Elvis Costello - This Year`s Model (Deluxe Edition) [Limited]

Artist:

Costello, Elvis

UPC:

602517606319

See Also:

Simon, Paul Beach Boys (The) Bowie, David Elvis Costello - Piano Jazz: McPartland/Costello Elvis Costello/Metropole Orkest - My Flame Burns Blue

Description:

THIS YEAR`S MODEL is packaged with a 28-page booklet that includes rare photos and printed song lyrics.
Elvis Costello & The Attractions: Elvis Costello (vocals, guitar); Steve Nieve (keyboards); Bruce Thomas (bass); Pete Thomas (drums).
Additional personnel: Mick Jones (guitar); Davey Payne (saxophone).
Producer: Nick Lowe.
Reissue producers: Gary Stewart, Val Jennings.
Recorded between August 1977 and October 1978. Originally released on Columbia (35331). Includes liner notes by Elvis Costello.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
Elvis Costello & the Attractions/Elvis Costello: Elvis Costello; Bruce Thomas (bass guitar); Pete Thomas (drum); Steve Nieve.
Personnel: Elvis Costello (vocals, guitar); Elvis Costello; Mick Jones (guitar); Davey Payne (saxophone); Steve Nieve (keyboards); Pete Thomas (drums).
Recording information: Basing Street Studios (1977-1978); Eden Studios, London, England (1977-1978); Leicester University, England (1977-1978); Warner Theater, Washington DC (1977-1978); Waterloo Studios, Sydney, Australia (1977-1978).
Photographers: Roberta Bayley; Chris Gabrin.
For his second album, Elvis Costello fine-tuned his aesthetic by abandoning the California studio cat accompanists of his debut for the more aggressive, quirky and very British Attractions, who would define EC`s sound over the next several years. Where MY AIM IS TRUE highlighted Costello`s rootsy influences (the Band, etc.), THIS YEAR`S MODEL wholeheartedly embraces the "new wave" out-with-the-old mindset, favoring tightly wound ferocity over back-porch-isms.
Irresistibly catchy, in a twitchy, neurotic, white-knuckled way, THIS YEAR`S MODEL is Costello at his edgiest. The classic "Pump It Up" pummels the listener with garage-band organ, pounding drums, and HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED-style ranting. "Radio, Radio" turned into something of an anti-authoritarian anthem for Costello. The snaky guitar and reggae-tinged drums of "I Don`t Want to Go to Chelsea" complement his verge-of-a-nervous-breakdown vocal performance nicely. Come to think of it, so does nearly everything else here.

Track Listing:

DISC 1: THIS YEAR`S MODEL:

1. No Action
2. This Year`s Girl
3. Beat, The
4. Pump It Up
5. Little Triggers
6. You Belong to Me
7. Hand in Hand
8. (I Don`t Want to Go To) Chelsea
9. Lip Service
10. Living in Paradise
11. Lipstick Vogue
12. Night Rally
13. Radio, Radio
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 take, Alternate Basing Street Studios Version)
23. (I Don`t Want to Go To) Chelsea [Alternate Basing Street Studios Versio - (alternate take)

DISC 2: LIVE AT THE WARNER THEATER:

1. Pump It Up - (previously unreleased, live)
2. Waiting for the End of the World - (previously unreleased, live)
3. No Action - (previously unreleased, live)
4. Less Than Zero - (previously unreleased, live)
5. Beat, The - (previously unreleased, live)
6. (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes - (previously unreleased, live)
7. (I Don`t Want to Go To) Chelsea - (previously unreleased, live)
8. Hand in Hand - (previously unreleased, live)
9. Little Triggers - (previously unreleased, live)
10. Radio, Radio - (previously unreleased, live)
11. You Belong to Me - (previously unreleased, live)
12. Lipstick Vogue - (previously unreleased, live)
13. Watching the Detectives - (previously unreleased, live)
14. Mystery Dance - (previously unreleased, live)
15. Miracle Man - (previously unreleased, live)
16. Blame It on Cain - (previously unreleased, live)
17. Chemistry Class - (previously unreleased, live)

Album Information

Release Date:

03/04/2008

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Rock & Pop

Subgenre:

New Wave

Label:

Elvis Costello Catalog

Catalog Number:

1760631

Original Release Year:

1978

# of Discs:

2

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

Runtime:

129 : 55

Guest Artist:

Mick Jones

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