Morrissey Central “ENGLAND IS MINE AND IT OWES ME A LIVING” (July 28, 2024)

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MESSAGES FROM MORRISSEY

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[Surface]

Have you a link please.
Not seeing it here.
I was expecting to see a couple of days sales show by midweek.
Regards,
FWD.

Official Albums Chart Update | Official Charts

The UK's midweek official Top 100 biggest artist albums, based on sales of CDs, downloads, vinyl, audio and video streams and other formats. Compiled by the Official Charts Company from Friday to Sunday.

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Thought it might have a chance at the number 1 vinyl album for the week but Blur are number 1 in the main chart with their live at Wembley Stadium album so I think that will probably get in the way.

 

[Famous when dead]

Official Albums Chart Update | Official Charts

The UK's midweek official Top 100 biggest artist albums, based on sales of CDs, downloads, vinyl, audio and video streams and other formats. Compiled by the Official Charts Company from Friday to Sunday.

www.officialcharts.com

Thought it might have a chance at the number 1 vinyl album for the week but Blur are number 1 in the main chart with their live at Wembley Stadium album so I think that will probably get in the way.

Thank you.
I was scanning for the new cover - missed it first time.
Regards,
FWD.

 

[The Alchemist]

I was hopeful for an interesting post when I saw this title. Hey ho.

 

[Drag Race At Wool Hall]

£30 for a musical work of art isn't expensive when you think of the huge expense in recording an album and getting it pressed and promoted. £30 is like six or seven beers and the pleasure of the vinyl lasts for years. Compare that with the pennies artists get from shitty Spotify. No. Physical media is art and shouldn't be pocket change. It should cost at least £100 for the privilege of owning such a work of art as the Queen is Dead, Strangeways or Viva Hate. That goes for other musicians too. On the other hand Spotify and Apple Music is ridiculously UNDERpriced AND they rip off the artist beyond belief.

 

[ACTON]

Yes they are... It's criminal... and in the UK even more expensive than in Germany... Strange, I bought the orange vinyl for 27 Euros.. which is about 23 pounds! unfair isn't it?

€32.99 in Ireland for the orange vinyl. €30.99 for the black.

 

[ACTON]

£30 for a musical work of art isn't expensive when you think of the huge expense in recording an album and getting it pressed and promoted. £30 is like six or seven beers and the pleasure of the vinyl lasts for years. Compare that with the pennies artists get from shitty Spotify. No. Physical media is art and shouldn't be pocket change. It should cost at least £100 for the privilege of owning such a work of art as the Queen is Dead, Strangeways or Viva Hate. That goes for other musicians too. On the other hand Spotify and Apple Music is ridiculously UNDERpriced AND they rip off the artist beyond belief.

Your logic doesn't scale for people who like more than just Morrissey. Moz, Suede, and The Cure will always take prime position in my hollow hardwooded heart but I also have tons of records by Tangerine Dream, Edgar Froese, Klaus Schulze, Vangelis, OMD, Depeche Mode, Siouxsie, New Order, Richard Hawley, Pixies, John Carpenter, Ennio Morricone, Lloyd Cole, The Jam, Weller, John Grant, John Foxx, soundtracks, GENE, etc etc etc. It shouldn't cost thousands and thousands to have a half decent collection. Especially considering a lot of record collectors also bought a ton of CDs back when we believed the lie that CDs were superior.

 

[Les Tameside]

Such a fantastic LP. I never really thought about the artwork... I love it anyway. In fact.. I'm gonna play that masterpiece now!

‘masterpiece’ seems fair; saw them a few months ago and they were mesmerising.

 

[Cris]

Morrissey thank you for your music
for bring up my mood to happy level all the time i listen to your voice man
Now reading The Vigilant Fox news i learned you stood against the sick olymoic cerimony in F...rance
And also you of a few musicians in the world that had a voice against the CONvid PLANdemic a criminal act of the pharMAFIA and certain bad actors ... Congrats Sir
I love u more now!
All the best for u and yours!

 

[Kate Bush At Wool Hall]

Your logic doesn't scale for people who like more than just Morrissey. Moz, Suede, and The Cure will always take prime position in my hollow hardwooded heart but I also have tons of records by Tangerine Dream, Edgar Froese, Klaus Schulze, Vangelis, OMD, Depeche Mode, Siouxsie, New Order, Richard Hawley, Pixies, John Carpenter, Ennio Morricone, Lloyd Cole, The Jam, Weller, John Grant, John Foxx, soundtracks, GENE, etc etc etc. It shouldn't cost thousands and thousands to have a half decent collection. Especially considering a lot of record collectors also bought a ton of CDs back when we believed the lie that CDs were superior.

CDs are technically superior but I will agree they're somewhat artistically inferior. I do prefer listening to vinyl because of the roll off on the high end which vinyl can't reproduce anyway. It's easier on the ear. But CD at 16 bit is as good a format as needed when mastered with correct dither and mixed and mastered to make the most of the enormous dynamic range available. Dynamics are what makes most people like music. Vinyl still manages to retain dynamic range as the lacquers are cut from a less compressed master. Record companies still insist on ruining CDs and digital audio by limiting the hell out of the sound. Back to my original point...CDs are a perfect reproduction of recorded sound. The earliest CDs were essentially flat masters from the master tapes without any hyped compression or limiting. Examples being, whether you like the music or not, the original CD editions of Brothers in Arms, ABBA's The Visitors and So by Peter Gabriel. And the original CD pressings of Viva Hate and Bona Drag, to be fair.