Album
All This Useless Beauty
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
1996 · Rock
5 collectors on Gatefold own this
All This Useless Beauty is an Alt/Indie album by Elvis Costello & The Attractions, originally released in 1996. On Gatefold: 25 pressings tracked, owned by 5 collectors.
About
This is largely the reverse of a covers album, with songs that the prolific Englishman originally wrote or cowrote for other artists. You can often sense each track’s initial aim—the chiming guitars of “You Bowed Down” (Roger McGuinn); a soul-stirring ballad “What Can’t a Man Stand Alone?” (Sam Moore); the aching self-examination of “The Other End of the Telescope” (Aimee Mann)—but Costello inhabits them completely. That’s especially true of the title track, which distills the sound of loss into a haunting melody.
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Tracklist
- 1The Other End Of The Telescope4:06
- 2Little Atoms3:58
- 3All This Useless Beauty4:39
- 4Complicated Shadows4:43
- 5Why Can't A Man Stand Alone?3:14
- 6Distorted Angel4:31
- 7Shallow Grave2:07
- 8Poor Fractured Atlas4:02
- 9Starting To Come To Me2:43
- 10You Bowed Down4:55
- 11It's Time6:00
- 12I Want To Vanish3:16
Sound DNA
- Alt/Indie
- Alternative Rock
- polished
- bittersweet
- poetic
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Bruce ThomasBACKING BAND , BASS BASS
- Elvis CostelloVOCALS, ELECTRIC GUITAR, ACOUSTIC GUITAR, SLIDE GUITAR VOCALS, GUITAR ACOUSTIC GUITAR
- Pete ThomasBACKING BAND , DRUMS, PERCUSSION DRUMS, PERCUSSION ACOUSTIC GUITAR
- Steve NieveBACKING BAND , PIANO, KEYBOARDS, DRUM PROGRAMMING, SEQUENCED BY PIANO, KEYBOARDS PIANO, KEYBOARDS, DRUM PROGRAMMING, SEQUENCED BY
- Brodsky QuartetFEATURING STRINGS
- Danny GoffeyDRUMS
- Ian BeltonFEATURING , VIOLIN FEATURING, VIOLIN VIOLIN
- Jacqueline ThomasCELLO FEATURING , CELLO FEATURING, CELLO
- Larry KnechtelPIANO
- Matt MacManusBASS , LOOPS
- Michael ThomasFEATURING , VIOLIN FEATURING, VIOLIN VIOLIN
- Paul CassidyFEATURING , VIOLA FEATURING, VIOLA VIOLA
- Pete WhymanBASS CLARINET CLARINET FEATURING , BASS CLARINET
- Roy BabbingtonDOUBLE BASS FEATURING , DOUBLE BASS
- Ruth CauseyCLARINET FEATURING , CLARINET SOPRANO CLARINET
- The Fairfield FourVOCALS
5 collectors on Gatefold own this · 25 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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