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<center> Danny Eccleston </center> | <center> Danny Eccleston </center> | ||
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'''This Year's Model {{n}}{{ | '''If they'd been the Pistols there'd have been jizz in Bruce's sandwich. | ||
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'''Brutal Youth {{n}}{{ | '''This Year's Model {{n}}{{5of5stars}} <br> | ||
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{{Bibliography text}} | {{Bibliography text}} | ||
To Demon's already estimable Costello reissue range, add three with a common theme: the Attractions. ''This Year's Model'' from 1978 was Costello's first with the band, a still-incredible combination of songwriterly spleen, Bruce Thomas's melodic bass doodles, Steve Nieve's ingenu keyboards ("like sirens" writes Costello) and Pete Thomas's preposterously musical drumming. ''Blood & Chocolate'' — the cranky, love-raddled 1986 reunion — spawned the bestial "Uncomplicated" and the unbearably exposed I Want You, though Costello is keen to note that their next meeting, for 1994's nostalgia-laced ''Brutal Youth'', was by default rather than design. Best here is the beat-poppy "13 Steps Lead Down," maddest is the electorate-chiding "20% Amnesia" — like Neil Young's "Fuckin' Up" with upsetting Brecht/Weill interludes. In all three cases, the bonus CD is a surprising boon (there's a lovely version of the James Carr-associated "Pouring Water On A Drowning Man" attached to ''Blood & Chocolate''), while Costello's sleevenotes are funny, enlightening and rarely resist a sideswipe at Thomas. | To Demon's already estimable Costello reissue range, add three with a common theme: the Attractions. ''This Year's Model'' from 1978 was Costello's first with the band, a still-incredible combination of songwriterly spleen, Bruce Thomas's melodic bass doodles, Steve Nieve's ingenu keyboards ("like sirens" writes Costello) and Pete Thomas's preposterously musical drumming. ''Blood & Chocolate'' — the cranky, love-raddled 1986 reunion — spawned the bestial "Uncomplicated" and the unbearably exposed "I Want You," though Costello is keen to note that their next meeting, for 1994's nostalgia-laced ''Brutal Youth'', was by default rather than design. Best here is the beat-poppy "13 Steps Lead Down," maddest is the electorate-chiding "20% Amnesia" — like Neil Young's "Fuckin' Up" with upsetting Brecht/Weill interludes. In all three cases, the bonus CD is a surprising boon (there's a lovely version of the James Carr-associated "Pouring Water On A Drowning Man" attached to ''Blood & Chocolate''), while Costello's sleevenotes are funny, enlightening and rarely resist a sideswipe at Thomas. | ||
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{{tags}}[[This Year's Model]] {{-}} [[Blood & Chocolate]] {{-}} [[Brutal Youth]] {{-}} [[The Attractions]] {{-}} [[Bruce Thomas]] {{-}} [[Steve Nieve]] {{-}} [[Pete Thomas]] {{-}} [[Uncomplicated]] {{-}} [[I Want You]] {{-}} [[Brutal Youth]] {{-}} [[13 Steps Lead Down]] {{-}} [[20% Amnesia]] {{-}} [[Neil Young]] {{-}} [[Bertolt Brecht]] {{-}} [[Kurt Weill]] {{-}} [[James Carr]] {{-}} [[Pouring Water On A Drowning Man]] {{-}} [[Demon]] {{-}} [[Rhino]] {{-}} [[Edsel]] | |||
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'''Q, No. 188, March 2002 | '''Q, No. 188, March 2002 | ||
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[[Danny Eccleston]] reviews the Rhino / | [[Danny Eccleston]] reviews the Rhino / Edsel reissues of ''[[This Year's Model]]'', ''[[Blood & Chocolate]]'' and ''[[Brutal Youth]]''. | ||
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==External links== | ==External links== | ||
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