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This Year's Model is Elvis Costello's second album and his first with the Attractions, released in 1978. It was mainly recorded at Eden Studios in West London. It was voted the best album of the year in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll. In 2000, Q magazine placed This Year's Model at number 82 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 1987, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it number 11 on its list of the best albums of the period 1967–1987. In 2003, the album was ranked number 98 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

New Model Army are an English post-punk/alternative rock band who formed in Bradford, West Yorkshire in 1980 by its lead singer and main composer Justin Sullivan and one of his longest term band members, Robert Charles Heaton Their lyrics are often poetic, but express political and humanitarian messages.