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Next Tuesday, Rhino Records is re-releasing Elvis Costello's caustic classic ''This Year's Model'', and the timing, even if inadvertent, is perfect. Costello's sophomore effort, which was named Rolling Stone's Album of the Year in 1978, is like a heart-shaped box filled with rotting cod instead of chocolates, and like all great anti-Valentines, this one arrives a good five days after Feb. 14. | Next Tuesday, Rhino Records is re-releasing Elvis Costello's caustic classic ''This Year's Model'', and the timing, even if inadvertent, is perfect. Costello's sophomore effort, which was named Rolling Stone's Album of the Year in 1978, is like a heart-shaped box filled with rotting cod instead of chocolates, and like all great anti-Valentines, this one arrives a good five days after Feb. 14. | ||
It's part of a repackaging of Costello's back catalogue, which Rhino is issuing three albums at a time over the course of several months. (''Brutal Youth'' and ''Blood & Chocolate'' are in this, the second batch, and ''Armed Forces | It's part of a repackaging of Costello's back catalogue, which Rhino is issuing three albums at a time over the course of several months. (''Brutal Youth'' and ''Blood & Chocolate'' are in this, the second batch, and ''Armed Forces'', ''Imperial Bedroom'' and ''Mighty Like a Rose'' are coming in a group sometime later in the year.) The why-bother bar is set pretty high for all this, because Costello's first 11 albums already got the re-release-with-bonus-track treatment from Rykodisc in the early '90s. | ||
To clear this hurdle, Rhino is including a second CD with every album, offering demos, B-sides and previously unreleased tracks that will be new to all but Costello's most rabid bootleggers. For ''This Year's Model'', that means seven cuts that Rykodisc didn't tender, including demos for "You Belong to Me" and "Radio, Radio," a couple of live numbers from the Stiffs Live Tour of 1977, as well as a version of the Damned's "Neat, Neat, Neat," which was part of a single that came with the British edition of the album. | To clear this hurdle, Rhino is including a second CD with every album, offering demos, B-sides and previously unreleased tracks that will be new to all but Costello's most rabid bootleggers. For ''This Year's Model'', that means seven cuts that Rykodisc didn't tender, including demos for "You Belong to Me" and "Radio, Radio," a couple of live numbers from the Stiffs Live Tour of 1977, as well as a version of the Damned's "Neat, Neat, Neat," which was part of a single that came with the British edition of the album. |
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