Personally, I feel I have been waiting too long. But, maybe April? MORRISSEY TAKE A BOW! MORRISSEY's guitarist has revealed more details about the singer's first album in seven years, 'YOU ARE THE QUARRY'. The record is due for release in April through the Sanctuary record label, on the Attack imprint. Alan Whyte said: "It's going to be a great album. Think the fans will be really, really excited. I personally think it's the best Morrissey album to date." Morrissey and his band have recorded almost 30 songs in Oxfordshire's Hook End Manor with producer Jerry Finn. Whyte told BBC's 6 Music: "It's kind of like a cross between 'Your Arsenal' and 'Vauxhall & I' musically - there's real variety there. There are some slow songs, some uptempo ones and a few real tough-sounding tracks." New song titles expected to appear on the album include 'My Life Is A Series Of People Saying Goodbye', 'Teenage Dad On His Estate' and 'Don't Make Fun Of Daddy's Voice'. As previously reported on NME.COM, other titles include 'I Have Forgiven Jesus', 'Come Back To Camden', 'How Can Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel' and 'I'm Not Sorry'. Last year Morrissey briefly returned to the UK, where he told Manchester’s City Life magazine about the reason for the length of time since his last album, 1997’s ‘Maladjusted’. "I honestly didn’t have any decent offers," he said. "For example, three major US labels said ‘We want you, but we don’t want your band’, so I turned them down. Another label said ‘We want to sign you, but we’d like you to make an album with the musicians fromRadiohead’, and another label said ‘We’ll sign you if you agree to make an album with Tracey Thorn’. Absolutely bewildering. People don’t know what I’ve been through."
Been wondering what happened to the guy. Thought about him the other day when I pulled out "Your Arsenal" to take with me to listen to in the car. Good to hear that he's coming back soon.
The stuff about Radiohead and Tracy Thorn really confuses me. Just let Morrissey be Morrissey. He has one of the most devoted fanbases out there.
Statements like this make me believe the new album is going to truly suck. On and epic scale. This sounds like what every washed up has been ban says when they do the reunion tour thing.
I don't think it will suck, if the studio version of "Mexico" can equal or exceed it being performed live, the album will be an incredible success. If following Mozza's career shows anything, is that if the album is panned, the tour will be out of control... I don't see it though, all the new songs on the last 2002 tour were great.
I'm biased, but I really can't see this sucking. The new songs I have heard have all been great, I'm very excited.
That's a pun waiting to happen, but okay. He does have a sort of limited but intense appeal, not unlike Woody Allen who makes a movie every two years that does $ 15 million gross and goes to video, but the same 500,000 people keep seeing the movies. I'll buy it, but that's not really saying anything, I'd probably buy a CD of him reading the phonebook. A tour though...have to catch it. I did read an article last year about him living in LA unable to get a record deal and deciding not to make an album because of that, but he's apparently settled that situation. Of course, in that same article he talked about being a member of the fourth sex, so you have to take him lightly sometimes. Being a walking quote machine has a downside.
Beginning May 24, Morrissey to appear for an entire week on CBS' "The Late Late Show With Craig Kilborn."
I was going to comment on this, but I can't stop laughing. Oh yeah?? Are times that tough in your Hollywood Hills mansion??
I like Morrissey, as well...and the Smiths are still in my top five bands of all time. But he's become a complete parody of himself now, IMO.
Unlike...say...Mick Jagger? Yeah, I know, he's got his own wing in the self pity hall of fame, but that is who he is. I'm psyched about the album, less so about him being on TV for a week. Anyone taking bets on whether he makes it to Thursday?
No meat at the shows, and a full tracklisting for the new album... http://www.nme.com/news/107952.htm
I can remember when I was younger, playing nintendo(possibly Genesis), in my brothers room, he would be listening to Morrissey, and at even that tender young age I felt like I wanted commit suicide after hearing those songs. Get a puppy!
Well that's some good news in the world of music. Hopefully its not one of those pathetic comeback albums, though. Anyone else see that documentary on him last year called, "The Importance of Being Morrissey"? It was on in the UK, and I was lucky enough to find it for download. Really interesting insight into the guy's life.