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Cat:MOVLP3004     Barcode:8719262017436

2LP, Limited Numbered Edition of 2,500 copies on Light Green Vinyl

Elvis Costello’s Warner Brothers debut saw him shooting for new standards of literacy and sophistication …

Record Label: Music On Vinyl

Format: Album

Genre: Rock

Release Date: 04/03/2022

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Elvis Costello’s Warner Brothers debut saw him shooting for new standards of literacy and sophistication. Leaving behind the raw spleen of Blood and Chocolate, Spike used a multitude of guests and luminaries – Paul McCartney, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, guitarist Marc Ribot – to flesh out wordy, acerbic tales of soldiers and graceless women (for example, the Margaret Thatcher of the enraged ‘Tramp the Dirt Down’). For many fans, the songs were too artful by half, with knotty arrangements that belied an absence of memorable music. The Beatle-esque hit ‘Veronica’ notwithstanding (a McCartney collaboration), Spike smacked of cleverness on the grand scale.

Track Listing

Side One

  1. …This Town…
  2. Let Him Dangle
  3. Deep Dark Truthful Mirror
  4. Veronica

Side Two

  1. God’s Comic
  2. Chewing Gum
  3. Tramp The Dirt Down

Side Three

  1. Stalin Malone
  2. Satellite
  3. Pads, Paws and Claws
  4. Baby Plays Around

Side Four

  1. Miss Macbeth
  2. Any King’s Shilling
  3. Coal-Train Robberies
  4. Last Boat Leaving
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