The Songs of Bacharach & Costello: collection based on Painted From Memory, March 3, 2023

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The 4 CD / 2 LP version is now 111 $ on Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/Songs-Bacharach- ... 218&sr=8-2

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The 4CD/2LP version is now 100$: https://www.amazon.com/Songs-Bacharach- ... 468&sr=8-3

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The 4 CD / 2 LP version is now 93$ on Amazon.com:
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[sulky lad]

The 4 CD / 2 LP version is now 93$ on Amazon.com:
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Give it another month and it’ll be free !

[Ymaginatif]

The 4 CD / 2 LP version is now 93$ on Amazon.com:
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Give it another month and it’ll be free !

Still waiting for that ... At £150 here in the UK, that's still twice as much as it should cost!

This, together with the Spanish Model, has cured me from semi-compulsive buying of EC releases. Thank you!

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The boxset is again around 100$ on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Songs-Bacharach- ... KT9SPOJV7I

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ALTERNATIVE
Elvis Costello With Burt Bacharach Released “Painted From Memory” 25 Years Ago Today
25 years ago today, Elvis Costello With Burt Bacharach released Painted From Memory. Still we can’t believe that this was happening.

The post Elvis Costello With Burt Bacharach Released “Painted From Memory” 25 Years Ago Today appeared first on Magnet Magazine.

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Now down to $91 on Amazon US:
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[Ymaginatif]

Now down to $91 on Amazon US:
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I'm still waiting for a similar price here in the UK. Today it's fallen to £123, which is still too high. Chop off another £40-50 and then we reach a realistic price ...

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Now 82$ on Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/Songs-Bacharach- ... 218&sr=8-1

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Super Deal: now 73$ on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Songs-Bacharach- ... 658&sr=8-2

[blureu]

Thanks for the tip! I had a coupon and it only cost me $60. I thought that was a bargain.

Super Deal: now 73$ on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Songs-Bacharach- ... 658&sr=8-2

[Pigalle]

Super Deluxe is £44.99 on amazon.co.uk at the moment:

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[GCM]

Thanks very much for the tip, Santa will be bringing me this next month.
I had held off from buying the double vinyl version in the hope that something like this would happen!

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The Best Music Box Sets of 2023

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Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach – The Songs of Bacharach & Costello

Back in 1998, Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach released a collaborative album, Painted from Memory, a celebrated album that brought two legendary artists from seemingly different musical spheres together for a set of lush pop that even won them a Grammy award. The Songs of Bacharach & Costello builds on that album’s legacy with covers of the duo’s compositions, live recordings, and even Costello’s recordings of other Bacharach classics. As Jim Beviglia said in our review of the set, “the evidence here suggests that Costello deserves a prime spot on the list of Bacharach’s most fruitful musical partners, from Dionne Warwick as an artist to Hal David and Carole Bayer Sager as lyricists.”
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The Best Pop Albums of 2023

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16. Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello - The Songs of Bacharach & Costello
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TOP 10 REISSUES OF 2023

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7. Elvis Costello, 'The Songs of Bacharach & Costello'
Released only a month following veteran songwriter Burt Bacharach's death, this four-CD box set chronicling his 1998 collaboration with Elvis Costello adds leftover songs (many intended for a musical based on the Painted From Memory album), live tracks and later team-ups between the two giants. The centerpiece remains the initial batch of songs, but the later works - including solo Costello covering Bacharach classics - add new poignancy.
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ELVIS COSTELLO & BURT BACHARACH
The songs of Bacharach & Costello
5 sterren (van 5)

Elvis Costello en Burt Bacharach in een pophuwelijk zonder gelijke
Twee van de beste popcomponisten waren samen eventjes beter dan hun optelsom.

Tussen Elvis Costello en Burt Bacharach lagen 25 jaren en grote cultuurverschillen, maar het belette het duo niet om in 1989 samen songs te gaan schrijven voor het bitterzoete relatiealbum Painted from memory. Bacharachs jazzy croonerstijl was de kern waaraan Costello met zijn rock- en punkachtergrond onvoorspelbaarheid en donkere gedachten toevoegde. Een tweede album, Taken from life, zag destijds nooit het daglicht. Deze box bundelt alle songs daarvan, plus liveopnames en uitvoeringen door andere vocalisten, en natuurlijk Painted from memory zelf. Als masterclass in compositie, arrangeren en tekstschrijven is de collectie subliem, en gastzangers als Audra Mae en Jenni Muldaur bevestigen de superieure klasse van de songs. (vpb)

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ELVIS COSTELLO & BURT BACHARACH
The songs of Bacharach & Costello
5 stars (out of 5)

Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach in a pop marriage without equal
Two of the best pop composers together were briefly better than their sum.

There were 25 years and major cultural differences between Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach, but this did not prevent the duo from writing songs together in 1989 for the bittersweet relationship album Painted from memory. Bacharach's jazzy crooner style was the core to which Costello, with his rock and punk background, added unpredictability and dark thoughts. A second album, Taken from life, never saw the light of day. This box bundles all its songs, plus live recordings and performances by other vocalists, and of course Painted from memory itself. As a masterclass in composition, arranging and lyric writing, the collection is sublime, and guest singers such as Audra Mae and Jenni Muldaur confirm the superior class of the songs.

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The Best Music Boxed Sets of 2023

Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach, 'The Songs of Bacharach & Costello'

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The one album that was made jointly by Costello and Bacharach, 1998’s “Painted From Memory,” has come to rightly be regarded as a modern classic — a record pegged by some at the time as too sophisticated (or something like that), but which, 25 years later, feels righteously refined in just the right measure to just about anybody who has an ear for the possibilities of pop at all. Masterpiece is not too strong a word for what seems more than ever like possibly the greatest torch-song concept album since the glory days of “In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning.” For any enthusiasts who weren’t able to obtain the sold-out Mobile Fidelity vinyl edition, a fresh two-LP edition of the original is included as a part of “The Songs of Bacharach & Costello.” But that’s almost the least of the set’s riches, which include four CDs of mostly unreleased material, plus a practically book-length essay by Costello about the history of their storied collaboration that makes a swell addendum to EC’s memoir.

That history began with Costello growing up on Bacharach songs like “I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself,” which he covered with the Attractions in 1977, reprised here at the start of a whole disc’s worth of his Burt covers. It’s a history that did not end with “Painted From Memory,” despite what the discography would indicate. The most essential disc here is the 16-track “Taken From Life,” which consists of songs Bacharach and Costello had written for a long-planned and finally aborted “PFM” Broadway musical, some previously issued in some form, many of them stuck in the trunk until now. A highlight from the shoulda-been musicalis “You Can Have Her,” a dramatic ballad Costello finally recorded with a full orchestra, with Bacharach in tow, not so very long before the latter legend’s death. This celebration of their fateful intersection is a must for fans of either great; most of all, “Painted From Memory” is just too grand to be consigned to mere recollection. —Willman
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Brilliant, precise and articulate review - just like the album. I just might start a personal tradition and play this today - like another tradition someone on here has of playing North on Christmas Day

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AnalogPlanet’s Top LPs of 2023

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Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach: The Songs of Bacharach & Costello. 2LP. UMe.
Amazing music created by two of the finest composers of our times, now sounding better than ever and spread across three sides of a 2LP set.
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STAFF PICKS
The Best Reissues of 2023
Our roundup of the anniversary releases, box sets, and other collections that stood out last year.

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Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello, The Songs of Bacharach & Costello
Costello and Bacharach only made one album together, 1998’s ornately torchy and hugely sophisticated Painted from Memory, which is remastered and expanded here. But Elvis highly regarded the art of being Burt forever, starting with Stiff Records and the Attractions’ cover of “I Just Don’t Know What to Do with Myself,” a habit EC happily found hard to break. The mega-find within this box set, however, is the 16-track Taken From Life disc, which features tracks Bacharach and Costello had written for a long-planned, plushly arranged, and eventually aborted Broadway musical named for their 1988 collaboration. Stage producers—start the conversation.
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The 4 CD / 2 LP set is now 56€ on Amazon.com:
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I ended up with extra copies of the essay and lyric booklets from the super deluxe edition. Anyone interested?