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Release date: 30 November 1998

Elvis Costello - The Very Best of Elvis Costello (disc 1)

Elvis Costello : When I Was Cruel

Costello's rock'n'roll comeback. Not bad...

Cantankerous rock stars are always strongest when their music best reflects their characters. So it is with Elvis Costello , the spiteful, verbose punk misfit who's spent most of the last 15 years trying to do anything but rock. Through all his dalliances with opera singers, string quartets and Burt Bacharach , Elvis Costello has musically obscured most of his bile with the trappings...

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Apr 19, 2002

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This record is equivalent to the grisly trophies serial killers strip from their victims - kidneys for a nice fry-up, some pickled liver, a finger bone.

Jul 17, 1999

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This was going to be [I]so[/I] easy. You were gonna get the punka-party line....

Jul 25, 1999

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