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This album of B-sides, import-only recordings, and previously unreleased material is leaps and bounds above the last studio album, Get Happy. There are familiar songs like the two on Ronstadt's last album, "Girls Talk" and "Talking In The Dark" along with the cut omitted from the U.S. version of This Year's Model, much to the chagrin of the U.S. Costello fans, "I Don't Want To Go To Chelsea." The album spotlights the mellow Costello of "Alison" fame but doesn't do it at the sufferance of the rocking Costello. Especially noteworthy of the latter is "Getting Mighty Crowded," an old Van McCoy hit. After releasing one of the worst albums by a major artist released this year, it's good to have an album that does justice to an artist of Costello's stature. And once again, he has released an album with twenty songs!
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