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This Year's Model | 
 enlarge | Artist: Elvis Costello
Label: Hip-O Records
Category: Music
List Price: $29.98
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 38752
Format: Extra Tracks, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5 x 0.7
MPN: 001068102
UPC: 602517606319
EAN: 0602517606319
ASIN: B0012X6FT4
Release Date: March 4, 2008
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | No Action - (with Elvis Costello & The Attractions) | | • | This Year's Girl - (with Elvis Costello & The Attractions) | | • | Beat, The - (with Elvis Costello & The Attractions) | | • | Pump It Up - (with Elvis Costello & The Attractions) | | • | Little Triggers - (with Elvis Costello & The Attractions) | | • | You Belong To Me - (with Elvis Costello & The Attractions) | | • | Hand In Hand - (with Elvis Costello & The Attractions) | | • | (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea - (with Elvis Costello & The Attractions) | | • | Lip Service - (with Elvis Costello & The Attractions) | | • | Living In Paradise - (with Elvis Costello & The Attractions) | | • | Lipstick Vogue - (with Elvis Costello & The Attractions) | | • | Night Rally - (with Elvis Costello & The Attractions) | | • | Radio, Radio - (with Elvis Costello & The Attractions) | | • | Big Tears | | • | Crawling To The USA | | • | Tiny Steps | | • | Running Out Of Angels - (demo) | | • | Greenshirt - (demo) | | • | Big Boys - (demo) | | • | Neat Neat Neat - (live) | | • | Roadette Song - (live) | | • | This Year's Girl - (Alternate Basing Street Studios Version) | | • | (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea |
Disc 2
| • | Pump It Up* | | • | Waiting For The End Of The World* | | • | No Action | | • | Less Than Zero | | • | Beat, The | | • | (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes* | | • | (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea* | | • | Hand In Hand* | | • | Little Triggers* | | • | Radio, Radio* | | • | You Belong To Me* | | • | Lipstick Vogue* | | • | Watching The Detectives* | | • | Mystery Dance* | | • | Miracle Man* | | • | Blame It On Cain* | | • | Chemistry Class - (live)*previously unreleased, live |
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Album Description
THIS YEAR'S MODEL is packaged with a 28-page booklet that includes rare photos and printed song lyrics. For his second album, Costello fine-tuned his aesthetic by abandoned the California studio cat accompanists of his debut for the more aggressive, quirky and very British Attractions, who would virtually define EC's sound over the next several years. Where MY AIM IS TRUE highlighted Costello's rootsy influences (the Band, etc.), THIS YEAR'S MODEL wholeheartedly embraces the "new wave" out-with-the-old mindset, favoring tightly-wound ferocity over back-porch-isms. Irresistibly catchy, in a twitchy, neurotic, white-knuckled way, THIS YEAR'S MODEL is Costello at his edgiest. The classic "Pump It Up" pummels the listener with garage-band organ, pounding drums, and HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED-style ranting. "Radio, Radio" turned into something of an anti-authoritarian anthem for Costello. The snaky guitar and reggae-tinged drums of "I Don't Want to Go to Chelsea" complement Costello's verge-of-a-nervous-breakdown vocal performance nicely. Come to think of it, so does nearly everything else here.
Album Description
Japanese only 2 x SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. Universal. 2008.
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 The best Elvis Costello. November 13, 2008
This Year's Model is arguably Costellos' best album. Compared to his debut, lets say that what was good in My Aim Is True is now even better and what didn't work is simply left out.
So Elvis changed his American studio-backup band for the British Attractions and the band sound got more distinctive and doubled its fierceness and aggressiveness. And completely fat-free - things like the slide guitar that appeared on Waiting For The End Of The World have no place in this new framework. And most importantly, his song writing skills have refined resulting in 13 extraordinary songs. Of these only Little Triggers (a ballad) would fit better among the rootsy sound of My Aim Is True. In fact the albums are not that different - it's almost as Elvis gave himself a second start, this time doing it 100% right (notice that both albums kick off using the same gimmick). This is still furious rock and roll with punk attitude but written in British English.
The bonus material in this Deluxe Edition is all excellent. Big Tears and Tinny Steps would fit perfectly on My Aim Is True - in fact they are better than most of it. The 3 acoustic demos are priceless. Green Shirt and Big Boys are among the best songs on his next album Armed Forces and these solo-acoustic renditions show what a tremendous artist Elvis is. And last but not the least the concert featured on cd2 is a burst of raw energy that rivals the E-Street Band but with half the guys on stage. To think that this man would latter record for Deutsche Grammophon...
The packaging is fantastic but it's a shame that the booklet only has the lyrics and technical data. A few historic notes by Elvis or anyone who cares would be great. This stuff surely deserves it.
Oh yes! October 30, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's Elvis Costello; I am a fan of Elvis Costello; I gave it 5 stars; it's very good - enough said.
pump it up flat ... October 19, 2008
this is the best album the who never recorded. it is, in it self great (saw costello a year later during the armed forces tour - great all around). but the original of this album (and i do mean album) had a whole lot of us now older people dancing when we didn.t really wanna. ask your parents.
damn, i/m i/old. buy this cd. oddly, it isn/t.
Must Own September 5, 2008
Elvis's first disk with the Attractions (Steve Nieve, Bruce and Pete Thomas) burns brightly even today. The songwriting is wonderfully acerbic, the band sound is stripped down to a live feel, and each musician kills. A must own!
 I'd like to give it 5 stars July 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If only for the great bonus live disc. I am sure they could have just released the concert on its own and sold it out many times over. Like another reviewer suggested, this is even more thrilling than the El Mocambo concert disc, but they could've fixed that also by releasing the entire Mocambo show, un-edited. Setlists being similar, we probably don't need both, but heck, Elvis could release them anyway. A whole passel of live show releases would be nice, for that matter...
Docked one star only because the bonus material on the first disc has already been reissued.
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