if they dont want to :)

Personally I can't wait, I've been dying for a proper studio recording of Candle, so I hope it's not just the BBC session, but even then I guess a decent quality BBC session is better than the one i've got.