According to the official Morrissey news letter Morrissey's brand new single 'Im Throwing My Arms Around Paris' gets its UK premiere on BBC Radio 2's The Ken Bruce Show at 10.05am Monday 22nd December.
Click here now to visit Ken Bruce's Radio 2 website for more information and to listen online.
The single will be in stores on 9th February, followed by Morrissey's new album, 'Years Of Refusal', released a week later on 16th February.
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I'm throwing my arms in the air.... (Score:0)
I still look forward to the rest of the album. I'm a fan of the other songs I've heard.
-Micropenis
samey (Score:0)
I quite like it (Score:1)
The production seems adequate....as noted above pretty similar to the live versions.
Still excited about the new record.
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It's been uploaded on youtube already (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj_J-Sb0X3Q [youtube.com]
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Maybe, maybe... (Score:1)
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Enchanté! (Score:1, Troll)
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I like it... (Score:0)
sounds good to me (Score:0)
A start of steel (Score:0, Troll)
I wonder if there'll be a video?
Accept the love this Christmas, or else... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA-HMqBQpQs&eurl=http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6587782569549922327&postID=166720951112227315 [youtube.com] ; )
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Everyones getting sherbert fountains (Score:0)
Or maybe I thought of my youth
david essex, david cassidy and sherbert fountains
irene a teen in the 70's
there is no doubt... (Score:1)
this makes at least at least three ina row of the dullest or most horrid singles of Morrissey's career- how can he carry on this way?
ilook forward to hearing the new (old) SG material which at this point iam almost certain will be far better than anything from YOR.
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Gorgeous! (Score:0)
-Easymeat
people do love morrissey (Score:1)
On the other hand he's an extremely successful pop-star and this many years into his career, it's ridiculous to think that "no one wants his love". Come on. The guy is looked at as a god by zillions of people.
It's almost like he's deliberately sacrificed his own happiness in order to be the spokesperson for people who can't be happy.
Anyway. The track itself is not really worth mention. It's bland. Morrissey has written some amazing songs in the last few years, but many of them are b-sides! Mexico, My Life Is a Succession of People Saying Goodbye, Friday Mourning, Good looking Man about Town, etc. Those are the songs I can't hear enough of.
In any case, although I will still probably buy everything this man puts out, I'm having a hard time accepting he's still this alienated, isolated and maladjusted person that he was when we was writing with the Smiths.
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Grunge Killed Morrissey. (Score:0, Troll)
Still, it seems that no matter who Morrissey involves in the creative process, it's still the same old product over, and over again. How long can he do this before even the most die-hard fans lose interest?
It's obvious by now that nothing is going to change. It's strange to think that all of this began with what seemed like an understandable hiccup in Southpaw Grammar. The music industry was restructuring, and grunge suddenly increased the volume of most recordings on the radio. It was a matter of adapting to the sudden shift, or being abandoned altogether.
I never would have guessed that Southpaw Grammar signaled a permanent shift in Morrissey's musical tastes. To think that I, and others kept thinking "It's going to be the next one." How naive.
Not every single song has to be some overwhelming sonic experience, replete with digitally distorted rhythm guitars, and stray computer bleeps.
As for Paris, it's an absolute dirge. It fails to say anything.
It sounds like C-side material. Why is it even on the main album? The vocal melody never finds its footing. He's merely crooning, and stretching phrases to fit, which makes it seem half-baked.
I'm reminded of "There Speaks A True Friend," and I don't need any reminder of that atrocity.
Why can't he strip down the production, and play clean for once since 1995? Shit, record solely on a toy piano. Anything.
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Re:Grunge Killed Morrissey. (Score:2, Interesting)
Morrissey found his poetic voice very early on, and it was strikingly original. But I think sometimes the Morrissey of today is the equivalent of an emerging poet trying to replicate the glories of poets-past--even the greatest poet or scholar today cannot improve on Hamlet, and all efforts are struck down by the eclipsing light of that prophetic giant, Shakespeare. But here, Morrissey is both Shakespeare and the naive newcomer, paradoxically setting the precedent and then becoming too self-influenced to create [further] canonical work. His vocals are now greater than ever, and his songs are still quite good, but Refusal will live on as the equivalent of Milton's "Paradise Regained" to the "Paradise Lost" of Vauxhall
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Reality Gap...! (Score:0, Troll)
Classic (Score:0)
Must Try Harder!!! (Score:0)
I'm trowing my arms... (Score:1)
I'm absolutely delighted by the luxury of the sound (palpable even through radio low-quality sound), the clearness of the voice, the purity and simplicity of the piano.
As for the lyrics, my heart can sometimes be fulfilled by other tournements than, say, the ones that stretch all through 'life is a pigsty' or 'That joke isn't funny anymore'.There is time enough for serious statements and walking on the edge of the cliff.
Some people forget that pop music is also just a question of style, and that form has its own life, and is not always 'supposed to mean a thing'.
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my 2 cents (Score:1)
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weak (Score:1)
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I'm (Score:0)
I do not like this song. It's bland & boring. Musically it sounds like nothing. Lyrically its pure drivel. That's not blind hate, that's an honest take from someone whose day does not begin and end with Morrissey.
Prediction: This will not chart in the UK top 10.
Ah, I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris (Score:0)
composers: Steven Morrissey/Alain Gordon Whyte
Ahh, beautiful.
one of his greatest singles ever!! (Score:1)
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The Single and Sea Life (Score:0)
There’s one more thing that I know is off topic, but I can’t let things slide. I can’t believe that adorable dolphin in Old Bridge died. I feel very sad. It was the most beautiful dolphin. I understand it was injured which was just as sad. I would just like to say a little prayer.
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'In the absence of your love' (Score:0)
What is this supposed to mean? From a mod.... (Score:0)
Relationships with inanimate objects (Score:0)
What goes through his head... (Score:0)
I love Morrissey and what he stands for (and have done so for 20 years), and I will buy the new album, but this will be the first single that I will not purchase. Lyrically and melodically it is turgid and uninspiring, a very weak effort indeed. I'm beginning to wonder if he is testing us. The way the song ends is amateurish to say the least.
I think that if he was being totally honest and really sat back and listened to it that he would admit that this is pile of shite too.
Paris (Score:0)
Although I Don't Care For "Paris"...... (Score:0)
"Paris" isn't such a good song but I have to say, it doesn't possess the utter bombast that is found all over Ringleader.
Let's all thank God that Jesse didn't write the music. Think how much worse the song would be if he did.
I absolutely Love this single (Score:0)
Pop music is not rocket science....but this has style. It's Great. Well Done Moz.
Love it.
Re:Here's the Mp3 (Score:1)
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