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My Aim Is True
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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
- Best Sellers Rank: #159,439 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #128 in British Punk
- #1,728 in New Wave
- #4,570 in Pop Singer-Songwriters
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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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