Dear Morrissey . . .

praying to God that Oboe Concerto is a song that ends up being his incontestable masterpiece, crowning his career in glory, and everybody has to say "that Morrissey, he's a racist piece of shit and he tended to pad his albums with some of the most forgettable filler ever known, but 'Oboe Concerto' is a solid jam and nobody can really deny that"

Oh God I just laughed so hard at that.

Is it time for 'ILX pre-covers Morrissey'?

praying to God that Oboe Concerto is a song that ends up being his incontestable masterpiece, crowning his career in glory, and everybody has to say "that Morrissey, he's a racist piece of shit and he tended to pad his albums with some of the most forgettable filler ever known, but 'Oboe Concerto' is a solid jam and nobody can really deny that"

― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, April 13, 2014

i'm already ready to say this.

except for the "forgettable filler" part, you heretic!

Is it time for 'ILX pre-covers Morrissey'?

...you have the right idea. Hold on.

Okay, contributors welcome as of now:

ILX Pre-Covers Morrissey's "World Peace Is None Of Your Business"

https://31.media.tumblr.com/9b9d7c1d32e5bd25ce0b34449b9b7387/tumblr_n43k0yZRu61sq4hjno3_400.jpg
https://31.media.tumblr.com/15750732b5688442542a16ef0d32eba4/tumblr_n43k0yZRu61sq4hjno2_400.jpg
https://31.media.tumblr.com/5a469c40933ff8e94bee6867e91d0352/tumblr_n43k0yZRu61sq4hjno5_400.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/z613Dvj.png

1 WORLD PEACE IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS (4:21)
2 NEAL CASSADY DROPS DEAD (4:02)
3 ISTANBUL (4:40)
4 I'M NOT A MAN (7:50)
5 EARTH IS THE LONELIEST PLANET (3:38)
6 STAIRCASE AT THE UNIVERSITY (5:30)
7 THE BULLFIGHTER DIES (2:05)
8 KISS ME A LOT (4:03)
9 SMILER WITH KNIFE (5:13)
10 KICK THE BRIDE DOWN THE AISLE (5:18)
11 MOUNTJOY (5:08)
12 OBOE CONCERTO (4:07)
13 HOW DO I SHOT WEB (6.33)

Cool bonus track for the Japanese edition

If you read the nearly released Sex Criminals collection by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky, there's a rather amusing cameo in silhouette of "an English crooner" named, get this, "Esteban."

Is his surname "Buttez" ?

Only in the earlier drafts

That looks quite an eccentric fabric.

http://pitchfork.com/news/55123-morrissey-allegedly-demands-cancellation-of-show-taking-place-at-same-time-as-his-in-nearby-venue/

I mean, lol

Having been to said venue numerous times, it's not THAT much of a deal. Two separate stages within the same building, in separate rooms, though you do go along the side of one (where Paws were) to get to the other. Moz just had a cow, in today's lack of surprise.

lol @ bedtime zing

is the barclays centre cliff richard show not sold out? it's being advertised on bus stops and phone booths

"After thwarting a couple creepy attempts by fans to mount him like a steed..."

http://blogs.ocweekly.com/heardmentality/2014/05/morrissey_tacked_on_stage_san_jose_by_fans.ph

Dude from We Are Scientists calling Morrissey milquetoast... well, I guess he'd be the expert

are you saying that Dude from We Are Scientists...is "the milquetoast one"?

Barclays is not sold out, which isn't surprising. He didn't sell out MSG in 2007 either.

are you saying that Dude from We Are Scientists...is "the milquetoast one"?
― Enola Ghey (King Boy Pato)

That was the idea

34 minutes in is the single http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0435crm

Not bad, but I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris was better right?

Don't know why he insists on that kind of clumsy, heavy backing band sound even of they sound better here than on previous album.

There's a weird spoken-word promo vid with what looks like Nancy Sinatra as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WltvzfNMiF0

Yes, that's Nancy Sinatra all right.

wait is he parodying his own true-to-you posts or

So here is the album cover:

http://i.imgur.com/04HRJVC.png

Which is apparently a photo that appeared on True To You earlier this year, with a new background photoshopped in and some wrinkles photoshopped out.

Nice bit of clone stamping in the bottom left:

http://i.imgur.com/NbeeehU.png

Guys, I've seen everything:

http://www.dianamystery.com/ALMAMATTERS.htm

That World Peace cover is a bit Neil Young-ish.

totally neil youngish :)

diana mystery reminds me of http://digilander.libero.it/jamespaul/fc1.html

what could go wrong

Joined June 2009

yeah they just deleted all of the tweets because there was definitely more than one when I made a widely-ignored @moz/@itsmorrissey joke this morning

Wonderella ‏@wonderella 1h -- RT @itsmorrissey what's ham like

lolololol

^^ first morrissey twitter beef

lol

Maybe the record company insisted he do twitter promotion in exchange for them doing record company promotion?

SCANDAL

http://true-to-you.net/morrissey_news_140516_01

if the album were spoken word like that promo video I might actually be interested

his music just keeps getting more and more unimaginative & like a pastiche of himself

def. I debated going to some of the new tour dates but its reached the point where half of the material is post you are the quarry garbage

Another spoken-word vid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W9v1Vz4Ixs

https://twitter.com/harvest_records/status/467732037223198720

RIP "Official" Twitter account

Two of the new songs are on Spotify, World Peace Is None of Your Business and Istanbul. Pretty good for modern Morrissey. Some nice detailed production instead of the usual chug.

Thx. "Istanbul" has a bass line lifted from Marvin Gaye. Seems like he's been involved in something like that before. Hmm.

Really liking Istanbul. Nearly Smiths/early Moz quality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcGGojgYZQw

The instrumentation is nothing like the Smiths. I like it, though.

The instrumentation is nothing like the Smiths

I dunno, to me it sounds like a cross between Money Changes Everything and the unreleased original mix of Sheila Take A Bow. It could easily fit on The World Won't Listen.

http://i.imgur.com/bIJ82Y5.jpg