I recently got a version of 'Stay As You Are'. (thanks uncleskinny)

It's hard to hear Morrissey's vocals, they sound very distant, but the music is very beautiful. Would fit nicely into Vauxhall & I.

I'd be really interested in hearing Belfast, or even getting lyrics from the song. Is anything of the sort available? Thanks in advance for any information.

Oh Well, I'll Never learn is of cause not so rare as it was on the MCD of Sudehead.

Stay As You Are and Fantastic (or Faboulous) Bird were rumoured before.

Sisterama - sound to me like Sister I'm A (Poet), maybe just an early take.

Bed Took Fire and Please Help are widly known .Mp3's.

But the rest - I'd love to hear!!

The Ramones released a song on their debut album entitled 'Chainsaw'. I doubt Mozzer would cover this song and wonder if Chainsaw was a working title for what eventually became Vauxhall & I's closer 'Speedway'? Afterall, 'Speedway' features the sound of a revving chainsaw...

i got this from uncle skinny as well. love the melody but wish you could hear the vocals.

There are enough there to make it a REAL RARITIES compilation! EMI, get on it!

sounds like a great title.

Beautifully ambiguous.

Isn't Bed Took Fire just an early version of At Amber?

Hey David (I think you run this)
Is there anyway of posting some of this unreleased stuff here

http://s24.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1PQB50XEVIQ5V1NFLHITJCR82E

Here you go everyone.

Dear EMI,

Don't forget about us!

Sincerely,

A Girl I Used To Know, Me Satisfied, Take Us The Way We Are, Born To Hang, My Name Is Mortimer, November The 2nd, Oh Phoney, Kitt, I Know Very Well How I Got My Note Wrong, Harry Rag, My Insatiable One, Drive In Saturday, Striptease With A Difference, Piccadilly Palare (Extended), I Want A Boy For My Birthday, Summer Nights, and 'The Sha La La Song'

There. I think I covered it all. Are there any songs I left out??? Does anyone have Michael Legge's number? I'm sure he has more tracks that he's been holding out on.

wasn't "Please Help The Cause Against Loneliness" the song Morrissey wrote for Sandie Shaw? I think so.

This song is in the "Seasick, Yet Still Docked" vein. Very nice music but can't hear the vocal or make our many words. But my gut says 100% Moz.

Please Help The Cause Against Loneliness...one of the tracks listed as an unreleased tune for Viva Hate is actually a song who's lyrics were written by Morrissey for Sandie Shaw. Did Morrissey write the music? I haven't got a clue. But the song is available as a B-side to a single released by Sandie Shaw. Sorry, don't know the name of that single, but I've heard the song...it's quaint and lovely. Cheers.

There are so many Vile "Anniversary editions" being released for other bands. Please Bring out the Moz one with extra tracks! "Viva Hate" is a SEMINAL important album. Go on, cash it in - I don't care!

I know I am a sad collector but does anyone know if any Morrissey or The Smiths was actually releasead on Minidisc? I thought that at least "Vauxhall" could have been released as MD but I've never come across any. "Vauxhall" came out at the time when the Minidisc was "the" thing. Please let me know. I still like my Minidiscs although it's a forgotten format. Thanks!

Interestingly, there is no mention of "Lifeguard On Duty," the homoerotic ditty which Simon Goddard notes as the very first song to be recorded for Viva Hate in his appendix to the latest edition of Songs That Saved Your Life. The chorus was "oh, lifeguard, please save me from life," or something similarly maudlin.

Cheers,

Jamie

Am I the only person who is wondering who 'Dennis Cockall' is?

I think that Sanctuary should gather all of these recordings, and amalgamate them into a proper compliation - including the original version of 'Picadilly Palare' - I think that the plaintive ending of' No Dad, I won't be home tomorrow' is the best part of the song.

Does anyone have a copy of "I want a boy for my birthday"?

I'm sure this article is mere rumor but it seems some people actually have heard or somehow possess these. I'd love to know how I can get them, any info would be appreciated.

I have "Oh Well I'll Never Learn" and "Sisterama" which likely the same a "Sister I'm a Poet"

Thanks.

As most everyone has pointed out, most songs on this list have already been sussed. Again, this is how these rumours start, small then explode. But most people on this list know better and are not so easily fooled. Chock it up to another slow news day.

Does anyone know, or has anyone ever heard anything about The Smiths covering Needle In A Hastack at one point, probably at one of their early gigs? I have heard this rumour several times, and I am dying to know if it actually ever happened or not. There are no setlists available for quite a few of the gigs they did, when they first started playing.

Ive got Oh Well I'll Never Learn and Please Help The Cause ....., anyone got anything different from the above list they might want to swap on MP3 format via E Mail???

Cheers.

Also got No I Don't Speak Spanish and Melanie amongst others.

Sorry, don't want to add to the confusion Melanie is the same as A Girl I Used To Know, tragic tale of drug addiction!!

Got The Bed Took Fire as well, which is At Amber with what sounds like a squeaky violin in the background throughout the song.

Just to silence the people who think all these songs are the figment of someones imagination.

CAn anyone help me where i can get these mp3s in the net? or anyone willing to share these with me?
Thanks..:)

I could do a CD with

A Girl I Used To Know (Melanie) hoax Moz

Born To Hang

His Latest Flame (Elvis)/ Rusholm Ruffians (live)

Jack the Ripper (original studio version, lots of Moz panting!!)

Maladjusted (Session on US radio)

Nothing Rhymed (Live in Dublin- Gilbert O'Sullivan cover)

Oh Well, I'll Never Learn

Picadilly Palare (Extra Verse)

Please Help The Cause ....

Striptease With A Difference

Such a Litttle Thing/ My Insatiable One (Suede cover live)

The Bed Took Fire (At Amber)

Trash (NY Dolls cover Live)

Whats The World (James Cover Live)

Will Never Marry (Extended version)

Wonderful Woman (Demo)

You Don't Speak spanish (Don't know if this is genuine or fake!!)

Anyone interested??

Hopefully they'll finally release "Please help the cause..." decently, as the version I have is quite muffled, to say the least. Although the Sandie Shaw rendition is quite good anyway, Morrissey doing this song is sooo beautiful!!

those recent unreleased songs striptease please help the cause, oh phoney etc... they can stay where they are! i still have nightmares from the one time i listened to oh phoney!

Just to set the record straight. It was me that furnished David with the list of 'unreleased' tracks in EMI's vaults. That is a completely genuine list compiled by the person responsible for putting together the Viva Hate anniversary edition. They were looking for addditional tracks for the bonus CD which in the end didn't materialise (I know why but won't post it on a n open forum).

Yes some of these tracks have appeared since and others are already known by other names (as the email stated). No, I don't have all these tracks in my posssesion (sadly) otherwise I'd share them.

As for EMI releasing them it would still have to be approved by Morrissey and I don't think it's likely despite his current high profile. But the list is 100% for real.

How Moz ever covered B&S or vice-versa? We know B&S is strongly influenced by The Smiths, is there anything out there? Do we even know what Moz thinks of b&s?

With idiots like you on this board -- it really makes me wonder why David bothers with this site anymore.

Suedehead

Jealous much?

You are clearly either:

A. Broken.

or...

B. Made from the same rancid, smelly, bile as that like-minded and unwanted village idiot.

Either way, just go fuck yourself won't you?