horrible

the italian translates as recorded and mixed in rome summer. so now you know.

Even though this cover is better than Quarry's, it is still, well, fake. What is going on here? Everything Morrissey is producing seems like it is becoming more 'manufactured'. It just doesn't have the same sense of intimacy..

I think this is actually worse than Quarrys' cover. At least the gun made him look like a gangster whether he would ever use it, but a violin? This might explain how he's managed to convince the Bridgewater, Lowry and Manchester Opera house to stage his concerts. They must think he's a classical musician!! They're in for a real treat!!

... very nice, but you know, from the looks of it the album cover will not describe the album sound.

I hated the YATQ cover but I do like this. The photo is better than YATQ because it is black and white, but I also think the font/header is lush and sophisticated. Most of all, this is a very funny cover - the irony being, of course that Moz cannot play a note let alone lead an orchestra, and, further, the idea of his "tormenting" people with the music he's creating. There's also that wan, melancholic expression which sends up his 'miserabalist' image. Quite self deprecating. I definitely think tongue is in cheek, but I also really like it. The pose and expression are also in the classic Moz tradition. The humour WILL be lost on non-fans though.

have sucked (except for southpaw grammer which was awesome) I will give it this, it is

Much bigger improvement from the HMV cover. Nice font and whatnot. I'm not too sure how I feel about the picture... I'm liking the bow tie. Very much so.

the bestest album cover for morrissey solo ever.

wah wah wah

fits perfectly with songs' titles at least.

i just shat my pant down to the knee...

His right side is a good side, though.

Anyone who cannot see the beauty of this cover is totally new to the whole Morrissey scene ans I welcome you. I must agree, this probably the most fitting cover of his solo work. This sophisticated cover is ezactly what Morrissey needs at this stage of his life. The cover makes me want to indeed... (for lack of better words) 'shit' my pants.

I also liked the YATQ cover, but this speaks in many different levels! Now, I just can't wait to hear the actual album!

pete's more interesting

Hmph. Someone is busy making the rounds. This appeared on our message board, too.

Assuming this is real, it seems the box needed to be added because the tag line in Italian would have been unreadable in scriptface. Font is OK, like an Old Style Goudy. I like the way the R's dip down.

The clip art boarder reminds me of those templates Martha Stewart sometimes includes in her magazine for ladies to copy and use for gift tags or jelly jar labels.

The first version of the photo had a nicer expression on Morrissey's face and he was looking up. The original comp also had a nice shadow added by his waist, so to make him blend in with the background and appear to look leaning forward. Here, he is shown off the edge. This version looks like the one used for the tour advert.

I liked the first version better but with a less weirder scriptface used. I am really looking forward to the single and album.

fake. same catalog number as ibeh cd/dvd

original? Hardly.now lets read all the, oh i can't even be bothered finishing the sentance.pricks

The italian sentence is 'fake' italian, so I hope the sleeve is fake as well (it would be bad for italian fans having a wrong tag on the moz album :-)

Registrato e Mescolato a Roma Estate
(not Mescolado!! Naomi) ...in fact doesn't mean anything in Italian

to be Italian should be something like
Registrato e Mixato a Roma, Estate 2005
(Recorded and Mixed in Rome, Summer 2005)

'Mescolato' can't be used in this context, you just can use it in a kitchen recipe

'Estate' loooks more like an english word, like 'Roma house estate'

'rome summer' in italian should be 'Estate Romana' but 'Roma Estate' has non sense at all :-)

remo from MILAN. ITALY

moz--art!!

Every native italian speaker - as I am - will tell you that "Registrato e Mescolato a Roma Estate" is NOT italian, it is pseudoitalian. Indeed it seems a kind of Babel Fish Translation. Very odd, quite depressing.
I do really hope that's a fake!

Me

1) The writing looks blocky. And kind of inappropriate. It's too bold and blue and in-your-face. Doesn't look professional to me.

2) That image of Moz playing the violin doesn't really work in the context of the album cover. The whole point of the original joke, was that it was advertising gigs at London's Palladium - a classical venue. That's why it wasn't used to promote the rest of the tour; just the Palladium specifically.

Finally, why has Remo (above) got a score of zero? He gave interesting (and apparently valid) information.

- Stu Walsh. Too lazy to sign in.

as he caresses the bow adds an elegant touch!

Click to enlarge: How may I make this my new screensaver?! ;)

This coverart has the SAME catalogue number (ATKDX002) as Irish Blood, English Heart.

check it out...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001XQ7X 0/026-5978220-7966005

It's a take on the Deutsche Grammophon classical cd's. Look:

http://www.classicalandjazz.co.uk/Classical/CD_Ima ges/4470412.jpg

http://www.arte-tv.com/i18n/content/tv/02__Communi ties/C2-arts_20and_20music/02-Magazine/23__Maestro /99__archiv/edition-2004.07.28__Kleiber/Cover__Bee thoven.jpg/601160,property=imageData.jpg

...terrible, terrible, terrriiibleee!!!

I like the cover a great deal. I'd read previously about some here actually liking the Maladjusted cover much more than this. Personal preference but that is easily my least fave cover. Just him squatting? Uhhh, right.

As for the comments about this one being "fake" or too contrived. Keep in mind this is the same person that wore the fake hearing aid while singing on stage. The same person that had "fake" cuts, etc. carved into his skin for the Southpaw release. There are other instances. He has always done this sort of thing and it doesn't come off as forced to me and I'd think anyone else that realizes he's always done stuff like this is probably of the same mindset.

Looks like it could be fake to me because look at how clear the text and that blue/white box is. Rendered straight out of Photoshop/Illustrator. But the photo part of it looks like it's been blown up digitally... it's a little muddy. I could be wrong, but this looks like some amateur Photoshoppin'.

Of course, look at the covers of some of the YATQ-era singles. No offense, Moz!

the violin, his suit, his face
its funny, cool and stuff
&
i aint care if its real or no

if this were simply the promotional picture for the shows, that'd be alright, but i am not a fan of this picture! i think it looks unflattering. i obviously don't know if it's some representation of the album, but i hope it is changed! maybe back to the bathroom theme of the last few singles? hell, the quarry grey-suited pictures are preferrable to this. shame since he's looking so well these days.

That big blue blocky thing. I don't reckon the great man will go with this. I like the picture well enough but lose the blue.

Kill Uncle was the single greatest cover in the history of music. This however, is fake.

I really like it!!!! It's funny, good-looking, eccentric, and, as an Italian, I really appreciate the reference to Rome in the cover :)

Even if this turns out to be even a mock-up of the cover, I still love it. It has, to put it mildly, caused me to cream my jeans.

To those of you into scatology, whatever gets your rocks off, right? :)

This is probably his best album sleeve. Whether he plays violin or not is actually irrelevant to me, because it is the elegantly dramatic effect of the cover that swipes me off me feet. It has loneliness, drama, and composure. And, what I like best, his unbashful borrowing from "the classical" world, making it his own, like a sort of neoclassic pop singer. The presence of the violin and of his bow tie seem to lure our senses into expecting a classical musical style, just to make us open the pandora's box and discover the intensity it is announcing...

Parabéns, Moz! Love you more and more because you just do what you want, and never what others expect you to! :)

I adore the title, but why on earth such a camp cover?

In the next single is Morrissey going to be in drag as Joan Crawford?

i really liked th cursive font we saw earlier this week...

I think It's cool!!!!!!!!! Morrissey is always careful about his work . I'm sure the album is awesome too. And I don't know why you guys hate the you are quarry cover. I think it looks nice too with the machinegun.

Its not fake, get used to that, don't try to find details to fool your self. Its real !

I just hope the new The Cure album will have also a cool cover like Morrissey's cover.

And the cover for "Yor Are..." what no price pig either. So this might possibly be the cover.

It's rather odd though. the header style v.s. the outfit style.

but whatever...its not the greatest but...at least its not pink and doesn't make Moz's head look like a large mellon on a stick.

the mozkateer
www.myspace.com/robertsaenz

You know..i could be wrong but...this doesn't really look like a real cover to me.

Why would it say recorded in rome...summer? Thats rediculous.

what probably happened was somebody got a hold of the other black and white cursive written photo of another fake cover and made this one. but the font sucks donkey dick..at least..it does with that suit he's got on.

i doubt this is the cover. not that it might not be the real photo for the cover...but...that box on the top is too...Vauxhall to be new.

i don't think so but we'll see.

saenz
the mozkateer
www.myspace.com/robertsaenz

It's on Amazon.co.uk
It's on play.com
  It. Is. Not. A. Fake.

We had EXACTLY the same discussion when the YATQ sleeve was released in drips and drabs before the final one was rubber-stamped. Perosnally - I think it's wonderful. I don't understand why people are being negative, but then they would be about just about anything. What makes me laugh are the people who say "I could do a better cover than this..." and in one hilarious case, when the title of the album was released, one tool said he had a much better name for an album (I forget what it was now...something that ended in "dear") and actually seemed quite hurt and dismayed that this wasn't the album title!
Look, Morrissey is an artist and must do as his muse dictates - by all means say if you don't particularly care for something or prefer something else, but don't claim you could do better- the whole point is you aren't the artist are you? It's like those guys who look at Jackson Pollock paintings and say "I could do that.." - yeah, but ya didn't, did ya?

What next - got some tennis tips for Roger Federer?

Rant over.

I have come to the conclusion that either fans in general for EVERYTHING (ah wait, BSP fans LOVE EVERYTHING THEY DISH OUT) are total and utter retards, or that they would say something was bad no matter of it's quality. Here's dreading for the album release, when it appears that half of his fanbase don't like it, when they're probably just sceptical morons still looking for some remnant of life's worth.

The thing that has changed from before, is the typesetting. And a blue box around it. I like the typesetting... And when compared to Quarry and the singles... How in God's name can you compare!? Lets 'ave a look...

http://images.morrissey-solo.com/gallery/albums/us erpics/10001/mmertu.jpg New album cover.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B0001WAO5S /ref=dp_primary-product-display_0/104-8385750-6840 739?%5Fencoding=UTF8&n=507846&s=music

Aaaaand...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B0001WDF68 /ref=dp_primary-product-display_0/104-8385750-6840 739?%5Fencoding=UTF8&n=507846&s=music

Look at the last one.

Just look at it. And then you have the nerve to be unhappy with the type in the new one.. BLAH. The Quarry cover's typesetting was.. Okay, designed obviously BUT is just plain boring. Not boring as in dull, boring as in it's probably the most used sort of typesetting around right now and there is nothing unique about it whatsoever, which at the end of the day, is what ultimately matters.

The blue box is FABULOUS in my opinion. If I had created that, I would be very proud. In fact I'll probably sneak it into my.. Ssssshhhh :) Everyone's assumption (because they think they have the mind to do ANYTHING, not just graphic design) is that the blue colour makes it seem "dumped"... This proves that you couldn't do a better job. You would either have it black, or grey or something dulled down or darker.

Mind you. The box is quite oddly, not centre aligned... Only slightly.

Just a quick question, is anybody else seeing bits of grey on black around the edges? Like areas of blurred lighter tone... My Mac for some reason has problems with photographs, so I was just wondering if this was the monitor.

it looks like a marc almond record cover.

He looks like the Pied Piper of Brokeback Mountain.

(please someone stop me before I make another Brokeback Mountain joke)

Nice pot belly Mozza old man...

i thought this was just the poster to promote the palladium shows

... and I seriously hope it's not the real one, for Heaven sakes! *sigh*

it's tongue-in-cheek, stylish and funny. It's a great morrissey sleeve.

A lot of people on this site don't get the humour - but then a lot of you are illiterate children.

broken

LOVE it!!!it's his best album cover so far.

All you pieces of shit that say this cover is fake or amateurish Photoshop are REAL ASSHOLES since Morrissey himself designed this artwork. He's been learning to use the computer and he doesn't deserve smarmy four-eyed geeks pissing on his parade.