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Chronicles: 461 Ocean Boulevard/There's One in Every Crowd/E.C. Was Here [Box set]
Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2
Baroque Music for Mandolin and Lute
Music: Bonkers, Vol. 13 [Box set] [Explicit Lyrics]
Calling Out My Name [CD-single] [Import]
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Elvis Costello kicked off his debut album with a formal device that would also serve his next two long-players well: the first thing you hear is his voice. That opening phrase--"Now that your picture's in the paper..."--was more than sneakily, if not intentionally, appropriate, since Costello was quickly declared the second coming. It's become de rigueur to dis the pub-rock backing of U.S. band Clover, but their work here is satisfactorily edgy; guitarist John McFee makes some of the arrangements with his wailingly articulate fills. The remastered Rhino reissue includes a full second disc of demos and rarities. --Rickey Wright