Contents 1 My Aim Is True (1977) 2 This Year's Model (1978) 3 Armed Forces (1979) 4 Taking Liberties (1980) 5 King of America (1986) 6 Out of Our Idiot (1987) 7 Spike (1989) 8 Mighty Like a Rose (1991) 9 The Juliet Letters (1993) 10 Brutal Youth (1994) 11 13 Steps Lead Down (1994) 12 Kojak Variety (1995) 13 Deep Dead Blue Live 25 June 95 (1995) 14 Extreme Honey: The Very Best of the Warner Brothers Years (1997) 15 The Very Best of Elvis Costello (1999) 16 When I Was Cruel (2001) 17 For the Stars (2001) 18 North (2003) 19 Il Sogno (2004) 20 My Flame Burns Blue (2006) 21 The River In Reverse (2006) 22 Rock and Roll Music (2007) 23 Secret, Profane and Sugarcane (2009) 24 National Ransom (2010) 25 Songs on Compilations and Soundtracks 26 Live and Unreleased Songs 27 Other Songs 28 Additional information

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My Aim Is True (1977)Edit

1. Welcome to the Working Week
2. Miracle Man
3. No Dancing
4. Blame It on Cain
5. Alison
6. Sneaky Feelings
7. (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes
8. Less Than Zero
9. Mystery Dance
10. Pay It Back
11. I'm Not Angry
12. Waiting for the End of the World
13. Watching the Detectives

1. Radio Sweetheart
2. Stranger in the House
3. Imagination (Is a Powerful Deceiver)
4. Mystery Dance
5. Cheap Reward
6. Jump Up
7. Wave a White Flag
8. Blame It on Cain
9. Poison Moon

1. No Action (early version)
2. Living in Paradise (early version)
3. Radio Sweetheart
4. Stranger in the House
5. I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself (Live)
6. Less Than Zero (Dallas Version)
7. Imagination (Is a Powerful Deceiver)
8. Mystery Dance (Honky Tonk Demo)
9. Cheap Reward (Honky Tonk Demo)
10. Jump Up (Honky Tonk Demo)
11. Wave a White Flag (Honky Tonk Demo)
12. Blame It on Cain (Honky Tonk Demo)
13. Poison Moon (Honky Tonk Demo)

14. No Action (early version)
15. Living in Paradise (early version)
16. Radio Sweetheart (out-take)
17. Stranger in the House (out-take)
18. Welcome to the Working Week (demo)
19. Blue Minute (Pathway Studios demo)
20. Miracle Man (Pathway Studios demo)
21. Waiting for the End of the World (Pathway Studios demo)
22. Call on Me (Pathway Studios demo)
23. (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes (Pathway Studios demo)
24. I Don't Want to Go Home (Pathway Studios demo)
25. I Hear a Melody (Pathway Studios demo)

1. Introduction by Dave Robinson
2. Welcome to the Working Week (live at the Nashville Rooms)
3. Blame It on Cain (live at the Nashville Rooms)
4. No Dancing (live at the Nashville Rooms)
5. Waiting for the End of the World (live at the Nashville Rooms)
6. Night Rally (live at the Nashville Rooms)
7. Hoover Factory (live at the Nashville Rooms)
8. No Action (live at the Nashville Rooms)
9. (I Don't Want to Go To) Chelsea (live at the Nashville Rooms)
10. Miracle Man (live at the Nashville Rooms)
11. The Beat (live at the Nashville Rooms)
12. Less Than Zero (live at the Nashville Rooms)
13. (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes (live at the Nashville Rooms)
14. Lipstick Vogue (live at the Nashville Rooms)
15. Watching the Detectives (live at the Nashville Rooms)
16. Lip Service (live at the Nashville Rooms)
17. Mystery Dance (live at the Nashville Rooms)
18. Alison (live at the Nashville Rooms)
19. Pay It Back (soundcheck at Nashville Rooms)
20. Radio Sweetheart (soundcheck at Nashville Rooms)
21. Sneaky Feelings (soundcheck at Nashville Rooms)
22. Crawling in the USA (soundcheck at Nashville Rooms)
23. Alison (soundcheck at Nashville Rooms)

This Year's Model (1978)Edit

1. No Action
2. This Year's Girl
3. The Beat
4. Pump It Up
5. Little Triggers
6. You Belong to Me
7. Hand in Hand
8. Lip Service
9. Living in Paradise
10. Lipstick Vogue
11. Radio Radio

1. Big Tears
2. Crawling to the U.S.A.
3. Running Out of Angels (demo)
4. Green Shirt (demo)
5. Big Boys (demo)
6. You Belong yo Me (Capital Radio Version)
7. Radio Radio (Capital Radio Version)
8. Neat Neat Neat (Live)
9. Roadette Song (Live)
10. This Year's Girl (Eden Studios version)
11. (I Don't Want to Go To) Chelsea (Basing Street Studios version)
12. Stranger in the House (BBC version)

Armed Forces (1979)Edit

1. Accidents Will Happen
2. Senior Service
3. Oliver's Army
4. Big Boys
5. Green Shirt
6. Party Girl
7. Goon Squad
8. Busy Bodies
9. Sunday's Best (on UK release)
10. Moods For Moderns
11. Chemistry Class
12. Two Little Hitlers
13. (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding (on US release)

Taking Liberties (1980)Edit

1. Clean Money
2. Girls Talk
3. Talking in the Dark
4. Radio Sweetheart
5. Black and White World
6. Big Tears
7. Just a Memory
8. Night Rally
9. Stranger in the House
10. Clowntime Is Over
11. Getting Mighty Crowded
12. Hoover Factory
13. Tiny Steps
14. (I Don't Want to Go To) Chelsea
15. Dr. Luther's Assistant
16. Sunday's Best
17. Crawling to the U.S.A.
18. Wednesday Week
19. My Funny Valentine
20. Ghost Train

King of America (1986)Edit

1. Brilliant Mistake
2. Lovable
3. Our Little Angel
4. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
5. Glitter Gulch
6. Indoor Fireworks
7. Little Palaces
8. I'll Wear It Proudly
9. American Without Tears
10. Eisenhower Blues
11. Poisoned Rose
12. The Big Light
13. Jack of All Parades
14. Suit of Lights
15. Sleep of the Just

Out of Our Idiot (1987)Edit

1. Seven Day Weekends
2. Turning the Town Red
3. Heathen Town
4. The Peaople's Limousine
5. So Young
6. American Without Tears Number 2 (Twilight Version)
7. Get Yourself Another Fool
8. Walking on Thin Ice
9. Blue Chair
10. Baby It's You
11. From Head to Toe
12. Shoes Without Heels
13. Baby's Got a Brand New Hairdo
14. The Flirting Kind
15. Black Sails in the Sunset
16. Imperial Bedroom
17. The Stamping Ground

Additional tracks on CD release:

1. Little Goody Two Shoes
2. Withered and Died
3. A Town Called Big Nothing (Really Big Nothing)
4. Big Sister

Spike (1989)Edit

1. ...This Town...
2. Let Him Dangle
3. Deep Dark Truthful Mirror
4. Veronica
5. God's Comic
6. Chewing Gum
7. Tramp the Dirt Down
8. Stalin Malone
9. Satellite
10. Pads, Paws and Claws
11. Baby Plays Around
12. Miss Macbeth
13. Any King's Shilling
14. Coal-Train Robberies
15. Last Boat Leaving

Mighty Like a Rose (1991)Edit

1. The Other Side of Summer
2. Hurry Down Doomsday (The Bugs Are Taking Over)
3. How to Be Dumb
4. All Grown Up
5. Invasion Hit Parade
6. Harpies Bizarre
7. After the Fall
8. Georgie and Her Rival
9. So Like Candy
10. Interlude: Couldn't Call It Unexpected No. 2
11. Playboy to a Man
12. Sweet Pear
13. Broken
14. Couldn't Call It Unexpected No. 4

The Juliet Letters (1993)Edit

1. Deliver Us
2. For Other Eyes
3. Swine
4. Expert Rites
5. Dead Letter
6. I Almost Had a Weakness
7. Why?
8. Who Do You Think You Are?
9. Taking My Life in Your Hands
10. This Offer Is Unrepeatable
11. Dear Sweet Filthy World
12. The Letter Home
13. Jacksons, Monk and Rowe
14. This Sad Burlesque
15. Romeo's Seance
16. I Thought I'd Write to Juliet
17. Last Post
18. The First to Leave
19. Damnation's Cellar
20. The Birds Will Still Be Singing

Brutal Youth (1994)Edit

1. Pony St.
2. Kinder Murder
3. 13 Steps Lead Down
4. This Is Hell
5. Clown Strike
6. You Tripped at Every Step
7. Still Too Soon to Know
8. 20% Amnesia
9. Sulky Girl
10. London's Brilliant Parade
11. My Science Fiction Twin
12. Rocking Horse Road
13. Just About Glad
14. All the Rage
15. Favourite Hour

1. Life Shrinks
2. Favourite Hour (Church Studios version)
3. This Is Hell (Church Studios version)
4. Idiophone
5. Abandon Words
6. Poisoned Letter
7. A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety
8. Pony St. (Bonaparte Rooms version)
9. Just About Glad (Bonaparte Rooms version)
10. Clown Strike (Bonaparte Rooms version)
11. Rocking Horse Road (demo)
12. 13 Steps Lead Down (demo)
13. All the Rage (demo)
14. Sulky Girl (demo)
15. You Tripped at Every Step (Church Studios version)

13 Steps Lead Down (1994)Edit

1. 13 Steps Lead Down
2. Puppet Girl
3. Basement Kiss
4. We Despise You

Kojak Variety (1995)Edit

1. Strange
2. Hidden Charms
3. Remove This Doubt
4. I Threw It All Away
5. Leave My Kitten Alone
6. Everybody's Crying Mercy
7. I've Been Wrong Before
8. Bama Lama Bama Loo
9. Must You Throw Dirt in My Face
10. Pouring Water on a Drowning Man
11. The Very Thought of You
12. Payday
13. Please Stay
14. Running Out of Fools
15. Days

Deep Dead Blue Live 25 June 95 (1995)Edit

1. Weird Nightmare
2. Love Field
3. Shamed Into Love
4. Gigi
5. Poor Napoleon
6. Baby Plays Around
7. Deep Dead Blue

Extreme Honey: The Very Best of the Warner Brothers Years (1997)Edit

1. The Bridge I Burned
2. Veronica
3. Sulky Girl
4. So Like Candy
5. 13 Steps Lead Down
6. All This Useless Beauty
7. My Dark Life
8. The Other Side of Summer
9. Kinder Murder
10. Deep Dark Truthful Mirror
11. Hurry Down Doomsday (The Bugs Are Taking Over)
12. Poor Fractured Atlas
13. The Birds Will Still Be Singing
14. London's Brilliant Parade
15. Tramp the Dirt Down
16. Couldn't Call It Unexpected No. 4
17. I Want to Vanish
18. All the Rage

The Very Best of Elvis Costello (1999)Edit

1. (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding
2. Oliver's Army
3. Watching the Detectives
4. Alison
5. (I Don't Want to Go To) Chelsea
6. Accidents Will Happen
7. Pump It Up
8. I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down
9. Radio Radio
10. Clubland
11. Good Year for the Roses
12. Man Out of Time
13. I Wanna Be Loved
14. Everyday I Write the Book
15. Brilliant Disguise
16. The Other Side of Summer
17. Tokyo Storm Warning
18. Sulky Girl
19. So Like Candy
20. Veronica
21. She

1. Big Tears
2. Beyond Belief
3. Lipstick Vogue
4. Green Shirt
5. Pills and Soap
6. Tramp the Dirt Down
7. Shipbuilding
8. High Fidelity
9. New Lace Sleeves
10. (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes
11. Talking in the Dark
12. New Amsterdam
13. I Hope You're Happy Now
14. Riot Act
15. My Funny Valentine
16. Indoor Fireworks
17. Almost Blue
18. I Want You
19. God Give Me Strength
20. That Day Is Done
21. I Want to Vanish

When I Was Cruel (2001)Edit

1. 45
2. Spooky Girlfriend
3. Tear Off Your Own Head (It's a Doll Revolution)
4. When I Was Cruel No. 2
5. Soul for Hire
6. 15 Petals
7. Tart
8. Dust 2...
9. Dissolve
10. Alibi
11. ... Dust
12. Daddy Can I Turn This?
13. My Little Blue Window
14. Episode of Blonde
15. Radio Silence
    Japanese bonus track
    
16. Smile
    UK and Japanese bonus track
    
17. Oh Well

For the Stars (2001)Edit

• with Anne Sofie Von Otter

1. No Wonder
2. Baby Plays Around
3. Go Leave
4. Rope
5. Don't Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)
6. Broken Bicycles/Junk
7. The Other Woman
8. Like an Angel Passing Through My Room
9. Green Song
10. April After All
11. You Still Believe in Me
12. I Want to Vanish
13. For No One
14. Shamed into Love
15. Just a Curio
16. This House Is Empty Now
17. Take It with Me
18. For the Stars

North (2003)Edit

1. You Left Me in the Dark
2. Someone Took the Words Away
3. When Did I Stop Dreaming?
4. You Turned to Me
5. Fallen
6. When It Sings
7. Still
8. Let Me Tell You About Her
9. Can You Be True?
10. When Green Eyes Turn Blue
11. I'm in the Mood Again

Il Sogno (2004)Edit

1. Prelude
2. Overture
3. Puck One
4. The Court
5. The State of Affairs
6. Hermia and Lysander
7. The Jealousy of Helena
8. Workers' Playtime
9. Oberon and Titania
10. The Conspiracy of Oberon and Puck
11. Slumber
12. Puck Two
13. The Identity Parade
14. The Face of Bottom
15. The Spark of Love
16. Tormentress
17. Oberon Humbeld
18. Twisted - Entangled - Transform and Exchange
19. The Fairy and the Ass
20. Sleep
21. Bottom Awakes
22. Lovers Arise
23. The Play
24. The Wedding

My Flame Burns Blue (2006)Edit

1. Hora Decubitus
2. Favourite Hour
3. That's How You Got Killed Before
4. Upon a Veil of Midnight Blue
5. Clubland
6. Almost Blue
7. Speak Darkly, My Angel
8. Almost Ideal Eyes
9. Can You Be True?
10. Put Away Forbidden Playthings
11. Episode of Blonde
12. My Flame Burns Blue (Blood Count)
13. Watching the Detectives
14. God Give Me Strength

The River In Reverse (2006)Edit

• with Allen Toussaint

1. On Your Way Down
2. Nearer To You
3. Tears, Tears And More Tears
4. The Sharpest Thorn
5. Who's Gonna Help Brother Get Further?
6. The River In Reverse
7. Freedom For The Stallion
8. Broken Promise Land
9. Ascension Day
10. International Echo
11. All These Things
12. Wonder Woman
13. Six-Fingered Man
14. Where Is The Love (iTunes bonus track)

Rock and Roll Music (2007)Edit

1. Lipstick Vogue
2. No Action
3. Big Tears
4. (I Don't Want to Go To) Chelsea
5. This Year's Girl
6. Miracle Man
7. Pump It Up
8. Clean Money by Elvis Costello & The Attractions
9. Tiny Steps by Elvis Costello & The Attractions
10. Wednesday Week
11. Mystery Dance (live)
12. You Belong to Me (live)
13. (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding by Elvis Costello & The Attractions
14. Girls Talk
15. King Horse by Elvis Costello & The Attractions
16. Lovers Walk by Elvis Costello & The Attractions
17. Uncomplicated by Elvis Costello & The Attractions
18. Honey Are You Straight or Are You Blind (alternate version)
19. Baby's Got a Brand New Hairdo by Elvis Costello & The Attractions
20. I Hope You're Happy Now by Elvis Costello & The Attractions
21. Tokeyo Storm Warning by Elvis Costello & The Attractions
22. Welcome to the Working Week (demo version)

Secret, Profane and Sugarcane (2009)Edit

1. Down Among the Wines and Spirits
2. Complicated Shadows
3. I Felt the Chill Before the Winter Came
4. My All Time Doll
5. Hidden Shame
6. She Handed Me a Mirror
7. I Dreamed of My Old Lover
8. How Deep Is the Red
9. She Was No Good
10. Sulphur to Sugarcane
11. Red Cotton
12. The Crooked Line
13. Changing Partners

Bonus tracks on vinyl release:

1. Femme Fatale
2. What Lewis Did Last

• Single: Complicated Shadows

National Ransom (2010)Edit

1. National Ransom
2. Jimmie Standing in the Rain
3. Stations of the Cross
4. A Slow Drag With Josephine
5. Five Small Words
6. Church Underground
7. You Hung the Moon
8. Bullets for the New-Born King
9. I Lost You
10. Dr.Watson, I Presume
11. One Bell Ringing
12. The Spell That You Cast
13. That's Not the Part of Him You're Leaving
14. My Lovely Jezebel
15. All These Strangers
16. A Voice in the Dark

Bonus track on Japanese CD:

1. I Hope

Songs on Compilations and SoundtracksEdit

• Beautiful from the soundtrack House M.D. (2007)
• Bright Blue Times from the soundtrack Soft Sand, Blue Sea (1998)
• Let's Misbehave from the soundtrack De-Lovely (2004)
• License to Kill from the charity compilation Chimes of Freedom (2012)
• Little Boxes from the soundtrack Weed (2006)
• My Mood Swings from the soundtrack The Big Lebowsky (1998)
• Ring of Fire from the compilation Anchored In Love: A Tribute To June Carter Cash (2007)
• Ship of Fools from the compilation Deadicated (1991)
• You Stole My Bell from the soundtrack The Family Man (2000)

Live and Unreleased SongsEdit

• Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter
• Don't Be Careless Love
• I Can't Get Started
• Lesson in Cruelty
• My Brave Face
• Suspect My Tears
• The Lovers That Never Were
• Twenty-Five Fingers
• Tommy's Coming Home
• You Want Her Too

Other SongsEdit

1. Licence To Kill
2. Love For Sale
3. Sad About Girls
4. The King Of The Unknown Sea

Additional information

Artist information: Born: 1954

Real name: Elvis Costello is a performance name for Declan Patrick MacManus. Elvis Costello is a member of: Elvis Costello & The Attractions Collaborations: Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint Elvis Costello With Burt Bacharach Anne Sofie Von Otter & Elvis Costello Related artists: Brodsky Quartet Burt Bacharach Diana Krall (wife) Madness Nick Lowe Paul McCartney Squeeze The Pogues The Specials The Strokes

Genres: Pop Rock New Wave Record labels: Warner Music Group

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