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The Attractions, Elvis Costello
4.3 out of 5 stars  (18 customer reviews) | More about this product
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Product Details

  • Audio CD (May 14, 1996)
  • Original Release Date: May 14, 1996
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Import
  • Label: Warner Bros UK
  • ASIN: B000002N5X
  • Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  LP Record
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  (18 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #42,215 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. The Other End Of The Telescope
2. Little Atoms
3. All This Usless 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

Editorial Reviews

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Beauty was the third album Elvis Costello released between 1994 and '96. It's also one of his best collections of the '90s. Something of a hodgepodge, it finds Elvis one moment recalling the anglicized soul of Get Happy!, the next making like Grandpa Grunge. Do you prefer Elvis as Roger McGuinn or Marvin Gaye? He tries out a new songwriting partner in Aimee Mann, who cowrote the lovely waltz tempo opener, "The Other End of the Telescope," but he's also brought back Paul McCartney from his Spike days to cocompose "Shallow Grave." All of which implies Elvis is all over the board. And so what? As the years pass, it's more apparent than ever that Costello has survived because his love--yes, love!--of music. When you think about it, that's an odd notion. Who'd of thou