Costello & Nieve (Ltd. Ed. Live 1996 5-disc box set - LA/San Francisco/Chicago/Boston/New York) [Collector's Edition, Box set, Single, Live]

Elvis Costello | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 3, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 5
• Format: Collector's Edition, Box set, Single, Live
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Warner Bros / WEA
• ASIN: B000002NCJ
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #202,386 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Elvis, stripped down and brilliant, March 29, 2003

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James Reckling (Roanoke, Va USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Costello & Nieve (Ltd. Ed. Live 1996 5-disc box set - LA/San Francisco/Chicago/Boston/New York) (Audio CD)

Unsurprisingly these songs sound fantastic stripped down to guitar and piano (Pete Thomas plays drums on a few cuts). Only 30,000 of these were pressed ... 5 eps from 5 different concerts that the duo played in 1996. Your EC collection is incomplete without this one!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable, but not worth $50-$100, July 12, 2007

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Count Istvan Telecky - See all my reviews

This review is from: Costello & Nieve (Ltd. Ed. Live 1996 5-disc box set - LA/San Francisco/Chicago/Boston/New York) (Audio CD)

Picked up this somewhat hard to find live collection from a used-like-new vendor on Amazon for under $30...an excellent value. It's surprisingly well produced for the most part, though I do find myself tweaking the volume control occasionally.

Only some narrowness of song selection and a couple of 'clunkers' keep this from 5 stars. 'All This Useless Beauty' tunes are the centerpiece. If you don't like ATUB, you'll be wasting your money here.

'It's Time', 'Man Out of Time', 'You Bowed Down', 'Angels Wanna Wear My Red Shoes' and 'I Want to Vanish' are among the best cuts. However, the versions here of 'Little Atoms' and 'All This Useless Beauty' far exceed their studio-brothers and are the real finds for Costello completists looking to embellish their desert island best-of collections.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Useless Beauty and Oldies, October 23, 2004

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Blackberry Tea (Kansas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Costello & Nieve (Ltd. Ed. Live 1996 5-disc box set - LA/San Francisco/Chicago/Boston/New York) (Audio CD)

Excellent stuff, better than I expected. They play almost all of Useless Beauty (a favorite of mine) and a bunch of older tunes. The commentary between tracks is funny and insightful. Grab this if you can find it!