Morrissey: new record deal and greatest hits due
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NME.com, via Billboard, has reported that Morrissey is to sign a new record deal and release a greatest-hits compilation.
The singer's manager, Merck Mercuriadis, told Billboard:
"He'll be back out in January. We'll take a short break and then start again in March. He loves to play off the beaten track. It's also what allows him to continue going for 18 months. Everything is a fresh experience."
Those January tour dates are expected to be announced very soon. We'll have them for you when we know them ourselves. As for the label in question: we don't know that yet, either. But it's not, oh I dunno, Kranky.
Morrissey eh? What a maverick renegade.
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Morrissey
Yes!
COME ON!!!!!
HES FANTASTIC!
:(
I wish he'd stop making records
Admittedly i havnt heard any of his albums, but from what ive seen on youtube the songs seem a shadow of his former self.
Anyway, i'll definitly get a ticket it i can.
He already did a best-of.
Bloody cash-in releases.
Yay!
Another chance to see Moz ^_^
:D
Your memory is commendable.
I think that's the only time my bluffing has blown up quite that spectacularly. Usually I seem to get away with it!
I thought his
last best of was pretty poor though, i went on to buy all his albums and was pleasantly suprised...that tends to be the case with loads of these things anyway...plus he's had 2(?) albums since the last one anyway...im blabbering. Most people who go to see him just want to see the smiths classics anyway
Prove me wrong then?
All the songs i heard was just rubbish guitars and stuff like that. Now hes older he seems to have lost the magic that his youth gave him
No-one's saying you're wrong.
I just found it funny you were saying he shouldn't make records despite not having heard the records he's made.
Yeah
The two albums since the last 'best of' have been really good, I've got all three of those CDs and apart from the whole Smiths catalogue I'm pretty sure that's all the Morrissey I need. You Are The Quarry and Ringleader... are both great then, so if he were to release another album of that quality I'd be more than happy.
no one with ears
shold say he's wrong...
The Moz last 2 albums were really really weak, borderng on self-parody !
I didn't hear the last one.
The one before I liked a few songs on at first but it had no staying power.
Arguably he's bordered on self-parody for years (even with quite a bit of his Smiths stuff).
He Is Yet Another
example of how rock and roll is a young man's game. There are exceptions, but most bands/singers can't seem to keep their levels of greatness once they're past a certain age - most of the time it's between 35 or 40. His last three solo albums has been pretty dreadful and even Southpaw Grammar ran on fumes a bit. Throw him in the scrap heap with scores of others like Oasis, Manic Street Preachers and Billy Bragg.
that's why I like 'maladjusted'
he really tried something different !
Your mistake is to link it to age.
It's nothing to do with getting older per se, it's more to do with being in music a long time and not having any new ideas left. If someone started aged 40 they still have the same potential for freshness and originality but most people, after a certain number of albums, simply run out of ideas.
I liked Maladjusted.
I've not heard it since I was 15 or 16 though so no idea if I'd like it now.
^
This = true
You are th quarry
was a great and welcome comeback and he should have left it at that. The ringleaders album is really weak.
Not much love for Morrissey in this discussion
So I thought I'd chip in. All his solo stuff has been instrumentally pedestrian, because he insists on hiring mediocre musicians. But melodically, vocally and lyrically he's always interesting, and that's not changed on his recent records. I don't agree that Quarry and Ringleaders were weak. Having initially found Ringleaders heavy going, I now think it's up there with Vauxhall and Arsenal. It's one hell of a grower, that's for certain.
I logged into this thread
Just to check if someone had made this reference. :)
Good point.
Example: Seasick Steve.
(although he's only released a couple of albums, so I'm using him as an example more to show that age is irrelevant).
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