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    A Return to a Quarry-styled Era -- A Good Thing, Yes?

    In the history of recorded music, no pop person has ever bothered themselves with chart positins more than Morrissey. Fact. When his records stop selling, record companies lose interest, and Moz gets stranded in the wilderness for years. Moz is right to be v concerned with sales and chart...
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    that greatest hits cover and songlist is a hoax"isnt it" well "isnt it"?

    Some peeps are saying the tracklisting represents Morrissey's literally greatest hits (or highest chart position). So I listed Alma, November and Int Drug because they all had better chart positions than some (or most) of the singles on the actual tracklisting. We all agree this is not the...
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    that greatest hits cover and songlist is a hoax"isnt it" well "isnt it"?

    Well, if it's the biggest hits, why the heck isn't Interesting Drug (went top 10) on it? Why isn't November (no 12)? Why isn't Alma (no 16)? They all did better than the lowest charting Ringleader singles. So even if the highest charting singles is the rasion d'etre, it's still a completely...
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    Is Moz deluded about the quality of his recent songs?

    I'm sure the new fans did indeed quite like a few of the songs on the last two albums. Even I do! But with the exception of First of the Gang and Irish Blood, the quality of the 'recent' singles has been nowhere near that of the best solo singles; again not my opinion but that of the fans...
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    Is Moz deluded about the quality of his recent songs?

    From the 'Greatest Hits' compilation tracklisting I can only assume that he is. Before the Houdini poll, Moz had only three ways of assessing his songs. One, his own view after writing and recording the song (which he ought to know he can’t entirely trust by now), two, the critics’ opinion and...
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    The Moz/Smiths Top 100, Part 209: USED TO BE A SWEET BOY

    Absolutely gorgeous. Easily one of the top 3 Morrissey/Whyte ballads...
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    'That's How People Grow Up' - Zane Lowe Premiere...

    Hmm, lots of contrasting views on this song. It's hard to work out the consensus. My feeling is that it's 'crap lyrics, catchy choon'. What we need is a poll! I've only heard it a few times on You Tube. My impression was that the music seemed pretty good. Better than the bulk of 'Ringleader...
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    'That's How People Grow Up' - Zane Lowe Premiere...

    I agree wholeheartedly Roma; it's a view I've expressed many times. People place way too much importance on the producer. Perhaps it is to absolve Moz of the blame for rubbish songs, or maybe it's just the musos who genuinely do feel it makes a significant difference. But think of Vauxhall and...
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    The Moz/Smiths Top 100, Part 203: TO ME YOU ARE A WORK OF ART

    could've been a great song but, yes, that lyric is flipping awful. lazy, ugly and dim. in the old days, Morrissey lyrics made you think or laugh; too many recent ones just make you wince. the music ain't bad. like the strings and the guitar work in the musical interlude bit, and the vocal...
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    Paul Heaton has a go at Moz

    Another 80's 'indie' singer gets stuck into Moz about the immigration thing. Sorry, haven't got a reference (it was on Channel 4 teletext page 341 this morning) but he talks about how race relations are much better now than they were in the 70's. Perhaps the time has come for Moz to sever...
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    Info on new single (release date, b-sides etc)

    He's pretty much guaranteed a top 20. The last two 'brand new' single releases (Irish and Killed Me) both reached number 3. If this single is really good (I've not heard it enough yet to know), and Virgin/Xfm/Radio 2 get behind it, he could have another top 5. If it isn't and they don't...
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    Info on new single (release date, b-sides etc)

    The three live songs won't be on the album. That's why they're on the single; to entice you to buy it. I doubt the album will draw heavily on the last two. It will surely be a career-spanning compilation. Interesting to see that there are only 15 songs. The leaked tracklisting from a few...
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    Info on new single (release date, b-sides etc)

    This just up on NME.com (with deliberately unflattering photo?!)http://www.nme.com/news/morrissey/33112 The 15-track collection, out February 4, will be proceeded by the release of brand new single 'That's How People Grow Up' on January 28. The song was produced by Jerry Finn who produced...
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    "That's How People Grow Up" is the new single

    One of the criticisms that NME levelled at Morrissey was that the spokesman for his generatrion had become an increasingly out of touch man in his 50's. Unfortunately, the lyric about ‘never being anyone’s sweetie’ just adds weight to this criticsm. It’s a shame as I think it’s a pretty strong...
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    "That's How People Grow Up" is the new single

    The other new song is 'one day goodbye...' if the tracklist posted here several weeks ago is to be believed...
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    The Moz/Smiths Top 100, Part 199: THESE THINGS TAKE TIME

    Well you need wonder no longer! The joy of this poll thing is that we can now compare old songs with new. The fact that we vote in alphabetical order means we are forced to be objective about the whole thing. The sad truth is that not a single song from the Ringleader sessions has, or will...
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    The Moz/Smiths Top 100, Part 198: THERE'S A PLACE IN HELL FOR ME AND MY FRIENDS

    a nice little song. glad to see it's doing quite well. more evidence that Mark Nevin was probably the most unfairly maligned solo-collaborator presumably because his stuff followed on immediately from the genius of the Morrissey Street compositions...
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    Morrissey's best batch of 21st century songs?

    must admit I'm quite surprised by these results. thought the Quarry b-sides would do better. they were voted the best (or second best) set of B-sides a while back whereas Quarry tends to be a middling solo album in the overall scheme of things (in polls etc)...
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    Morrissey on 'Saxondale' clip

    I haven't really found it funny at all, to be honest. I sat through a few episodes hoping to like it but it just seems really clumsy and cliched. Saw a little picture of Paul Calf (Steve Coogan's hilarious, student-hating, northern bloke, from the mid 1990's) recently with the v funny caption...
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    Morrissey's best batch of 21st century songs?

    Which do you think is the best collection of songs from the 'post wilderness' years? I'm pretty certain what the answer will be but interested in others' opinions none the less...
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