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[Music] Elvis Costello's greatest album?

Elvis Costello's greatest album?

  • Trust

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • The Juliet Letters

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Brutal Youth

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Kojak Variety

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • All This Useless Beauty

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • When I Was Cruel

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • North

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Il Sogno

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • The Delivery Man

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Momofuku

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Secret, Profane & Sugarcane

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • National Ransom

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    42


Mowgli37

Enigmatic Asthmatic
Jan 13, 2013
6,371
Sheffield
The King is dead, long live the King.

Was having a listen to one of the great man's lesser known works (the surprisingly good 'When I Was Cruel') and it got me pondering which of his album's I'd, if you put a gun to my head, have to pick as my favourite.

I'm expecting the majority will be split between the superb My Aim is True, This Year's Model and Armed Forces (surely one of the best runs in terms of quality of any emerging artist?). I'm sure there's a lot of love for works like Imperial Bedroom and Punch the Clock out there and hell, maybe someone will champion some of his later output.

As ever, the good people of NSC will decide...


Note: I'm excluding any collaborative albums as that would make for a simply GARGANTUAN poll.
 


Ron Manager

Oooh, wasn't it?
Sep 14, 2015
417
Lentil Alley
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Pogue Mahone

Well-known member
Apr 30, 2011
10,719
The first three.

1. This Year's Model.
2. Armed Forces.
3. My Aim is True.

I saw EC in 1978. He was brilliant back then.
 




Bladders

Twats everywhere
Jun 22, 2012
13,672
The Troubadour
Tough one.

I'd have to say The Best of Elvis Costello...
 




Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's Tackle
NSC Patreon
Oct 8, 2003
49,341
Faversham
Saw him in 77 in London and Brighton. But the best album is the later period Imperial Bedroom. It still has me agog :bowdown:
 




Gregory2Smith1

J'les aurai!
Sep 21, 2011
5,476
Auch
really don't know the albums that well but a lyric that always sticks with me is

she's filing her nails while their dragging the lake

great song writer
 












R. Slicker

Well-known member
Jan 1, 2009
4,486
Get happy.
Who can forget the lyric:
'The chairman of this boardroom is a compliment collector, I wanna be his funeral director' ?
 
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CorgiRegisteredFriend

Well-known member
May 29, 2011
8,310
Boring By Sea
Get Happy. Full of songs around the two minute mark. I think he lost it after the album Trust.
 


R. Slicker

Well-known member
Jan 1, 2009
4,486
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Still got a soft spot for this beauty, even though they're not his songs.
 


studio150

Well-known member
Jul 30, 2011
29,555
On the Border
I wanted to vote for:

Wise up ghost and other songs 2013
Painted from memory
Cruel Smile
The River in Reverse

Or any number of live albums or compilations

I could cheat and go for 2 1/2 years

But will instead go for this years model
 








Stato

Well-known member
Dec 21, 2011
6,528
Get Happy. Full of songs around the two minute mark. I think he lost it after the album Trust.

He hadn't even wrote 'Shipbuilding' before 'Trust', or 'Beyond Belief', or 'I Want You.'

I'm tempted to go for 'All This Useless Beauty' which is an absolutely brilliant album, but I'm going to settle on 'Blood and Chocolate.' He just does bitter and angry so well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwGdB4Gj7Js
 



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