UK CD [Rough Trade ROUGHCD255]
UK CS [Rough Trade ROUGHC255]
UK 2-LP [Rough Trade ROUGH255]

Australia 2-CD [Festival D70269/70]
Australia CD [1993 reissue on WEA93833-2]
Australia 2-CS [Festival C70269/70]
Australia 2-LP [Festival L70269/70]

Brazil CD [Stiletto 498.005]
Brazil CS [Stiletto ??]
Brazil 2-LP [Stiletto 270.4001]

Canada CD [Sire CD-25569]
Canada CS [Sire 25569-4]
Canada 2-LP [Sire 25569-1]

Europe CD [WEA 93833-2]
Europe CS [WEA 93833-4]

France CD [Virgin 30261]

Indonesia CS [details unknown, actually "Louder Than Bombs vol 2"]

Israel CS [Rough Trade ROUG 255-4]

Japan CD [1990 first release on Victor VICP-43]
Japan CD [1993 reissue on WEA WMC5-547]
Japan CD [1995 reissue on WEA WPCR-306]
Japan CD [2006 reissue on WEA WPCR-12443]

Saudi Arabia CS [Thomsun EN-1656; part 1, trks 1-12]
Saudi Arabia CS [Thomsun EN-1657; part 2, trks 13-24]

Taiwan CS [Crystal ROUGHC255]

USA CD [Sire 9 25569-2]
USA CS [Sire 9 25569-4]
USA 2-LP [Sire 9 25569-1]

Additional information:
"Louder Than Bombs" is the North American counterpart to "The World Won't Listen". It has less album material and includes many tracks only available on singles (many of which unreleased in North America). It includes songs already available on "Hatful Of Hollow" which hadn't been released in the USA at the time.

CBS didn't originally release "Louder Than Bombs" in Australia, but a double album edition of "The World Won't Listen" was put together with tracks from both albums. Click on title in bold for more information.

The 2006 Japanese cd reissue is slipped inside a mini-replica of an original LP sleeve. Even the inner sleeve, obi and label are replicas of the ones from the original LP pressing. Unlike all other Smiths albums reissued this way at the same time, this one isn't based on a Japanese LP because "Louder Than Bombs" was never released in that format in Japan.

Artwork information:
Shelagh Delaney, photo from the Saturday Evening Post, 21 October 1961. She would appear again on a Smiths sleeve for the "Girlfriend In A Coma" single a few months later in 1987.

The back has an orange tinted close-up of the upper half of the inside photo displayed above.

Etchings on vinyl:
None.

Additional release date information:
USA/Canada LP and cassette: 16 or 31 March 1987
USA/Canada CD: May 1987
UK: 28 November 1988
UK/Europe WEA re-release: 1994
Japan WEA 1993 re-release: 10 December 1993
Japan WEA 2006 re-release: 13 September 2006

Chart peak information:
UK: 38
USA: 63

Certifications:
USA: Gold on 19 September 1990
UK: Gold on 14 May 2004

Promotion:
Brazil: Stock copies of the LP were stamped with a BMG promo warning in gold on the back of the sleeve and in red ink on the labels.

Canada: Stock copies of the LP with a gold promo stamp on the back were used for promotion of the album.

Japan: The original 1990 cd issue and the 1993 (and possibly 1995) reissue had a promo sticker on the case or obi, and promo text etched on the cd's inner ring. The promo cd for the 2006 reissue in LP-replica sleeves have a white and red promo sticker on the back and 'sample loaned' etched on the cd's inner ring.

USA: Stock copies of the LP with a gold promo stamp on the front were used for promotion of the album. A one track promo 12" of "Shoplifters Of The World Unite" (Sire, PRO-A-2712) was distributed in April 1987 to promote the album (view front artwork in left bar). Radio and other media were sent a press kit including a 2-page bio on yellow Sire paper and 2 photos of the band in a Warner Bros folder. One of the photos shows Morrissey, hands on heart, in front of a "The Queen Is Dead" tour poster of a boy and the other shows the band in front of the Salford Lads Club, with snow on the ground.