This Year's Model

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The best Elvis Costello.
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.

Oh yes!
It's Elvis Costello; I am a fan of Elvis Costello; I gave it 5 stars; it's very good - enough said.

pump it up flat ...
this is the best album the who never recorded. it is, in it self great (saw costello a year later during the armed forces tour - great all around). but the original of this album (and i do mean album) had a whole lot of us now older people dancing when we didn.t really wanna. ask your parents. damn, i/m i/old. buy this cd. oddly, it isn/t.

Must Own
Elvis's first disk with the Attractions (Steve Nieve, Bruce and Pete Thomas) burns brightly even today. The songwriting is wonderfully acerbic, the band sound is stripped down to a live feel, and each musician kills. A must own!

I'd like to give it 5 stars
If only for the great bonus live disc. I am sure they could have just released the concert on its own and sold it out many times over. Like another reviewer suggested, this is even more thrilling than the El Mocambo concert disc, but they could've fixed that also by releasing the entire Mocambo show, un-edited. Setlists being similar, we probably don't need both, but heck, Elvis could release them anyway. A whole passel of live show releases would be nice, for that matter... Docked one star only because the bonus material on the first disc has already been reissued.