Review of ATUB - 2 stars
Replay, 1996-06-01
by Mr. Michael Corcoran


     "Elvis Costello's amazingly prolific early period has crowded much of 
his ho-hum latter-day work, but with this album of scraps written for or 
with others, plus six new tunes, Costello is finally overwhelmed and 
rendered obsolete.
     "Even the Attractions can't make him sound particularly interesting. 
The new slow songs sound like old slow songs, and most of the fluid 
wordplay on the mid-tempo numbers seems to pack all the passion and 
originality of an echo. Maybe you only can get so much juice, and you can 
either gulp it down or sip it. Elvis Costello drank his so fast that now he 
can only burp."