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Blood & Chocolate

~ Elvis Costello
4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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Product details

  • Audio CD (25 Feb 2002)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Label: Edsel
  • ASIN: B00005YXJ0
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 76,704 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

Disc: 1
1. Uncomplicated
2. I Hope You're Happy Now
3. Tokyo Storm Warning
4. Home Is Anywhere You Hang Your Head
5. I Want You
6. Honey Are You Straight Or Are You Blind
7. Blue Chair
8. Battered Old Bird
9. Crimes Of Paris
10. Poor Napoleon
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Disc: 2
1. Leave My Kitten Alone
2. New Rhythm Method
3. Forgive Her Anything
4. Crimes Of Paris
5. Uncomplicated
6. Battered Old Bird
7. Seven Day Weekend - Costello, Elvis & The Attractions/Jimmy Cliff
8. Blue Chair
9. Baby's Got A Brand New Hairdo
10. American Without Tears No 2
See all 15 tracks on this disc

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Torment of A Broken Man, 23 Mar 2002
By S. Lacey (UK) - See all my reviews
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Blood & Chocolate is simply a stunning Costello CD, brimming with anger, hurt & pain, most of it inflicted by the supposed fairer sex. The opening 'Uncomplicated' prepares the ground for 'I hope you're happy now' & the intense lyrics 'I know that this will hurt you more than it hurts me' & 'I never loved you anyhow'. Six minutes worth of the epic 'Tokyo Storm Warning' where 'The sky fell over cheap Korean monster movie scenery' follows...

The haunting 'Home is anywhere you hang your head' features the classic line 'But you know she doesn't want you, but you can't seem to get it through your head' sums up the true feeling of rejection, as your loved one wanders into the sunset, clutching a large chuck of your heart in her hand.

However, none of this prepares you for the sheer beauty of 'I want you', a song that once reduced Janice Long to tears live on air, and did the same to me on 1st listening. Even the hardest of hard hearts would do well to hang onto the tears in maybe the most beautiful song ever penned.

The CD maintains it's quality, despite peaking on track 5, but the likes of 'Battered old bird', 'Crimes of Paris' & 'Next time round' are in no way poor quality & still manage to toy with the emotions in a way no other musician can.

The 2nd disc adds more tracks to the £ & is well worthy of a listen, if you can prize the 1st disc from the player!

Costello is a living treasure, a man who understands & conveys the thing that most men fear & even more refuse to express....emotion!

If you're heartbroken & have sphed too many tears over the one who stole your heart, then buy this cd & shed a few more....& let the healing begin...

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars one of the best albums by anyone ever, 14 May 2002
By jenrothwell@hotmail.com (blackburn , england) - See all my reviews
ok so i was 17 when this record came out so no wonder I loved it. Just days it seemed from the release of the wonderful King of America , but oh my god , what's this ? A more festering , blistered , bilious , vitriolic , glorious carcrash of a record I've yet to hear. It's been around for a while now and my opinion of it is undiminished by time. Nobody is more honest and open than Costello and he manages here to express feelings even those who consider themselves articulate struggle to pin down. Blood and Chocolate ? Love and Desolation more like. He's on towering form and probably couldn't help himself. "You make him sound like frozen food , his love will last forever ..." , it would take too long to list the amazing lyrics so I'll resist the temptation. It's only the truth , the man's a Genius .
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars This reissue is worth it for the acoustic demos alone, 21 April 2002
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I have my reservations about this new series of reissues but I have to say that some of the alternate takes on the bonus disc are better to my ears than the original tracks on the first disc.
The acoustic demos at the end of the bonus disc are pure gold. The speeded up version of battered old bird is first class and the bonus disc version of blue chair could have come from Get Happy. This reissue is probably in the top three or four Costello albums and is worth rebuying or just buying if you don't already have it.
(it's just a shame we didn't get all the extras the first time the discs were reissued)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Double disk re-issue of Costello's caustic classic.
Elvis Costello once described the sound of Blood & Chocolate as a "p*ssed-off divorcee's take on the territory of This Year's Mode", which makes a lot of sense. Read more
Published on 16 Mar 2006 by Jonathan James Romley

2.0 out of 5 stars A Huge Disappointment
Having been led to believe that this was one of Costello's best albums I found this hugely disappointing. 'I Want You' is a latter day classic but the rest is largely awful. Read more
Published on 18 April 2004 by Mr. M. P. Evans

5.0 out of 5 stars I can't believe i'm the first to review this...
How can you listen to this without believing Elvis is The Don? Ignore the bonus CD, because the 11 tracks on Blood and Chocolate are 11 of the finest I ever heard..... Read more
Published on 21 Mar 2002

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