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This Year's Model is the second 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition from Elvis Costello. This incredible package comes in a beautiful new package that includes:
* 10 bonus tracks: b-sides (Big Tears and Tiny Steps), demos (Running Out Of Angels, Greenshirt and Big Boys), live tracks (Neat Neat Neat and Roadette Song), alternate takes (This Year's Girl and (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea) and the soundtrack-only Crawling To The USA.
* Disc two features the complete, legendary, February 28, 1978 performance from Washington DC's Warner Theatre featuring 17 performances, 16 of them never before issued!
* Expanded packaging features rare photos, memorabilia & lyrics.
* Collection compiled and fully sanctioned by Elvis Costello.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By Mr. T. Anderson
TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
That is, if you already have the album, as many of us do. You get 17 live songs from a artist arguably at his peak - I was lucky enough to attend one of these shows in 1978 and it was fantastic. The show from Washington doesn't quite match up to my recollection but it's still great stuff and a joy to hear.
Tim
Tim
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I can see why some people are dismayed by multiple issues of Costello's back catalogue, but come on, nobody is forcing you to buy them all. And it seems to me, a keen collector of his work, that each issue has contained important new bonus material. And often overall sound quality has improved too. I wanted to hear the 1978 concert (I saw Elvis and the Attractions at the Dominion, Tottenham Court Road around that time). It's exciting, and worth the price of admission.
I hope EC continues to allow the release of material from the vaults for those of us who want to collect it!!!
I hope EC continues to allow the release of material from the vaults for those of us who want to collect it!!!
20 of 23 people found the following review helpful
By Bruce Thomas
Format:Audio CD
The basslines on this album are really amazing, powerful and sublime like a tiger running through a jungle of chord changes. A must buy for all of my fans, I drafted in a bloke called Declan something or other to sing and he didn't do a half bad job, a good foil to bottom end eplorations.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By The Imposter
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is just the standard cd (tracks as listed on preview). No second disc included
no aditional tracks, be warned.
Five stars because it is a classic album and it would be wrong to down grade it because of Amazons misleading description.
no aditional tracks, be warned.
Five stars because it is a classic album and it would be wrong to down grade it because of Amazons misleading description.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Mulwharchar
TOP 1000 REVIEWER
Format:Audio CD
Elvis Costello has made many great albums during his prolific career but 'This Year's Model' was the one that really established the Elvis Costello persona: the whip-sharp, sardonic observer with an effortless command of his influences - 60s beat, power pop and garage - which his new wave contemporaries could only dream of. There's not a bad track here and 32 years on it's astonishing how fresh and urgent it still sounds.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
By Neil Dyson
Format:Audio CD
This is a classic album, there is absolutely no doubt about that, the production, the performance, the energy and the emotion on the album has rarely been equalled let alone surpassed by anyone.
So it's been issued a few times before, the purpose of these reviews is to focus on the actual product not the motive behind its release. The product is stunning quality and value, if you disagree with the bare bones of the album being released for the 4th (or is it the 5th) time that should not detract from the sheer quality of this album. Simple fact is, if you already have a previous incarnation of the album and you don't want the extras that this release brings then don't buy it, if you are interested in reading the extended liner notes, or if you want to hear the previously unreleased tracks (more tracks "extra" than there was on the original album) then join me and celebrate all things Elvis. If you don't already own the album all I can say is "why not?"
So it's been issued a few times before, the purpose of these reviews is to focus on the actual product not the motive behind its release. The product is stunning quality and value, if you disagree with the bare bones of the album being released for the 4th (or is it the 5th) time that should not detract from the sheer quality of this album. Simple fact is, if you already have a previous incarnation of the album and you don't want the extras that this release brings then don't buy it, if you are interested in reading the extended liner notes, or if you want to hear the previously unreleased tracks (more tracks "extra" than there was on the original album) then join me and celebrate all things Elvis. If you don't already own the album all I can say is "why not?"
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By M. Oxby
Format:Audio CD
...if you're a huge EC fan, you've got most of this material. However, there are a lot of new, eager, young fans out there, just discovering (or on the verge of discovering) some really good stuff from the late 70s. If I was one of those new, eager, young fans, I'd want to get my hands on a lot of the material very quickly - not just the usual album stuff, but the peripheral recordings that were being made at the time the albums were being made. This is a brilliant introduction. If you have all this stuff already, you don't have/need to buy it! If you don't have the stuff, and you're keen to learn... BUY IT! Probably, the best album EC ever made, with lots of extra material on top. But bear in mind you shouldn't overlook "My Aim is True", or "Get Happy". Do you know what? "Painted from Memory" (released 1999) is pretty damn fine too. Anyway, if you're a newbie fan - get this! If you're a die-hard old fan, don't get so bloody worked up about it. You go out to work to make a living, don't you? So does our El.
By Dan Mollett
Format:Audio CD
Elvis's second album remains one of the all time classic. Half a dozen great songs, and even lesser known songs like The Beat are magnificent. An essential purchase.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Some good tunes
Enjoyable listening with some pleasing tracts all typical Elvis C style but well worth adding to a collection and recommended purchase
Published 3 months ago by wrentherapy
2.0 out of 5 stars
Great music but not as expected
The reviews for this spoke of a live cd with the main album. When it arrived, there was just the main album which I already had. Big disappointment.
Published 6 months ago by Hutters
5.0 out of 5 stars
Elvis for ever
I both this record in the 70's.
After all those years I'm still a fan.
He is more "brutal" on this record than on his latest one but he is still a great composer and... Read more
After all those years I'm still a fan.
He is more "brutal" on this record than on his latest one but he is still a great composer and... Read more
Published 21 months ago by daniel dewaele
1.0 out of 5 stars
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Another shed-load of cash for Elvis with yet another reissue of the same old stuff. Great in its day, surely the time has come to call "enough". A sad end.
Published on 14 Jan 2011 by PC Pete
2.0 out of 5 stars
The Return Of Corrupt CD?
This is a classic album. Elvis Costello And The Attractions at their peak. However I have issues with this CD release. Or at least the 2010 pressing batch. Read more
Published on 3 Aug 2010 by Cytania
5.0 out of 5 stars
Still brilliant
To me this is the greatest Elvis Costello album. The one by which I measure all others.
This is where I joined the sometimes rocky Macmanus road. Read more
This is where I joined the sometimes rocky Macmanus road. Read more
Published on 27 Aug 2009 by Mr. Mark Hargrave
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