The Costello Show: Live at the El Mocambo [LIVE]

Elvis Costello

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 29, 2009)
• Original Release Date: September 29, 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Hip-O Records
• ASIN: B002JCMZ78
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #9,959 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Mystery Dance

2. Waiting for the End of the World

3. Welcome to the Working Week

4. Less Than Zero [Dallas Version]

5. Beat

6. Lip Service

7. (I Don't Want to Go To) Chelsea

8. Little Triggers

9. Radio Radio

10. Lipstick Vogue

11. Watching the Detectives

12. Miracle Man

13. You Belong to Me

14. Pump It Up

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Be There Now, October 2, 2009

By	P. B. Fey (Phoenixville, PA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Longtime Costello fans may already have this disc from when it first appeared--legally--in the 2-1/2 Years box set. This incendiary performance documents Elvis and the Attractions quite early in their career (the Deluxe Edition My Aim Is True contains an even earlier, rougher live performance). The pace is frantic, the energy palpable. The band blazes through Elvis's already concise songs, and the set is relatively short. But this is all about quality, not quantity. Not to mention a little rock and roll history.

Given its origin as a concert broadcast on the radio, it's only natural that there are audience sounds. Sure, they can be a little annoying but, hearing this now, all these years later, it's as if you are there and you happen to be standing next to the idiot making all the noise. The important part is You Are There.

I would've liked to have seen some additional material with this reissue but the lack of this is offset by the great price point. The hardcore fans may not need this; but if you are new to Elvis, or weren't around when all this happened, you can't afford not to have it.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Elvis concert series - and sounds better than ever!, September 30, 2009

By	Chauncey Gardner (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews

Honestly, this one of the best shows, which really hasn't been available before commercially, and now sounds better than ever. Can you really go wrong with Elvis & The Attractions performing in 1978 and doing a set of MY AIM IS TRUE and THIS YEARS MODEL material?? I forgotten gem in the live canon of Declan! And sounds like we have more to look forward to in the coming months? I can't wait for Hollywood High!

16 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars RUINED by one idiot, September 30, 2009

By	BillOreillyMadeMeGay (USA) - See all my reviews

This would be a awesome recording, it even has alternate words to "Less Than Zero" I've never heard anywhere else! However, there is one jackass in the audience who is whooping and yahooing through almost every song, and he's close enough to the mike that he's about as loud as the band. Someone really needs to remaster this and get rid of those sounds, but until they do I can't recommend this for anybody. Sorry Elvis, I love you, but this is a defective product.