"I Am Not A Dog On A Chain" - pre-order, format details and exclusives summary; new bundles site

docinwestchester · Jan 10, 2020

Tour dates soon?

ACTON · Jan 10, 2020

Vic Strangeways said:
You are disrespecting the bootleg cover artists.

Yes. Even their wrong song titles (e.g. Interest in drugs) were better than the new song titles.

ACTON · Jan 10, 2020

King Leer said:
Is this the real cover? I don't dislike it but it reminds of the CD bootlegs I used to buy in the 90s.
Any writing credits for the tracks?
Cheers.

I wonder how could anyone ever like that cover. Its almost as bad as California Son. Anyone with a computer or phone or etch a sketch could cobble together a better album cover in less than 30 minutes. It is beyond lazy. It's actually worse than the original Maladjusted cover.

Anonymous · Jan 10, 2020

Nikita · Jan 10, 2020

The only good thing in this cover is that he’s not wearing his awful green outfit.

Anonymous · Jan 10, 2020

ordinaryboy86 said:
This album is gonna achieve cult status for that sleeve alone. And if the material is any good, it’ll go down as one of his most memorable records.

Yes! ...for the 250 people who buy it on vinyl, red vinyl and cassette.

Enjoy the wallet rape. Top-5 in Poland, for sure!!!

Anonymous · Jan 10, 2020

Thewlis said:
Yes, and false ones, the ones that are offensive to the intelligence

“Intelligence”? Stay in your lane, bitch.

ordinaryboy86 · Jan 10, 2020

Anonymous said:
Yes! ...for the 250 people who buy it on vinyl, red vinyl and cassette.

Enjoy the wallet rape. Top-5 in Poland, for sure!!!

Ach f*** it, its only rape if you don’t consent. I bought 3 copies myself, clear, black, & red. No ones putting guns to heads and forcing people to buy.
I gave the “test” a miss tho.

JoeSellMozza · Jan 10, 2020

JoeSellMozza said:
New Album full press release

https://shorefire.com/releases/entry/morrissey-i-am-not-a-dog-on-a-chain-march-20th

Different „you‘ll be fine“ pic on the above press page

Ugly Devil · Jan 10, 2020

ordinaryboy86 said:
Ach f*** it, its only rape if you don’t consent. I bought 3 copies myself, clear, black, & red. No ones putting guns to heads and forcing people to buy.
I gave the “test” a miss tho.

What was the last Morrissey album you actually liked? I know you're a collector of sorts, but there's still some degree of loyalty that resides in that decrepit husk of yours. It's curious, to an outside observer.

Johnnie Ray · Jan 10, 2020

The Wild Turkey said:
Likin' this album cover 'cause Moz is just up there smilin'.
They've been workin' real hard to tear him down and still they didn't tear him down.
Let's go ahead and let'em have a smile for failin'.

Smiling away...in a 10 year old photo. Dude cannot come to terms with his current age.

ordinaryboy86 · Jan 10, 2020

Ugly Devil said:
What was the last Morrissey album you actually liked? I know you're a collector of sorts, but there's still some degree of loyalty that resides in that decrepit husk of yours. It's curious, to an outside observer.

I don’t mind Refusal. Infact I quite like it, it’s aged well considering what followed. Last great album tho, Ringleader. There isn’t a Morrissey album pre-2014 that I hate, listen to them all regularly, besides Kill Uncle.

The last 3 are atrocious! Legacy damaging albums, and that’s mostly down to his band and Chiccarelli.

Johnnie Ray · Jan 10, 2020

Yeah, that was brutal. Gave it 3 listens. His career is officially in the shitter.

Johnnie Ray · Jan 10, 2020

ordinaryboy86 said:
I don’t mind Refusal. Infact I quite like it, it’s aged well considering what followed. Last great album tho, Ringleader. There isn’t a Morrissey album pre-2014 that I hate, listen to them all regularly, besides Kill Uncle.

The last 3 are atrocious! Legacy damaging albums, and that’s mostly down to his band and Chiccarelli.

California Son was the first Smiths/Morrissey album I had no interest in whatsoever. The songs I heard were absolutely embarrassing and cringeworthy. I had hope that LIHS might have a few moments of greatness. It didn't and I haven't played it in 2 years. All good things must come to an end. It was a great run though.

vegan cro spirit 888 · Jan 10, 2020

INCREDIBLE MOST OF THE ITEMS ARE ABOUT SOLD OUT AFTER ONLY BEING AVAILABLE FOR A FEW HOURS!!!!!! :bow:

MOZ IS FULL OF MONEY FROM HIS SUCCESS!!!

THE BEAUTIFUL COVER SHOWS MOZ SMILING DOWN AT
THE SKINNY/LEPEW USELESS TWATS. :whip:

Johnnie Ray · Jan 10, 2020

Instead of hoping for The Smiths reuniting (which will never happen) everyone should be clamoring for his greatest solo band reuniting, Alain, Boz, Gary, and Spencer. I would actually prefer that to The Smiths. His current band blows.

Morrissey_Sucks · Jan 10, 2020

No shit! That is SERIOUSLY the album sleeve? f*** me. Before I semi-joked that he has lost it, but now he really has. He really does suck. Embarrassing is putting it lightly.

Anonymous · Jan 10, 2020

Famous when dead said:
Following on from the Amazon thread, Crash indicate:

Morrissey – I Am Not A Dog On A Chain:
CD Album,
Standard Black Vinyl LP or
Indies Exclusive Coloured Vinyl LP

The vinyl colour that is exclusive to indies is to be confirmed (but rumour has it: clear red vinyl edit: now confirmed as clear red vinyl):

Release Date Friday 20th March

Morrissey
I Am Not A Dog On A Chain

CD Album £11.99
Standard Black Vinyl LP £19.99
Indies Exclusive Coloured Vinyl LP £19.99
(colour to be confirmed)

Tracklist:

Jim Jim Falls
Love Is On Its Way Out
Bobby, Don’t You Think They Know
I Am Not A Dog On A Chain
What Kind of People Live in These Houses?
Knockabout World
Darling, I Hug A Pillow
Once I Saw the River Clean
The Truth About Ruth
The Secret of Music
My Hurling Days Are Done

There is no second disc as Amazon first indicated.

The press release (cut and paste from the Warner's sales portal) doing the rounds with the album details is brief:

"First new studio album since 2017, I Am Not A Dog On A Chain was recorded at La Fabrique in France in 2018. The eleven track album, which was produced by Joe Chiccarelli, launches officially on the 10th of January 2020 and will be released on Friday 20th March 2020."

https://www.crashrecords.co.uk/prod...indies-exclusive-coloured-vinyl-lp-pre-order/

Piccadilly Records now list it too with the same information (and have added It's Over to buy on the 24th too):

https://www.piccadillyrecords.com/counter/product.php?pid=132856

Same via Rough Trade (they, too, have added It's Over 7"):

https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/morrissey/i-am-not-a-dog-on-a-chain

Amazon (UK), since last night, now have the CD & black vinyl versions added and listed separately.

Now for something via superdeluxe and it brings a couple of exclusives too.

Clear vinyl:
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And an exclusive cassette.
All found here - this is official and is a portal to buy pretty much everything except the indie red vinyl:

https://morrissey.tmstor.es/

As linked to here:
https://morrissey.lnk.to/chain

There is an extended bit of press release there and Joe is quoted:

‘I Am Not A Dog On A Chain’ was produced by the Grammy Award-winning producer Joe Chicarelli (Beck, The Strokes, The Killers). It was recorded during sessions at Studio La Fabrique in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France and Sunset Sound in Hollywood, California.

"I have now produced four studio albums for Morrissey,” said Chicarelli. “This is his boldest and most adventurous album yet. He has pushed the boundaries yet again - both musically and lyrically. And once again proving that as a songwriter and singer, he is in his own category. In truth, no one can be Morrissey but… Morrissey!”

So, to summarise:
Digital download,
CD,
Black vinyl,
Mporium w/l 'test pressing' (Limited to 100 copies?),
Indie only clear red vinyl,
Website only clear vinyl,
Website only cassette.

Apologies for the long post, lots of information happened at the same time.
Regards,
FWD.

For the press release in full, please see here via Shorefire.com:

https://shorefire.com/releases/entry/morrissey-i-am-not-a-dog-on-a-chain-march-20th

(link courtesy of @JoeSellMozza).

For the love of God, please bring back Alain Whyte.

His last decent album was Refusal. No coincidence.

Why can’t he write songs like The More You Ignore Me or First of the Gang anymore?

Ugly Devil · Jan 10, 2020

ordinaryboy86 said:
I don’t mind Refusal. Infact I quite like it, it’s aged well considering what followed. Last great album tho, Ringleader. There isn’t a Morrissey album pre-2014 that I hate, listen to them all regularly, besides Kill Uncle.

The last 3 are atrocious! Legacy damaging albums, and that’s mostly down to his band and Chiccarelli.

I think Refusal is his best album since Vauxhall and I. But then I'm in a minority that thinks Quarry, (barring 4 songs) is extremely mediocre.
You certainly have some strong opinions about his recent output. But do you not agree his voice, generally is a lot better on those last 3 albums? For me, his voice is so powerful and rich, he can even make sub-par compositions appealing.

Stephen Hofmann · Jan 10, 2020

Not sure where to put this but.......anyway....Lynn, Boz's wife, just posted this on her fb page at the funeral doo for Boz's mum.

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