Yes!

It's an honour and a privilege buying Suedehead, Everyday is like Sunday and Playboys for like the 19th time.

Buy yourself a nice new Jaguar Morrissey. You've earned it!

If this was a thoughtfully compiled and well-stocked compilation with, say 24-26 tracks (Eels' new best of has 24) cherry picked from throughout his solo career then I would say it would have been the highlight of the forthcoming months. As it is, it's a pitiful excuse for a compilation, and I say again that the inclusion of the awful "Redondo" cover is both bizarre and dispiriting, when something like "Interesting Drug" is left off. I like "All You Need Is Me" alot, but People Grow Up is poor. It was Morrissey's/the record company's choice to go for a greatest hits approach - they could easily have compiled solo highlights across one cd like Frank Black or Eels, unrestricted by chart placings, which could perhaps have given - finally - some status to long-neglected gems like "Swallow On My Neck", "Lost" and "Nobody Loves Us", as well as including the obvious hits like "Suedehead" and "Gang" - no one could deny those. This compilation is a totally wasted opportunity to do Morrissey's solo career justice on a career-spanning compilation. It will be slated in the press methinks, and rightly so. FAR too many substandard Quarry/Ringleader tracks that will not even serve the purpose of attracting new fans. Of course "Gang" and "Irish" are excellent, but "Forgiven Jesus" is such a plodder it will act as more of a sedative to the listener than an incentive to investigate further. So. for the first time ever, I'm giving serious thought to NOT buying it and simply downloading "All You Need Is Me" - and this from someone who has brought ALL of Morrissey's releases just to support him, even when I thought they weren't his best, and in the hope of seeing him return to the skyscraping heights of Arsenal/Vauxhall. In this month's Q magazine it says in regard to the new September album "we're long overdue a classic Morrissey solo record" - since the wondrous Vauxhall we haven't had one, so how true.

it is a joke and i would rather spend my money on hookers and drugs

I think I've spent more money on Morrissey than on any other artist. When one subtracts all the extraneous costs like broker's fees, transportation, record-company cuts, etc., the amount of money that Morrissey has actually received from me is remarkably small.

For all the pleasure he has brought me, and all the good he has done me, he is a bargain.

If only all of life's great pleasures were so affordable.

 

Of course "I will buy anything Morrissey puts out". I'll also be purchasing the Greatest Hits record.

Guilt by implication
by association
I've always been true to you
in my own strange way
I've always been true to you
in my own sick way
I'll always stay true to you

Me buy yes always yes

... especially if it comes with a tacky badge?

MWAHAHAHA!

Answer: No

Why would I want to re-buy songs I already have? Pretty pointless IMO. It just doesn't make any sense to me. But do what you want.

That song is about the music industry's exploitation of a dead artist. Morrissey is lamenting because the artist no longer has a say in what happens to his work. The artist (not sure who it is, but I've always thought it was Bolan) has danced to every whim of his record company whilst living, and now they betray his memory by riding roughshod over his musical legacy.
Every time people wheel out this song (especially the 'reissue repackage' line) to try an insinuate that Morrissey is betraying his younger ideology, they're actually wrong, because Morrissey is well and truly involved with every release.
I'm sure more people must have realised this.

Uncut - 3 of 5 stars - intermittently firing but often mediocre

Mojo - 3 of 5 stars

Q - 2 of 5 stars

These reviews to be published in the NEXT issue of each magazine (e.g. March issue) and can't be found in the current ones.

idont buy greatest hits (at least not from artists that id much rather hav the albums), plus im still boycotting.

if you love Coco Puffs, you'll go crazy for Coco Roos

Morrissey has this crazy power over me. It's disgusting how much I love this man.

But at least I can admit I'm pathetic, unlike many others.

the supposed limited edition comes with a DVD.

if it comes with an extra live CD, or DVD, or
whatever bonus material

The 2 new songs are not very good. They sound like something that was just thrown together to try to get knuckle heads who already own these "Greatest Hits" to buy the songs again. Besides, I'm too busy clubing seals for entertainment to take the dog sled into the city to spend more money on Morrissey.

of cousre...anything MOz is always welcomed......
can't wait

Yes, I'll buy it and any true fan should. Sure, it only has two new songs and not all of his good songs are on it- so what. Just buy the damn thing and hope for better tracks on "Morrissey Greatest Hits Vol. 2" that will hit stores some time in 2010. JK.

Thetexasbloke

yes, despite the artwork

..if the song "striptease with a difference" or "please help the cause against lonelyness" where on it...but thats a dream

Just the two new songs and the 8 live cuts. Hopefully an official live version of "Life is a Pigsty" or even "The Boy Racer" will make it on there. Of course, are the live cuts supposed to be of "Hits"? If that is the case judging by the 1st disc that could be "Teenage Dad On His Estate" and "Slum Mums".