9 thoughts on “ Shallow Grave - Elvis Costello & The Attractions - All This Useless Beauty (CD, Album) ”

1. This Rhino Records release is part of the first batch of Elvis Costello reissues, all remastered and all containing a bonus discs of rarities. 's art-pop opus 'All This Useless Beauty' started as a collection of songs written for other artists turned into what many fans consider the most ambitious and certainly most underrated album of Costello's career.

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2. I won't lie in this poor shallow grave I won't lie, I won't lie in this poor shallow grave Dig me down deep where the dead men sleep I won't lie in this poor shallow grave Bless the poor 'cos like the rich They all end up in a ditch In this world of fools and knaves Even good children got shallow graves The tinker, the tailor, the fabulous five.

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3. 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.

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4. Elvis Costello's final album for Warner Bros. might have been even more widely ignored had he and the Attractions not gone on tour to support it. The result led to a final split, but All This Useless Beauty still ended up doing little business. This reissue, part of Rhino's first wave of a Costello remaster/refurbishing campaign, provides an opportunity to hear mostly exemplary songwriting and Reviews:

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5. Costello issued his versions of "Veronica" and "Pads, Paws, and Claws" on Spike in , "So Like Candy" and "Playboy to a Man" on Mighty Like a Rose in , and "Shallow Grave" on All This Useless Beauty in "My Brave Face" and "Veronica" are, respectively, McCartney's and Costello's last Top 40 hit singles in the United States.

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6. This album has been grossly overlooked and is perhaps Costello's best album of the mid Nineties. The songwriting is almost as good as some of the songs on Imperial Bedroom. The stand out tracks are the title track which was first recorded by June Tabor (a fine version), Poor Fractured Atlas with a wonderful piano part, Complicated Shadows and I Want to Vanish/5(54).

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7. "Shallow Grave" from Costello's All This Useless Beauty (). Costello has also issued solo demo recordings of "Veronica", "Pads, Paws and Claws" and "Mistress and Maid" (a song he did not otherwise record). Two other officially unissued McCartney/Costello compositions also exist as demos ("Tommy's Coming Home" and "Twenty Fine FIngers").

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8. Limited gm vinyl LP pressing. ALL THIS USELESS BEAUTY was the 17th studio album by English Rock singer and songwriter Elvis Costello, originally released in The album peaked at #28 on the UK album chart, and at #53 on the Billboard It is his final album with his /5(54).

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9. Elvis Costello & the Attractions Lyrics - All the great songs and their lyrics from Elvis Costello & the Attractions on speramdamightipunmagichosackhelpvat.coinfo All This Useless Beauty: Complicated Shadows: Why Can't a Man Stand Alone? Distorted Angel: Shallow Grave: Poor Fractured Atlas: Starting to Come to Me: You Bowed Down: 4.

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