Why another Live album?

"The Under-rated Best of Morrissey"

- Whatever Happens I Love You
- Sister I'm a Poet
- I Don't Mind If you forget Me
- Trouble Loves Me
- Now My Heart Is Full
- Spring-Heeled Jim
- The Never Played Symphonies
- Why Don't You Find Out For Yourself?
- Striptease With A Difference
- National Front Disco
- Tony The Pony
- Seasick Yest Still Docked
- Late Night, Maudlin Street
- Speedway
- Disappointed

To the posters here saying "I will not be buying it"...well why bother? I mean who *really* gives a fuck here whether you do or you dont?

No news of this.

Whatever Morrissey releases I'll buy! He could sing the names from a phonebook and I'd buy it. In todays music industry, with fast-moving, advancing technology, the artist needs more support than ever.

Mozzketeers will buy anything they say...anything at all!

Let's unite and support our favourite multi-millionaire with our minimum wage jobs for songs we already have 3 versions of!!!!

We must rally together to support him or he'll be slightly less of a multi-millionaire...don't you see???

He barely made a dime from us during his seventeen months of touring, so we need to buy everything even if we already have it. Do not give a penny to charity if it can go to Morrissey instead!

Bitter Buyer Buttered Better

PS - I LOVE Morrissey!!!!

Yes I'd probably buy it anyway but the addition of the Hollywood Bowl live bonus CD should make this a "must have". That show was indeed magic and while I enjoyed the intimacy of the Palladium shows in the Fall much better there is something about 15,000+ Mozzers in one place at one time watching the MAN do his thing at the top of his game. How well the CD captures the atmosphere remains to be seen, here's hoping for a DVD release of the entire show!

Nobody wants another live cd..how bout a DVD instead?

I'll still be buying it of course, i'm just saying...

Why are there only 4 songs from his good times?

I read from an unwanted to be known source,that
there will be a hidden track of just the
audience screaming their intellect. This
will sure to get the nay buyers and sayers
out to purchase the CD. Now if only their
redundant refusal here can be set to a
sharp violin piece with a two finger salute
at the end.

If I were called on to compile a Morrissey collection, of fifteen songs, it would be as follows:

1. I Can Have Both
2. The Last of the Famous International Playboys
3. Tony the Pony
4. Michael's Bones
5. The Never-Played Symphonies
6. In the Future When All's Well
7. Hated for Loving
8. You've Had Her
9. I Have Forgiven Jesus
10. Munich Air Disaster
11. Glamorous Glue
12. Southpaw
13. Ganglord
14. Oh Well, I'll Never Learn
15. I'll Never Be Anybody's Hero Now

Well, that's off the top of my head, anyway. I don't see the point in putting on songs like Suedehead that have already been on about three compilations already. Anyhoo, we don't have to buy it if we don't want to.

no-one's said anything about the NEW LP being recorded w/ Jerry Finn. Can't wait for Autumn '08. Not only a new baby but a new Moz album to sing to it! This is going to be the best year ever.

New CD is probably done to satisfy contract terms

even with the "top 20 hits" restriction, this compilation couldve been better:

"Interesting Drug" (no.9)
"Ouija Board, Ouija Board" (no.18)
"November Spawned A Monster" (no. 12)
"Piccadilly Palare" (no.18)
"We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful" (no.17)
"You're The One For Me Fatty" (no.19)
"Alma Matters" (no.16)

if you wanted to reach back a bit further to include top30s yude also have "Our Frank", "Pregnant For The Last Time", "My Love Life", "Interlude", "Boxers" and "Dagenham Dave" to choose from which would allow for a truly "career spanning" collection.

greatest hits, duh

all his Quarry and ROTT singles [b-sides]

2 new songs who have been played live

and 2 songs thats been on every best of album
sueudehead and 'the more you ignore me'

I think he shouldve put sown on the quarry songs,
and put tracks from older [arsenal, maladjusted,southpaw,bona drag, kill uncle] albums

the live CD are also mainly ROTT and Quarry songs

well the best you can get is buy the single bundle, you have at least 3 Smiths live tracks from his last tour

I know I'm moaning, and that negotions with other
recordcompanies from where he released material
did not want to cooperate [Warner, EMI!!!]

Considering that His last two albums are avaiable for a few euros in almost every on line shops and they compile a new Greatest Hits with most of the songs from them?!

In addition a new weak song to promote it and the deluxe edition carries another mini live album?
But, seriously who works in record companies nowadays? No wonder sales are going down every year!

I only hope that a release in Feb. could be garantee a good chart position. "Suedehead" made no.26 in 1997...

I think this track list shows how popular Morrissey has become over the last 3 or 4 years.

When you consider how much singles he released in the 90s, including non-album singles. Only 4 of them made the top 20. Since the release of ‘Quarry’ he has more than double that. All 9 single of his latest singles have made it.

I think as long as he doesn’t take another 7 year break and continues to release new material on a regular bases then I think he’s just going to become more popular. I think he’s guaranteed a top 20 hits for the rest of his career. That’s just how obsessed…I mean loyal we all are ;)

This site is becoming unbearable. For fucks sake - it is only a "Best of" album! Big deal? If you don't buy it, then dont - but you dont have to make it public here. We live in a real world and artists and record companies need to make their money one or another. And regards to "Morrissey is a millionare", well what else do you expect? Of course he f***** is, but good luck to him. So are Radiodead, Coldplay and most artists that sell records. Radiohead have an extensive back catalogue that keeps on selling well - and again: good luck to them! Why do some people have this idea that Morrissey should be living on a shoe-string and be a starving artist?
Grow up! Stop this "repackage" nonsense - it is SO old.

I think the track list is Great. We all have the older Morrissey stuff anyway. I am glad that this compilation focuses on the recent stuff. Personally I would have dropped "Suedehead" and "Sunday" as well. Why live in the past?

not available in the other disc. should have been a no-brainer.

This spans twenty years of Morrissey? Very, very misguided and disappointing. Truly truly.

Pathetic. I'll wait for the new album.

For anyone who has a gap in their Morrissey collection; for those who are coming to him fairly fresh; for the serious collectors, and the rest who have a few bob to spare, this is a release to be proud to own and enjoy.

Errrr......

whatever happened to the supposed DVD release of the entire Hollywood Bowl show? It was blatantly obvious that it was being filmed with all the cameras everywhere. I hope it doesn't become a situation like Coldplay had: filmed their Toronto show and instead of putting it to DVD (as was said over and over again), decide to put it on TV and shorten the concert to fit within broadcasting demands.

Polydor/Decca used to be the Philips [my hometown
compnay in the Netherlands, half of the city used
to be big areas from Philips maufacturing]
recordcompany

Philips was one of the first who created a label
cause they manufactured radios, record players,
cassette players, and with sony the CD player

btw, its the Royal Philips Company
[yes I'm proud, I worked there before I got physical and psychological ill, and it was a good employer, very social]

1 bad thing is that the Headquarters moved to Amsterdamned :)

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Let’s just reflect for a moment.

During the limbo period after ‘Maladjusted’, the High Court Case and the later struggle to find a decent record deal: How astonishing would the scenario of this ‘Greatest Hits’ collection have seemed?

If it had been posted here as a ‘spoof’, the only bizarre thing would have been how brilliantly Morrissey-esque the song titles were. It would have seemed unlikely, to put it mildly. Except, perhaps, to Morrissey!

Morrissey has always been clear that he wanted access to a ‘mass’ audience, and did not wish to end up marooned in indie cult-dom, printing CD’s in his garage for his ‘devoted fans’.

He’s also open about how he finds the professional efforts of a major record company ‘push’ exhilarating and uplifting.

This package is to establish him as part of the Decca roster, and for Merck to test out the marketing and P.R teams at the new label. For the label, it’s a good way of raising Morrissey’s profile for the ‘big push’ later this year for an album of completely new material. In business, it’s called a ‘win-win’ situation.

And no Artist finds a Mass Audience without getting their hands mucky with Business.

Whether it’s the patronage of a Pope or the ‘Works For Hire’ servitude of a Big Music record contract. There’s no other way, unless you just want to set up a My-Waste-Of-Space page hoping you won’t just get lost in the swarm.

I’m delighted he’s found a new audience with his career resurrection, and I think the best may yet be to come.

For anyone hoping for a Rhino Records type box-set of obscurities from his solo career: You’ll just have to wait. He’s too busy moving forward to ‘the next episode’ to dwell on past glories.

How amazing is that in 2008? And how many people who admire him are genuinely pleased that he found his way to this place of resurgent ambition and record company backing? I am.

There’s a brilliant post on this thread which really bangs the nails into the coffin of this ‘debate’. It’s so good I’ll re-quote it in full:

‘How much does he have?
When he's finished paying taxes, his band, his record company costs, his crew and security, his living costs whilst touring, studio costs whilst recording and royalties to his co-songwriters, plus helping out his family and the court costs of yesteryear and forthcoming. I'll bet it's not as much as people think. Artists make very little from recording, that's why they tour so much.
Yes, he's very well off, but it's keeping him in the manner that befits someone who otherwise would have all sorts of nutters camping out in their garden, and then life's luxuries (which we all need) come on top of those costs. I don't begrudge the man a penny, because if fame and constant touring is the price you have to pay for that kind of wealth then he can keep it. Just because he enjoys the simultaneous loneliness and worldwide adoration that fame and fortune brings and he hasn't gone the way of Britney Spears, doesn't mean he shouldn't be paid for the privilege of doing his job. If he starts charging £20 per album and £50 per gig, then maybe I'd agree with you, but right now, he's doing the same as almost everyone else in music; where's the crime?’

Mozzersgirl -- Thursday January 10 2008, @03:42PM (#291178)

Thanks for that, Mozzersgirl.

Morrissey could easily charge £100 per gig if he wanted to 'fleece' his Audience. There's lots of 'Artists' who are out to milk the cash cow. Morrissey is not one of them.

He also travels to wonderfully remote venues so that people with limited resources don't have to damage their carbon footprint by travelling to a megalopolis to enjoy the show.

The song ‘We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful’ describes most of the ‘fans’ on this ‘appreciation forum’.

Veering wildly from unquestioning adoration to spurned-lover backlash: There’s very little intelligent discussion (or constructive criticism) of

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I love Moz but, why does he sometimes have to be so redundant? Part of life I guess.

The tracklisting is quite frankly, shameful. Fans have shown nothing but genuine support during the recent NME debacle. To then treat them with such an ill thought out, low grade, repackaged contemptuous tracklisting is incredibly insensitive and disrespectful.

Is it irony? Parody? No, it's the sound of a great artist taking the money and running all the way to the bank.

Truly disappointed.

G

When was "Thats how people grow up" been a hit?
Let alone, aired on radio.
After one mistaken listening I'd dump it in the nearest.
Sorry to say, as much as I love him.
Dylan would never have allowed his six year old to publish such trite lyrics.

And, I want this insured, Morrissey’s Greatest Hits - it is what it is. They are “Greatest Hits” literally. If you people don’t want them, then - shut up already or hit yourselves over the head with Mike Gross’ poison drumsticks. I am going to make this as perfectly clear as you can possibly understand it - again they are “Greatest Hits” and, and if you don’t want them, then don’t buy them. The end. Go back to being fragments of a nightmare, very nice - why, why, does it say on your birth certificate, father unknown.

In all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane - Oscar Wilde.
I have the simplest of tastes, I am always satisfied with the best - Oscar Wilde.

Hence, the word best which is like Greatest Hits, sort of - maybe. Best of, Greatest Hits - what the hell difference does it make. Any and all songs Morrissey releases are beautiful. Including, but not limited to Morrissey’s Greatest Hits. His burning desire to carry on - his visions (even like Princess Diana), insight, voice, everything --- you are all just, just jealous.
It’s daunting. You people rip him regarding his desires to go to Iran, Jerusalem, anywhere. Regarding Canada- Can-ha, ha. They club baby seals - do you understand - they literally club baby seals and you expect him to go there-you’re all mad. If you want to see Morrissey, get on an airplane, quit whining-shut up already. .Dear Lord-get on a UFO or rent a private jet-go to the North Pole for all I care, but just leave him alone already.
You are like bugs. How many Greatest Hits do you think artists, as talented as Morrissey has-has in the scheme of things. This redundant banter regarding this topic is ridiculous. It bore no connection to his “new record”, his “new record”, the term “Greatest Hits”--A flashback to Rod Serling, Rod said regarding one of his genius Twilight Zones, on the bridge of a British Ship, “A sailor asked for a pot of tea because he thought it’s constitutionally acceptable in the British Navy to drink tea.” One of the sponsors made him change “tea” to “tray”. Another flashback to the “ENEMY”. Apparently Mr. Cunter didn’t have his shoelaces wrapped too tightly.
Right-so you get the point. Or is it just that some of you “fans” are just like decorations. You’re just here. Like bugs.
Also, Morrissey’s songs are not, are not pot boilers. I want this all to be insured.

Wine is good. I have bronchitis and, and I have to, have to take my antibiotics and my cough syrup. I have a very very bad case of this, and and I can’t go see him at the moment -but I’d like to say that I hope that some of the people on here, like M23 and GU have a really, really lovely time there. I don’t write on the forums, but I do read them a lot. I mean at least M23 and GU, well they, they tried to get people to boycott “ENEMY” and now M23 and GU are trying to give their support and charity to SL. These people do not, do not just utilize this place as, as placeholders, they don’t just “talk about it, they BE about it”. At least they try to help Morrissey. Some other people on here are just so meaningless and worthless, and they just stuff jelly in donuts.

Thank You and Good Night.

What a terrible album this will be! Looks more like a re-edition of Tormentors...

Thank God for classical music. I suggest Bach or Mascagni.

- I felt a funeral in my brain,
And mourners, to and fro,
Kept treading, treading, till it seemed
That sense was breaking through.
And when they all were seated,
A service like a drum
Kept beating, beating, till I thought
My mind was going numb
And then I heard them lift a box,
And creak across my soul
With those same boots of lead, again.
Then space began to toll
As all the heavens were a bell,
And being, but an ear,
And I and Silence some strange Race
Wrecked, solitary, here. -
- Emily Bishop

The band Sons and Daughters who supported Morrissey for a few shows in 2006, have just released a single, ‘Darling’, from their critically acclaimed new album ‘This Gift’, which may be viewed here (remove rogue spaces first) -
http://www.video-c.co.uk/newmicrosites/microsite_w atchvideo.asp?FileType=ADSLProg&vidref=sonsanddaug hters002

Vive la musique!

The topic is the title of the new record I like ,it is simple, and a not pretentious ,is renacer of his solo career , his last discs are good and these songs that speak now of morrissey. exist new fans do not leave to sleep 7 years.Since old fans did it

  I like an artist when mas to say nowadays, and mas people can accede to the good music (savelife), this he knows, , to democratize the music.

He will travels to countries increasingly distant. he, is not already of garage. This is not an arbitrary list of songs,

they are songs speaks now about him, he is an artist interesting personality and

he is involved it thrills me.

This is totally off the subject, but does anyone know the details on the seating for the Paris concert? Are all seats in the orchestra(Category 3)general admission? Are there tickets sold for the pit? I'd like to buy tickets for this concert but I'm having a hard time figuring out the seating....
thanks for any info you may have!

There is a rattlesnake at my door. It is flicking its tongue at me and it is after me and Morrissey needs to help me. It has slithered up the stairs and is poisonous and harmful like the venom and poisonous toxins that have infiltrated through his beak. Can, Ha Ha. And like a Morrissey solo poster, the snake needs to be popped, he needs to be obliterated. The posters on Morrissey-solo, the ones that are just like salt and pepper shakers in an Italian Restaurant and just sit there, she tells me I just lay here. Can, Ha Ha. Or perhaps he should be set on fire and I want him to savor the flavor of my stench white socks-she said they reek and can’t breathe. He said see Spot run Can, Ha Ha . Then while all of your various and sundry names and personalities are squealing and barking out in cries for help, then I direct throw drunk voodoo things into my pot of soup and everything, all of the blotchy little people in the soup will turn to stone. Can, Ha Ha And then as John Jacob Jingelheimer Schmidt , his name is my name too, will come and throw battery acid in all your faces as Morrissey wants to see the passing of all his pathetic anti Morrissey, pro Britney racist fans as the garbage trucks comes and you find yourself tossed in like a box of dead ghost corpses enmeshed in a vat of witches brew and drunken meds. Can, Ha Ha. And then as the light goes out in her hallway and the rattlesnake is busy eating its way up your anus, Morrissey’s Greatest Hits will be playing as you are blown to Iran and while Morrissey is on stage you are tossed into Satan’s witchcraft tarot card reading studio below where you will eat mutilated minced monkey meat sandwiches with blood for ketchup. Can, Ha Ha. I want to eat poison Italian food restaurant menus and I want to stick the menus crumbled up into my penis. I received a frightening call from a woman hysterical because there was a paint chip, a poison paint chip in her hall way. I had to eat poison paint chip as well. When I leave her house, I leave tiny dropplings on her floors just to spook her, it’s fun I want to. Can, Ha Ha. The police arose again for the seventh time this week so I must attend to them maybe they will give me some of their brain dead donuts. The police are here almost every day, I want them to be, I like them. Can, Ha Ha. She told me I’m a dog, I need to lay here and I pant and bark like spot. I told her I am one, I am a dog. I love to go to work I can’t wait to go to work tomorrow it brings me so much happiness and glee I love to feel gleeful at work where I get to stare at short woman in skirts Can, Ha Ha

I think it's really supposed to be for people who want to own the Rhino "Best of" and this new release. If you judge the tracklist this way, it kind of makes sense. Not that I think it's neccessary, as it's mainly spanning 2 albums which you could now get cheaper than this collection if you look. But Greatest Hits buyers don't "look" I suppose.

Who ever heard of a casual Morrissey fan anyway?

-Man of Vision

Why has this piece of shit appeared on my screen? I have set my comment threshold to 0.

I do not wish to see, or have anything whatsoever to do with, abusive 'anonymous' bitch - trolls- from -Hell: To quote the genius that is Jennifer Saunders.

I'm wondering if all the Moderators have been struck down by this Norovirus bug that's wreaking havoc in my children's schools.

Time to raise my comment threshold to +1.

Life's too short to even encounter this garbarge, however briefly.