Singles 1 [Box set, Import]

Elvis Costello | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 3, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 12
• Format: Box set, Import
• 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: Import [Generic]
• ASIN: B0000DHNPG
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #341,076 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Less Than Zero

2. Radio Sweetheart

3. Alison

4. Welcome To The Working Week

5. (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes

6. Mystery Dance

7. Watching The Detectives

8. Blame It On Cain (Live) (CD DEBUT)

9. Mystery Dance (Live) (CD DEBUT)

10. Miracle Man (Live) (CD DEBUT)

11. (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea

12. You Belong To Me

13. Stranger In The House

14. Neat Neat Neat (Live)

15. Pump It Up

16. Big Tears

17. Radio Radio

18. Tiny Steps

19. Talking In The Dark

20. Wednesday Week

See all 27 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Import-only release - Rhino scratched their plans to release this domestically. Affordably priced collection of classic singles. This first volume contains 27 tracks, all of the cuts from the original 7 inch & 12 inch formats, from 12 singles Elvis released 1977-1980. Three of the cuts are exclusively appearing on CD here for the first time ever --and will not be included on any of Rhino 's subsequent remastered reissues in the U.S. Each disc comes in a full color slipcase sleeve with the original artwork intact & together they come housed in a full color sturdy flip-top box.

Customer Reviews

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Do you have room for this?, December 7, 2003

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eveoflove (North York, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Singles 1 (Audio CD)

Made in EU in 2003, Serial# ELVISBOX-101, Playing Time 75:06

Are you a Costello completist? If you are, there's no doubt you'll buy this 12-disc box set!

The 28-tracks included here (disc 2 also contains an "uncredited" alternate version of "Alison") are basically taken from EC's first 12 singles, each in a replica picture sleeve (including disc 11 with the inside-out jacket of "Accidents Will Happen", which also contains 2 tracks that made up disc 9, the giveaway single for some attendees of the Dominion Theatre concerts of 1978).

This little "chest" includes a 12-page booklet that gives a track-by-track history of each of the singles.

An obvious attempt at "cashing in" by the record company, this box (the first of 3) covers the 1977/03 to 1980/01 era of EC's singles, but the whole thing would have fitted on a single CD.

For completists only, since almost all tracks are available on some compilations or remastered re-issues.

You'll have to decide whether the 4 tracks making their first appearance on CD are worth the price tag ?!?