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Yes this is the brilliant debut album from Elvis Costello from 1977.
As a collector-fan from Elvis I bought it.
I bought the Lp in the 70's,
and the CD from the album (13 songs).somewere in the '80
the reissue CD with extended play ( 9 extra songs,total 22 songs) in '93.
the re-reissue Cd with 2nd disc( 13 extra songs,total 26 songs) in 2001.
and this one, total of the songs now: 48.
probably in 2015 another one with 99 songs.
But the album is what it always was; raw,straight forward music (new wave...?), brilliant songwriting.
it stood out of all what was going on in the 70's,(remember punk?) and still does.
He made some very different albums over the years, jazz ,classical and so on.
Most of them also worth buying.
But this cannot be topped.
Oh and for all the extra songs, for a fan they are interresting, some demo's, some outakes, live songs.
and interresting inner sleeve notes, from Elvis himself.
But I still prefer to play the LP.........


Rating: 4 out of 5

any album worth releasing once is worth re-releasing on something like a five year cycle. by adding demos, sketches, false starts, different mixes, live stuff, perhaps obscure B-sides, guest spots on tribute albums and so on - I don't think its beyong human ingenuity to keep releasing the same album up to a hundred times. And then of course start from the first version again and sell it as a traditional, no-nonsense vintage, as-it-was, back to basics version....the only limiting factor could be the docility and gullability of the fans - but really I can't see that being a problem

Rating: 5 out of 5