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Reissues Roundup
Ian Wade
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The Songs of Bacharach & Costello is literally that. Compiled by Elvis Costello, it features everything the duo wrote and performed together such as the genuinely magnificent Painted From Memory album and its highlight God Give Me Strength. This exhaustive and gorgeous release features that as well as Taken From Life. The 45-song set also includes live performances of Burt Bacharach and Costello performing several of the songs from Painted From Memory, as well as other Bacharach numbers, with orchestras in New York and London; Costello performing stripped down versions of the songs on his Lonely World Tour with Nieve; and a selection of Bacharach and Hal David songs Costello has performed and recorded over the years.
It comes as a deluxe 2LP/ 4CD set, with 19 previously unreleased tracks and a massive essay by Costello, as well as truncated 2CD and 2LP editions featuring Painted From Memory with a few extras. I mean, there’s plenty of superb and fantastic ways to celebrate Bacharach with a catalogue such as his, but you can’t go far wrong with this. Beautiful.
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