Elvis Costello - Mighty Like A Rose (Bonus CD, 2002)
Artist: Elvis Costello
Title: Mighty Like A Rose
Year Of Release: 1991
Label: Rhino Records
Genre: Pop/Rock
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue,log)
Total Time: 54:26 / 1:07:50
Total Size: 726 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: Mighty Like A Rose
Year Of Release: 1991
Label: Rhino Records
Genre: Pop/Rock
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue,log)
Total Time: 54:26 / 1:07:50
Total Size: 726 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
CD1:
01. The Other Side of Summer {3:56}
02. Hurry Down Doomsday (The Bugs Are Taking Over) {4:05}
03. How to Be Dumb {5:14}
04. All Grown Up {4:16}
05. Invasion Hit Parade {5:34}
06. Harpies Bizarre {3:44}
07. After the Fall {4:38}
08. Georgie and Her Rival {3:38}
09. So Like Candy {4:36}
10. Interlude: Couldn't Call It Unexpected No. 2 {0:22}
11. Playboy to a Man {3:20}
12. Sweet Pear {3:36}
13. Broken {3:36}
14. Couldn't Call It Unexpected No. 4 {3:50}
CD2 (bonus):
01. Just Another Mystery {4:16}
02. Sweet Pear [home demo] {3:46}
03. Couldn't Call It Unexpected No. 4 [live] {4:18}
04. Michievous Ghost {5:47}
05. St. Stephen's Day Murders {3:24}
06. The Other Side of Summer [unplugged version] {4:06}
07. Deep Dark Truthful Mirror [unplugged version] {4:44}
08. Hurry Down Doomsday (The Bugs Are Taking Over) [unplugged version] {4:18}
09. All Grown Up [home demo] {4:36}
10. Georgie and Her Rival [home demo] {3:22}
11. Forgive Her Anything [home demo] {4:01}
12. It Started to Come to Me [home demo] {2:48}
13. I Still Miss Someone/The Last Town I Painted [demo] {2:47}
14. Put Your Big Toe in the Milk of Human Kindness {4:10}
15. Invasion Hit Parade [home demo] {4:22}
16. Just Another Mystery [home demo] {3:42}
17. Broken [home demo] {3:23}
Early masterpieces such as This Year's Model posited Elvis Costello as the latest in a long line of great British "angry young men." But as Costello himself writes in the liner notes to this reissue, originally recorded closer to middle age: "If you really want to hear an angry record, then this is the [one]." It's probably his most misanthropic and bitter as well: "So Like Candy" and "Playboy to a Man," the final two songs in the series he cowrote with Paul McCartney, appear on an album that also features the line: "Was it a millionaire who said, 'Imagine no possessions'?" Mitchell Froom's production is purposely basic and crude, and some of the music is experimental (including brass, strings, and effects seemingly inspired by the Beatles' "Revolution No. 9"). The opening "The Other Side of Summer," an obvious Beach Boys parody, is the only real slice of pop to be found. But as a complex musical statement, the album more than delivers on the artist's stated intent: "This record says the world we are making is grim, and I believe that it is." --Bill Holdship