Exclusive: Morrissey announces Greatest Hits tracklisting

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by Kev Kharas [Edit this content] ▾ 20 comments 13:45 January 10th, 2008

Morrissey has confirmed the full release details of his forthcoming Greatest Hits compilation.

Out through Polydor/Decca on the 11th of February, the CD/Double Vinyl release contains the following tracks; as well as a bonus CD featuring songs culled from a live appearance at the Hollywood Bowl in June last year:

‘First of the Gang to Die’
‘In The Future When All’s Well'
‘I Just Want to See the Boy Happy’
‘Irish Blood, English Heart’
‘You Have Killed Me’
‘That’s How People Grow Up’ *
‘Everyday is Like Sunday’
‘Redondo Beach’ #
‘Suedehead’
‘The Youngest Was the Most Loved’
‘The Last of the Famous International Playboys’
‘The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get’
‘All You Need is Me’ *
‘Let Me Kiss You’
‘I Have Forgiven Jesus’

* = new tracks
# = Patti Smith cover recorded live @ Earls Court

Live At The Hollywood Bowl bonus CD:
‘The Last of the Famous International Playboys’
‘The National Front Disco’
‘Let Me Kiss You’
‘Irish Blood, English Heart’
‘I Will See You in Far-off Places’
‘First of the Gang to Die’
‘I Just Want to See the Boy Happy’
‘Life is a Pigsty’

A single will arrive a week before the album, ‘That’s How People Grow Up’ - one of two new tracks confidently thrust onto the Greatest Hits - out on the 4th of February.

In other news, the singer is currently working on a new studio album that is scheduled for release in autumn this year.

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Royter-Hatfood | 10 Jan '08, 13:48 | X | Reply

Wot no

You're The One For Me Fatty or Boy Racer?
Pfft

domgourlay | 10 Jan '08, 13:48 | X | Reply

i'd only ever bring out a greatest hits if

a) i wasn't going to release any more music, or
b) at a push, i was really really skint.

this is ghey.

twee_loser | 10 Jan '08, 13:59 | X | Reply

Roy's Keen?

Alma Matters? ..Friends Become Successful?

It's a bit last-two-albums-centric

basil | 10 Jan '08, 14:03 | X | Reply

i already

have a morrisey greatest hits. and i know for a fact he has had no great hits since

william-bowerman | 10 Jan '08, 14:10 | X | Reply

Might as well

just buy You Are The Quarry and Ringleader Of The Tormentors. Almost as pointless as the Libertines one.

badmanreturns | 10 Jan '08, 14:21 | X | Reply

"Exclusive"

Is that in the NME.com sense of the word, eg. "no article featuring this exact combination of words by this writer has ever appeared before"? That tracklist has been knocking around and written about for weeks.

misterluke @william-bowerman | 10 Jan '08, 14:23 | X | Reply

That is

an abhorrent tracklisting

devonmalcolm | 10 Jan '08, 15:23 | X | Reply

There

are only about three songs deserving of being on there

devonmalcolm @devonmalcolm | 10 Jan '08, 15:24 | X | Reply

I suppose....

... that, in terms of a 'Greatest Hits' collection, this tracklisting makes sense, considering every track (bar the two new ones) were top 20 hits. It's just a shame that most of them are pretty bad.

hello_dave | 10 Jan '08, 15:43 | X | Reply

^ This

Alex-in-Ciderland @domgourlay | 10 Jan '08, 15:55 | X | Reply

Terrible, terrible, terrible

Why bother with a greatest hits package anyway?

It would have been far better to release a 20 track retrospective and to echo previous comments......where the hell are the likes of Interesting Drug, Boy Racer and You're the One for Me Fatty?

The inclusion of two new tracks is a pretty cynical attempt to get fans who already own every other song on the release to buy it...which I shall,
but, only to add them to my iTunes before returning the disc for a refund.

Alex-in-Ciderland @hello_dave | 10 Jan '08, 15:58 | X | Reply