Side A
Artist	Song
	You Tripped at Every Step
	All This Useless Beauty
	Deep Dark Truthful Mirror
	Watch Your Step
The Costello Show	Suit of Lights
	Oliver's Army
	The Other Side of Summer
w/ Burt Bacharach	Toledo
	The Bridge I Burned
	Miss MacBeth
	Shipbuilding
The Costello Show	Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
	So Like Candy
	I Can't Stand Up (For Falling Down)
	Alison
from the British TV series	Step Inside Love
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
	God's Comic
The Costello Show	Jack of All Parades
	Pouring Water on a Drowning Man
	A Good Year for the Roses
	Every Day I Write the Book
	Accidents Will Happen
	Veronica
Various Artists	My Dark Life
	I Want You
	13 Steps Lead Down
	Man Out of Time
w/The Brodsky Quartet	For Other Eyes
	Love Field
	New Amsterdam
	Pump It Up

Comment:

In just less than a 25 years, Elvis Costello has
amassed a catalogue of 18 studio albums, several
collections of rarities, a couple best-ofs, a live
album, an acoustic live box set, including
collaborations with the likes of the Pogues,
Paul McCartney, the Brodsky Quartet, Elvis
(Presley)'s back-up band, and most recently,
Burt Bacharach, along with numerous other
writing and production credits.

This is a relatively democratic collection of songs,
containing at least one track from each of his
studio albums, and thus, it's all over the place in
terms of genre--there are hints of punk, R & B,
jazz, country, Celtic folk, classical, show and film
score music here, even dashes of electronica (check
"My Dark Life") all held together with an
impeccable pop sensibility and Elvis' trademark
venomous verbosity.

Admittedly, there are few rarities here (fully two
thirds of these songs can be found on one or the
other of two hits compilations: "The Very Best of
Elvis Costello and the Attractions" (Rykodisc), and
"Extreme Honey" (Warner Bros.)), but you'll never
find all of these songs together anywhere else, and
if you're curious about Elvis, but not totally sure,
a mix tape is a whole hell of a lot cheaper than
two CDs.

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