Elvis Costello

Elvis Costello - Brutal Youth (1994) {2022, Remastered}  Music

Posted by popsakov at Feb. 20, 2023
Elvis Costello - Brutal Youth (1994) {2022, Remastered}

Elvis Costello - Brutal Youth (1994) {2022, Remastered}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) + Cue + m3u + Log ~ 403 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 166 Mb
Scans Included | 00:57:06 | RAR 5% Recovery
Music On CD #MOCCD14252 / Warner Records #8718627235478
Alternative Rock / Indie Rock / Rock & Roll

‘Brutal Youth’ (1994) is the first album since ‘Blood And Chocolate’ (1986) Costello recorded with the Attractions with Nick Lowe featuring on half of the album. Elvis picked up an electric guitar and began writing rock n’ roll songs again. The result, ‘Brutal Youth’, an impressive collection of rock and pop that that proves that Costello hadn’t forgotten how to write a loud tune and to being one of the greatest lyricists in rock music. The album features some great rockers like “Pony St.”, “13 Steps Lead Down”, “Just About Glad” and “My Science Fiction Twin” are all loud and robust songs that sound like classic Elvis. The piano ballad “Favourite Hour” might just be the album’s highlight (or is it one of 15 highlights?) and a beautiful way to close the album.
Elvis Costello - Armed Forces (Super Deluxe Edition / Remastered) (2020)

Elvis Costello - Armed Forces (Super Deluxe Edition / Remastered) (2020)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 3:16:45 | 476 Mb / 1.35 Gb
Genre: Rock, New Wave, Singer-Songwriter

Costello was 23 years old when he wrote and recorded the music for the album. After the previous Ryko and Rhino reissues, we now have the complete Armed Forces.This super deluxe edition was personally curated by Elvis Costello. The box fully embraces Barney Bubbles’ epic package art and features 9 pieces of vinyl, 7 custom notebooks containing updated liner notes from Costello (nearly 10,000 words total) and his handwritten lyrics from the era. The album receives a brand-new remaster from the original production master tapes with the sonic fidelity matching the original 1979 UK pressing. Along with selections from the Hollywood High show, there are 3 more concerts, 23 never released live songs including the full PinkPop 1979 set and highlights from the notorious Riot at The Regent concert and the December 24, 1978 Dominion Theatre. The set includes the vintage grenade and gun poster and the 4 original postcards of each band member. Costello commissioned acclaimed artist Todd Alcott to recreate pulp novel covers of to represent songs from Armed Forces featuring Costello as the star of the cover in precarious situations.
Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve - Costello & Nieve (1996) {5CD Box Set}

Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve - Costello & Nieve (1996) {5CD Box Set}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) + Cue + m3u8 + Log ~ 787 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 388 Mb
Full Scans | 02:01:21 | RAR 5% Recovery
Adult Alternative Rock, Alternative Pop, Indie Rock | Warner Bros. Records #9 46469-2

Elvis Costello embarked on a small, intimate tour with his longtime pianist Steve Nieve in the spring of 1996 to promote All This Useless Beauty. All of the shows from the five-date tour were recorded, and highlights from each show were issued on a series of promotional EPs that were later released commercially as the box set Costello & Nieve. Stripped down to their basics, the songs from All This Useless Beauty sit elegantly next to Costello classics, as well as several lesser-known gems from his rich back catalog. The performances are all understatedly passionate, and rank among the best that Costello has given, making Costello & Nieve five discs that any hardcore fan will treasure.
Elvis Costello & The Attractions - All This Useless Beauty (1996) {2001, Remastered Reissue With Bonus Disc}

Elvis Costello & The Attractions - All This Useless Beauty (1996) {2001, Remastered Reissue With Bonus Disc}
2CD | EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) + Cue + m3u8 + Log ~ 708 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 280 Mb
Full Scans ~ 301 Mb | 00:48:13 + 01:07:47 | RAR 5% Recovery
Alternative Rock, Indie Rock | Rhino / Warner Bros. Records #R2 74284

Following his second covers album, Kojak Variety, Elvis Costello set out to assemble a collection of songs he had written for other artists but never recorded himself – sort of a reverse covers album. As it turned out, that idea was only used as a launching pad – the resulting album, All This Useless Beauty, is a mixture of nine old and three new songs. Given its origins, it's surprising that the record holds together as well as it does. The main strength of All This Useless Beauty is the quality of the individual songs – each song can stand on its own as an individual entity, as the music is as sharp as the lyrics. Although the music is certainly eclectic, it's accessible, which wasn't the case with Mighty Like a Rose. Furthermore, the production is more textured and punchier than Mitchell Froom's botched job on Brutal Youth. All This Useless Beauty doesn't quite add up to a major statement, but the simple pleasures it offers makes it one of the more rewarding records of the latter part of Costello's career.
Elvis Costello - Brutal Youth (1994) {2002, Remastered Reissue With A Bonus Disc}

Elvis Costello - Brutal Youth (1994) {2002, Remastered Reissue With A Bonus Disc}
2CD | EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) + Cue + m3u8 + Log ~ 682 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 257 Mb
Full Scans ~ 224 Mb | 00:57:04 + 00:49:29 | RAR 5% Recovery
Alternative Rock, Indie Rock | Rhino / Warner Bros. Records #R2 78390

Perhaps realizing that The Juliet Letters was one step too far, especially after the willfully eclectic pair of Spike and Mighty Like a Rose, Elvis Costello set out to make a straight-ahead rock & roll record with Brutal Youth, reuniting with the Attractions (though Bruce Thomas appears on only five tracks) and Nick Lowe (who plays bass on most of the rest). Unfortunately, all this nostalgia and good intentions are cancelled by the retention of producer Mitchell Froom, whose junkyard, hazily cerebral productions stand in direct contrast to the Attractions' best work. Likely, Froom's self-conscious production appealed to Costello, since it makes Brutal Youth look less like a retreat, but it severely undercuts the effectiveness of the music, since it lacks guts, no matter how smugly secure it is in its tempered "experimentation."
Elvis Costello - Live with the Metropole Orkest: My Flame Burns Blue (2006) 2CDs

Elvis Costello - Live with the Metropole Orkest: My Flame Burns Blue (2006) 2CDs
with Bonus CD "Il Sogno" Suite, London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 690 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 266 Mb | Scans ~ 96 Mb
Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # B0005994-72 | Time: 01:56:13
Vocal Jazz, Vocalese, Big Band, Orchestral, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock

My Flame Burns Blue is the twenty-second album by Elvis Costello, released on Deutsche Grammophon. It is his second official live release after the El Mocambo bonus disc issued with the 2½ Years box set. It consists of recordings from the North Sea Jazz Festival in July 2004, made with Steve Nieve and The Metropole Orkest, with Vince Mendoza conducting. With this album, Costello joined the ranks of songwriters adding lyrics to jazz instrumentals, a practice encompassing classic pop, jazz standards, and vocalese. In addition to the Mingus tune, he drafted words for "Blood Count" by Billy Strayhorn, appearing here as the title song "My Flame Burns Blue." The initial release included a bonus disc of an abridged version of his 2004 ballet score recording Il Sogno, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas.
Elvis Costello - Kojak Variety (1995) {2004, Remastered & Expanded}

Elvis Costello - Kojak Variety (1995) {2004, Remastered & Expanded}
2CD | EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) + Cue + m3u8 + Log ~ 736 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 287 Mb
Full Scans ~ 282 Mb | 00:54:05 + 01:04:54 | RAR 5% Recovery
Alternative Rock, Pop Rock, Rock & Roll | Rhino / Warner Bros. Records #R2 76487

Elvis Costello recorded the 15 songs that comprised his covers album Kojak Variety in 1990, but the album sat in the vaults for five years, with some songs trickling out on soundtracks, with the entire album eventually leaking out as a bootleg prior to its release in 1995. Given this slow, steady crawl to release and the nature of bootlegs and B-sides, it's reasonable to assume from its slow unveiling that the album was a collection of covers that he recorded with different bands over different years, when quite the opposite was true – all 15 songs were the cut with the same band, all sequestered away in Barbados.
Elvis Costello - Brutal Youth (1994) {2002, Remastered Reissue With A Bonus Disc}

Elvis Costello - Brutal Youth (1994) {2002, Remastered Reissue With A Bonus Disc}
2CD | EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) + Cue + m3u8 + Log ~ 682 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 257 Mb
Full Scans ~ 224 Mb | 00:57:04 + 00:49:29 | RAR 5% Recovery
Alternative Rock, Indie Rock | Rhino / Warner Bros. Records #R2 78390

Perhaps realizing that The Juliet Letters was one step too far, especially after the willfully eclectic pair of Spike and Mighty Like a Rose, Elvis Costello set out to make a straight-ahead rock & roll record with Brutal Youth, reuniting with the Attractions (though Bruce Thomas appears on only five tracks) and Nick Lowe (who plays bass on most of the rest). Unfortunately, all this nostalgia and good intentions are cancelled by the retention of producer Mitchell Froom, whose junkyard, hazily cerebral productions stand in direct contrast to the Attractions' best work. Likely, Froom's self-conscious production appealed to Costello, since it makes Brutal Youth look less like a retreat, but it severely undercuts the effectiveness of the music, since it lacks guts, no matter how smugly secure it is in its tempered "experimentation."

Elvis Costello - Tokyo 1994 (2024)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at May 14, 2024
Elvis Costello - Tokyo 1994 (2024)

Elvis Costello - Tokyo 1994 (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 2:03:30 | 794 Mb
Genre: Rock

Elvis Costello arrived as a sneering spitfire, the smartest and meanest singer/songwriter in the first wave of 1970s British punk backed by the Attractions, a band who could match his ferocity. Soon, Costello galloped away from the loud, fast rules of punk, demonstrating his musical and verbal facility with Armed Forces, a 1979 album that contained "Oliver's Army," "Accidents Will Happen," and his cover of Nick Lowe's "(What's So Funny About) Peace, Love and Understanding," a trio of singles that turned into new wave standards. Such rapid musical evolution and switches in style became the rule in Costello's career, as he amassed a catalog that seemed to touch upon every conceivable genre of popular music.
Elvis Costello - King Of America & Other Realms (2CD) (1986/2024)

Elvis Costello - King Of America & Other Realms (2CD) (1986/2024)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 692 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 255 MB
1:51:07 | Rock & Roll, Country Rock | Label: UMe

Elvis Costello: King of America & Other Realms – The collection is anchored by CD1: a new 2024 remaster of the album King Of America from the original master tapes. CD2 is a collection of songs featuring studio recordings, previously unreleased demos, outtakes & live recordings from this wild and wonderfully odd odyssey.