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This Year's Model - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Side 1:
No Action (1:57)
This Year's Girl (3:16)
The Beat (3:42)
Pump It Up (3:12)
Little Triggers (2:38)
You Belong To Me (2:19)
Watching The Detectives - only on Belgian, French, German, Swedish (Smash) & Argentinian versions
Side 2:
Hand In Hand (2:30)
(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea (3:06) - only on UK version
Lip Service (2:34)
Living In Paradise (3:51)
Lipstick Vogue (3:29)
Night Rally (2:40) - only on UK version
Radio, Radio - only on US version
[1978-03-17; LP; Radar RAD 3 (UK)]
[1978-03-17; LP; Radar RAD 3 (UK promo - see note below)]
[1978-__-__; MC; Radar RAC 3 (UK, different track order)]
[1978-05-__; LP; Columbia JC 35331 (US, original copies had the words Columbia Columbia Columbia' were replaced with 'Costello Costello Costello' on the label. Promo copies were also issued with with "For promotion only / ownership is reserved by CBS / Sale is unlawful" stamped in gold on the back of the cover and a tracking pasted on the front)]
[1978-05-__; MC; Columbia JCT 35331 (US)]
[1978-05-__; MC; Columbia PCT 35331 (Canada)]
[1984-__-__; LP; Columbia PC 35331 (US/Canada)
[1978-__-__; LP; Radar 56477/France: WE 341 (Belgium/France, red vinyl)]
[1978-__-__; LP; Smash SLEPT 2 (Sweden)]
[1978-08-10; LP; Radar/Warner P-10538F (Japan)]
[1978-12-21; MC; Radar/Warner PKF 5011 (Japan)]
[1978-__-__; LP; Music Hall/Warner Bros. 50 14.386 (Argentina; all songs and album title (“El Modelo De Este Ano”!) are translated into Spanish.)]
[1980-05-__; LP; F-Beat XXLP 4 (with corrected sleeve) (UK)]
[1980-05-__; MC; F-Beat XXC 4 (UK)]
[1984-04-06; LP; Demon IMP FIEND 18 (UK)]
[1984-__-__; MC; Demon IMP FIEND CASS 18 (UK)]
[1986-01-__; CD; Demon IMP FIEND CD 18 (UK)]
[1986-01-__; CD; Columbia CK 35331 (US)]
[____-__-__; 8T; Columbia 35331 (USA)]
[____-__-__; LP; Liberation Records LIB 5101 (Australia)]
[____-__-__; MC; Liberation Records TCLIB 5101 (Australia)]
Produced by Nick Lowe.
The first 5000 copies of the UK LP included a free single (see -B08), and had a small round black sticker with white lettering which read "Free album with this single".
The original LPs contained the following text etched next to the run-off groove on side 1: "Special pressing No. 003 Ring Moira on 434 3232 for your special prize". The first few people (believed to be limited to 1000) who phoned in received a photo (with printed autograph) and a badge with the text "Made In 1955 For 1984". In Record Collector (#49) it says that this offer appears to have been a hoax!
The original UK Radar LP release had the covers offset by about 1" so that the spine was on the back, and down the righthand side of the front was a printer's colour chart - a deliberate mistake?
The LP covers for releases in different countries featured different photos (from the same session) for both the outer and inner sleeve. The Belgian/French releases and the release on the Smash label contain an 'alternative' version of "Watching The Detectives". However, this is simply the normal version speeded up (the wrong speed was used when mastering the album).
The promo version of the UK LP (RAD 3) apparently came with a pound note glued over the opening!
Reached #4 in UK charts, & #30 in the US.
US: Went gold (500,000 copies) in 1991.
UK: Went gold (100,000 copies) (date unknown).
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