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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Release dates:
  • May 1 2007

Genres

Adult Alternative, Singer-Songwriter. Vote on Genres

Track listing Edit

  • CD

    format:
    number:
    title:
    number name artist hh:mm:ss
    1
    Uncomplicated
    ?:??
    		Play Buy Track
    2
    I Hope You're Happy Now
    ?:??
    		Play Buy Track
    3
    Tokyo Storm Warning
    ?:??
    		Play Buy Track
    4
    Home Is Anywhere You Hang Your Head
    ?:??
    		Play Buy Track
    5
    I Want You
    ?:??
    		Play Buy Track
    6
    Honey Are You Straight Or Are You Blind
    ?:??
    		Play Buy Track
    7
    Blue Chair
    ?:??
    		Play Buy Track
    8
    Battered Old Bird
    ?:??
    		Play Buy Track
    9
    Crimes Of Paris
    ?:??
    		Play Buy Track
    10
    Poor Napoleon
    ?:??
    		Play Buy Track
    11
    Next Time Round
    ?:??
    		Play Buy Track

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Other versions Edit

Blood & Chocolate 15 tracks format: 1 x CD
record label: Rhino / Wea
catalog number: 78355
release dates: Feb 19 2002 in United States
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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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