Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Imperial Bedroom (2CD, Remastered 2002)

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Artist: Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Title: Imperial Bedroom
Year Of Release: 2002
Label: Rhino Records
Genre: Alternative Rock, Rock & Roll, Post-Punk
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 50:55 / 1:09:52
Total Size: 762 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

CD1:
01. Beyond Belief {2:34}
02. Tears Before Bedtime {3:03}
03. Shabby Doll {4:48}
04. The Long Honeymoon {4:16}
05. Man Out Of Time {5:27}
06. Almost Blue {2:50}
07. ...And In Every Home {3:23}
08. The Loved Ones {2:48}
09. Human Hands {2:43}
10. Kid About It {2:45}
11. Little Savage {2:37}
12. Boy With A Problem {2:13}
13. Pidgin English {3:58}
14. You Little Fool {3:11}
15. Town Cryer {4:17}

CD2:
01. The Land of Give and Take (Early Version of Beyond Belief) {3:06}
02. Tears Before Bedtime (Alternate Version) {3:04}
03. Man Out Of Time (Alternate Version) {3:44}
04. Human Hands (Early Version) {2:45}
05. Kid About It (Alternate Version) {3:19}
06. Little Savage (Alternate Version) {3:07}
07. You Little Fool (Alternate Version) {2:59}
08. Town Cryer (Fast Version) {2:15}
09. Little Goody Two Shoes (Alternate Version) {3:11}
10. The Town Where Time Stood Still (Alternate Version) {2:57}
11. ...And in Every Home (Rehearsal) {3:13}
12. I Turn Around {2:11}
13. From Head To Toe {2:36}
14. The World Of Broken Hearts {3:03}
15. Night Time {2:56}
16. Really Mystified {2:06}
17. The Stamping Ground {3:11}
18. Shabby Doll (Demo) {4:21}
19. Man Out Of Time (Demo) {3:27}
20. You Little Fool (Demo) {3:11}
21. Town Cryer (Demo) {3:03}
22. Seconds of Pleasure (Demo) {3:20}
23. Imperial Bedroom {2:48}

"Masterpiece?" was the word--in Columbia Records' ad campaign, anyway--when Imperial Bedroom appeared in 1982. As the album plays, though, the emphasis occasionally seems better placed on the question mark. This is a very good, sometimes dazzling album, but as a heart-wrencher it holds not a candle to King of America, and as a singular example of elegant pop craft it can't top Costello's 1998 collaboration with Burt Bacharach, Painted from Memory (not too shabby as a heart-wrencher itself, come to think of it). Of course, there are plenty of small miracles, and one huge one in the mind-bending "Beyond Belief." Imperial Bedroom is gorgeous more often than not, but in a way, there's more heart in the simple Smokey Robinson and the Miracles cover, "From Head to Toe," that appeared as a single later that year.

Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Imperial Bedroom (2CD, Remastered 2002)

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