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
Music reviews of This Year's Model (Dlx) (Exp)
Music Review: Yet another re-release with extras
Rating: 3 Stars
The Rhino two disc reissue has everything contained on the first disc and then some. The re-mastering is fine on the Rhino release and this does not improve on it. The packaging and liner notes are much better in the Rhino release. The live concert on the second disc would be the only reason to purchase this release if you already have the Rhino release. The concert was originally a radio broadcast from the Warner Theater in Washington DC a week or so before the officially released El Mocambo concert. It contains an early solo version of "Chemistry Class" that was previously released on a different Rhino re-release (Armed Forces?). The rest of the concert is presented here for the first time in its entirety. So what are the differences between the Warner Theater concert and the El Mocambo concert? The set lists are close though I've always thought that "Live at the El Mocambo" was edited to fit on one vinyl disc. Here are a few differences: Lip Service is only on El Mocambo and No Action, Red Shoes, Hand in Hand, Blame it on Cain and Chemistry Class are only on the Warner Concert. Both have the Dallas version of Less than Zero and the Wipeout drum roll version of mystery dance. The Warner concert appears to be the whole show and I suspect that "Live at the El Mocambo" has the song order altered in addition to having a few songs cut. Both concerts are about equal in the quality of the performance. The band sounds deranged and hungry for success on both. It is "pull out the stops" rock and roll in its purest form. Both have mistakes in playing and sound quality-wise the Warner concert has more stage buzzes. There's no doubt that Elvis Costello and the Attractions are at their aggressive cocky best on both shows (The Warner show features Elvis stating, "Are some of you unimpressed?... cause I don't believe you!"). I would rate the Warner concert better as it sounds more "in the moment" than "Live at the El Mocambo" does. It's a tough call for the dedicated fan as they could have released the concert as a single disc instead of attaching it to something we already have and charging a premium price. I give it three stars cause it's all good stuff.
Description of This Year's Model (Dlx) (Exp)
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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