The Best of Elvis Costello: The First 10 Years [DIGIPACK]

Elvis Costello - The Best of Elvis Costello: The First 10 Years [DIGIPACK]

The Best of Elvis Costello: The First 10 Years [DIGIPACK]
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Artist: Elvis Costello
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2007-05-01
Music Label: Hip-O Records
Soundtracks:
  1. (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes
  2. Alison
  3. Watching The Detectives
  4. (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea
  5. Pump It Up
  6. Radio, Radio
  7. Accidents Will Happen
  8. Oliver's Army
  9. (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding
  10. I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down
  11. High Fidelity
  12. Clubland
  13. New Lace Sleeves
  14. Good Year For The Roses
  15. Beyond Belief
  16. Man Out Of Time
  17. Almost Blue
  18. Every Day I Write The Book
  19. Shipbuilding
  20. Brilliant Mistake
  21. Indoor Fireworks
  22. I Want You

Music reviews of The Best of Elvis Costello: The First 10 Years [DIGIPACK]

Music Review: Same Old Music in Yet Another New Sleeve
Rating: 4 Stars

Now that thirty years has passed since his debut, it is apparent to me that Elvis Costello has a lot more in common with his namesake than a singing career. Case in point - Almost immediately upon his arrival at RCA, Elvis Presley's recordings were packaged with little regard to the consumer, and then re-packaged so relentlessly that nobody except the most dedicated, wealthy, and mentally unbalanced collector could possibly hope to amass all of Presley's catalog. With blithe regularity, RCA executives would abuse their position as the historic caretakers of a rock and roll legend by digging deeper and deeper into obscurities, then packaging them with recycled classic recordings. Very, very little was genuinely `new' except the package itself. These collections are innumerable, and I pity the poor soul who suffers the disease of being a completist collector, because it can cost you your bank account, your house, and maybe even your marriage, all in the pursuit of owning all that is Elvis.
It now appears as though the same type of abuse has befallen the recorded works of Elvis Costello. I should know. I was one of those `mentally unbalanced' individuals who felt the need to own every Elvis Costello item released on the marketplace. In the beginning, it was kind of fun. Costello had numerous singles with non-LP b-sides, and plenty of `alternate' versions to keep fans quite busy. I was a part of that vinyl junkie set, a cult of obsessed lunatics who lived to find the rarest single, or an alternate package. After three years and hundreds of dollars spent, I remember feeling betrayed when Columbia issued "Taking Liberties," a collection of Elvis' rare b-sides. In an instant, one five-dollar album made twenty rarities commonplace. Nevertheless, I soldiered on; buying 10" collector's singles, alternate mixes, and all sorts of oddities. Then, the CD era began, and it started to happen all over again. Elvis changed labels (from Columbia to Warner Brothers), and his catalog albums were subjected to not one, not two, but three separate repackagings, each of them containing unique `rarities' that could be obtained nowhere else. A dedicated collector would require four versions of each Elvis Costello album. At this point, I finally surrendered, but I already spent enough to finance a Hawaiian vacation for some record executive and his family of four. Nowadays I simply stand by, amazed as the repackaging craze continues unabated. By my count, the above named collections represent the 10th and 11th re-compilation of Elvis Costello's `hits'. I'm not saying they are bad collections. The booklets contain song lyrics, which is a nice touch, especially for the older material. Naturally, the songs are great and I should know, because I bought each of these tracks at least a half-dozen times already. If you still don't own them, then go ahead and buy them. You will enjoy them. I, however, will stare at my room full of Elvis-related plastic and acknowledge the reason that I never made that trip to Hawaii myself.
B+ Tom Ryan
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22 Timeless songs compiled by Elvis Costello from his first 11 albums.

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