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About this product
Product Identifiers
Record LabelDemon Records (Uk)
UPC5014757070679
eBay Product ID (ePID)28050200199
Product Key Features
Release Year1987
FormatCD
GenreRock
Run Time70 Mins 47 Seconds
StyleNew Wave
ArtistJimmy Cliff, Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, T-Bone Burnett
Release TitleOut of Our Idiot
Additional Product Features
Distribution(Independently by Label)
Country/Region of ManufactureUSA
Number of Discs1
Additional information& The Attractions. OUT OF OUR IDIOT is a compilation of non-LP singles, B-sides, and previously unreleased material. Producers include: Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, Clive Langer, Alan Winstanley, Allen Toussaint. The ever-prolific Costello constantly wrote and recorded tunes at too furious a pace for them all to be included on his regular albums. This collection, ironically packaged as a "various artists" compilations (perhaps due to the revolving cast of backing musicians), collects some of those songs that slipped through the cracks and are unavailable on any other Costello album. Some are collaborations; the Costello/Jimmy Cliff pop masterpiece "Seven Day Weekend," "The People's Limousine" (written under pseudonym by Costello and T-Bone Burnette. Others are faithful but inventive covers (Smokey Robinson's "From Head to Toe," the Burt Bacharach classic "Baby It's You"). There are also radically different version of Costello songs ("Blue Chair" is worlds away from its BLOOD AND CHOCOLATE counterpart). What could have been a scraps collection for a lesser artist adds up to another great Elvis Costello album.