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davidt
on Thursday February 02 2006, @10:00AM
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Julia Riley Leaked It (Score:0)
I have listened to the whole album! (Score:0)
It's very good; but disturbingly, I found my mind wandering off right around the middle of the album, and then by the 2nd or 3rd listening, i was kind of skipping around the CD.
Stronger, richer, fuller sound. In someways, more mainstream sound, some ways as idiosynchratic as eever.
So no one gets sued, here's only a partial lyric from the Arabesque Far off places-- about 2/3s of the way in, he sings:
It's so easy for us to sit together
but it's so hard for our hearts to combine
and why
and why
why
why
why
why
why
why
why
Destiny for some
is to save lives
but destiny for some
is to end lives
but there is no end
and I will see yoooooooou
in far off
places
neat (Score:0)
Far-off (Score:0)
First impression? (Score:1)
(User #11921 Info)
new song (Score:0)
I (slashdot is shit) (Score:1)
(User #10171 Info)
Download - Where? (Score:0)
Anyone with a link or copy of the file they can email me?
[email protected]
Sounds Like God Machine's "Home" to me (Score:1, Interesting)
It's down... (Score:0)
Just finished dancing around the studio... (Score:1)
I can't wait to see him again in far-off places...
(User #14203 Info)
Oh dear God (Score:1)
"It's so easy for us to sit together
but it's so hard for our hearts to combine"
- as always Moz, relevent to my life.
(User #14395 Info | http://www.camdram.net/shows/06/evening_with_gary_lineker)
Wow.... (Score:0)
Reminds me of Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir", which I always loved...
Wicked vocals. A masterpiece.
Mozzarella
production (Score:0)
It's sounds.... (Score:0)
I was hoping for something that sounded slightly personal, this misses the mark for me. I've been thinking about the album everyday for a long time and, like most of you, this is the first I've heard. I can only comment on my own impressions of course.
I must say it is GREAT to hear new Morrissey... That doesn't mean I can't be realistic. Can't wait for the rest...
Man of Vision
It's great!!! (Score:0)
Maria.
This sounds like (Score:0)
Sounds like... (Score:0)
what will friday bring? (Score:1, Funny)
this one gets the Good Housekeeping seal of approval!
what a week!
(User #36 Info)
The Vocal (Score:0)
Albums are meant to be heard as a whole (Score:0)
Nice one MOZ (Score:0)
HA HA HA Its so exciting... and very Kashmir-esque. Maybe Mozzer has started to be all mystical and visits gurus! Or maybe its a less direct and better appropriation of his anti-American stance concerning its government whilst loving the country. Or is he allying himself with society's outsiders (in this case hardcore Islamic fundamentalists?)
Who knows?Cracking tune tho'
Sounds like an arresting opener...
And I laughed at the start of it. Always a good sign!
"Nobody knows what human life is
WHy we come?
Why we go?"
"its so easy for us to sit together
But its so hard for our hearts to combine...."
"Destiny for some is to save lives
But destiny for some is to end lives
BUT THERE IS NO END."
"And if your God bestows protection upon you
And if the U.... S.... A doesn't bomb you
I believe i WILL SEE YOU
Somewhere safe
Looking to the camera
Messing around and pulling faces."
(YES YES YES YES Mr Morrissey... more like this tune please.
It does have a Tower Of Strength quality to it tho' (goth band The Mission 1987ish)
Groundbreaking new work- phenomenal (Score:1)
The timeliness of this song could not be more on target.
Morrissey's is very brave to write a song such as this- but these are desperate times.
Many celebrities are now identifying George W. Bush as a terrorist- and I cannot help but agree. Morrissey handles this topic with amazing sensitivity and creativity.
This may be the album the defines Morrissey from a broad musical and intellectual perspective.
I hear experimentation, hope, and a great deal of energy with this song- and I know there is only more amazing creativity to follow.
Morrissey isn't afraid to make a statement- I am hoping for a front cover, full-page photo on Rolling Stone- which is the worst periodical yet most famous music mag here in the US.
Love,
Ken Stavitzke
(User #3940 Info)
Ye Gads! (Score:1)
I can't get the stupid grin off my stupid face! Tony Visconti you little diamond! Mozzer you star!
Bet you anything it will open the live shows too!
!!!
and might I add;
!
(User #9752 Info | http://www.stanleymchale.merseyblogs.co.uk/)
link to song (Score:0)
ok, you can thank me now.
(User #2789 Info | http://www.morrisseymusic.com/)
Good but is it Great? (Score:0)
This song is a treat to all Morrissey fans, but won't recruit any new listeners.
Now let me put on my bullet proof vest, because I can already here the gunfire.
(User #10818 Info)
Love it (Score:1)
Dano even left his gong. Nice of him.
(User #14277 Info)
Caught in ur headlights like a whale in the Thames (Score:1)
(User #8448 Info)
Typical Opening Track (Score:0)
Jessica x
I won't listen yet but..... (Score:0)
Bin Laden? omg is is about Osama. (Score:0)
"If your god bestows protection upon you / and if the u.s.a. doesn't bomb you...i will see you in far off places / destiny for some is to save lifes, but destiny for some is to end lifes, BUT THERE IS NOT END and i will see you in far off places - SOMEWHERE SAFE, LOOKING TO THE CAMERA, MESSING AROUND AND PULLING IN FACES."
that is so about the taliban and osama bin laden. thats an awesome song.
now i can listen to "america is not the world" and "irish blood english heart" with the knowledge...he writes what he see's.
i think its odd that morrissey fans seem to be concentrating on the sound and less on lyrical content.
but all together...i think the song is magnificent. sounds like a rough terrain tour of the middle east
(User #1871 Info | http://www.myspace.com/ofthetimes)
An illegal download as a news item? (Score:1)
(User #1342 Info)
Which is it? (Score:1)
(User #13540 Info | http://www.alainmatters.com/)
Songs to save your life (Score:1)
(User #12673 Info)
i wish i liked it! (Score:0)
i don't like the end section vocal ad-lib at all. it feels like there isn't someone willing to tell him to pull it back a little sometimes. it's more AFFECTED than usual.
mostly my reaction is 'meh'. which is not what i want to be feeling. but y'know i'm sure something on the CD will break my heart (please). he always does!
Please no.... (Score:0)
Time will obviously tell, but as I say, I've been here before.....
Deflated
Easter Teachers (Score:1)
Does anyone else think it sounds (musically) like a sonic Morroccan version of 'Teachers'?
Crazy beautiful it conjours up images of Kafka and Andre Gide meeting down the local bazaar for tea and opium.
I love the openers for Moz's albums where he goes large and expansive.
Awaiting this album and with names/words/places linked to it such as Visconti, Rome, Morrocone, 3 guitarists I was hoping for an album with a vaster fuller sound matched to Moz'z beautful poetry and while this is only one song it bodes tremendously well for future releases.
Lyrically it sounds like the kind of letter Oscar Wilde would have written Lord Alfred Douglas had they been alive in 2005.
Visconti mentioned that it sounds like Morrissey has a new muse and if this is anything to go by it sounds like it has brought out the best in him.
Also if I had a criticism of YATQ it was that it sounded quite slickly produced in as much as Moz's voice sounded very lush, which is no bad thing, but I also like it when he has that kinda plaitive quality to it, which I think this song has without losing the 'croon'.
Mr Visconti take a bow.
Lastly Johnny Marr is always having a chip that he doesn't listen to Morrisssey's solo stuff coz he always knows how it's going to sound.
Pie Mr Marr? Of the humble variety perhaps?
A bonkers song and loving it more with every listen.
(User #14667 Info)
Please Help! (Score:0)
To all the Blind Lovers... (Score:0)
- Tito
The rest of the album (Score:0)
Where is moz going?
I Likw!!! (Score:1)
I give it *****. nothing really new but who cares at least we can see him live again. ViVa Los Angeles (mozz- angeles for some of us!)
(User #10900 Info)
Will the rest of the albums sound like this ??? (Score:0)
Seriously, it really does seem to have a detached coldness to it and I hope there are some real warm tracks. His writing has been pretty distant and external for the most part lately. I know there are exceptions... many of which were B-sides on YATQ. Ah well. I don't think this will ever grow into my favourite songs but it has the illusion of a strong album opener. The lyrics are very strong, it's too bad the music is so generically dark goth dance.
-MOV
Q Magazine (Score:0)
Be warned. I will say no more.
i like it (Score:1)
maybe
Robby
mood-o.k.
music-Morrissey ~ I Will See You In Far Off Places
(User #13614 Info | http://www.churchofevil.org/)
Incredible (Score:0)
J Tobias - inauspicious co-writer (Score:0)
Halal Meat Is Murder (Score:0)
On first hearing, all I could hear during the "far out places" part was "is murderrrrr", then the ending reminds me of the mooing at the end of it too. So if you haven't heard it yet, just imagine hearing a cove of meat is murder in your local halal meat centre. (not exactly true, so don't panic), but for me it definatley lends itself to the classic.
I'm not too sure on the middle eastern sound on the track, when the guitars kick in, does sound a lot better, but I suppose we'll have to wait for the album to find out what we have been waiting for.
I agree with others, an opening track, but it'll never be a single, and it is a grower, so if you don't like it at first, take a few more listens.
sounds like Alsatian Cousin meets Queen is Dead! (Score:0)
Very Exotic (Score:1)
Nice vocal ending, a touch of The Boy With The Thorn In His Side.
(User #724 Info)
Fry's Turkish Delight (Score:1)
One, I prefer it when Moz avoids politics, because in most cases when singers tackle current affairs, they can end up putting their feet through their soapbox. What Moz does best is being intimate and emphathetic, from the gutter looking at the stars and I don't get that on this song.
Two, it has stopped sounding like a Morrissey song. His voice is on top form, he delivers beautifully but it is getting swallowed up behind too many pyrotechnics and samples and just sounds over produced. In fact, if just sounds, as someone pointed out earlier, like Kashmir - I could add to that there is a whiff of Wayne Hussey about it too, neither of which are good things. I know Visconti is a great man but this doesn't make me feel like I am listening to a successor to Speedway or Nobody Loves Us for example, songs where Morrissey sounded almost desperate to engage the listener.
I am sure this will piss off a lot of people, but c'est la vie. I know it will grow on me and I am sure with repeated listenings, it will sound like a classic - but Bigmouth, or There is A Light, or National Front Disco, or Dagenham Dave or a 101 other songs never had to be heard more than once for me to realise that they were pure genius.
(User #14426 Info)
Re:Fry's Turkish Delight (Score:2, Interesting)
The thing is, Morrissey is at his best when he puts himself in the skin of outsiders - rent boys, Bengalis in platforms, mute witnesses, boy racers, people on the margins. Unfortunately, I cannot help feeling now that he is getting ever closer to the mainstream, and there is a chance it will blunt his edge.
I want Moz to be how I always remember him, championing the outsiders, defiantly refusing to play the music industry game. His talent is such that he doesn't have to hide behind ever more elaborate production, Ennio Morricone and the like. I listened to this song, then listened to Sunny and I start to wonder if it is the same artist.
(User #14426 Info)
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