Elvis Costello - All This Useless Beauty (2000)

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Title / Title: All This Useless Beauty. 3 All This Useless Beauty 4:40. Label / Label: Warner Bros. Format / Format: CD Jewel Box. Condition: Sealed / Sealed. 8 Poor Fractured Atlas 4:03. 7 Shallow Grave 2:07.

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Product Identifiers

Record LabelWarner Archives / Warner Bros. / Rhino
EAN0093624619826
eBay Product ID (ePID)3946495

Product Key Features

LanguageEnglish
Era1990s
Run Time6975 Sec
FormatCD
Release Year1996
InstrumentPiano
FeaturesStudio Recording
GenrePop, Alternative, Rock, Contemporary Christian
TypeAlbum
ArtistElvis Costello, Elvis Costello & the Attractions
Release TitleAll this Useless Beauty

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs2
DistributionWarner Music/Cinram Logistics
Recording ModeStereo
Number of Tracks29
ReviewsRecommended - "...It's not useless, just awkward--awkward with the dignity of the auteur....this album draws you into its sullenness, its subtle shades of colour that surround and encompass....when it is simple and graceful--namely in the big ballads--you are lost in a beauty that could crack glass...", 7 (out of 10) - "...A strange, slightly confusing, but mostly gripping channel-hopping session through the accumulated tricks of a show-off songcraftsman...", 4 stars out of 5 - "...Costello unveiled the best singing of his career here, purring and insinuating...", "...sounds surprisingly good....Steve Nieve's piano has as much reverbed twinkle as it did 15 years ago, and it's a very welcome sound....the sort of great pop music Elvis Costello was supposed to be making, if...he'd only been paying attention or something...", "...possibly the mildest-tempered album he's ever made....Loyalists, however, can rest easy knowing the record's relative quietude camouflages plenty of unladylike phlegm and bile..." - Rating: A-, 3 Stars - Good - "...the most likable and organic Costello album in years....these tracks arise as modern standards--the '90s answer to the brilliance of the old Brill Building catalog.", "...a vocal 'tour de force': he has never sounded so intimate, so confiding....the album does boast a growing vocal mastery, a newfound sense that Elvis's phrasing is now the equal of his lyrical genius.", 4 stars out of 5 - "...An uncommonly confessional set by Costello's standards - direct, affecting, and largely overlooked in its day."
Recording TypeStudio
Number of Audio ChannelsStereo

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