My Aim Is True (With Bonus Disc)

Includes session out-takes, demos and live material, with 26 tracks previously unreleased!

Including 4 songs NEVER RELEASED IN ANY FORMAT: "BLUE MINUTE," "CALL ON ME," "I DON'T WANT TO GO HOME" and "I HEAR A MELODY."

And the complete LIVE AT THE NASHVILLE ROOMS, AUGUST 7, 1977 concert recording, one of the earliest shows featuring the Attractions!

Collection compiled and fully sanctioned by Elvis Costello.

Elvis Costello kicked off his debut album with a formal device that would also serve his next two long-players well: the first thing you hear is his voice. That opening phrase--"Now that your picture's in the paper..."--was more than sneakily, if not intentionally, appropriate, since Costello was quickly declared the second coming. It's become de rigueur to dis the pub-rock backing of U.S. band Clover, but their work here is satisfactorily edgy; guitarist John McFee makes some of the arrangements with his wailingly articulate fills. The remastered Rhino reissue includes a full second disc of demos and rarities. --Rickey Wright

Elvis Costello kicked off his debut album with a formal device that would also serve his next two long-players well: the first thing you hear is his voice. That opening phrase--"Now that your picture's in the paper..."--was more than sneakily, if not intentionally, appropriate, since Costello was quickly declared the second coming. It's become de rigueur to dis the pub-rock backing of U.S. band Clover, but their work here is satisfactorily edgy; guitarist John McFee makes some of the arrangements with his wailingly articulate fills. --Rickey Wright