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My Aim Is True

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Elvis Costello Format: Audio CD

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Track Listings

Disc: 1

1	Welcome to the Working Week
2	Miracle Man
3	No Dancing
4	Blame It on Cain
5	Alison
6	Sneaky Feelings
7	(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes
8	Less Than Zero
9	Mystery Dance
10	Pay It Back
11	I'm Not Angry
12	Waiting for the End of the World
13	Watching the Detectives

Disc: 2

1	No Action
2	Living in Paradise
3	Radio Sweetheart
4	Stranger in the House
5	I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself
6	Less Than Zero (Dallas Version)
7	Imagination (is a Powerful Deceiver)
8	Mystery Dance (Honky Tonk Demo)
9	Cheap Reward (Honky Tonk Demo)
10	Jump Up (Honky Tonk Demo)
11	Blame it on Cain (Honky Tonk Demo)
12	Poison Moon (Honky Tonk Demo)

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Elvis Costello kicked off his debut album with a formal device that would also serve his next two long-players well: the first thing you hear is his voice. That opening phrase--"Now that your picture's in the paper..."--was more than sneakily, if not intentionally, appropriate, since Costello was quickly declared the second coming. It's become de rigueur to dis the pub-rock backing of U.S. band Clover, but their work here is satisfactorily edgy; guitarist John McFee makes some of the arrangements with his wailingly articulate fills. The remastered Rhino reissue includes a full second disc of demos and rarities. --Rickey Wright

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 5.75 x 0.45 inches; 1 Pounds
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Rhino
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ July 26, 2006
Label ‏ : ‎ Rhino
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00005MLU0
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2

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Fraylock

My son hates it

Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2023

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Perfect!

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David Zizza

Elvis hits the mark.

Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2023

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What can I say? I've had a ripped version of this album for years and wanted to give the artist his due. Great album, so many great hits. And sounds a whole lot better than the tracks I had.

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Lenny

Great Music

Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2023

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This was a replacement LP because of someone else who liked it a lot and took it from me.😡 The songs are wonderful

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Gordon Pfannenstiel

If all you have is the Ryko version, you NEED this

Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2009

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All in all, I thought that Ryko did a great job of remastering Elvis' catalog in the 90s, so I was very negative about the Rhino reissues, and didn't bother with them. I was very wrong, particularly concerning this album. Ryko either got an inferior master to work with or else just blew it, because soundwise this blows the Ryko release away. I've always felt that this was Elivs' worst sounding record (with the possible exception of Blood & Chocolate), but this release makes me rethink my opinion, it's that much of an improvement over the Ryko. It makes the album come alive in a new way for me. I'm assuming the Hippo version sounds about the same as this one, so unless you want the live stuff the Hippo version has you should pick this up while it is so cheap.

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Jim Bell

A great album and a great pressing

Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2020

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This is one of my favorite albums and an excellent vinyl pressing of it. Some of the negative reviews left by others made me wary, but I have no complaints. The album I received is on nice 180g vinyl without any visible or audible flaws. Highly recommended!

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Andrew Cavett

Of course it's five stars

Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2014

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IF you are over 40 years of age, this is must have music. This is Elvis Costello's best album, hands down. This is the paradigm to which all the other cutting edge musicians of that period aspired too. What a period it was. The hippies were growing up, bathing and getting jobs. Disco was slowly dying. An evolution was happening within popular music, a new sense of energy, mind you it wasn't entirely positive but it was new. The late 1970s was a wonderful/horrible time for our species. We survived and we're better creatures because of it.
Buy this album. I paid $5 for it via Amazon. It is a bargain at three times that price

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ReaderMike

Are you kidding me?

Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2020

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Rate Elvis Costello's debut album? Are you kidding me? IT IS AWESOME. I have been a fan since back then and will continue to be.

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Parker Bruce

Arrived with bent packaging due to not being in its own box.

Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2020

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This was shipped inside of a box that contained multiple other records which were all in their own boxes. This was the only one not in its own box which caused the top right corner to arrive bent. The record itself is fine though.

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Ruggeri Roxane

j'aime toujours autant !

Reviewed in France on July 8, 2023

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ne pouvant plus écouter mes vinyles je suis ravie de l'avoir trouver en CD !

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jeanluc

Yes

Reviewed in France on September 3, 2015

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Bon en même temps avec EC je ne suis pas objectif. Autant le dire tout de suite... En fait je connaissais déjà cet album PAR COEUR car je l'ai en vinyle depuis sa sortie et je continue encore aujourd'hui de l'écouter. Mais il s'agissait pour moi de compléter ma discothèque de CD avec cet incontournable. FAN absolu, je vous l'avais dit ! Yes !

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O. Cachin

Les débuts du second Elvis

Reviewed in France on November 24, 2015

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Le premier album d'Elvis Costello, et tout est déjà là: la hargne, le talent d'écriture, la puissance des lyrics. Un formidable LP.

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arthurmcbride

Excellent premier album

Reviewed in France on April 29, 2002

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Ce premier album de Costello est simple et percutant. Les versions démo du deuxième CD sont intéressantes et l'album original n'a jamais aussi bien sonné tout en gardant son côté "artisanal". Très bonne réédition de ce classique indémodable.

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freewheeling frankie

worth buying for the live stuff but why not issue it separately?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 31, 2013

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All that can be said about the original album here has been said many times over since its release in 1977 - if you've never heard it, you're in for a treat, it represents the sudden arrival in the spotlight of a very major new songwriter who, if not the world's greatest singer, had an absolutely compelling delivery and packed his debut full of very good to great songs that formed a whole even greater than the very considerable sum of their parts. It also stands slightly apart from all Costello's work over the next few years due to being recorded prior to the acquisition of his superb backing band, The Attractions - he was in fact backed by the then UK-based American country-rock band Clover, who subsequently evolved into Huey Lewis & The News, although Lewis himself doesn't appear on the album.

Now fans of Costello's work have been treated with considerable contempt by record companies over the years, with his early albums reissued numerous times, each with a partially different selection of bonus tracks. I previously had the 1993 version, which augmented the original album with, firstly, three tracks originally issued on singles and all present here, too - Watching The Detectives, Radio Sweetheart and Stranger In The House - the latter two of which were from the album sessions - and a selection of bedroom demos made by Costello before signing to Stiff, plus a solitary demo by his mid-70s band, Flip City. None of these early recordings are present here; instead, we get a further out-take from the album session (Living In Paradise) and an out-take from the Watching The Detectives session with Andrew Bodnar and Steve Goulding (No Action), both later re-recorded for his next album "This Year's Model" and interestingly described as "lost" in the sleeve notes to the 1993 version, plus no less than 8 solo demos recorded, like the album, at Pathway Studios in Islington and presumably part of the preparation for the final recording. I can take or leave this stuff, really - there are some otherwise unrecorded songs but overall this session pales beside the album proper.

And finally, on the second disc, is the earliest live recording of Elvis Costello & The Attractions so far issued. This was recorded shortly after the album's release at the beginning of a 5 week residency (one gig a week) at the late, lamented Nashville Room, one of London's premier pub venues of the time. They'd been touring for about 3 weeks at this point and it was about their 15th show together. The newness of the ensemble is audible in the rather rudimentary arrangements - Steve Nieve in particular improved hugely over the next few months - but the energy is palpable and Costello is on superb form vocally, absolutely razor sharp. As well as the complete show, there are also 5 songs recorded at the soundcheck, and with the exception of Alison none of them were played in the show. Between the show and the soundcheck, they play 11 of the 12 songs on My Aim Is True and 6 from the as yet unrecorded This Year's Model, plus a few more that all got recorded sooner or later or were already in the can, including Watching The Detectives. It's also worth pointing out that the two live tracks on the B-side of the original Watching The Detectives 45 (Blame It On Cain and Mystery Dance) were from this show, and this is the first time they've been reissued as far as I know.

It would have been great if, instead of forcing fans to shell out over and over for the original albums to acquire more and different bonus tracks (and this applies to plenty of other artists besides EC), someone had had the sense 20 or 25 years ago to put all the demos, out-takes etc. in a box set for the hardcore fans and issue the live shows individually - as they have done with some, although this seems to have stopped after a couple, unfortunately. But of course record companies mostly don't work like that, and worse still, Costello's early catalogue has changed hands at various times, with each new company understandably wanting to make a dollar out of it.

I can happily live without the demos, though they're good enough as far as they go, but the live show, despite The Attractions being at such an early stage of their evolution, makes this a very desirable package, and the mastering of the original album is exemplary.

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