Mighty Like a Rose

Elvis Costello | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 22, 2009)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino Records
• ASIN: B002JCYSPA
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #277,183 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Other Side of Summer

2. Hurry Down Doomsday (The Bugs Are Taking Over)

3. How to Be Dumb

4. All Grown Up

5. Invasion Hit Parade

6. Harpies Bizarre

7. After the Fall

8. Georgie and Her Rival

9. So Like Candy

10. Playboy to a Man

11. Sweet Pear

12. Broken

13. Couldn't Call It Unexpected No. 4

Customer Reviews

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3.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant mistake., September 9, 2010

By 

Magnus Hägermyr (Malmö, SE) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mighty Like a Rose (Audio CD)

An uneven collection where Elvis gets it right on the following occations:

"The Other Side Of Summer" - The best track. A powerfull broadside popsong that flows over you like an unstoppable Beach Boys-tune. A classic.

"All Grown Up" - I dont know how many octaves Elvis use in this very melodious Paul McCartneyish song. Would sit neat on "Sgt Peppar".

"Harpies Bizarre" - A song with a little sentimental touch. The middlepart with woodwindarrangement (what we in Sweden call a Bellman-sound) is very cute.

"Georgie And Her Rival" - Classic Costellopop. Sounds like something from "Punch The Clock".

"Sweet Pear" - A mighty soulballad which nicks the guitarintro from The Beatles "Dont Let Me Down". An intro it deserves.

"Couldnt Call It Unexpected No 4" - Sounds to me like an english folksong from the thirties or something. I have a strong memory from a concert in Falconer Hall Copenhagen when Elvis sanged this song backed up just with Steve Naives piano without any microphone and his strong voice filled the whole concerthall. Very intimate.

For the rest:

"Hurry Down Doomsday (The Bugs Are Taking Over)" - The whole thing is depending on a guitarriff that should have stayed in the rehearsalroom in the first place.

"How To Be Dumb" - Here EC takes two of his own classics ("Man Out Of Time" and "Next Time Around") and mix them together to a insipid soup. And it goes on for too long (which you could say about many songs on this album).

"Invasion Hitparade" - A standstill. The bugger doas not move!

"After The Fall" - Did anybody started to dig Elvis Costello for the need of another Leonard Cohen?

"So Like Candy" - A good tune cowritten with McCartney BUT the tempo is too slow, the verse and chorus goes one round too many and there is a bloody transverse flute sneeking up on us. It could have been a sharp twominutes pop-pearl. What a shame.

"Playboy To A Man" - Is this a song he and Paul wrote for Ian Dury but was rejected? A routine-song made in the sleep.

"Broken" - Maybe the worst Elvis Costello-recording ever.

All in all, here we really talk blood & chocolate but for being his worst record its quite good. (If I sound too harsh on some places its because Im spoiled (we all are) with the high level EC:s records normaly offers. Even the lesser god songs, I have to admit, contains a certain degree of charm).

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4.0 out of 5 stars Track Listing for Elvis Costello Mighty Like A Rose Ltd. Edition, April 30, 2010

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L. Bonilla "Holy Cow!" (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mighty Like A Rose (Audio CD)

1. The Other Side Of Summer
2. Hurry down Doomsday (The Bugs Are Taking Over)
3. How To Be Dumb
4. All Grown Up
5. Invasion Hit Parade
6. Harpies Bizarre
7. After The Fall
8. Georie And Her Rival
9. So Like Candy
10. Interlude: Couldn't Call It Unexpected No. 2
11. Playboy To A Man
12. Sweet Pear
13. Broken
14. Couldn't Call It Unexpected No. 4