Elvis Costello All This Useless Beauty (2-CD Deluxe Edition)
Q: 4 stars out of 5 - "...An uncommonly confessional set by Costello's standards - direct, affecting, and largely overlooked in its day."
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CD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Released: August 21, 2001
- Originally Released: 2001
- Label: Rhino
Entertainment Reviews:
Rolling Stone - 5/30/96, p.49
3 Stars - Good - "...the most likable and organic Costello album in years....these tracks arise as modern standards--the '90s answer to the brilliance of the old Brill Building catalog."Entertainment Weekly - 5/17/96, p.61
"...possibly the mildest-tempered album he's ever made....Loyalists, however, can rest easy knowing the record's relative quietude camouflages plenty of unladylike phlegm and bile..." - Rating: A-Q - 10/01, p.141
4 stars out of 5 - "...An uncommonly confessional set by Costello's standards - direct, affecting, and largely overlooked in its day."Uncut - 11/01, p.110
4 stars out of 5 - "...Costello unveiled the best singing of his career here, purring and insinuating..."Melody Maker - 5/18/96, p.49
Recommended - "...It's not useless, just awkward--awkward with the dignity of the auteur....this album draws you into its sullenness, its subtle shades of colour that surround and encompass....when it is simple and graceful--namely in the big ballads--you are lost in a beauty that could crack glass..."Musician - 7/96, pp.86-87
"...sounds surprisingly good....Steve Nieve's piano has as much reverbed twinkle as it did 15 years ago, and it's a very welcome sound....the sort of great pop music Elvis Costello was supposed to be making, if...he'd only been paying attention or something..."Mojo (Publisher) - 6/96, p.114
"...a vocal 'tour de force': he has never sounded so intimate, so confiding....[the album] does boast a growing vocal mastery, a newfound sense that Elvis's phrasing is now the equal of his lyrical genius."NME (Magazine) - 5/11/96, p.44
7 (out of 10) - "...A strange, slightly confusing, but mostly gripping channel-hopping session through the accumulated tricks of a show-off songcraftsman..."Tracks on Disc 1:
- 1.The Other End Of The Telescope
- 2.Little Atoms
- 3.All This Useless Beauty
- 4.Complicated Shadows
- 5.Why Can't A Man Stand Alone?
- 6.Distorted Angel
- 7.Shallow Grave
- 8.Poor Fractured Atlas
- 9.Starting To Come To Me
- 10.You Bowed Down
- 11.It's Time
- 12.I Want To Vanish
Tracks on Disc 2:
- 1.Almost Ideal Eyes
- 2.My Dark Life
- 3.That Day Is Done
- 4.What Do I Do Now?
- 5.The Bridge I Burned
- 6.It's Time
- 7.Complicated Shadows
- 8.You Bowed Down
- 9.Mistress And Maid
- 10.Distorted Angel
- 11.World's Great Optimist
- 12.The Only Flame In Town
- 13.The Comedians
- 14.The Days Take Care Of Everything
- 15.Hidden Shame
- 16.Why Can't A Man Stand Alone?
- 17.Distorted Angel
Product Info
- UPC: 081227428426
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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