ELVIS COSTELLO This Years Model 1978 (Vinyl LP)
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My albums are from a private collectioncollected over some 40 years. All have been played and loved and well lookedafter.
All are in a good condition unless otherwisestated.
My postage cost includes very stout plasticpackaging to ensure that your record arrives in the condition sent.
Radar Records – Rad 3
Cover – Very good (withoriginal inner)
Vinyl – Very good withoriginal 7” Single – Both almost mint
This Year's Model is Elvis Costello's second albumand his first with the Attractions, released in 1978. It was mainly recorded at Eden Studios in WestLondon.
It was votedthe 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 listof the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 1987, Rolling Stone magazineranked it number 11 on its list of the best albums of the period 1967–1987. In2003, the album was ranked number 98 on Rolling Stone magazine'slist of The500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
Early issues ofthe album have an apparently misprinted sleeve, which cuts off the left side ofthe front cover (including the letters 'E' from 'Elvis' and 'T' from 'This')and shows a printers' colour bar along the right side (see cover right). Thiswas a deliberate mistake (a favourite technique of cover designer Barney Bubbles), as waspressing "Special pressing No. 003. Ring 434 32 32. Ask for Moira for yourprize" between the holding spirals on Side 1. Indeed, people calling theaforementioned number ("Moira" being a press agent at Radar Records)would be rewarded with a badge.
Early issues ofthe LP came with a free 7" single, housed in a Radar house sleeve, with"Stranger in the House" on side A and a live cover of The Damned's "Neat Neat Neat" on sideB. The promotion also included a black and white sticker stuck on the LP'sshrinkwrap that said 'Free Album With This Single'.
The USA versionwas a different photo from the same session and didn't feature the deliberatemis-cropping. The original American pressing on Columbia also says"Costello" instead of "Columbia" on the inner label.
The title ThisYear's Model indirectly references two songs on the original UK album: mostobviously "This Year's Girl", but also "(I Don't Want To Go To)Chelsea", which contains a lyric about "last year'smodel".
"Theconcept of him behind a camera for the sleeve of This Year's Model hadalready been chosen, so I decided to equip Elvis with exactly the same tripodand camera as I was using to create a 'mirror' for him. Alongside a powerfulstereo I kept a large record collection at my Camden Studio, and artists wouldchoose music they enjoyed or were interested in for their sessions. Just as wewere about to start shooting, Elvis asked me if I had "Hotel California" by The Eagles, and could I play it? I was puzzled byhis choice – until he told me that he loathed the record, but wanted to lookreally pissed off and angry in the shots! We played the record several timesduring the session and whilst I directed him, I was also aware of his copyingsome of my own actions as I took the photographs."]
All songs writtenby Elvis Costello.
Side one
- "No Action" – 1:58
- "This Year's Girl" – 3:17
- "The Beat" – 3:45
- "Pump It Up" – 3:14
- "Little Triggers" – 2:40
- "You Belong to Me" – 2:22
Side two
- "Hand in Hand" – 2:33
- "(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea" – 3:07
- "Lip Service" – 2:36
- "Living in Paradise" – 3:52
- "Lipstick Vogue" – 3:42
- "Night Rally" – 2:41
- Elvis Costello – guitar, vocals
The Attractions
- Steve Nieve – piano, organ
- Bruce Thomas – bass
- Pete Thomas – drums
with:
- Mick Jones – lead guitar on "Big Tears"
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