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Elvis Costello & the Attractions

Imperial Bedroom

Imperial Bedroom

UPC: 602547331137

Format: LP

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With his seventh album, IMPERIAL BEDROOM, Elvis Costello was hailed as being more than just a New Wave rocker. With intricate, Beatlesque arrangements and unusual, sophisticated song structures, Costello emerged as full-blown master craftsman. Some of the more excitable critics of the day declared him a modern Cole Porter. Indeed, it's possible to imagine some 1940s torch singer crooning the slinky "The Long Honeymoon" or the mournful "Kid About It," but the free-associative, polyrhythmic likes of "Beyond Belief" and "Shabby Doll" had never been heard anywhere in pop music before.
Undeniably one of Costello's finest hours as a tunesmith, IMPERIAL BEDROOM shows several sides of his musical personality. He's roots-conscious enough to pen a perfect jazz ballad ("Almost Blue," later covered by Chet Baker), but adventurous enough to push the lyrical and harmonic envelope even farther than on his rococo masterpiece, ARMED FORCES.

Tracks:

1 - Beyond Belief
2 - Tears Before Bedtime
3 - Shabby Doll
4 - Long Honeymoon
5 - Man out of Time
6 - Almost Blue
7 - ...And in Every Home
8 - Loved Ones
9 - Human Hands
10 - Kid About It
11 - Little Savage
12 - Boy with a Problem
13 - Pidgin English
14 - You Little Fool
15 - Town Cryer