Morrissey Strikes Again

Mike Boom · Post by **Mike Boom** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 9:39 am

http://www.nme.com/news/morrissey/21162

Morrissey next album is to be called 'Ringleader Of The Tormentors', and is set for completion in a matter of weeks.

According to internet rumours, production on the record has been undertaken by Tony Visconti, who is currently recording in Rome with the former Smiths singer.

Work on 'The Ringleader Of The Tormentors' is expected to be wrapped up by November 1.

"Jeff Saltzman, who was originally named as producer, could not undertake the project," Morrissey fansite true-to-you.net reports. "The album is engineered by Marco Origel, who is from the San Francisco area."

They add: "'Ringleader Of The Tormentors' will be released on Attack early in 2006. Morrissey is delighted with the album which he describes as 'The most beautiful - perhaps the most gentle so far."

Visconti is most famous for his work with David Bowie and T-Rex. 'Ringleader Of The Tormentors' follows Morrissey's 2004 comeback album 'You Are The Quarry'.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 9:43 am

Wow, that sounds wonderful. I love Visconti's work with Bowie. Can't wait for this.

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 10:18 am

Good Lord, I will simply have to quite my job. There's no other way to find time for all this stuff. THAT is a seriously exciting prospect, as YATQ is probably among my top 5 records of the decade so far.

Gillibeanz · Post by **Gillibeanz** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 5:13 pm

Was reading a mag today on people giving their babies unusual names. This woman and her hubby were huge Morrissey fans and gave their daughter that for a first name - and to make it worse they said they call her Morris for short! Poor little bugger - if that doesnt warrent being taken into care I dont know what does!!

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 5:50 pm

I know a girl with four brothers and she's called Sidney. Morrissey is pretty cool as a girl's name! Morris, no. Either the full thing or Moz.

invisible Pole · Post by **invisible Pole** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 7:53 pm

For hard-core Morrissey fans - how about sleeping in his words ? (in fact, I wouldn't say 'no')

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 7:57 pm

Now that is damn classy, though I'd pick a different line.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 8:02 pm

'Send me the pillow, the one that you dream on'

Mike Boom · Post by **Mike Boom** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 8:23 pm

"some girls are bigger than others..."

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 8:33 pm

"Me and my heart, we knew"

Mike Boom · Post by **Mike Boom** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 9:11 pm

"please please please let me, let me, let me let me get what I want
this time"

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 9:23 pm

Clearly you have a King-Sized bed, Mr. Boom.

Masterpiece? · Post by **Masterpiece?** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:03 am

"Don't try to wake me in the morning, for I will be gone"

ReadyToHearTheWorst · Post by **ReadyToHearTheWorst** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 8:19 am

"I am the last of the family line."

... for a single bed.

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 8:35 am

Masterpiece? wrote:"Don't try to wake me in the morning, for I will be gone"

Or simply "Sing me to sleep.." That would be nice, actually.

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 9:02 am

"The more you ignore me the closer I get"

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 9:36 am

bambooneedle wrote:"The more you ignore me the closer I get"

Ha! Or in the case of my son (who at 6 still climbs into bed with me at about 5 a.m.) "The more you want the covers on, the more I will kick them off."

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 9:43 am

selfmademug wrote:
bambooneedle wrote:"The more you ignore me the closer I get"
Ha! Or in the case of my son (who at 6 still climbs into bed with me at about 5 a.m.) "The more you want the covers on, the more I will kick them off."

He's a no-tuck? God bless 'im.

My wife is a tuck, I'm a no-tuck - it's the source of endless arguments, all good-natured.

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 9:53 am

I'm a no-tuck, my SON is a no-covers, period. The kid's a frikking ball of fire... also he prefers to sleep perpendicular to me. It's RAWTHER uncomfortable. But stil worth the early morning snuggles.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 6:37 pm

One for every mood:

Too tired to think: 'Why pamper life's complexities?'

Horned up: 'Let me get your head on the conjugal bed'

Horned up but with a reluctant date: 'Please, please, please, let me get what I want' (apologies to Mike for nicking his line)

Horned up and feeling experimental: 'If there's something you'd like to try, ask me I won't say no, how could I?'

Depressed, and entering a suicide pact with loved one: 'To die by your side, the pleasure, the privilege is mine'

Depressed and wanting to let parents know it's their fault: 'It's not my home, it's their home and I'm welcome no more'

Depressed and planning to never leave bed again: 'Oh mother I can feel the soil falling over my head'

With comatose girlfriend: 'I know it's serious'

Misunderstood and unloved: 'I am human and I need to be loved'

Alone forever and suffering low self-esteem: 'If you're so very good-looking why do you sleep alone tonight?'

Unemployed but defiant: 'England is mine and it owes me a living'

Unemployed, but with employed loved one: 'If you must go to work tomorrow, well if I were you I wouldn't bother'

Playing hard to get: 'You just haven't earned it yet baby'

Needing a lie-in: 'Don't try to wake me in the morning'

Needing to commit suicide: 'Don't try to wake me in the morning cos I will be gone'

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 6:52 pm

I need this one--

Playing hard to get: 'You just haven't earned it yet baby'

invisible Pole · Post by **invisible Pole** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 2:41 pm

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/art ... 1001432505

Morrissey Eyeing March For New Album

November 02, 2005, 11:00 AM ET
Jason MacNeil, Toronto

Morrissey is mixing his next studio album in Rome with producer Tony Visconti, according to a post from the artist on the fan site True to You. Dubbed "Ringleader of the Tormentors," the set is expected for release in mid-March via Attack, with a single to precede it during the second week February.

"Not only is this a departure in his writing (my opinion) but he has extended his vocal range and has written extended melodies," Visconti recently said of the album on his own Web site. "I am two-thirds of the way through one of the best albums I've ever worked on, with not only Morrissey at his best, but the plot has twists and turns which somehow involve film composer Ennio Morricone and an Italian children's choir."

"Ringleader" will be the follow-up to 2004's "You Are the Quarry," which revived Morrissey's career in North America, debuting at a career-best No. 11 on The Billboard 200. It has sold more than 195,000 copies in North America, according to Nielsen SoundScan, his highest total since 1994's "Vauxhall and I."

And while Morrissey revealed that plans for a New Year's Eve concert in Mexico did not come to fruition ("no decent financial offer to make the journey possible, which is sad"), other shows are being planned.

"We have moved our Italian and Greek and Turkish dates to February which will be the tour to launch the album," he said on True to You.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 8:32 pm

I can't wait - Visconti + Moz has got to be killer.

pophead2k · Post by **pophead2k** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 6:25 pm

He must be a big Bowie fan- didn't Mick Ronson produce one of Morrisey's solo albums before he passed away?

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 7:07 pm

Yes, the superb Your Arsenal. Very nice production, too. Moz has been anti-Bowie since the acrimonious '95 tour which Moz left half way through and followed up by saying 'Bowie was one of the most relevant people around - in the 1970s'. Bowie, of course, recorded Moz's I Know It's Going To Happen Someday on the Black Tie, White Noise LP, indicating what a shame it was that there was some sort of falling out. At the time there were reports of a nervous breakdown, but Moz just said later he was very unhappy, with Bowie's condescension towards him being a factor. I saw them at Wembley, and it was a rather sad spectacle: Moz flailing his mic lead obsessively with a relatively small huddle of fanatics near the stage, and acres of largely indifferent people filling the huge arena. It's good to know that 10 years later Moz's stock is much higher and he could sell out the venue quite happily.

I've been listening to The Smiths a lot recently (the Troy Tate unreleased sessions for what would have been a first LP being an example) and thinking what a shame it is that Moz's solo career has been so tarnished, starting off with the woeful Bengali In Platforms on Viva Hate. Let's hope such themes (of non-racial integration, with Moz seeming aligned to some extent at least to the skinhead Union Jack-toting, boxing-loving thugs who have formed an important part of his iconography in his solo career) will be free from the new LP as they were from You Are The Quarry.