Next month’s 20th anniversary reissue of Morrissey’s landmark Bona Drag compilation will be accompanied by the re-release of “Everyday Is Like Sunday” with a new set of B-sides — including the much-coveted “November the Second,” a long-unreleased alternate mix of “November Spawned a Monster.”
A sharp-eyed reader at the Morrissey-solo.com forums found the listing for the single — to be released on CD and two different 7-inches — on EMI Music’s UK and Ireland catalog page. The singles are due out Sept. 27, a week before the expanded edition of 1990’s Bona Drag, a reissue compiled “with Morrissey’s full cooperation” that will feature six previously unreleased tracks.
Originally released in 1988 as the second single off Viva Hate, the new “Everyday Is Like Sunday” singles include a 2010 remaster of the song; live versions recorded June 9, 1988, on “Top of the Pops” and June 8, 2007, at the Hollywood Bowl; plus a live version of “Trash” that is labeled as being recorded at California’s Irvine Meadows in 1991, but, as fans rightly point out, Morrissey didn’t play that venue in ’91 (more likely it was the June 1, 1991, concert at Pacific Amphitheatre in Costa Mesa, Calif.).
The real prize, though, will be the official release of “November the Second,” a mix Moz himself has been reputed to hate; it was briefly listed for release on a bonus disc of rarities intended for 1997’s Suedehead: The Best of Morrissey that ultimately was scrubbed. A track purported to be “November the Second” leaked onto the web in 2006.
UPDATE 8/11/10: Tracklist amended per news release posted at True-to-you.net and new cover art posted below, courtesy of RecordStore.co.uk, which is giving away 200 signed Morrissey prints to fans who pre-order the entire bundle.
See tracklists for Morrissey’s “Everyday is Like Sunday” singles after the jump…
Tracklists: Morrissey, “Everyday Is Like Sunday”
CD SINGLE
1. “Everyday Is Like Sunday” (2010 Digital Remaster)
2. “November the Second”
3. “Everyday Is Like Sunday” (Original promo video)
4. “Everyday Is Like Sunday” (Video: Top of the Pops – 9th June 1988)
7-INCH SINGLE #1
A. “Everyday Is Like Sunday” (2010 Digital Remaster)
B. “Trash” (Live at Pacific Amphitheatre, Costa Mesa, CA, 1991)
7-INCH SINGLE #2
A. “Everyday Is Like Sunday” (2010 Digital Remaster)
B. “Everyday Is Like Sunday” (Live at the Hollywood Bowl – 8th June 2007)
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS:
- Stephen Street discusses work with The Smiths, Morrissey on ‘Sound Opinions’
- Morrissey’s ‘Bona Drag’ 20th anniversary reissue to feature 6 unreleased tracks
- Photo: Morrissey and Rick Astley backstage at the BBC’s ‘Top of the Pops’ in 1989
- The Smiths Project: Janice Whaley recording covers of every Smiths song in 2010
- Audio: Demo of The Smiths’ ‘Paint a Vulgar Picture’ off ‘Strangeways’
- Smiths Indeed fanzine (1986-1989) to be reprinted in limited-edition, 100-set run
- ‘An Open Letter to Morrissey’: Publisher Faber & Faber pleads for Moz’s memoirs
- Alternate take of The Smiths’ ‘Girl Afraid’ surfaces on ‘Hatful of Hollow’ cassette
- Morrissey calls last 3 albums his ‘life’s peaks,’ apologizes for ‘Swords’
