Chicago Tribune, May 16, 1996

Bibliography   72 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 UK & Ireland weeklies UK & Ireland magazines UK & Ireland newspapers US newspapers US rock magazines US music magazines US magazines US alternative weeklies European magazines European newspapers Canada  •  Mexico  •  Asia Australia  •  New Zealand South America  •  Africa Blogs  •  Fanzines  •  Books Online publications Chicago Tribune   1977 December 5 1978 April 24 1979 March 12 1979 April 10 1981 January 19 1984 April 26 1985 November 15 1986 July 14 1986 October 10 1986 October 13 1988 April 3 1988 July 8 1989 February 9 1989 March 5 1989 April 21 1989 April 24 1989 May 25 1989 September 1 1989 September 3 1990 March 27 1991 May 16 1991 June 2 1991 June 10 1993 January 22 1994 March 6 1994 May 30 1995 May 18 1996 May 16 1996 May 20 1998 September 27 1998 October 16 1998 October 18 1999 June 6 1999 June 11 1999 June 14 2001 June 28 2001 September 16 2002 April 19 2002 April 24 2003 May 7 2003 July 8 2004 March 18 2004 April 25 2005 April 19 2005 July 29 2006 April 21 2006 June 12 2006 October 12 2007 May 6 2008 May 6 2008 December 3 2009 June 3 2009 December 9 2010 December 21 2011 May 16 2014 June 12 2015 October 18 2015 November 5 2016 October 31 2017 February 27 2017 March 16 2018 July 27  2020 April 13 2021 July 16 Newspapers   The Australian Belgium Soir Berliner Zeitung Cleveland Scene Columbus Dispatch Connecticut Post Correio da Manhã Corriere della Sera Le Figaro Financial Times Gazeta Wyborcza Hamburger Abendblatt Irish Examiner Irish Independent Irish Press Irish Times Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger Liverpool Echo London Daily Mail London Evening Standard London Guardian London Independent London Observer London Telegraph London Times Los Angeles Herald-Examiner Louisville Courier-Journal Mail & Guardian Marin Independent Journal Mail Tribune Melbourne Age El Mundo Neue Zürcher Zeitung New Zealand Herald Otago Daily Times El Pais Philadelphia Inquirer Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Pittsburgh Tribune-Review La Presse Providence Journal Radikal Reading Eagle la Repubblica Satakunnan Kansa South China Morning Post Der Spiegel La Stampa Der Standard St. Petersburg Independent St. Petersburg Times Süddeutschen Zeitung Svenska Dagbladet Trondheim Adresseavisen Trouw De Volkskrant La Voz de Galicia Wanganui Herald Wiener Zeitung Die Zeit — Recordings Elvis Costello and the Attractions All This Useless... Mark Caro Elvis Costello and the Attractions All This Useless Beauty (Warner) (star)(star)(star)½ It's strange that this combination of new songs and others that Costello wrote for or with other people would be his most cohesive, soulful album in a decade. He's playing with the Attractions again but isn't trying to relive past glories (as on 1994's "Brutal Youth") or demonstrating how many stylistic hats he can fit on his head (as on everything since "Spike"). Instead, he's confidently, passionately delivering a strong group of songs--sequenced dramatically, with three opening, shimmering ballads building to a guitar explosion in the middle of "Complicated Shadows"--as the Attractions provide just the right, restrained ornamentation. Co-producer Geoff Emerick, the Beatles engineer who last worked with Costello on his 1982 baroque breakthrough "Imperial Bedroom," again brings out the warmth in the singer's voice, though this time the studio trickery is minimal. The stand-outs are the mid-tempo tunes, like the would-be pleading of "Why Can't a Man Stand Alone?" (written for, but not recorded by Sam Moore) and a shuffling sleeper called "Distorted Angel." Chicago Tribune, May 16, 1996 Mark Caro reviews All This Useless Beauty

External links

• ChicagoTribune.com
• Wikipedia: Chicago Tribune