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Ladies and gentlemen, Elvis has left the Columbia building and joined Zappa, Bowie, Hendrix and a legion of other strange talents at one of music’s most creative labels – the upstart Rykodisc. | |||
The Salem, Mass-based label gave a 10th birthday present to itself last year by acquiring Elvis Costello’s first 11 albums, which Columbia had put out on compact disc in so-so reissues that didn’t do justice to one of pop’s angriest songwriters. | |||
Ryko has begun the Costello reissues with the same doting care they gave to their earlier big-name acquisitions, Frank Zappa and David Bowie. | |||
The Costello reissues began with the boxed set “''2½ Years'',” containing digitally remastered versions of his first three albums: “''My Aim Is True''”, “''This Year’s Model''” and “''Armed Forces''”. | |||
In keeping with Ryko’s aim to improve upon the originals, each album includes live, studio and demo bonus tracks, new artwork and funny running commentary from Costello about his frame of mind when the songs were written and recorded. | |||
The boxed set includes a bonus disc, Costello’s 1978 [[Concert 1978-03-06 Toronto|live broadcast]] from the El Mocambo club in Toronto – finally, a decent-sounding version of a record that’s been bootlegged to death. | |||
Ryko applies savvy marketing to help sell its stock. While the three studio albums can be bought separately, the El Mocambo disc is available only in the boxed set or by mail-order to customers who bought the studio records individually. | |||
Likewise, when Ryko issued a two-disc collection of Bowie singles last fall, a limited-edition disc was thrown in containing a rare Christmas duet between Bowie and Bing Crosby. It was a one-time-only thing, timed for the holidays. In the future, the Bowie compilation will be sold on its own merits, minus Bing. | |||
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