Nice and clean. Looks good. I love it!

wow! vintage! I like...

Old photo for an album of predominantly new material...? Weird. Or am I just biased coz I think he gets hotter with age...??

gorgeous.

i love him
and i love the sleeve

It looks like he's getting "serviced."

Great photo too. A giant leap forward from the awfull last single's cover, the one with the blue background that looked like it was done in five minutes with Quark 4.

I like that old Morrissey...which is ironically the young Morrissey. Maybe the tracklist is real though...Oh No! Aww well. I guess most of the other songs are on his Rhino best of and he didn't want 2 mostly identical "Best Ofs". Maybe this is best of what isn't on there, plus a few that are completely unavoidable...(Suedehead, Sunday etc...) ...The best of what's left!

Can someone help me with my question below???

I can't find the new song. I listened to the whole Zane show, well... I skipped 5 mins at a time twice..... What time do they play it? Is there somewhere else to hear it? The Studio Version I mean...Please let me know! Thanks,

MOV

he is beautiful ... sigh ... love it!

They should have titled the compilation "Living in the Past."

With the use of younger photos to veil the fact that Moz is not aging well, you would think that this was a posthumous release.

Morrissey's career has become a joke, and his fans on here have become an even bigger one.

That has to be one of the most gay covers I have ever seen !

He looks like he's getting a massage. With a happy ending.

Thank you, Guilliaume and David for posting. This is a beautiful shot (it says, "Let me kiss you..." So wonderful for the fans, coming from Moz!). I can appreciate this particular photo so much better on a record/cd sleeve than on the tour t-shirts. I'd rather see it, kiss it, hold it in front of me than wear it for others to see. Weird? hmm... maybe it's just me.

Thanks again for sharing. This will be a nice collection. Maybe spark a further resurgence of his popularity or just further establish his greatness for those who've haven't dared to take a listen all these years (like my brother, on whose messy bedroom floor I first saw Moz's first solo tape all those years ago. He's nary had a listen since)? The photo is reminiscent of Anton Corbijn's on Viva Hate except this one is pure Love. Open-hearted. Who's the photog?

Horrible. And that you knobs like it says a great deal about your taste.

He looks like a man who mistakenly believes himself to be a young, female skin cream model.

He looks like a fool.

love the image and the tone of the photo. dont really like the choice of typeface, wish he had gone with a serif typeface instead, that just feels more like morrissey to me...

Peaceful. Serene.
Casual Daydream or Lucid Dreaming?
Rapture? Hypnogogia ?
Meditative? Contemplative?
Comforting, exuding a sense of repose and peace of mind.

Monochrome. Maybe a ‘subtle sepia’ would be more evocative for a retrospective / end of an era selection?

As the track listing covers tracks all the way back to ‘Last Of The International Playboys’, I don’t see the issue of it not being a recent photo.

Unusual to avoid ‘eye contact’ with the potential casual purchaser. And the Title and Artist font sizes are also very subdued.

I’d love a high quality print of this for Art Collection.
I find it very calming after the unflattering photos resulting from the contretemps with NME.

Good on you Moz, savour the aroma.

Yet, once again, old Moz points out(inadvertently?) an ugly truth of reality: people get old and tired, as does their creative energy.
Older songs plus + old photo = laurel resting.
Perhaps a swift kick in the ass is needed, which in turn will translate into a kick-ass album!?!

This is the same image used on the brown tees sold from his first leg US tour 2007. I bought one, of course. It also reads "Greatest Hits" accompanied by name no doubt. I would rather have new images.... Here's hoping for a new, good quality image on the new single's sleeve.

is it just me or have i seen that pic before? makes me think this is a big hoax...

its a nic picture

nice!

So exquisite.

Is this from the Viva Hate era? Not bad.....

"You are sleeping, you do not want to believe."

I'll be buying it just for the cover alone. I really like it.

-ThreeLittleWonders

When you can look away whilst licking one with all kinds of italian grafitti going on behind.

Never mind, it could be worse.
You may well have been a foreign supporter in lovely rome and end up stabbed in one of their lovely hospitals where no bugger speaks french.

that guy ?

If his best effort is people grow up
time to pack it in mate
youre fired!

Who's he kidding?
He's 48 years old now,
sorry girlfriend, he has wrinkles unless he's botoxed them out.
That picture is insulting, it makes mick jagger look genuine.

He's such a handsome devil.

Look like those Emporium Armani ad. Gorgeous!

Moz must have had some input into this.

"I was extremely handsome in my 30s.... And no I didn't look like a genetic docker from County Mayo." (I reckon Morrissey takes this insult/ compliment to heart)

Remember folks the Under The Influence CD- the first sign of Morrissey being a DJ in the vein of Guilty Pleasures (apart from a 6 yr hiatus) featured photos from the mid/ early 90s.

Ultimately does Morrissey wank over younger photos of himself?

Great picture from when Moz was still on top. Too bad his newer music sucks so bad that it could not save a monk from committing a mass murder!

Hey Moz!! -Get the fuck off the stage, or at least have the balls to get with Johnny and the gang for one last go around before you get too old and you are mistaken for Mick Jagger you silly fuck!

Im in love with him all over again! *sigh* what a great picture!!

This is a hot picture and good choice..This will def stand out on new release day.

A ten-year-old photo smacked over a tracklisting that's largely second-rate new material. Technically, it does represent most of his biggest hits, but this rather falsely reflects the fact that he sold the most singles in 2004-06, rather than the quality of his overall career or even of those years.

His deal with Decca seems to be, in every way, chintzy as all-get-out - the fact that people are complaining about the appearance and layout of an album which has nothing to do with Morrissey's priorities or aesthetic says a lot about their high expectations that he really will involve himself in every aspect of his productions, always hold his label's balls firmly in hand and show every sign of giving a crap about his fans in the process. Unfortunately these expectations are just blatantly unmet, and I think this shitty little release bodes ill for the next record.

I have an unfounded theory, though, that all of this isn't really a sign of Morrissey Becoming Industry - he's become many things but not Industry. Rather I suspect it's about age, very simply. Sanctuary, bless them, at least let Morrissey get older in peace - one suspects that any mainstream label (and Decca, brave spin or no, is now the chintzy arm of a very mainstream label) is going to deplore this "decision" and have his age, at the very least, drastically downplayed. These people are desperate to begin with, and their only hope is to sell to the kids.

Whether he made it or not (and I think he didn't), the decision to get younger (not terribly young, but certainly in his late thirties again) may have been the only one available. I seriously think the record industry is this dumb. End of theory.

And yes, of course, I think Morrissey's got nothing whatsoever to be ashamed about, and a lot to be glad of, with regard to how he looks at forty-whatever. He's a silver fucking fox.

That said, it's a great photo and has a neat Cover Star sort of feel, so if nothing else, we know it ain't an ugly album.

and i quote

"unlike him, when is this comming out?"

*sigh*

it's a sexy cover though

What a beautiful sleeve.I just love that picture!

It is a Lovely cover and pure genius:)

Thank you Morrissey!

You All have done a wonderful job..
I wish you all the best of life and love..

Happy Holidays!

Morrissey is a good looking guy nowadays, too. His style and look and appearance is gorgeous in his late 40s - so why not an actual pic?

HÄÄHÄ,

you have all the songs on cd, so why do you care about a shitty "the very best of"!! It is not worth to discuss a better playlist. Create your own greatest hits and shut up!! Mozz does not need any support, he has 100x more money that he ever can spend for the rest of his life. If you do not want him to feel depressed, send him the adress of the very best of psycharist!!

What's everyone been listening to this year other than Moz?

These are my faves..

Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Deerhunter - Cryptograms
Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
Electrelane - No shouts no calls
The Liars - Liars LP
HolyF**k - LP
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Battles - Mirrored

All great albums.. What a fantastic year for new music.. the best for a long long time!!

Just so this isn't completely irrelevant I think the cover is very nice. Sparse and neat typography.. all you need really! Perhaps that is a recent photo.. amazing what you can do in Photoshop...

Mrlem. I can think of better pictures....

I should be in charge of the fucking world. Here's a greatest hits album.

1. First Of The Gang To Die
2. Suedehead
3. Boxers
4. Nobody Loves Us
5. Playboys
6. My Love Life
7. Tomorrow
8. That's How People Grow Up
9. Now My Heart Is Full
10. I Have Forgiven Jesus
11. In The Future When All's Well
12. GLamourous GLue
12. Lucky Lisp
13. Boy Racer
14. Ganglord
15. Throwing My Arms Around Paris
16. Life Is A Pigsty
17. I know it's gonna happen someday
18. Speedway

That would fucking sort it. I know they're not all 'hits' or even singles, but People Grow Up and All You Need haven't even been released so they're not hits either.

That would be a great, great album.

This is a picture of Morrissey from, I dunno... the early 1990s? Not very accurate portrayal of how he really looks like these days, is it? Still, a nice picture.

Can anyone name a nicer looking man in this entire universe, i think not!! Beauty personified!!

I wonder if that's his "sex face"? I always thought he'd be more of a "gurner".

It's for a "hits" record. It's not uncommon for this type of release. Now, if they go and slap a pic from '92 on the upcoming studio record then I'd agree.

The t-shirt I bought from the America 2007 tour has this picture on it. Don't we all look at, or have around, photos from the past stages of our life. No shame in displaying them. Embrace the gift!

... this cover sleeve doesn't work.

In recent years, Morrissey has been *trying* to show a rougher, tougher edge and so releases music that's louder, fuller (and generally crappier, I might add) than earlier, softer works. Publicity pictures back this up. Being photographed circa "Quarry" with a Tommy and a suit, in comparison to earlier, more effeminate sounding, piano-based music like "Ouija board..." (which, by the way had a single sleeve quite like the one for this "Greatest Hits") is just one example.

He looks too young in this picture and it's insulting to himself and his fans. I mean seriously, it's false advertising, as not only does it show Morrissey looking a good ten years younger than he actually is, but also, it will lead one to believe that inside they'll find good music from yesteryear... from a Morrissey long, long gone.