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08-24-2001, 03:21 PM
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Is Rhino eventually releasing the ENTIRE Elvis Costello catalog?
As someone who is just discovering the wonderful world of Mr. McManus, I'd like to know if Rhino plans to release ALL of the albums as 2-disc CD sets? 3 were released this past week (My Aim Is True, Spike, and All This Useless Beauty) and 3 more will be released on November 6 (This Year's Model, Blood & Chocolate and Brutal Youth.)
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So it is with great excitement and pride that Rhino Entertainment announces that it will be releasing the entire Elvis Costello catalog in upgraded and expanded versions.
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but I didn't know if this meant ALL of them. Anything Rhino's going to release, I'm going to hold off on buying. |
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08-24-2001, 04:39 PM
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I believe "entire" implies "all." If you don't already own the Ryko versions and really want all the bonus tracks then wait for the Rhino versions.
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08-25-2001, 12:35 AM
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All his main albums will be re-released as 2-disc sets. I believe side projects like Painted From Memory (w/ Burt Bacharach), Deep Dead Blue (w/ Bill Frisell) and Costello & Nieve will not be reissued.
Speaking of Costello, as soon as I can get my hands on the new Spike, expect in-depth reviews of the 3 new re-reissues.
Edit: well, I couldn't wait and started up a review thread:
http://www.hometheaterforum.com/uub/...ML/000556.html
Assuming the thread doesn't get closed, you can read my (so far) review of My Aim Is True, with the Spike and ATUB reviews to follow.
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11-25-2001, 09:30 PM
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and 3 more will be released on November 6 (This Year's Model, Blood & Chocolate and Brutal Youth.)
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So what the heck happened to these? Anybody have insight in regard to their lack of appearance?
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11-26-2001, 06:59 AM
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I have no insight, other than to say that they were removed from Rhino's "Upcoming Titles" web page.
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11-26-2001, 06:50 PM
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The next wave of reissues have been delayed until mid-Janurary of next year.
EDIT: Make that January 15th, 2002, to be exact.
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12-06-2001, 12:45 AM
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If anyone is interested in what will be on the next trio of Costello reissues in terms of bonus tracks, here they are; tracks in bold italics denote Rhino exclusive tracks This is a tentative listing, by the way:
This Year's Model Bonus CD
1. Big Tears
2. Crawling to the U.S.A.
3. Running Out of Angels (demo)
4. Greenshirt (demo)
5. Big Boys (demo)
6. You Belong to Me (demo)
7. Radio, Radio (demo)
8. Neat, Neat, Neat (live)
9. Roadette Song (live)
10. The Price of Love (live)
11. This Year's Girl (alternate)
12. (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea (alternate)
13. Stranger in the House (BBC version)
Blood & Chocolate Bonus CD
1. Leave My Kitten Alone
2. New Rhythm Method
3. Forgive Her Anything (alternate from Ryko version)
4. Crimes of Paris (electric)
5. Uncomplicated (alternate)
6. Battered Old Bird (alternate)
7. Seven Day Weekend
8. Baby's Got a Brand New Hairdo
9. American Without Tears No. 2 (Twilight version)
10. All These Things
11. Pouring Water on a Drowning Man
12. Running Out of Fools
13. Tell Me Right Now
14. Lonely Boy Blue
Brutal Youth Bonus CD
1. Life Shrinks
2. Favourite Hour (alternate)
3. This Is Hell (alternate)
4. Idiophone
5. Abandon Words
6. Poisoned Letter
7. A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety
8. Pony St (alternate)
9. Clown Strike (demo)
10. Rocking Horse Road (demo)
11. Still Too Soon to Know (demo)
12. All the Rage (demo)
13. Just About Glad (demo)
14. Sulky Girl (demo)
15. You Tripped at Every Step (alternate)
EDIT: I got this info from...
http://www.elviscostello.info
Smashing site by the way; if anybody is interested in Costello, you should really check it out.
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02-04-2002, 06:21 PM
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I really like the Rhino versions of these records-- the sound is marginally better but the extra tracks and liner notes are excellent.
Upgrading from the WB records -- Spike, Brutal Youth and eventually Mighty Like a Rose, The Juliet Letters and Kojak Variety -- is a no-brainer with the vastly improved sound and extra tracks, but moving up from the Rykodisc versions is more problematic, though the as-yet excellent quality of these issues have pushed
the matter over the top for me.
What chaps my hide this time out is the fact that, at least with "Blood & Chocolate," some of the bonus tracks from the Rykodisc version are NOT on the new Rhino 2-disc version-- which makes no sense to me whatsoever. The tracks are the studio version of "Forgive Her Anything" (only the demo version is to be included) and "A Town Called Big Nothing (Really Big Nothing" (as well as its follow-up, Track 18 "Return To Big Nothing") from the movie "Straight To Hell."
What the hell? This is like having to buy both the Criterion and MGM versions of "This is Spinal Tap," but as Rhino is now the direct licensor of the EC catalog, it makes no sense that all of the bonus tracks from the earlier release aren't on this. It's one thing to upgrade -- and sell the older versions off -- but another to have to hold on to two separate versions of the same bloody record just to get those few tracks. I'm writing this with the same vitriol as some of those posting to that crazy "1776" thread in Software.
Anyone have any further/additional news on this? Kevin, do you know?
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02-04-2002, 06:41 PM
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NPR's Fresh Air program, hosted by Terry Gross, had a retrospective of Elvis Costello interviews last week to coincide with the Rhino reissues.
All Fresh Air interviews are archived at the NPR site, so...
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02-04-2002, 08:37 PM
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Anyone have any further/additional news on this? Kevin, do you know?
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Well, I think one of the final Costello/Rhino reissues will be of Taking Liberties. For those not familiar, TL was a compilation of outtakes, b-sides and rarities (all of which were later included on the Ryko reissues). So there's three possibilities:
1) Perhaps the two "Big Nothing" tracks and "Forgive Her Anything" will be put on the Rhino Taking Liberties, along with EC's many soundtrack contributions and collaborative one-off tracks?
2) Some kind of licensing problem.
3) Costello doesn't want it on there for some reason.
I'm hoping for reason #1. 
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02-04-2002, 10:07 PM
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