Following his second covers album, Kojak Variety, Elvis Costello set out to assemble a collection of songs he had written for other artists but never recorded himself -- sort of a reverse covers album. As it turned out, that idea was only used as a launching pad -- the resulting album, [ read more ]

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Perhaps realizing that The Juliet Letters was one step too far, especially after the willfully eclectic pair of Spike and Mighty Like a Rose, Elvis Costello set out to make a straight-ahead rock &    [ read more ]

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With Almost Blue, Elvis Costello wanted to be a honky tonker. With Kojak Variety, he's a crooner, picking forgotten tunes by both minor and major artists (anyone from Screamin' Jay Hawkins to <   [ read more ]

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Throughout his career Elvis Costello has always been prolific; thus it was surprising, even given the change in record labels for the US, when he took a whole 20 months between Blood & Chocolate and this follow-up. But the musical growth he exhibits makes the wait worthwhile. The musical settings range from the stark folk of [ read more ]

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In the middle of 1978, it would be easy to understand why Nick Kent, noted music journalist for the NME, would come to anoint Elvis Costello with the dubious moniker Horn Rims From Hell. Having just completed a barnstorming first ever tour of the US of A, which included enduring a week long visit from none other than Geraldo Rivera (?!), Elvis was done with being polite. His timid by comparison 1977 debut MY AIM IS TRUE, would become a distant memory, replaced by the far less kind and gentle racket    [ read more ]

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Import-only release - Rhino scratched their plans to release this domestically. Affordably priced collection of classic singles. This first volume contains 27 tracks, all of the cuts from the original 7 inch & 12 inch formats, from 12 singles Elvis released 1977-1980. Three of the cuts are exclusively appearing on CD here for the first time ever --and will not be included on any of Rhino 's subsequent remastered reissues in the U.S. Each disc comes in a full color slipcase sleeve with the original artwork i   [ read more ]

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Import-only release - Rhino scratched their plans to release this domestically. Affordably priced collection of classic singles. This third volume contains 37 tracks, all of the cuts from the original 7 inch & 12 inch formats, from 11 singles Elvis released 1983-1987. 11 of the cuts are exclusively appearing on CD here for the first time ever --and will not be included on any of Rhino 's subsequent remastered reissues in the U.S. Each disc come s in a full color slipcase sleeve with the original artwork int   [ read more ]

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Elvis Costello assembled this compilation himself. It is highly idiosyncratic, not the least of its peculiarities being that the CD and cassette versions differ considerably. Costello describes a vague concept in his notes, but the collection of songs (47 on the CDs, 51 on the cassettes) seems a jumble. At least he demonstrates that songs from different periods work well together. A large part of Costello's oeuvre, including some of his best work, is represented. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

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North, Elvis Costello's 20th album of new material, follows the deliberately classicist When I Was Cruel by a mere year, but it feels more the sequel to 1998's Burt Bacharach collaboration, Painted From Memory, or even 1993's roundly ignored classical pop experiment, The Juliet Letters. Costello has abandoned clanging guitars and drums of Cruel -- abandoned rock & roll, really -- to return to a set of classically influenced songs, all "composed, arranged and conducted" by the m   [ read more ]

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Elvis Costello's collaboration with Burt Bacharach produced the exquisite Painted From Memory, an unabashedly classicist pop album that recalled Bacharach's heyday with Hal David. It was such an individual album, unlike anything in Costello's catalog, that it's a wonder that the same batch of songs could produce another album as equally compelling and unique, which is exactly what Bill Frisell's The Sweetest Punch is. Costello sent Frisell demos of every song on {^Painted From    [ read more ]

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North, Elvis Costello's 20th album of new material, follows the deliberately classicist When I Was Cruel by a mere year, but it feels more the sequel to 1998's Burt Bacharach collaboration, Painted From Memory, or even 1993's roundly ignored classical pop experiment, The Juliet Letters. Costello has abandoned clanging guitars and drums of Cruel -- abandoned rock & roll, really -- to return to a set of classically influenced songs, all "composed, arranged and conducted" by the m   [ read more ]

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