Blood & Chocolate
by
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
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Release type:
studio album
First released:
Sep 15 1986

Overview Edit

Blood and Chocolate is an album by Elvis Costello and the Attractions. The album reunited Costello, the Attractions and producer Nick Lowe, but it was the last recorded by the group before a breakup that would last for eight years. The album was, unusually for its time as a studio album, recorded in a single large room at high volume, with the band listening to each other on monitor speakers rather than headphones. Costello describes it as "a record of people beating and twanging things with a fair amount of yelling".

Costello's singing and playing is credited on the album under the pseudonym "Napoleon Dynamite," while his songwriting is credited to him under his actual surname, "MacManus" (with the exception of "I Hope You're Happy Now", which is credited to "Costello").

The album uses Esperanto to list musician credits and LP sides.

The line in Tokyo Storm Warning referring to "Japanese God-Jesus robots telling teenage fortunes" refers to a real toy made by Bandai.

In 1986 Line Records in Germany released the LP on limited edition white vinyl.

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Catalog number:
78355
Release dates:
  • Feb 19 2002 in United States

Genres

Adult Alternative, Singer-Songwriter. Vote on Genres

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5 stars Underrated and Incredible
As an EC fan...this is possibly the most punk album by the punk/new wave pioneer. True, it came out in 1986, but it's a raw, live-in-the-studio (mostly) rock band playing songs...

It works, better than he thinks it does.

Hard driving, desperate rock and roll from EC and the Attractions. Steve Nieve's organ punctuates madly and cascades it's way over Bruce Thomas's bass lines, creating a melody like a disastrous waterfall that pours over Pete Thomas's rock solid drumming.

The result is a discorda…
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Written by Timothy P. Young
1 stars The Rykodisc release was better.
Why did I spend hard-earned money on this? The remaster doesn't sound any better than the Ryko remaster; the liner notes are almost the same as the Ryko liner notes; it lacks "A Town Called Big Nothing," which is a great track (that preceded each of his 1996 concerts) that appeared on the Ryko edition; and the "new" unreleased tracks are not that interesting.
Written by Michael J. Cohen "goldfish_boy"

Track listing Edit

  • CD : bonus disc

    format:
    number:
    title:
    number name artist hh:mm:ss
    1
    Leave My Kitten Alone
    3:24
    2
    New Rhythm Method
    2:30
    3
    Forgive Her Anything (new version)
    3:51
    4
    Crimes of Paris (Electric version)
    4:37
    5
    Uncomplicated (alternate version)
    3:06
    6
    Battered Old Bird (alternate version)
    4:24
    7
    Seven Day Weekend (feat. Jimmy Cliff)
    2:39
    8
    Blue Chair (single version)
    3:41
    9
    Baby's Got a Brand New Hairdo
    3:25
    10
    American Without Tears No. 2 (Twilight version)
    3:35
    11
    All These Things
    3:04
    12
    Pouring Water on a Drowning Man
    2:34
    13
    Running Out of Fools
    2:35
    14
    Tell Me Right Now
    3:05
    15
    Lonely Blue Boy
    2:04

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Blood & Chocolate 18 tracks format: 1 x CD
record label: Rykodisc
release dates: Sep 12 1995
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11 tracks format: 1 x CD
release dates: Sep 15 1986 in United Kingdom
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Blood & Chocolate 11 tracks format: 1 x CD
record label: Hip-O Records
release dates: May 1 2007
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