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ROTT enters Australian album chart at #55

posted by davidt on Monday April 17 2006, @11:00AM
Sean O'Callaghan writes:
The official music chart of Australia, the ARIA chart, reports that Ringleader of the Tormentors has entered at number 55.

Below is a short paragraph that accompanied the news. It features chart placings for Morrissey's previous albums...

Steve Patrick Morrissey, better known as just Morrissey, was once the lead singer of British rock band The Smiths. The band broke up in 1987, with Morrissey launching his solo effort shortly after. Not one to be shy, he has addressed issues of child murder, prostitution, drug use, racism and homosexuality in his music. In recent years Morrissey has still charted in the Top 100, with You Are The Quarry coming in at #64 (May '04), Maladjusted at #62 (Aug. '97) and Southpaw Grammar at #74 (Sep. '95). Ringleader Of The Tormentors is the #1 album in Morrissey 's native U.K. this week.
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  • Rolf Harris "two little boys" is still number one there. Whats that skippy? theres two kids stuck down the abondoned well. Struth!
    Anonymous -- Monday April 17 2006, @11:13AM (#212044)
  • I was at the gig last night and was wondering how ROTT would do in Aus .. here's my answer .. pretty poorly :( No wonder he doesn't visit us when he's getting the reception he does over here.
    Anonymous -- Monday April 17 2006, @11:51AM (#212061)
  • But don't most Australians think Morrissey is a clothing label?
    Anonymous -- Monday April 17 2006, @04:40PM (#212124)
  • I was in HMV Pitt St, one of the major stores in Sydney, and they were ONLY selling the deluxe edition of ROTT, and it was $37!!

    How on earth is that going to attract anyone other devoted Moz fans, when almost everything else in the Top 40 is going for $20-25?
    Anonymous -- Monday April 17 2006, @07:04PM (#212136)
    • Re:Australian ROTT CDs are rip-offs by Supermercado (Score:1) Tuesday April 18 2006, @12:25AM
    • As I reported earlier on the message boards, the Sanity shop in Hobart I went to didn't have it at all, and had no intention of getting it. Their computer crashed after about ten minutes of searching. The bloke couldn't even spell Morrissey's name and hadn't heard of the album.

      I'll try again next week at the bigger Virgin shop in town on my monthly outing, and if they don't have it, one of the specialist shops next month.

      Naively I hoped that it would be glaring out at me from the shelves along with the new Madonna and Prince, but it seems Morrissey's even harder to get now than he was twenty years ago when we had to borrow the records from older friends.

      I don't see how Morrissey could reasonably have anything against Australia on account of album sales if the jolly things aren't even available to buy in the first place. (And I'm certainly not going to pay nearly twice the normal price for a deluxe edition. It's music I'm interested in, not video clips, etc.)
      Desiree Carthorse -- Tuesday April 18 2006, @02:11AM (#212171)
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    • Re:Australian ROTT CDs are rip-offs by Midnight (Score:1) Tuesday April 18 2006, @02:31AM
  • ...I fear he will stay away forever!!

    Why not REALLY PISS HIM OFF by calling him "Stevie", "Stevo", "Stevmeister", "Patsy", "Paddy", "The Mozmeister" or indeed "Mozzie!"

    Sheridan....an English man with Irish Blood and an Australian Post Code still waiting for a Melbourne ROTT gig
    Anonymous -- Monday April 17 2006, @07:15PM (#212137)
  • Surely he can be very shy? When interviewed on TV he always looks a bit uncomfortable and often looks off camera to his band as if for reassurance. Having said that, he can be outspoken about issues he belives strongly in, so...

    I suppose that mixture of shyness and outspoken-ness is part of why I love him :)

    SarahG -- Tuesday April 18 2006, @09:08AM (#212258)
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