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Elvis Costello - This Year's Model Audio CD

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Elvis Costello Band: Elvis Costello
Title: This Year's Model
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Release Date: 2008-03-04
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: No Action - (with Elvis Costello & The Attractions) 2: This Year's Girl - (with Elvis Costello & The Attractions) 3: Beat, The - (with Elvis Costello & The Attractions) 4: Pump It Up - (with Elvis Costello & The Attractions) 5: Little Triggers - (with Elvis Costello & The Attractions) 6: You Belong To Me - (with Elvis Costello & The Attractions) 7: Hand In Hand - (with Elvis Costello & The Attractions) 8: (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea - (with Elvis Costello & The Attractions) 9: Lip Service - (with Elvis Costello & The Attractions) 10: Living In Paradise - (with Elvis Costello & The Attractions) 11: Lipstick Vogue - (with Elvis Costello & The Attractions) 12: Night Rally - (with Elvis Costello & The Attractions) 13: Radio, Radio - (with Elvis Costello & The Attractions) 14: Big Tears 15: Crawling To The USA 16: Tiny Steps 17: Running Out Of Angels - (demo) 18: Greenshirt - (demo) 19: Big Boys - (demo) 20: Neat Neat Neat - (live) 21: Roadette Song - (live) 22: This Year's Girl - (Alternate Basing Street Studios Version) 23: (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea 24: Pump It Up* 25: Waiting For The End Of The World* 26: No Action 27: Less Than Zero 28: Beat, The 29: (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes* 30: (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea* 31: Hand In Hand* 32: Little Triggers* 33: Radio, Radio* 34: You Belong To Me* 35: Lipstick Vogue* 36: Watching The Detectives* 37: Mystery Dance* 38: Miracle Man* 39: Blame It On Cain* 40: Chemistry Class - (live)*previously unreleased, live

This Year's Model
No stracthes on the disk. It was delivered in perfect condition. It plays smooth and clean no skips. I am very satisfied with my perchase.


The best Elvis Costello.
Compared to his debut, lets say that what was good in My Aim Is True is now even better and what didn't work is simply left out. This Year's Model is arguably Costellos' best album.
So Elvis changed his American studio-backup band for the British Attractions and the band sound got more distinctive and doubled its fierceness and aggressiveness. And completely fat-free - things like the slide guitar that appeared on Waiting For The End Of The World have no place in this new framework. And most importantly, his song writing skills have refined resulting in 13 extraordinary songs. Of these only Little Triggers (a ballad) would fit better among the rootsy sound of My Aim Is True. In fact the albums are not that different - it's almost as Elvis gave himself a second start, this time doing it 100% right (notice that both albums kick off using the same gimmick). This is still furious rock and roll with punk attitude but written in British English.

The bonus material in this Deluxe Edition is all excellent. Big Tears and Tinny Steps would fit perfectly on My Aim Is True - in fact they are better than most of it. The 3 acoustic demos are priceless. Green Shirt and Big Boys are among the best songs on his next album Armed Forces and these solo-acoustic renditions show what a tremendous artist Elvis is. And last but not the least the concert featured on cd2 is a burst of raw energy that rivals the E-Street Band but with half the guys on stage. To think that this man would latter record for Deutsche Grammophon. . .

The packaging is fantastic but it's a shame that the booklet only has the lyrics and technical data. A few historic notes by Elvis or anyone who cares would be great. This stuff surely deserves it.


Oh yes!
It's Elvis Costello; I am a fan of Elvis Costello; I gave it 5 stars; it's very good - enough said.


pump it up flat ...
it is, in it self great (saw costello a year later during the armed forces tour - great all around). this is the best album the who never recorded. but the original of this album (and i do mean album) had a whole lot of us now older people dancing when we didn. t really wanna. ask your parents.

damn, i/m i/old. buy this cd. oddly, it isn/t.


Must Own
The songwriting is wonderfully acerbic, the band sound is stripped down to a live feel, and each musician kills. Elvis's first disk with the Attractions (Steve Nieve, Bruce and Pete Thomas) burns brightly even today. A must own!.


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