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While Morrissey has recently cancelled another round of live shows originally scheduled for the U.K. and Europe, the English singer has released This is Morrissey, a new,  budget-priced 12-track collection of studio and live tracks.  The compilation will arrive on August 31 on vinyl with one additional bonus track.

This is Morrissey, sporting a retro-style jacket, goes back to the artist's 1988 solo debut Viva Hate for "Everyday is Like Sunday" and continues with selections from 1991's Kill Uncle ("The Harsh Truth of the Camera Eye"), 1992's Your Arsenal ("You're the One for Me, Fatty") and 1994's Vauxhall and I ("Speedway").  It also culls tracks from various singles including some first anthologized on the 1990 compendium Bona Drag.  The "Mael Mix" of "Suedehead," first released on a 2012 Record Store Day vinyl single, makes its CD debut here as does a live version of "Satellite of Love" recorded at Las Vegas' Chelsea Ballroom in 2011.

Fiona Dodwell has provided new liner notes.  The vinyl iteration of This is Morrissey adds one more cut from Viva Hate, "Angel, Angel, Down We Go Together," for a total of 13 songs.  Morrissey's world tour is currently scheduled to resume on November 23 in Mexico City.  In the meantime, this offbeat sampler from the musical iconoclast is out now on CD, and due August 31 on vinyl.  You'll find order links and discographical annotation just below!

Morrissey, This Is Morrissey (Regal/Parlophone, 2018)

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

1. The Last Of The Famous International Playboys
2. Ouija Board, Ouija Board
3. Speedway
4. Have-a-Go Merchant
5. Satellite Of Love (Live @ the Chelsea Ballroom, The Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas - 11/25/2011) *
6. Suedehead (Mael Mix) *
7. Lucky Lisp
8. Whatever Happens, I Love You
9. You're The One For Me, Fatty
10. Angel, Angel Down We Go Together **
11. Jack The Ripper
12. The Harsh Truth Of The Camera Eye
13. Everyday Is Like Sunday

* previously unreleased on CD
** vinyl bonus track

Tracks 1 and 7 from HMV single POP1620, 1989 and Bona Drag (HMV CLP3788, 1990)
Track 2 from HMV single POP1622, 1989 and Bona Drag (HMV CLP3788, 1990)
Track 3 from Vauxhall and I (Parlophone PSCD148, 1994)
Tracks 4 and 8 from "Boxers" single (Parlophone 12R6400, 1995)
Track 5 released as Parlophone single RPD6914, 2013
Track 6 from Record Store Day 10" single (EMI 5593331, 2012). Original version from Viva Hate (HMV CSD3787, 1988)
Track 9 from Your Arsenal (HMV CSD3790, 1992)
Tracks 10 and 13 from Viva Hate (HMV CSD3787, 1988)
Track 11 from "Certain People I Know" single (HMV POP1631, 1992)
Track 12 from Kill Uncle (HMV CSD3789, 1991)