Elvis Costello - This Year's Model (Dlx) (Exp)
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Artist: Elvis CostelloEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2008-03-04
Music Label: Hip-O Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- No Action - (with Elvis Costello & The Attractions)
- This Year's Girl - (with Elvis Costello & The Attractions)
- Beat, The - (with Elvis Costello & The Attractions)
- Pump It Up - (with Elvis Costello & The Attractions)
- Little Triggers - (with Elvis Costello & The Attractions)
- You Belong To Me - (with Elvis Costello & The Attractions)
- Hand In Hand - (with Elvis Costello & The Attractions)
- (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea - (with Elvis Costello & The Attractions)
- Lip Service - (with Elvis Costello & The Attractions)
- Living In Paradise - (with Elvis Costello & The Attractions)
- Lipstick Vogue - (with Elvis Costello & The Attractions)
- Night Rally - (with Elvis Costello & The Attractions)
- Radio, Radio - (with Elvis Costello & The Attractions)
- Big Tears
- Crawling To The USA
- Tiny Steps
- Running Out Of Angels - (demo)
- Greenshirt - (demo)
- Big Boys - (demo)
- Neat Neat Neat - (live)
- Roadette Song - (live)
- This Year's Girl - (Alternate Basing Street Studios Version)
- (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea
- Pump It Up*
- Waiting For The End Of The World*
- No Action
- Less Than Zero
- Beat, The
- (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes*
- (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea*
- Hand In Hand*
- Little Triggers*
- Radio, Radio*
- You Belong To Me*
- Lipstick Vogue*
- Watching The Detectives*
- Mystery Dance*
- Miracle Man*
- Blame It On Cain*
- Chemistry Class - (live)*previously unreleased, live
Free Music Notes for This Year's Model (Dlx) (Exp)
Free Music Review: The best Elvis Costello.
Hit: 5 Stars
This Year's Model is arguably Costellos' best album. 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.
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.
This Year's Model (Dlx) (Exp) Poster
THIS YEAR'S MODEL is packaged with a 28-page booklet that includes rare photos and printed song lyrics. For his second album, Costello fine-tuned his aesthetic by abandoned the California studio cat accompanists of his debut for the more aggressive, quirky and very British Attractions, who would virtually 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 Costello's verge-of-a-nervous-breakdown vocal performance nicely. Come to think of it, so does nearly everything else here.
With his second album, Elvis Costello firmly established himself as one of rock's--not just punk/new wave's--premier singer-songwriters. Building on the promise of his '77 debut, My Aim Is True, Costello put together a backing touring trio, the Attractions (keyboardist Steve Nieve, bassist Bruce Thomas, and drummer Pete Thomas), and their versatility helped Costello define himself as a punk-fuelled power-pop force. Sporting influences ranging from Bob Dylan (the stream-of-consciousness "Pump It Up") to Burt Bacharach (the Dusty Springfield-worthy "Little Triggers"), this '78-released collection also features such righteously angry anthems as the anti-conformist "This Year's Girl," and the anti-MOR classic, "Radio Radio." --Billy Altman
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