Death Disco
Banned
Oh my God, some of you are so predictable. Stop f***ing complaining about everything!!
It's getting a bit George Lucas.
I remember 20 years ago one of the music weeklies reviewed the Our Frank single with the rather withering comparison that Morrissey solo singles are like London buses; they come often but leave you underwhelmed (or something) And now here we are. The most reissued artist in history reissues an album he has already reissued. Twice beforehand. No wonder he never songs "That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore" in concert.
20 years later the pointless revisionism of his art continues unabated. What is the f**king point in this re-issue? I realise some of you will defend Morrissey till his dying day but seriously "barrel out and scrape" should be the title of his next album. Or maybe even his autobiography which will reveal precisely nothing apart from his hatred of Mike Joyce and meat-eaters.
These vanity musical projects must cost more to release and promote than any royalties he can possibly generate from them. And as he meddles continually with his past, the present looks further away. (In Jakarta by the looks of things)
When we are reduced to saying oh it's a nice photo on the reissue it's just all rather tragic to watch someone who entranced you when you were younger turning into an irrelevance. He'll be doing those 80s tours before you can say Wham!
What is the f**king point in this re-issue?
Slightly off topic but the you tube channel that this came from has some real gems live tracks with some really good sound quality. MrSmithsDisco
I dread to think what he'll put on the Ringleader re-release (and we know it's coming).
I'm just praying he never decides to screw around with Vauxhall. Damn, that album is practically perfect.
So not knowing a thing about the Liberty Records could this be a sign that there is some communication between Moz and EMI for a larger deal? Or would that be assuming too much...
The only thing is though, I feel as though a bunch of us thought the same thing whenever the "Very Best Of" came out on Major Minor - that a compilation release would just be a contractual stipulation he'd have to fulfill in order for EMI to release a new album by him..But surely their can't be THIS many needless obligatory releases in the fine print..I can't imagine it's the most lucrative plan for EMI. I feel as though if publicized well enough, a new Morrissey album would almost certainly sell better sooner than making fans and record buyers fed up with seeing another re-release or compilation. For those whose impulse is to check under the "Morrissey" section each time they go into a record shop, it's gotta be disenchanting to see a dusty stock of songs you already have slapped inside a "rare, archival, never before seen" sleeve-shot of Morrissey 20 years younger than he actually is.
How can there not be enough space on the CD when the centenary edition had the full album plus five or six more tracks? Something to do with re-mastering, I assume? All this remastering is a lot of shit anyway. Unless you (a) have speakers the size of a fridge-freezer and immaculate hearing, or (b) have no life and spent hours analysing each song note by note, you don't really notice any difference. Unless of course you fall into the aptly named 'c' category and you don't notice any difference but will pretend you do to try to sound like some sort of music aficionado.
And please don't provide links to some geek on the Internet who has written a 10 million word essay on how great re-mastering is. I don't care that much really.
I'll be buying this, as I've bought the other reissues, for the artwork and for the sake of having a "complete" collection. It's only £15, if you don't want it don't buy it or continually bitch about it on here.
Thank you very much, it's my youtube channel.
I've put that clip together for a bit of fun this morning.