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Mad About the Wrong Boy

The Attractions | Format: Audio CD
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Audio CD (11 May 1999)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Demon
  • ASIN: B000007X9F
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 581,671 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars No really, the wrong boy... 21 Feb 2003
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
Now don't get me wrong, I'm a big Elvis fan, but the as title suggests these guys deserve a lot of the credit for the EC and the Attractions sound. It's about 20 years since I bought this on vinyl and it still stands up today as a great slice of sound from the New Wave era. If you like EC, Nick Lowe, and others of that ilk, you owe it to yourself to pick this one up. I couldn't find the cd in the states, but thanks to the internet, I get to shop in the UK. My favorites on this CD - Sad About Girls, Taste of Poison, Camera Camera.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Naive but Good 22 Mar 2006
By Kevin Mcclure
Format:Audio CD
Because Mr McManus was such a golden boy at the time it seemed like the band who had helped take him to the top could become big on their own. In an early interview Elvis Costello had said he wanted to go on to produce a body of work to rival Bob Dylan's: his band (The Band) had made it on their own so why not the Attractions?

The playing was top class and many of the tunes were ace, unfortunately some of the lyric were a bit naive and the vocals a bit weak in places, particularly as the comparason was always going to be made with their boss in their "...and the.." incarenation. It is now time to have another listen to this album without the new wave ideology glasses on.

If you do give it a try you will find it is really quite good. Even High Rise Housewife which I always used to think was a bit drippy is actually very goood. Mad About the Wrong Boy is very strong as is Straight Jacket. Go on give it a go, you might just find out that we all missed out by not giving this band more support when they needed it.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars An interesting disc from Elvis Costello's backing group 24 Jun 2005
By Joseph P. Ulibas - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD
Mad About the Wrong Boy was a one shot album from Elvis

Costello's back-up band. It's a pretty good pop album and the songs are short, poppy and peppy. The Attractions (Pete

Thomas, Steve Nieve and Bruce Thomas) perform on all the songs (Bruce Thomas and Steve Nieve share vocal duties).

The band has a cheesy 60's sound to them, they sound out of place in the post-punk English rock era.

Highly recommended.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Attractions Deserved Much More Attention 24 Aug 2005
By J. Pizzino - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD
Mad About The Wrong Boy is one of those unknown gems of musical history. It's creative, catchy, and simply a refreshing spin. Too bad more people don' t know about it. This album is definitely on my top 10 favorites of all time!
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3.0 out of 5 stars A correction to the other review 25 Jun 2000
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD
Actually, none of the songs on this album were written by Elvis Costello - they were for the most part written by Attractions keyboard player Steve Nieve who used the name Norman Brain. He wrote them in conjunction with his then wife Fay Hart, so the writing credit was Brain & Hart.
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