Singer: The Smiths
Title: Meat Is Murder
Label: Sire ‎– 9 25269-2
Type: CD, Album, Reissue
Country: US
Date of released: May 1988
Category: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock, Indie Rock
Size MP3 zip: 1764 mb
Size FLAC zip: 1621 mb
Rating: 3.8✭
Format: MP3 XM AU MP2 VOC DTS AUD AIFF FLAC

Tracklist Hide Credits

1	The Headmaster Ritual	4:52
2	Rusholme Ruffians	4:20
3	I Want The One I Can't Have	3:14
4	What She Said	2:42
5	That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore	4:58
6	How Soon Is Now? Producer – John Porter	6:46
7	Nowhere Fast	2:37
8	Well I Wonder	4:00
9	Barbarism Begins At Home	6:57
10	Meat Is Murder	6:06

Companies, etc.

• Copyright (c) – Sire Records Company
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Sire Records Company
• Marketed By – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
• Recorded At – Amazon Studios
• Recorded At – Ridge Farm Studios
• Mixed At – Island Studios
• Glass Mastered At – DADC – DIDX 002968
• Mastered At – CBS Studios, London

Credits

• Bass – Andy Rourke
• Drums – Mike Joyce
• Engineer – Stephen Street
• Guitar, Piano, Music By – Johnny Marr
• Layout – Caryn Gough
• Mastered By – Tim Young
• Photography By – Emile de Antonio
• Producer – The Smiths (tracks: 1 to 5, 7 to 10)
• Sleeve, Words By, Voice – Morrissey

Notes

This is the DADC-manufactured edition, with a DIDX code on the disc face, with an upright barcode and a Category and an analog equipment disclaimer on the tray inlay. There is a very similar edition with the same packaging, but a disc made by WEA Manufacturing, bearing no DIDX code; and another very similar edition with a WEA disc but a different tray inlay, with a sideways barcode and no Category or analog disclaimer.

Label on spine: Sire
Labels on disc face, booklet & inlay: Sire, Rough Trade

Info on disc face:
℗ 1984, 1985 Sire Records Company.
Marketed by Warner Bros. Records Inc., a Warner Communications Company.
Made in U.S.A. by DADC

Info on inlay:
Sire Records Company.
Marketed by Warner Bros. Records Inc., a Warner Communications Company.
© 1985 Sire Records Company ℗ 1984, 1985 Sire Records Company.
Printed in U.S.A.

Info in booklet:
Recorded at Amazon Studios, Liverpool and Ridge Farm, Surrey.
Mixed at Island Studios, London, Winter 1984.
Cover star culled from Emile de Antonio's 'In The Year Of The Pig' used by permission.
© 1985 Morrissey Marr Songs Ltd. except "How Soon Is Now?" © 1984 Morrissey/Marr Songs Ltd. All rights for the Western Hemisphere administered by Warner-Tamerlane Pub. Corp. BMI. All rights outside of the Western Hemisphere administered by Warner Bros. Music Ltd. reproduced by kind permission.
© 1985 Sire Records Company
Printed in U.S.A.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode (Text): 0 7599-25269-2 0
• Barcode (String): 075992526920
• Other (Sony DADC code on disc): DIDX 2968
• Matrix / Runout: DIDX 002968-1

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
ROUGH 81	The Smiths	Meat Is Murder ‎(LP, Album, CBS)	Rough Trade	ROUGH 81	UK	1985
25RTL-3001	The Smiths	Meat Is Murder ‎(LP, Album, Promo)	Rough Trade	25RTL-3001	Japan	1985
WPCR-14542	The Smiths	Meat Is Murder ‎(CD, Album, RE, Ltd, RM, SHM)	WEA	WPCR-14542	Japan	2012
9 25269-2	The Smiths	Meat Is Murder ‎(CD, Album, LON)	Sire	9 25269-2	US	1985
L 30107, ROUGH 81	The Smiths	Meat Is Murder ‎(LP, Album, RE)	Festival Records, Rough Trade	L 30107, ROUGH 81	Australia	1988

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