ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS "IMPERIAL BEDROOM" 1982 JAPAN EX/EX W/OBI+INSRT

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THE PHOTO'S MAY BE A LITTLE BLURRY, HAVE A LITTLE GLARE, SOME REFLECTIONS OR IN SOME CASES YOU MAY SEE SPECKS OF DUST. BUT THE PHOTO'S ARE OF THE ACTUAL ITEM YOU ARE BIDDING ON. I DO COMBINE SHIPPING. BUT I DO NOT ACCEPT “BEST OFFERS”, THE MONIES GO TO MY FRIENDS WIDOW.

THESE ARE VISUALLY & PLAY GRADED.

ARTISTS: ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS

TITLE: “IMPERIAL BEDROOM”

TRACK LISTING: SEE PHOTO'S & BELOW

A1

Beyond Belief

2:32

A2

Tears Before Bedtime

2:59

A3

Shabby Doll

4:43

A4

The Long Honeymoon

4:14

A5

Man Out Of Time

5:25

A6

Almost Blue

2:48

A7

....And In Every Home

3:19

B1

The Loved Ones

2:47

B2

Human Hands

2:42

B3

Kid About It

2:44

B4

Little Savage

2:36

B5

Boy With A Problem

2:10

B6

Pidgin English

3:57

B7

You Little Fool

3:08

B8

Town Cryer

4:12

Companies, etc.

• Licensed From – WEA International Inc.

• Manufactured By – Warner-Pioneer Corporation

Credits

• Producer – Geoff Emerick

Notes

Made by Warner Pioneer Corporation, Japan, under license from WEA International Inc. U.S.A.
P-11241 catalog number on spine and labels, XXLP17 on the back of sleeve.

Issued with obi and black lyric sheet printed with silver ink in English and a black and white promo sheet in Japanese. 

LABEL: F BEAT RECORDS JAPAN

CAT.#: P-11241

YEAR: 1982

RECORD CONDITION: THE RECORD IS IN EX/NM- CONDITION. BOTH LABELS ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.. VISUALLY NICE SHINEY LUSTER TO THE VINYL. NO SCUFFS, BLEMS, LINES, VISIBLE SCRATCHES. VISUALLY LOOKS VERY CLEAN. AUDIO WISE THIS IS SUPER CLEAN IN BETWEEN TRACKS VERY CLEAN. THE RECORD IS SUPER CLEAN SOUNDING, NO BACKGROUND SOUND AT ALL!

SLEEVE CONDITION: THE JACKET IS IN EX/EX- CONDITION. NICE STRAIGHT EDGES, NO WRITING, NO TEARS, NO SEAM SPLITS.

MORE INFO: THIS RECORD IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT. INCLUDES OBI, ALSO BOTH OF THE INSERTS ONE IN JAPANESE THE OTHER WITH THE SONG LYRICS IN ENGLISH. JAPANE IMPORT.

MORE INFO ON THE ARTISTS/RELEASE:

Declan Patrick MacManus, OBE (born 25 August 1954),better known by his stage name Elvis Costello, is a British pop musician, singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, author, television presenter, and occasional actor.

He began his career as part of London's pub rock scene in the early 1970s and later became associated with the first wave of the British punk and new wave movement that emerged in the mid-to-late 1970s. His critically acclaimed debut album, My Aim Is True, was released in 1977. Shortly after recording it, he formed the Attractions as his backing band. His second album, This Year's Model, was released in 1978, and was ranked number 11 by Rolling Stone on its list of the best albums from 1967–1987. His third album, Armed Forces, was released in 1979, and features his highest-charting single "Oliver's Army" (number 2 in the UK). His first three albums all appeared on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

Costello and the Attractions toured and recorded together for the better part of a decade, though differences between them caused a split by 1986. Much of Costello's work since has been as a solo artist, though reunions with members of the Attractions have been credited to the group over the years. Costello's lyrics employ a wide vocabulary and frequent wordplay. His music has drawn on many diverse genres; one critic described him as a "pop encyclopaedia", able to "reinvent the past in his own image".

He has won multiple awards in his career, including a Grammy Award, and has twice been nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Male Singer.In 2003, Costello and the Attractions were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Costello number 80 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.

Costello has co-written several original songs for motion pictures, including "God Give Me Strength" from Grace of My Heart (1996, with Burt Bacharach) and "The Scarlet Tide" from Cold Mountain (2003, with T-Bone Burnett). For the latter, Costello was nominated (along with Burnett) for the Academy Award for Best Original Song and the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media.

Imperial Bedroom (1982) had a much darker sound, due in part to the lavish production of Geoff Emerick, famed for engineering several Beatles records. Imperial Bedroom remains one of his most critically acclaimed records, but again failed to produce any hit singles. Costello has said he disliked the marketing pitch for the album. The album also featured Costello's song "Almost Blue", inspired by the music of jazz singer and trumpeter Chet Baker, who would later perform and record a version of the song (Chet Baker in Tokyo).

In 1983, he released Punch the Clock, featuring female backing vocal duo (Afrodiziak) and a four-piece horn section (the TKO Horns), alongside the Attractions. Clive Langer (who co-produced with Alan Winstanley), provided Costello with a melody which eventually became "Shipbuilding", which featured a trumpet solo by Baker. Prior to the release of Costello's own version, a version of the song was a minor UK hit for former Soft Machine founder Robert Wyatt.

Imperial Bedroom is a 1982 album by Elvis Costello and the Attractions. It was the second Costello album, after Almost Blue, not produced by Nick Lowe. Production duties were handled by Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick. "I wanted to try a few things in the studio that I suspected would quickly exhaust Nick's patience," as Costello put it in the liner notes to the 1994 Rykodisc reissue.

It was voted as the best album of the year in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll. In 1998 readers of Q magazine named it the 96th greatest album ever. In 1989, it was ranked No. 38 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 100 Greatest Albums of the 80s. In 2003, the album was ranked number 166 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In 2012, Slant Magazine listed the album at No. 59 on its list of "Best Albums of the 1980s". The album reached number 6 in the UK charts and number 30 in the USA but the singles were less successful. "You Little Fool" and "Man Out of Time" each briefly appeared in the UK Singles Chart, but neither charted in the USA.

Background

Imperial Bedroom was the first of Costello's albums to be recorded without any of the songs having already been performed live. The songwriting and arrangements were done during the twelve-week recording session at AIR Studios. It was recorded at the same time as Paul McCartney's Tug of War, on which Emerick simultaneously served as recording engineer. Other working titles were "Revolution of the Mind", "Music To Stop Clocks" and "PS I Love You".

Unlike the previous two albums, there was no intent to have the songs in any particular arrangement or production style. Instead, they covered a variety of styles and included songs that were written at the end of the Trust (1981) sessions, through Costello's production of Squeeze's East Side Story, and during the "Nashville adventure"of Almost Blue.

Imperial Bedroom continued a direction, starting with Trust, where Costello used a piano to compose songs, which was different from the writing approach he used on his first four albums. As initially recorded, the album sounded very much like Trust, but none of these versions survived to the final recording, except the intro and coda of "Man Out of Time". Instead, the band experimented with different instrumental choices, including a 40-piece orchestra for ".....And in Every Home". Costello also attempted to vary his vocal performances, such as the contrasting vocal tracks in "Pidgin English". Many of these studio embellishments had to be stripped when the songs were played live in concert.

Despite some of the lyrical content, Costello had imagined this to be his most optimistic album to date.

The album inspired the title of Bret Easton Ellis' novel Imperial Bedrooms, a sequel to Ellis' earlier novel Less Than Zero, whose title was borrowed from Costello's song "Less Than Zero".

Packaging

The name of the album "Imperial Bedroom" appears on the sleeve as IbMePdErRoIoAmL. The cover painting, titled "Snakecharmer & Reclining Octopus"[4] by Barney Bubbles (but credited to "Sal Forlenza") is a pastiche of "Three Musicians" by Pablo Picasso, and letters on the zipper-like creatures in the upper right spell "PABLO SI".

This was the first Elvis Costello album to include a transcript of the lyrics. They were printed on the inner sleeve in all capitals with no punctuation. The UK release varied this presentation of the lyrics, such that on one side of the inner sleeve there was a circular cut, which made one side of the LP's centre label visible. The lyrics, printed on that side of the inner sleeve, continued straight across that side of the LP's centre label. 

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