Viva Hate: Centenary Edition [Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered]

Morrissey | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 25, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: EMI Europe Generic
• ASIN: B0000072D0
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #74,404 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Alsatian Cousin

2. Little Man, What Now?

3. Everyday Is Like Sunday

4. Bengali In Platforms

5. Angel, Angel, Down We Go Together

6. Late Night, Maudlin Stret

7. Suedehead

8. Break Up The Family

9. The Ordinary Boys

10. I Don't Mind If You Forget Me

11. Dial-A-Cliche

12. Margaret On The Guillotine

13. Let The Right One Slip In

14. Pashernate Love

15. At Amber

16. DIsappointed (Live)

17. Girl Least Likely To

18. I'd Love To

19. Michael's Bones

20. I've Changed My Plea To Guilty

Editorial Reviews

Remastered 1997 EMI reissue of the ex-Smiths vocalist's 1988solo debut with eight bonus tracks: 'Let The Right One Slip In' and seven B-sides from later singles, all personally selected by Morrissey: 'At Amber', 'Girl Least Likely To', 'Pashernate Love', 'Disappointed' (Live), 'I'd Love To', 'I've Changed My Plea To Guilty' and 'Michael's Bones'. He also chose the new artwork. 20 tracks total, also featuring the hits 'Suedehead', 'Everyday Is Like Sunday'. Comes packaged as a standard jewel case inside a thick, full color slipcase.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thank you for the remasters, May 30, 2004

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Sheldon Cooper "baddestdba" (Pittsburgh, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Viva Hate: Centenary Edition (Audio CD)

Picked this up while I was in London in Sept 98. The remastering is fantastic. And all the extra trax alone
are worth replacing your original copy for. Alas not
available as a domsetic release in the US spend the money
& get this version !!!!

15 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars landmark album, shrill remaster, December 18, 2005

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punkviper (Pittsburgh, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Viva Hate: Centenary Edition (Audio CD)

THIS REVIEW ONLY APPLIES TO THE UK IMPORT VERSION (REMASTERED, w/BONUS TRACKS) RELEASED IN 2005.

First off, i am a hearty proponent of remastering older CDs to bring the sound up to date with the latest mastering technologies, fixing albums with low volume levels (like The Replacements' Tim and Pleased To Meet Me) and generally cleaning it up to be in line with an artist's wishes & whims. But... here is a case where i honestly can't say I enjoy the remaster. Case in point: Alsatian Cousin. The remastered version is slightly louder, but the treble and high-range is so blown out that it literally gives me a headache, and subsequently makes the middle and low-end seem buried. Bengali In Platforms fares better, mostly because higher fidelity can only help a song mostly centered around a pleasant Spanish guitar melody line. But then Late Night, Maudlin Street also suffers from the 80's production flourishes being over-amped to the point where the tinny frequency becomes honestly annoying. The record loses the sumptuous quality it had and now becomes shrill & robotic, 2 qualities that might work for Kraftwerk but don't suit Moz at all.

And if the audio quality doesn't scare you off, the "bonus tracks" will at least have you sighing in disappointment. Of the 8 bonus tracks, 6 were already available compiled on the US release My Early Burglary Years (which also has the excellent single Sunny, a transcendant cover of Cosmic Dancer, and the song that should be Moz's anthem, Nobody Loves Us, along with many other gems) and 1 is just a swaggering & swarthy live version of Disappointed. This leaves Let The Right One Slip In as the only reason to have this CD. This is certainly in line with Moz's solo-era modus-operandi (reissue, repackage, repackage indeed.)

So there you have it, tinny sound and a group of "bonus tracks" easily found elsewhere, save 1. Proceed at your own risk.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Everyday Is Like Sunday"- the passion, the desperation, the wit, the beauty of opened hearted truth, who could ask for more., January 30, 2006

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The*hot*wax*kid - See all my reviews

This review is from: Viva Hate: Centenary Edition (Audio CD)

I love this disc, I never go for very long without listening to it. I plan to take it to my grave.

Peace

The*Hot*Wax*Kid