I wonder if any of this will appear on the Internet somewhere before th album is officially released.... A 7 1/2 minute song. I have to admit that gets me a little nervous. I think most of Morrissey songs that go above the 4 1/2 minute mark are a little overdone and overindulgent (sp?) Anyway - all this hype is just grreat

the moz is coming back with a vengence can't wait to hear the new work i belive it will be a classic

with so much pleasure. Strong, punchy words can lead me to thirst for the antecipated strong, punch sounds that carry them. Morrissey, you're bashing all of Dracula's charms!

riders on the storm...

Does anybody else wanna scream "Give Us Some of Those One Minute Clips !!!" They helped me alot through the winter of 2004 and didn't ruin the album at all for me. They made me excited for it. Even if just the B-Sides. Need New Morrissey!!!

Man of (Blurred) Vision

... feeling like a child on Christmas Eve right now?
The few tentative reviews we've had leave me with a better taste in my mouth than I had from simply reading the song titles. I'm really excited about this album; I doubt it can disappoint as he knows how much rides on its success.
However I do feel a bit like a sycophantic Morrissey geek sometimes, with my excessive praise for the man ... I was in a bar in New York a few days ago (the music had been shit in most drinking establishments and the DJ was playing latino flavoured records which weren't half bad) when lo and behold I hear a familiar beat cutting through the haze of my drunken brain ... could it be? Yes. It is ... The Loop. It's Morrissey, the DJ's playing Morrissey. I think I babbled this at my friends a little too ferociously, as evidenced by them moving away very slowly.
I tell you, the man turns me into a bona fide nutter ... Let's have some more.

it sounds as if this new album is gonna be a 'Southpaw Grammar' sequel, and icouldnt be more enthusiatic! if he really nails this like iknow he can and the band shows up like iknow they can then ireally think this album has all the makings of his best ever.

hes coming off the boat load of confidence he gained from the unbelievable success that was 'You Are The Quarry'. '...Quarry' adimttedly was not nearly his best effort, but it did the job and made him comeback of the decade- everyone embraced it becos everyone wants him back atop his rightfully earned pedestal and ithink this is gonna be the album that really does it.

that said, if this album is another '...Quarry' iwill be sorely disappointed, but ireally dont think thatll be the case. Viva Moz!

That really is disappointing, isn't it. I remember even Kill Uncle selling something close to 500,000.

thank god

Kory Grow has posted the following positive review of ROTT at http://www.cmj.com/relay/?m=200601 [cmj.com], which includes a few new-to-me quotes from the lyrics. I like the touch that we are getting Elvis-Morrissey and Frank-Morrissey.

By the way, lowering the tone completely, I can't resist posting that on Celeb Big Brother last night Dennis Rodman said to Pete Burns about his 'gorilla' fur coat something along the lines of "Yeah I do PETA and all that, but I don't mind the coat".

Is Morrissey ready to die?

Upon listening to Morrissey’s eighth solo album, Ringleader Of The Tormentors (out April 4 on Attack-Sanctuary), it seems he’s a little too preoccupied with killing others, as well as his own impending doom. From the lead single, “You Have Killed Me,” to a story about wanting to live long enough to see his son grow up (“I Just Want To See The Boy Happy”), the ex-Smith rivals only Eminem in “killing” himself and bystanders on a single record. Not that eminent death is anything new to the Morrissey repertoire—after all, this is the guy who wears black on the outside because black is how he feels on the inside—but this is slightly unprecedented.

On the album’s first song, “I Will See You In Far-Off Places,” he sings to a lover amidst Middle Eastern instrumentation, “If your God bestows protection upon you, if the USA doesn’t bomb you, I’ll see you somewhere safe…” He has a song about killing his stepfather (“The Father Who Must Be Killed”), and in possibly the most shocking move, he shucks his own human life to be born again at the end of the album. That’s right, after yet another album of feeling unworthy of love, “At Last I Am Born” finds Moz singing, “I thought I had numerous reasons to cry, but I don’t anymore… I am finally born.” Well, that was a long, strange trip, Stephen Patrick. It’s nice he had a change of heart, because if he keeps on making records like this, we may want him to stick around.

Musically, Moz even sounds a little like some other famous (and dead) singers in certain spots: he channels Elvis on the Ennio Morricone-arranged “Dear God Please Help Me,” and he even gets in some ‘40s-styled vocal flourishes à la Frank Sinatra on “I’ll Never Be Anybody’s Hero Now.” His vocal performances are so impressive, that some of the musical breakdowns just seem like filler until the next time he opens his mouth. And for an album that is possibly his most poppy musically—meaning, he uses verse-chorus form throughout most of it—it’s possibly his most emotionally complex and conflicted. Perhaps all Morrissey ever needed was a emotional yo-yoing that was drastically more morose.

yes, we all know that it's not easy being green but it's not a reason to be so stupid.