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Elvis Costello My Aim Is True 180 GRAM NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION MFSL LP

180g Vinyl LP! on Numbered Limited Edition from Mobile Fidelity!
Remastered From Original Master Tapes! 
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 168/500!

Elvis Costello’s phenomenal debut has been re-mastered from the original master tapes and pressed on 180 gram vinyl. The album includes the standout ballad “Alison,” “(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes,” “Watching The Detectives,” and “Less Than Zero” among others.
 

Features:
• Numbered, Limited Edition
• Production and Mastering by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
• Specially Plated and Pressed on 180 grams of High Definition Vinyl
• Special Static Free - Dust Free Inner Sleeve
• Heavy Duty Protective Packaging
• Mastered from the Original Master Tapes
Selections:
Side A:
1. Welcome To the Working Week
2. No Dancing
3. Blame It On Cain
4. Alison
5. Sneaky Feelings
6. Watching the Detectives
Side B:
1. (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes
2. Less Than Zero
3. Mystery Dance
4. Pay It Back
5. I'm Not Angry
6. Waiting For the End of the World

 Elvis Costello King Of America Numbered Limited Edition 180 GRAM MFSL LP

Elvis Costello - King Of America on Numbered Limited Edition 180g LP from Mobile Fidelity!

Costello Teams With Musical Legends and Standout Producer T-Bone Burnett on Exemplary 1986 Album

Mastered from the Original Master Tapes: Mobile Fidelity LP Maximizes the Get-In, Get-Out, Live-In-the-Studio Immediacy and De-Congested Mix

Includes Introspective Songwriting Gems Such as “Indoor Fireworks,” “Poisoned Rose,” “Brilliant Mistake,” and “Little Palaces”

Juggling Themes of Desire and Exile, Costello Strips Arrangements Down to Folk, Country and Pub-Rock Roots

Elvis Costello spent the year prior to recording King of America embarking on a solo tour, usually accompanied by producer/singer-songwriter T-Bone Burnett. The pair’s decision to collaborate on Costello’s 1986 album came naturally, and the music sounds it—emotional, effortless, literate, seemingly uncomplicated. Credit, however, not only goes to the best batch of Costello originals since 1982’s Imperial Bedroom, but to the literally awesome and awe-inspiring cast of musicians Burnett invited to participate.

Mastered from the original master tapes and pressed at RTI, Mobile Fidelity’s 180g LP of this masterpiece broadens the live-in-the-studio intimacy and opens up the midrange, highs, and lows of Burnett’s fabulously de-congested mix. Made with few overdubs or effects, King of America relishes organic approaches and faithful tones—as well as a vast spaciousness and balance not always evident on Costello’s efforts with the attractions. Finally, Mobile Fidelity transports the listener to the semicircle of players that surrounded Costello in the studio, and highlights the benefits of the center-of-the-production miking technique employed on the singer’s voice and guitar playing.

Given the brilliance of the performances, every music fan will want to be brought as near as possible to the purity of these sessions. A Hall of Fame-caliber list of instrumentalists accompany Costello, with Elvis Presley’s T.C.B. mates Ron Tutt (drums), James Burton (guitar), and Jerry Scheff (bass) forming one band and drummer Earl Palmer (Little Richard), bassist Ray Brown (Oscar Peterson, Duke Ellington), pianist Tom Canning, and organist Mitchell Froom ready in waiting as another. Several of these musicians formed yet another band, joined by drummer Jim Keltner of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, and John Lennon fame. Oh—and the Attractions make a guest appearance on one track.

King of America—the title reflective of the threads of intentional, thought-provoking contradiction throughout—would be exemplary if just for the troupe. Yet it’s the combination of chemistry, ability, sonics, and tunes that propel this watertight platter to iconic status. Unconcerned with writing a radio hit or adhering to a single musical theme, Costello wrote a majority of the material on acoustic guitar and on piano, tapping his pub-rock and folk roots in turning out songs that remain some of the catchiest, introspective, and deep of his career. Cuts such as “Indoor Fireworks,” “Poisoned Rose,” “Brilliant Mistake,” and “Suit of Lights” epitomize Costello’s inimitable manner of viewing adulthood, romance, and geographical transition through a transparent lens that blocks neither truth nor consequence.

As for the music? It swings (vide, Scheff’s bass line on “Lovable”), swishes (Keltner’s brushes on “I’ll Wear It Proudly”), jumps (Brown’s string bass on “Eisenhower Blues”), swoons (“Poisoned Rose”), and shuffles (“Jack of All Parades”). There’s truly not a bum track here, and now, experienced in such high fidelity, the genius of every contributor can be easily heard and felt. Akin to Mobile Fidelity’s other Costello reissues, this is not to be missed.

Features:
• Numbered, Limited Edition
• Production and Mastering by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
• Specially Plated and Pressed on 180 grams of High Definition Vinyl
• Special Static Free - Dust Free Inner Sleeve
• Heavy Duty Protective Packaging
• Mastered from the Original Master Tapes

Selections:
Side One:
1. Brilliant Mistake
2. Lovable
3. Our Little Angel
4. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
5. Glitter Gulch
6. Indoor Fireworks
7. Little Palaces
8. I'll Wear It Proudly
Side Two:
1. American Without Tears
2. Eisenhower Blues
3. Poisoned Rose
4. The Big Light
5. Jack Of All Parades
6. Suit of Lights
7. Sleep Of The Just

Elvis Costello & The Attractions Punch The Clock MFSL Numbered Limited Edition 180 GRAM LP

Numbered, Limited Edition! Half-Speed Mastered From Original Master Tapes! 

Costello & the Attractions Return to Mainstream Pop on Slick-Sounding 1983 Album

Mobile Fidelity LP Digs Into Smooth Tones, Brassy Effects, Limber Bass Lines, Multiple Layers of Production

Includes Sparkling Top 40 Hit “Everyday I Write the Book” As Well as Timeless Political Songs “Shipbuilding” and “Pills and Soap”

Razor-Sharp Wit, Concise Melodies on Display Throughout; Jazz Legend Chet Baker Guests

Punch the Clock is Elvis Costello & the Attractions’ most British record, a return to mainstream pop craft loaded with clever barbs and insightful social commentary that nearly landed the headliner in serious trouble with government representatives. Produced by the English hit-making team of Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley, the jumpy and horn-accompanied 1983 effort includes Costello’s first-ever American Top 40 hit (“Everyday I Write the Book”) and a smooth sheen that reinforces the material’s commercial intent and catchy appeal.

Half-speed mastered from the original master tapes, Mobile Fidelity’s numbered limited edition 180g LP presents the hyper-literate fidelity and refined melodies in astonishing sonics, navigating the multiple layers of information, brassy effects, and background vocals to present a unified whole replete with stellar front-to-back depth. Akin to the reissue label’s previous acclaimed Costello reissues, Punch the Clock is vastly improved, the opened-up perspective, pronounced instrumental separation, and textural clarity enhancing all the details within the grooves.

Fresh from making a country tribute album and a large-scale set flush with complex arrangements, Costello and Co. return to straight-ahead pop given a decidedly British accent and soulful backing vocals. Conscious of the Merseybeat sound and success of Dexy’s Midnight Runners, Costello tints songs with new-wave characteristics, splashy horns, and spontaneous vocal-response support courtesy of female duo Afrodiziak, one member of which later attained fame with Soul II Soul. Steve Nieve’s bounding piano lines dance throughout the arrangements, adding witty pizzazz and delicate allure to already-tuneful fare like “The Element Within Her” and “Mouth Almighty.”

The more direct, hook-ready approach also manifests on numbers such as “Let Them All Talk” and “Charm School,” tunes that also illustrate the contrasts in romantic theme. While remaining deeply cynical, as was his longtime hallmark, Costello unfurls two compositions on which love and marriage are viewed in a positive light. Yet he spares no one, nothing, and minces no words with “Shipbuilding” and “Pills and Soap,” fare that remains revered in his native country as well as abroad.

For “Shipbuilding,” a brilliantly disguised 88s-clinking protest against war influenced by the Falkan Conflict, Costello enlists jazz legend Chet Baker to deliver a masterfully poignant, bluesy trumpet solo that echoes throughout the coda. On the hip-hop-inspired “Pills and Soap,” a thinly veiled metaphor addressing Britain’s abusive sociopolitical state and royal officials, the bespectacled bandleader invents a thoroughly unique quasi-rap draped over a drum-machine beat and Nieve’s bold piano chords. Bracing.

Features:
• Numbered, Limited Edition
• Production and Mastering by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
• Specially Plated and Pressed on 180 grams of High Definition Vinyl
• Special Static Free - Dust Free Inner Sleeve
• Heavy Duty Protective Packaging
• Mastered from the Original Master Tapes 

Musicians:
Elvis Costello, epiphone, Gretsch and Fender guitars, 'One-finger' Synclavier and Casiotone
Steve Nieve, Bosendorfer piano, Emulator Fairlight CMI, Vox organ, Hammond organ, Synclavier
Bruce Thomas, Electric Wal bass guitar
Pete Thomas, Gretsch drums, Sabian cymbals

The TKO Horns
Jim Paterson, trombone
Jeff Blythe, alto sax, baritone sax, clarinet
Paul Speare, tenor sax, flute
Dave Plews, trumpet

Stuart Robson, trumpet and flugelhorn on "The World And His Wife"
Caron Wheeler, backing vocals
Claudia Fontaine, backing vocals
Chet Baker, trumpet solo on "Shipbuilding"
David Bedford, string arrangements
Morris Pert, percussion

Selections:
Side One
1. Let Them All Talk
2. Everyday I Write the Book
3. The Greatest Thing
4. The Element Within Her
5. Love Went Mad
6. Shipbuilding
Side Two
1. TKO (Boxing Day)
2. Charm School
3. The Invisible Man
4. Mouth Almighty 
5. King Of Thieves
6. Pills And Soap
7. The World And His Wife

Elvis Costello & The Attractions Blood & Chocolate Numbered 180 GRAM MFSL LIMITED EDITION LP

Numbered, Limited Edition 180g LP from Mobile Fidelity!

Mastered from the Original Master Tapes and Pressed at RTI!

Emotionally Cathartic Nick Lowe-Produced Blood & Chocolate Includes "I Want You," "I Hope You're Happy Now," and "Uncomplicated" 

Mastered from the Original Master Tapes and Pressed at RTI: Elvis Costello's Guitar-Driven 1986 Album Teems With Stacked Rhythms, Tonalities, Punch, and Tension

Costello at His Most Vicious: Songs Rumble and Storm, Dark Humor and Biting Lyrics Address Tumult, Jealousy, Vindictiveness 

Known in his youth as the "angry young man," Elvis Costello waited until 1986 to create the most vicious record of his career. Stripped to the studs and produced by Nick Lowe, Blood and Chocolate seethes with vindictiveness, spite, and rancor. The 11-track effort clatters with raw rock n' roll menace and clangs with darkly humorous intent. Venomous, acerbic, and aggressive, it values rhythm and attack over harmony and melody. A volatile rite of passage on which harsh Telecaster riffs cut like razor blades and Costello spits words as if they were Molotov cocktails tossed at enemies, this is the satisfying sound of emotional catharsis. 

Mastered from the original master tapes and pressed at RTI, this collectable edition of Blood and Chocolate joins Mobile Fidelity's acclaimed Costello reissues series in presenting the icon's vital records in rich, dynamic, three-dimensional analog sound. That's never been truer than it is here. Costello and Co. recorded the songs in a large room at London's Olympic Studios while playing at stage volumes, an unconventional approach that nonetheless suited the music's raw feel. Nearly every track was done in three takes or less, with minimal vocal fixes and overdubs added immediately afterward. Such energy, spark, force, and pace thrive on this reissue. 

Capturing the decibel-laden atmosphere that heightens the rhythmic pace and elevates the urgency of the deliveries, Mobile Fidelity's 180g LP delivers the band's performances with wall-of-sound hugeness and booming authority. And while this isn't a record where subtlety reigns, listeners can now discern the acoustic guitar strummed by Lowe for the foundation of the savage "Uncomplicated" as well as the nuanced final bars of the inimitable "I Want You" on which each member's instrumental track is switched off to bleed into Costello's vocal microphone. Indeed, for all the apparent chaos, Steve Nieve's keyboards even get accurate placement and imaging on this incredible pressing. Then there's the temperament of the songs themselves—perhaps best described by Costello.

"The album title and Eamon Singer's crude cover painting reflected some intense and uncertain situations. The record might have well been a blurred polaroid: a smashed-up room, a squashed box of chocolates, some broken glass and a little blood smeared on the wall," wrote the singer in 2002. "The album [is] a pissed-off 32-year-old divorce's version of the musical blueprint with which I had begun my recording career with the Attractions." Indeed, the band—on the verge of fraying at the seams and at each other's throats in close confines—pummels twanging chords, beats up on notes, turns up amplifiers, and eyes everything with great suspicion. 

Lyrically, Costello has seldom been wittier, sharper, or more malicious. The snarling, tables-turning "I Hope You're Happy Now" joins Bob Dylan's "Positively Fourth Street" as among the most lacerating kiss-off tunes ever penned. Similarly sarcastic, "Next Time Round" lends a pop rave-up air to the album's otherwise dark assault. The bloodletting "Crimes of Paris" and "Poor Napoleon" (featuring Pogues singer Cait O'Riordan playing the role of "the voice of pity") confront the consequences of traumatic relationships and lustful choices with a savvy intellect. Given the mood and mindset of everyone and everything involved, it's no surprise that Costello and the Attractions wouldn't again work together until eight years later. Saying that Blood and Chocolate was worth the sacrifice is an understatement.

Features:
• Numbered, Limited Edition
• Mastering by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
• Specially Plated and Pressed on 180 grams of High Definition Vinyl
• Special Static Free - Dust Free Inner Sleeve
• Heavy Duty Protective Packaging
• Mastered from the Original Master Tapes
• Pressed at RTI
• Gatefold Jacket

Selections:
Side One:
1. Uncomplicated
2. I Hope You're Happy Now
3. Tokyo Storm Warning
4. Home Is Anywhere You Hang Your Head
5. I Want You
Side Two:
1. Honey Are You Straight or Are You Blind?
2. Blue Chair
3. Battered Old Bird
4. Crimes of Paris
5. Poor Napoleon
6. Next Time Round

Elvis Costello & The Attractions Almost Blue Numbered Limited Edition 180 GRAM MFSL LP

Elvis Costello and the Attractions Almost Blue on Numbered Limited Edition 180g LP from Mobile Fidelity! Original Master Recording! Special Static Free - Dust Free Inner Sleeve! 

Costello’s Soulful Country & Western Covers Album Tackles Standard Tunes by George Jones, Hank Williams, Gram Parsons, and More! 

Expertly played 1981 set marks the second of the Encyclopedic Pop Musician’s many forays into multiple styles.

Half-Speed Mastered from the Original Master Tapes: Knockout Sonics Present Costello’s Close-Up Vocals, Steve Nieve’s Piano, and the Pedal-Steel Guitars in Great Relief.

Elvis Costello was so enamored with American country music when he finally discovered it, he was motivated to record Almost Blue. Renowned as one of the most passionate and enthusiastic covers albums ever made, the 12-song set finds the iconic singer/songwriter interpreting standards by the likes of Hank Williams, Gram Parsons, George Jones, Merle Haggard, and other legends. Replete with heartbreak, lonesomeness, boozing, cheating, and dreaming, it’s laden with country and western’s customary themes and dignified by one of the finest performances of Costello and the Attractions’ peerless career.

Half-speed mastered from the original master tapes, Mobile Fidelity’s numbered limited edition 180g LP opens up the soundstages, clears previously muddled midrange frequencies, and places the imaging of the various country-tuned instruments into clear focus. For the first time, listeners can hear just how much of himself Costello invests in the vocal performances, while the Attractions don’t miss a beat, particularly pianist Steve Nieve and guest musician John McFee. Moreover, the strings (when employed) take on new life, and the record’s cover art, a take-off on Kenny Burrell’s Midnight Blue, is faithfully reproduced.

At the time of the album’s recording in 1981, Costello was admittedly emotionally shattered. The title of the effort isn’t merely coincidental. Feeling dejected and disenchanted, the vocalist had been put through the ringer: His pop stardom yielded one incredible record after another, but Costello’s marriage was in tatters, his behavior deplorable, and his reputation tarnished by a famous drunken incident that shamed him for decades. In addition, he chose to follow his string of original LPs up with the soul- and R&B-minded Get Happy, a creative masterwork that nonetheless caused some of his mainstream fans to believe he’d abandon his hit-making pedigree.

So he did what any self-respecting, astute musician would want to do: Cut a country and western record steeped in heartbreak, fragility, sadness, despair, and beer-glass-raising spirit. Largely informed by the stacks of country LPs he bought in used shops during U.S. tours, and in the ideal frame of mind, Costello sought out not to make standards such as “Sweet Dreams,” “Too Far Gone,” “Honey Hush,” and “Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down” his own but to put a unique spin on the darkness, surprise, soulfulness, foreboding, and authenticity that they contain within.

With each note, Costello succeeds and exceeds expectations, turning in versions that sound both old and new. Such timelessness, and the confluence of contemporary and traditional, distinguishes Almost Blue from nearly every other country tribute album made by pop/rock artists before and since. Costello and the Attractions embody the deep sentiments attached to these weeping ballads, tear-jerking lullabies, honky-tonk rave-ups, and playful shuffles in an incredibly convincing manner. Producer George Sherrill, famous for working with the likes of Tammy Wynette, George Jones, and Marty Robbins, and brought on board specifically for the project, frames the music with the perfect blend of grit and professionalism.

Recorded in CBS Studio A Nashville May 18-29, 1981.

Features:
• Numbered, Limited Edition
• Half-Speed Production and Mastering by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
• Specially Plated and Pressed on 180 grams of High Definition Vinyl
• Special Static Free - Dust Free Inner Sleeve
• Heavy Duty Protective Packaging
• Mastered from the Original Master Tapes

Musicians:
Elvis Costello, guitar vocal
Pete Thomas, drums
Bruce Thomas, bass
Steve Nieve, piano organ

Selections: 
Side 1:
1. Why Don't You Love Me (Like You Used to Do)?
2. Sweet Dreams
3. Success
4. I'm Your Toy
5. Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down
6. Brown To Blue
Side 2:
7. A Good Year for the Roses
8. Sittin' and Thinkin'
9. Colour of the Blues
10. Too Far Gone
11. Honey Hush
12. How Much I Lied

Elvis Costello & The Attractions Goodbye Cruel World Numbered Limited Edition 180 GRAM MFSL LP

Numbered, Limited Edition 180g LP Mastered from the Original Master Tapes! Pressed at RTI! 

1984 Album Produced by Top Production Team of Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley: Several Songs Enhanced With Top-Flight Horn Arrangements

Mastered from the Original Master Tapes: Mobile Fidelity 180g LP is the Sonically Definitive Version

Costello and the Attractions Survive "Dreadful 80s" With Songs Concerning Loss, Identity, and Matters of the Heart

Part of Mobile Fidelity's Elvis Costello Reissue Series: Singer-Songwriter's First Eleven Studio Albums Available on Sumptuously Sounding 180g LP

Elvis Costello wasn't in a happy place when he began writing Goodbye Cruel World. His marriage collapsed between the record's start and finish. He was also dealing with what he deems the "dreadful 80s"—a period in which the importance of videos trumped musical merit, the government in his native England engaged in controversial conflicts, and nuclear threats hovered over daily life like a black cloud. What possible good came out of the age? A smart batch of songs that stands up to many of the singer-songwriter's better-known works and an underrated record that now sounds better than ever.

Mastered from the original master tapes and pressed on 180g LP at RTI, this collectable edition of Goodbye Cruel World joins Mobile Fidelity's acclaimed Costello reissues series in presenting the icon's most vital records in rich, dynamic, three-dimensional analog sound. Akin to many albums from the era, Goodbye Cruel World was hampered by bright, slick textures on the original pressings and digital counterparts. Here, Costello's fare is revealed to possess a warmer, more organic and intimate character. Costello's voice, as well as his band's nimble rhythms and Steve Nieve's R&B-spiked piano, occupy their own spaces amidst a wide, unconstrained soundstage.

The improvements rendered by this numbered, limited-edition LP bring significantly new perspective to Costello's mordantly witty songs addressing everything from stark romantic loss to erotic desire. Produced by the hit-making team of Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley, Goodbye Cruel World reflects the polish of the day in places but now reveals a deeper soulfulness, grit, and honesty. Such aspects particularly come to fore on multiple tunes featuring saxophonists Gary Barnacle, trombonist Jim Paterson, and percussionist Luis Jardim—the very first guests ever welcomed on an Attractions album. 

With added instrumental assistance, Costello and Co. traverse styles ranging from rambunctious new-wave rock ("The Deportees Club") to frisky New Orleans-derived blues ("Sour Milk Cow Blues") to suave, jazzy pop ("The Only Flame In Town"). In the closing "Peace In Our Time," a sobering albeit optimistic song whose verses still apply to contemporary times, Costello crafts the finale to a socio-politically conscious trilogy that began with "Shipbuilding" and "Pills and Soap." It alone is the worth the price of admission to a record that's long deserved a better reputation and, with Mobile Fidelity's reissue, finally gets its just desserts.

Features:
• Numbered, Limited Edition
• Mastering by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
• Specially Plated and Pressed on 180 grams of High Definition Vinyl
• Special Static Free - Dust Free Inner Sleeve
• Heavy Duty Protective Packaging
• Mastered from the Original Master Tapes
• Pressed at RTI
• Gatefold Jacket

Selections:
Side One:
1. The Only Flame In Town
2. Home Truth
3. Room With No Number
4. Inch By Inch
5. Worthless Thing
6. Love Field
Side Two:
1. I Wanna Be Loved
2. The Comedians
3. Joe Porterhouse
4. Sour Milk Cow Blues
5. The Great Unknown
6. The Deportees Club
7. Peace In Our Time

Elvis Costello & The Attractions Imperial Bedroom Numbered Limited Edition 180 GRAM MFSL LP

Michael Fremer Rated 9/11 Music, 8/11 Sonics!

Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 166/500!

One of TONEAudio Magazine's 2012 Best Audiophile Pressings! 

Elvis Costello and the Attractions Imperial Bedroom on Numbered Limited Edition 180g LP from Mobile Fidelity!

Universally Hailed 1982 Pop Masterpiece Pairs Costello and Co. With Beatles Engineer Geoff Emerick

Record Topped Village Voice’s Pazz & Jop Critic’s Poll In Year of Its Original Release

Lavish Instrumentation, Involved Arrangements, and Piano-Based Melodies Frame Ambitious Songs That Address Domestic Malaise While Coming Off as Upbeat

Recorded with famed Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick, Imperial Bedroom stands as Elvis Costello and the Attractions’ most highly decorated traditional pop album. Boasting sumptuous arrangements, large-scale instrumentation, ambitious layers, Tin Pan Alley melodies, and orchestrated devices, the 1982 record is a testament to studio creativity and ornate production. Amidst the lavish settings beats the heart of Costello’s biting, brutal lyrics that confront domestic malaise and sober emotional reflection. It’s little wonder the intelligent effort took top honors in the Village Voice’s Pazz & Jop Critics’ Poll.

Not that audiences back in the day ever had the privilege of hearing Imperial Bedroom at its maximum potential - now they can. Half-speed mastered from the original master tapes, Mobile Fidelity’s numbered limited edition 180g LP opens up the soundstages, expands the depth, and brings the genius of the grand arrangements into clear focus. In particular, the sound of the piano will have you believe that the 88s are situated right in your room, and never before has Emerick’s crafty sonic precision been so readily apparent. This is a huge-sounding record that demands full frequency extension and astute separation. Mobile Fidelity’s reissue delivers on all fronts. You need to hear this!

Ranked in 2005 by Rolling Stone at #166 on the magazine’s prestigious list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, Imperial Bedroom overflows with contagious pop, savvy torch, cabaret, chamber, and jazz-influenced fare. If it’s details you seek, then look no further. With Emerick’s assistance, each tune is distinguished with painstaking sonic accents, blended rhythms, counterpoint bass lines, dazzling passages, and inventive motifs. Accordions, tremolo guitars, organs, harpsichords, marimbas, horns, and an assortment of other instruments help color the subtly dark canvases. A 40-piece orchestra graces the gorgeous “...And In Every Home.”

Originally intended to be a stripped-down affair, Imperial Bedroom reflects Costello’s migration to composing on piano as well as his listening tastes at the time: Billie Holliday, Cole Porter, Frank Sinatra, Debussy. Intricate, expansive, and complex without ever sounding inaccessible, the record includes the now-classic “Man Out of Time,” “Beyond Belief,” and “Almost Blue,” the latter a ballad that Chet Baker included in his live sets until he passed away. In another stroke of brilliance, Costello used the record as an opportunity to address the melancholic changes in both his own personal situation as well as that of England, the songs functioning as smart, sometimes satirical dialogues on issues such as disenchantment, identity, and relationships.

"[T]he warmest and ultimately most satisfying sounding because it adds body to both Costello's voice and the bass line without sludge-ing it up. It's got more depth... plus better inner detail resolution... Mo-Fi's reissue breathes new life into a great E.C. album" - Michael Fremer, www.analogplanet.com, Music 8/11, Sound 8/11! 

Features:
• Numbered, Limited Edition
• Half-Speed Production and Mastering by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
• Specially Plated and Pressed on 180 grams of High Definition Vinyl
• Special Static Free - Dust Free Inner Sleeve
• Heavy Duty Protective Packaging
• Mastered from the Original Master Tapes
• One of TONEAudio Magazine's 2012 Best Audiophile Pressings 

Selections:
Side One: 
1. Beyond Belief
2. Tears Before Bedtime
3. Shabby Doll
4. The Long Honeymoon
5. Man Out of Time
6. Almost Blue
7. ...And In Every Home
Side Two: 
1. The Loved Ones
2. Human Hands
3. Kid About It
4. Little Savage
5. Boy With a Problem
6. Pidgin English
7. You Little Fool
8. Town Cryer

Elvis Costello & The Attractions Get Happy!! 180 GRAM LIMITED EDITION MFSL 2 LP SET

180g Vinyl Double LP!
Remastered From Original Master Tapes! 

Re-mastered from the original master tapes, Elvis Costello’s soulful album Get Happy!! is now presented as a 2LP set (original was 1LP) on 180 gram vinyl. This soul –influenced album shows how prolific and brilliant Costello is. Get Happy!! hit #11 on the Billboard 200.

Features:
• 180g Vinyl
• Double LP
• Remastered From Original Master Tapes!

Selections:
LP 1
Side One:
1. I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down
2. Black and White World
3. Five Gears In Reverse
4. B-Movie
5. Motel Matches
Side Two
1. Human Touch
2. Beaten To The Punch
3. Temptation
4. I Stand Accused
5. Riot Act

LP 2
Side Three:
1. Love For Tender
2. Opportunity
3. The Imposter
4. Secondary Modern
5. King Horse
Side Four:
1. Possession
2. Men Called Uncle
3. Clowntime Is Over
4. New Amsterdam
5. High Fidelity

Elvis Costello & The Attractions TRUST Numbered Limited Edition 180 GRAM MFSL LP

Numbered, Limited Edition 180g LP! Mastered from the Original Master Tapes and Pressed at RTI! 

Trust Is Most Eclectic and Ambitious Record of Elvis Costello’s Career: “[His] Summit as a Singer, Songwriter, and Miserable-Irish-Bastard Pin-Up Boy” Says Rolling Stone

Mastered from the Original Master Tapes: Mobile Fidelity LP of Trust Enhances the Realism of the Songs’ Advanced Arrangements and Nimble Accents 

1981 Album Mixes R&B Rhythms and New-Wave Melodies: Includes “Clubland,” “Watch Your Step,” and “Strict Time”

The album cover to Trust speaks volumes: Elvis Costello, bathed in shadows, his eyes nervously peering out from behind his sunglasses, his face conveying a combination of edgy noir purpose and guilt-ridden anxiety. Indeed, the tension-rich songs within largely convey the opposite meanings of the record’s title, with the British icon musing on what lies beyond arrogant youth and immediate success with a jaundiced, scarred perspective informed by his country’s political climate and his own experiences.

Of course, this being Costello and the Attractions, everything is wrapped into a catchy batch of songs that encourage listeners to hear them multiple times before they reveal their true intent. On Trust, almost nothing is what it seems, a condition that only enhances what remains the most diverse set of Costello’s career. Mastered from the original master tapes and pressed at RTI, Mobile Fidelity’s transparent analog reissue lets music lovers in on the secrets via unsurpassed clarity and breathtaking immediacy.

Whether the full, rounded tones of Bruce Thomas’ bass or complete extension and decay of Steve Nieve’s organ, every instrumental accent is delivered with lifelike detail and superb balance. Melodicas, drums, pianos, and guitars similarly come across faithfully and richly, the blend freed of constricting sonic veils and dynamic compression. Heard anew on this pressing, Trust emerges as one of the most satisfyingly complex and expertly played albums of its era. Costello’s singing, too, reveals intricate tonal shadings and implied meanings, with slower tracks such as the hypnotic “Watch Your Step” and Tin Pan Alley-inspired solo tour de force “Shot With His Own Gun” ravishing with enhanced emotional investment.

As is often the case with great (and sophisticated) albums, Trust—which retains a five-star review from the most recent Rolling Stone Album Guide—didn’t spawn any Top 40 hits at the time of its release. Yet age has been more than kind to the effort Costello said aimed to cross the rhythms of Get Happy!! with the melodies of Armed Forces, and which more than achieves the exacting goal. Admittedly made in a haze of booze and pills, the 1981 affair plumbs issues of disillusionment, romance, and sin with barbed wit and unvarnished honesty.

Country, soul, pop, rockabilly, two-step, punk-shot-through rock, jazz—Costello and the Attractions explore and master it all on Trust, all the while performing with an unencumbered directness and on-point coherence. No better example of the singer’s simultaneous stylistic reach and virtuosity exists. Experience it like never before on this phenomenal-sounding pressing.

Features:
• Numbered, Limited Edition
• Production and Mastering by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
• Specially Plated and Pressed on 180 grams of High Definition Vinyl
• Special Static Free - Dust Free Inner Sleeve
• Heavy Duty Protective Packaging
• Mastered from the Original Master Tapes
• Pressed at RTI

Selections:
Side One
1. Clubland
2. Lovers Walk
3. You’ll Never Be a Man
4. Pretty Words
5. Strict Time
6. Luxembourg
7. Watch Your Step
Side Two
8. New Lace Sleeves
9. From a Whisper to a Scream
10. Different Finger
11. White Knuckles
12. Shot With His Own Gun
13. Fish ’n’ Chip Paper
14. Big Sister’s Clothes

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ELVIS COSTELLO & THE IMPOSTERS THE DELIVERY MAN 180 GRAM 2004 LOST HIGHWAY EDITION RELEASE 2LP SET  

+ THE 10 INCH CLARKVILLE SESSIONS WITH ALTERNATE TRACKS AND 2 UNHEARD TRACKS FROM THE DELIVERY MAN SESSIONS

 BLOOD & CHOCOLATE - 1986 RARE LONG OUT OF PRINT UK PRESSING AS A COMPARISON TO THE MFSL EDITION FOR THE COLLECTOR IN YOU.

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Elvis Costello Extreme Honey: The Very Best of the Warner Bros. Years 180g GRAM LIMITED EDITION AUDIOPHILE 2 LP SET
 

ELVIS COSTELLO & THE IMPOSTERS MOMOFUKU 2 LP SET ELVIS COSTELLO SECRET, PROFANE & SUGARCANE 150 GRAM 2 LP SET

 

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ELVIS COSTELLO & THE IMPOSTERS THE DELIVERY MAN ORIGINAL 180 GRAM 2004 LOST HIGHWAY 1ST EDITION RELEASE 2LP SET NOT THE RE-ISSUE ON CLEAR VINYL AND NOT 180 GRAM

The Delivery Man, which was recorded with backing band The Imposters, is the 21st studio album by Elvis Costello.  The music was recorded at Sweet Tea Studio in Oxford, MS and produced by Dennis Herring (Modest Mouse, Counting Crows, Buddy Guy & Cracker) and Elvis Costello. The album features guest vocals by Lucinda Williams and EmmyLou Harris.

Elvis Costello has followed his musical curiosity in a career spanning more than 30 years. He is perhaps best known for his performances with The Attractions, The Imposters and for concert appearances with pianist Steve Nieve. However, he has also entered into acclaimed collaborations with Burt Bacharach, The Brodsky Quartet, Paul McCartney, Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, guitarist Bill Frisell, composer Roy Nathanson, The Charles Mingus Orchestra, record producer and songwriter T Bone Burnett and Allen Toussaint.

"...the album is steeped in Southern Americana: the gospel-rooted grooves of Memphis soul, touches of pedal steel guitar, Southern-rooted guest singers including EmmyLou Harris and Lucinda Williams and the storytelling that Southern soul shares with country music." - Jon Pareles of the New York Times

"...what really makes The Delivery Man work is that it just plain sounds good. It's the first album that he's recorded in its entirety with his road band the Imposters, and they give this music serious muscle, but it also helps that the production by Costello and Dennis Herring stays out of the way -- it's simple, direct, and unadorned, letting the performances shine through." - Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Allmusic

Features:
• Limited 10th Anniversary Edition Clear Vinyl
• Double LP
• Gatefold Packaging

Selections:
LP1 - Side One:
1. Button My Lip
2. Country Darkness
3. There's A Story In Your Voice
LP1 - Side Two:
1. Either Side of the Same Town
2. Bedlam
3. The Delivery Man
LP2 - Side Three:
1. Monkey To Man
2. Nothing Clings Like Ivy
3. The Name of This Thing Is Not Love
4. Heart Shaped Bruise
LP2 - Side Four:
1. She's Pulling Out the Pin
2. Needle Time
3. The Judgment
4. The Scarlet Tide
5. The Monkey

PLUS AS AN ADDED BONUS THE 10 INCH CLARKVILLE SESSIONS WITH ALTERNATE TRACKS AND 2 UNHEARD TRACKS FROM THE DELIVERY MAN SESSIONS

 

BLOOD & CHOCOLATE - 1986 RARE LONG OUT OF PRINT UK PRESSING - "A pissed-off, 32-year-old divorcé's version of This Year's Model" is what Elvis Costello once called this 1986 noise-pop masterpiece. Following the foray into acoustic roots music that informed the heartbroken King of America, Costello immediately redubbed himself Napoleon Dynamite for songwriting and DIY-cover-painting credits, teamed again with the Attractions and producer Nick Lowe, and headed for the figurative garage. Spattered with bad love and strange dreams, nervy Beatles "tributes" (the deranged "I Want You" held the same end-of-side-1 place on the original LP as John Lennon's namesake ode to Yoko did on Abbey Road), and blurt after blurt of bent tunefulness, Blood & Chocolate was for all that an exceedingly artful, criminally ignored album. "Someday they'll probably make a movie out of all of this," Costello sings on the penultimate "Poor Napoleon." "There won't even have to be a murder, just a slow, dissolving kiss."

Track Listings

1. Uncomplicated 2. I Hope You're Happy Now 3. Tokyo Storm Warning 4. Home Is Anywhere You Hang Your Head 5. I Want You 6. Honey, Are You Straight or Are You Blind? 7. Blue Chair 8. Battered Old Bird 9. Crimes of Paris 10. Poor Napoleon

11. Next Time Round

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Following a string of tasteful but sometimes bloodless collaborations with Sophie Van Otter, Bill Frisell, and the London Symphony Orchestra, Costello delivers his most visceral and satisfying LP in years with When I Was Cruel. Reunited with half the Attractions, Pete Thomas and Steve Nieve, Costello sticks relatively close to the sharp new-wave melodies that sealed his reputation in the late '70s and '80s, but infuses them with powerful sonic touches: a hypnotic loop of Italian pop singer Mina that carries the title track, the melodica that casts an eerie glow over "Soul for Hire," and the frenetic, klezmer-inspired horns that drive "15 Petals." Costello's guitar is frequently drenched in tremolo, and his lyrical wit hasn't been this consistently spiky and unforced since Blood & Chocolate. Compared to some of his more uptown adventures, When I Was Cruel may seem at first a kind of semi-nostalgic slumming, but the opposite may be the case: like Woody Allen, Costello is at his most artful when he produces perfect pop trifles that will almost certainly outlast his more self-conscious "serious" work.

A lot of ink has been devoted to harking Elvis's return to the substance (if not the style) of his early triumphs, My Aim Is true and This Years Model, with this release. While both of those albums are rightfully viewed as classics, it's great to hear Elvis update his sound while maintaining his edge.
Working with Leo Pearson (U2, various electronica artists), and a number of members of the Attractions, EC has cut an album that rocks with the biting wit that has been his trademark for the past 25 years. It's a welcome addition to his catalogue, and it's a real fun album to listen to. It's also a welcome relief from the collaborative projects that have occupied his time over the last few years.
Elvis is at his best on a number of tunes on this disc. "Tear Your Own Head Off" has some blistering guitar work, and is the best song from the late seventies to be recorded in years. "Soul For Hire" has some deep, ominous sonic textures at work, much like "Watching The Detectives" (all though it is not reggae-based). There is great use of horns on a number of tracks, particularly "Episode of Blonde". And "When I Was Cruel NO. 2" sounds like a Portishead tune, particularly with its eerie samples and tape loops. It's not something you'd expect from Elvis, but then again, his introduction of the unexpected has generally made for the best tunes on his many projects (the 50's style organ on "The Beat" comes to mind).
This album ranks right up there with "My Aim Is True", and more importantly "This Year's Model" in terms of wrenching tunefulness. Fortunately it is a breakthrough, as opposed to a revival. It's nice to hear an artist who knows what sounds work best for him, and take that to a new level.

 

 

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ELVIS COSTELLO SECRET, PROFANE & SUGARCANE 150 GRAM 2 LP SET

TAS Rated 4/5 Music, 4.5/5 Sonics in the September 2009 Issue of The Absolute Sound!

"Secret, Profane & Sugarcane" was produced by T Bone Burnett and recorded by Mike Piersante during a three-day session at Nashville's Sound Emporium Studio in 2009. Joining Costello were Jerry Douglas (Union Station) on dobro, Stuart Duncan (who also played on Mark and Emmylou's "All The Roadrunning") on fiddle, Mike Compton (who joined Union Station members to contribute to the "O' Brother Where Art Thou?" soundtrack) on mandolin, Jeff Taylor (who's played with Ricky Scaggs and The Chieftans) on accordion and Dennis Crouch (former band mate of Jeff Taylor, who's played with Dolly Parton and Steve Earle) on double bass, some of the most highly regarded recording artists and musicians in traditional American country music, bluegrass and beyond.

The album includes ten previously unrecorded songs. "Sulphur to Sugarcane" and "The Crooked Line", were co-written with T Bone Burnett while, "I Felt The Chill" marks Costello's second recorded songwriting collaboration with Loretta Lynn.

Costello revisits two songs from his catalogue in string band style. Both songs were originally written for Johnny Cash. "Hidden Shame" was indeed included on Cash's album, "Boom Chicka Boom".

T Bone adds his distinctive Kay electric guitar to several of numbers, the only amplified instrument on the recording. Jim Lauderdale takes the close vocal harmony part throughout the record and Emmylou Harris contributed a third vocal part on the chorus of "The Crooked Line" on the final day of recording.

Vinyl version includes two bonus tracks not available on CD, an arrangement of Lou Reed's "Femme Fatale" and Costello's sequel to the old Appalachian murder ballad, "Omie Wise", entitled, "What Lewis Did Last".

"The album was recorded in a lightning-fast three-day session in a Nashville studio. The result is an unaffected if not wholly authentic country album that drapes Costello's intelligent pop in a homespun cloak of down-home sentimentality." - Greg Cahill, The Absolute Sound, September 2009, Issue 196

Musicians:
Elvis Costello, vocals
Jerry Douglas, dobro
Stuart Duncan, fiddle
Mike Compton, mandolin
Jeff Taylor, accordion
Dennis Crouch, double bass
Emmylou Harris, backing vocals (12)

Features:
• 150g Vinyl
• Double LP
• Includes two bonus tracks not available on CD
• Gatefold jacket

Selections:
LP1
1. Down Among the Wine and Spirits
2. Complicated Shadows
3. I Felt the Chill
4. My All Time Doll
5. Hidden Shame
6. She Handed Me a Mirror
7. I Dreamed of My Old Lover
8. How Deep is the Red
LP 2
1. She Was No Good
2. Sulphur to Sugarcane
3. Red Cotton
4. The Crooked Line
5. Changing Partners
LP Only Tracks:
6. Femme Fatale
7. What Lewis Did Last

Elvis Costello Extreme Honey: The Very Best of the Warner Bros. Years 180g GRAM LIMITED EDITION AUDIOPHILE 2LP SET

Essential Compilation Album on 180 GRAM LIMITED EDITION Audiophile Vinyl!

Extreme Honey: The Very Best of Warner Brothers Years (1997) is a compilation album by Elvis Costello, spanning the years 1989–1997. This double album is a good way to become acquainted with Costello's nineties' output. There are a number of hits and singles ("Veronica," "So Like Candy," "Sulky Girl," "13 Steps Lead Down," "The Other Side of Summer"), spiced up by album tracks from the same period.

There are a number of great moments here, whether it's the lilting "The Birds Will Still Be Singing" from the underrated Juliet Letters or the New Orleans-inflected "Deep Dark Truthful Mirror." Extreme Honey also contains "My Dark Life," Costello's collaboration with Brian Eno (originally featured on The X-Files soundtrack), and the new track "The Bridge I Burned," a neo-psychedelic/trip-hop number constructed from backing tapes recorded with his son and Supergrass drummer Danny Goffey.

This essential Elvis Costello compilation is available on vinyl for the first time!

Features:
• 180g Audiophile Vinyl
• 2LP Set
• Insert
• Available on vinyl for the first time

Selections:
LP 1 - Side 1:
1. The Bridge I Burned
2. Veronica
3. Sulky Girl
4. So Like Candy
LP 1 - Side 2:
1. 13 Steps Lead Down
2. All This Useless Beauty
3. My Dark Life
4. The Other Side Of Summer
5. Kinder Murder

LP 2 - Side 3:
1. Deep Dark Truthful Mirror
2. Hurry Down Doomsday
3. Poor Fractured Atlas
4. The Birds Will Still Be Singing
5. London's Brilliant Parade
LP 2 - Side 4:
1. Tramp The Dirt Down
2. Couldn't Call It Unexpected No. 4
3. I Want To Vanish
4. All The Rage

Out of Our Idiot (1987) compiles Elvis Costello rarities released throughout the mid-‘80s, usually under pseudonyms. If these were Costello’s throwaways, it speaks volumes as to how great of a songster he is.

Track Listings 1.   Seven day weekend 2.   Turning the town red 3.   Heathen Town 4.   People's limousine 5.   So young 6.   American without tears No. 2 7.   Get yourself another fool 8.   Walking on thin ice 9.   Blue chair 10.   Baby it's you 11.   From head to toe 12.   Shoes without heels 13.   Baby's got a brand new hairdo 14.   Flirting kind 15.   Black sails in the sunset 16.   Imperial bedroom 17.  

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ELVIS COSTELLO & THE IMPOSTERS MOMOFUKU 2LP - Featured in Michael Fremer's Heavy Rotation in the July 2008 Issue of Stereophile!

Elvis Costello's "Momofuku" contains 12 new songs pressed on two LPs and includes codes for digital download of the album. Featuring their friends Jenny Lewis, Jonathan Rice, Tennessee Thomas, "Farmer" Dave Scher, David Hildalgo, And Jonathan Wilson. Vinyl mastering by Kevin Gray at AcousTech Mastering, CA.

Elvis Costello on Momofuku:
"...the real version is pressed on two pieces of black plastic with a hole in the middle. You may prefer other, more portable, less scratchable, editions that will soon become available for your convenience but this is how it sounds the best: with a needle in a groove, the way the Supreme Being intended it to be... "

"...we recorded exclusively to tape, completing and mixing each song before moving on to the next. The entire record took a week to record and mix. The music has been pressed on four sides of vinyl for volume and clarity although the album was originally sequenced with six tracks a-side. Every record has its own method. This was the one for these songs."

Features:
• Double 140g LP
• Includes full album mp3 download

Selections:
1. No Hiding Place
2. American Gangster Time
3. Turpentine
4. Harry Worth
5. Drum and Bone
6. Flutter and Wow
7. Stella Hurt
8. Mr. Feathers
9. My Three Sons
10. Song With Rose
11. Pardon Me Madam, My Name Is Eve
12. Go Away  

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