Re: Playboys and Kill Uncle remastered both fail to make top 100 UK charts
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Have any of us bought these re-issues? I own Playboys three times on different formats, I'll be f***ed if I'm buying it again. I have one copy of KU and that's enough.
Make and release something new and I'll buy it but I'm not going to keep buying the same record just because it's got a different cover and some b-sides added to it. f*** that.
It's a shame that the tracks tacked on to the re-issue of Playboys couldn't be released as a stand alone ep. Whether it was any good or not that would have charted imo.
I got my copy of Kill Uncle in the mail today! I am pleasantly surprised that I am really enjoying the remaster.
I was annoyed at the remaster for Viva Hate because it didn't offer us anything new and refused to buy it. I didn't understand what Moz was doing?! I finally received it as a gift and let it sit on my desk for weeks...hey I was hurt at the removal of a track and the fact that there were no unreleased tracks, a nice booklet, new pictures, etc. Well, I eventually got over it....what can we do? Figure out what Morrissey is thinking? Surely not.
When the Kill Uncle remaster was announced I didn't bother getting uppity, I knew I'd buy it. I had at this point adjusted my expectations.
It really sounds better! The sound is crisper and the vocals louder. I'm glad I bought it
Uppity? Where are you? Savannah, Georgia? What century is it? Are you on a plantation? Jaysus! And the Right wonder why us Gramscians have such lulz with policing language? Are you ins some sort of subservient relationship with a consumer product and it's purveyor, Morrissey?
Why are you pleasantly surprised? What are you enjoying about being ripped off by laziness? As for it sounding 'better': type Loudness Wars into your browser and start educating yourself. Remasters can sometimes improve poor quality mixing and mastering, but Kill Uncle needed re-imagining and re-recording, as well as remastering. It needed "Kill Uncle-Redux. Director's Cut" with a stripped down rockabilly homage to the live set of these songs, alongside a remix of the originals and a remaster of them. Funnily enough, there's a few serious artists out there who do exactly this type of thing:
Kate Bush was finally given permission to quote James Joyce directly. The first time ever his estate have said "yes". She took bad 80s/90s 'everything and the kitchen sink" mixes and production, stripped it all down to basics, changed tempos and instrumental palettes and, hey presto! Not a 're-release' or not just that, but a totally new and vital piece of art that is far beyond the original in my not so humble opinion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director's_Cut_(Kate_Bush_album)
There's a reason why some English artists like Bowie and Bush are revered, such that they can take a decade off and not worry about being 'past it'. And there's a reason why Morrissey almost put himself into an early grave through compulsive touring for compliant audience 'feedback' yet cannot write a song that genuinely inspires like his earlier works: he is exhausted. Physically, mentally. And morally. Take a decade off, come back when you're refreshed. Actually, take as long as you need until inspiration and The Muses return. 3 months. 1 year. 10 years. It's very sad that you don't trust your core Audience, having trashed your relationship with them for a malevolent co-dependent mutual wank-fest with a tiny coterie of sometimes demented 'fans'. Grow up. If you had chosen children, you'd have had to. But you can still grow up and stop the nonsense, as your comments on Thatcher's funeral proved. James Joyce wasn't a huge fan of punctuation and formatting either. I don't think he'd have got on very well with the pernickity grammar nazis on this site who get 'uppity' about a misplaced comma, but bend and spread and pay hard cash to be ripped off by their NME X-Fcuktor Pop Idol with feet of clay.
Just sayin'!
I am an educated consumer and was well aware of what I was buying with Kill Uncle. I was not ripped off because I wanted it. Mostly I really wanted the remaster. My point was that the remaster is an improved version in terms of audio quality. I liked the fact that the vocals were louder; in my opinion it improved the songs. I am aware of "loudness wars" and have a few remasters from different artists that fall into that category (usually it's an over loud bass). There have been Morrissey offerings over the years that I have passed on. I do not feel compelled to buy blindly. However, Morrissey is very special to me so I am always tempted and even if the product is less than perfect it tends to make me happy. Most people have something they spend a little too much on and for many of us it's Morrissey.