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Costello & Nieve (Ltd. Ed. Live 1996 5-disc box set - LA/San Francisco/Chicago/Boston/New York)

Costello & Nieve (Ltd. Ed. Live 1996 5-disc box set - LA/San Francisco/Chicago/Boston/New York)
Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve

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Track Listing

Disc 1:

  1. Temptation
  2. Poor Fractured Atlas
  3. I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
  4. It's Time
  5. Man Out of Time/Shallow Grave

Disc 2:

  1. Just About Glad
  2. Why Can't a Man Stand Alone?
  3. My Dark Life
  4. All This Useless Beauty
  5. Ship of Fools

Disc 3:

  1. Long Honeymoon
  2. Starting to Come to Me
  3. Other End (Of the Telescope)
  4. All the Rage
  5. Watching the Detectives

Disc 4:

  1. You Bowed Down
  2. Long Honeymoon
  3. Distorted Angel
  4. (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes
  5. Little Atoms
  6. My Funny Valentine

Disc 5:

  1. Black Sails in the Sunset
  2. You'll Never Be a Man
  3. Just a Memory
  4. I Want to Vanish
  5. Alison/Living a Little, Laughing a Little/Tracks of My Tears/Tears ...

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #118130 in Music
  • Published on: 1996
  • Released on: 1996-12-03
  • Number of discs: 5
  • Formats: Collector's Edition, Box set, Live

Customer Reviews

Elvis, stripped down and brilliant5
Unsurprisingly these songs sound fantastic stripped down to guitar and piano (Pete Thomas plays drums on a few cuts). Only 30,000 of these were pressed ... 5 eps from 5 different concerts that the duo played in 1996. Your EC collection is incomplete without this one!

Enjoyable, but not worth $50-$1004
Picked up this somewhat hard to find live collection from a used-like-new vendor on Amazon for under $30...an excellent value. It's surprisingly well produced for the most part, though I do find myself tweaking the volume control occasionally.

Only some narrowness of song selection and a couple of 'clunkers' keep this from 5 stars. 'All This Useless Beauty' tunes are the centerpiece. If you don't like ATUB, you'll be wasting your money here.

'It's Time', 'Man Out of Time', 'You Bowed Down', 'Angels Wanna Wear My Red Shoes' and 'I Want to Vanish' are among the best cuts. However, the versions here of 'Little Atoms' and 'All This Useless Beauty' far exceed their studio-brothers and are the real finds for Costello completists looking to embellish their desert island best-of collections.

Useless Beauty and Oldies5
Excellent stuff, better than I expected. They play almost all of Useless Beauty (a favorite of mine) and a bunch of older tunes. The commentary between tracks is funny and insightful. Grab this if you can find it!