Q, March 2002

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This Year's Model, Blood & Chocolate, Brutal Youth


Danny Eccleston

If they'd been the Pistols there'd have been jizz in Bruce's sandwich.

This Year's Model  5 stars (out of 5) reviews5 stars (out of 5) reviews5 stars (out of 5) reviews5 stars (out of 5) reviews5 stars (out of 5) reviews
Blood & Chocolate  4 stars (out of 5) reviews4 stars (out of 5) reviews4 stars (out of 5) reviews4 stars (out of 5) reviews4 stars (out of 5) reviews
Brutal Youth  3 stars (out of 5) reviews3 stars (out of 5) reviews3 stars (out of 5) reviews3 stars (out of 5) reviews3 stars (out of 5) reviews

To Demon's already estimable Costello reissue range, add three with a common theme: the Attractions. This Year's Model from 1978 was Costello's first with the band, a still-incredible combination of songwriterly spleen, Bruce Thomas's melodic bass doodles, Steve Nieve's ingenu keyboards ("like sirens" writes Costello) and Pete Thomas's preposterously musical drumming. Blood & Chocolate — the cranky, love-raddled 1986 reunion — spawned the bestial "Uncomplicated" and the unbearably exposed "I Want You," though Costello is keen to note that their next meeting, for 1994's nostalgia-laced Brutal Youth, was by default rather than design. Best here is the beat-poppy "13 Steps Lead Down," maddest is the electorate-chiding "20% Amnesia" — like Neil Young's "Fuckin' Up" with upsetting Brecht/Weill interludes. In all three cases, the bonus CD is a surprising boon (there's a lovely version of the James Carr-associated "Pouring Water On A Drowning Man" attached to Blood & Chocolate), while Costello's sleevenotes are funny, enlightening and rarely resist a sideswipe at Thomas.


Tags: This Year's ModelBlood & ChocolateBrutal YouthThe AttractionsBruce ThomasSteve NievePete ThomasUncomplicatedI Want YouBrutal Youth13 Steps Lead Down20% AmnesiaNeil YoungBertolt BrechtKurt WeillJames CarrPouring Water On A Drowning ManDemonRhinoEdsel

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Q, No. 188, March 2002


Danny Eccleston reviews the Rhino / Edsel reissues of This Year's Model, Blood & Chocolate and Brutal Youth.

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