All This Useless Beauty

~ Release by Elvis Costello & The Attractions (see all versions of this release, 8 available)

Tracklist

CD 1
#TitleRatingLength
1The Other End of the Telescope
mixer:
Geoff Emerick (British recording engineer) and Jon Jacobs (UK producer/engineer)
editor:
Kevin Killen
recording of:
The Other End (of the Telescope)
writer:
Elvis Costello, Declan Patrick MacManus and Aimee Mann
publisher:
Plangent Visions Music, Inc.
34:07
2Little Atoms
mixer:
Geoff Emerick (British recording engineer) and Jon Jacobs (UK producer/engineer)
editor:
Kevin Killen
recording of:
Little Atoms
writer:
Declan Patrick MacManus
43:58
3All This Useless Beauty
mixer:
Geoff Emerick (British recording engineer) and Jon Jacobs (UK producer/engineer)
editor:
Kevin Killen
celesta:
Elvis Costello
clarinet [bass]:
Pete Whyman (British saxophonist)
double bass:
Roy Babbington
recording of:
All This Useless Beauty
lyricist and composer:
Elvis Costello
34:40
4Complicated Shadows
mixer:
Geoff Emerick (British recording engineer) and Jon Jacobs (UK producer/engineer)
editor:
Kevin Killen
recording of:
Complicated Shadows
lyricist and composer:
Elvis Costello
44:44
5Why Can’t a Man Stand Alone?
mixer:
Geoff Emerick (British recording engineer) and Jon Jacobs (UK producer/engineer)
editor:
Kevin Killen
23:15
6Distorted Angel
mixer:
Geoff Emerick (British recording engineer) and Jon Jacobs (UK producer/engineer)
editor:
Kevin Killen
34:31
7Shallow Grave
mixer:
Geoff Emerick (British recording engineer) and Jon Jacobs (UK producer/engineer)
editor:
Kevin Killen
additional bass:
Elvis Costello
recording of:
Shallow Grave
lyricist and composer:
Elvis Costello and Paul McCartney (The Beatles)
32:07
8Poor Fractured Atlas
mixer:
Geoff Emerick (British recording engineer) and Jon Jacobs (UK producer/engineer)
editor:
Kevin Killen
24:03
9Starting to Come to Me
mixer:
Geoff Emerick (British recording engineer) and Jon Jacobs (UK producer/engineer)
editor:
Kevin Killen
32:44
10You Bowed Down
mixer:
Geoff Emerick (British recording engineer) and Jon Jacobs (UK producer/engineer)
editor:
Kevin Killen
acoustic guitar:
Pete Thomas (drummer)
keyboard:
Elvis Costello
34:56
11It’s Time
mixer:
Geoff Emerick (British recording engineer) and Jon Jacobs (UK producer/engineer)
editor:
Kevin Killen
36:00
12I Want to Vanish
mixer:
Geoff Emerick (British recording engineer) and Jon Jacobs (UK producer/engineer)
editor:
Kevin Killen
strings:
The Brodsky Quartet
recording of:
I Want to Vanish
lyricist and composer:
Elvis Costello
23:14

Credits

Release

engineer:Geoff Emerick (British recording engineer)
Jon Jacobs (UK producer/engineer)
producer:Elvis Costello
Geoff Emerick (British recording engineer)
bass:Bruce Thomas
drums (drum set) and percussion:Pete Thomas (drummer)
guitar and vocal:Elvis Costello
keyboard and piano:Steve Nieve
distributed by:Warner Music Canada Ltd (not for release label use! company, ca. late 1988–2004)
copyrighted (©) by and phonographic copyright (℗) by:Warner Bros. Records Inc. (not for release label use, company behind the “WB Records” imprint)
WEA International Inc. (not for release label use! copyrights holder, distributor for the world outside of the US)
Discogs:https://www.discogs.com/release/1493662 [info]