Elvis Costello & The Attractions, Imperial Bedroom - 50m 57s

Tracks & Durations

1. Beyond Belief	2:34
2. Tears Before Bedtime	3:02
3. Shabby Doll	4:48
4. The Long Honeymoon	4:15
5. Man Out Of Time	5:26
6. Almost Blue	2:50
7. ...And In Every Home	3:23
8. The Loved Ones	2:48
9. Human Hands	2:43
10. Kid About It	2:45
11. Little Savage	2:37
12. Boy With A Problem	2:12
13. Pidgin English	3:58
14. You Little Fool	3:11
15. Town Cryer	4:16

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Review

"Masterpiece?" was the word--in Columbia Records' ad campaign, anyway--when Imperial Bedroom appeared in 1982. As the album plays, though, the emphasis occasionally seems better placed on the question mark. This is a very good, sometimes dazzling album, but as a heart wrencher it holds not a candle to King of America, and as a singular example of elegant pop craft it can't top Costello's 1998 collaboration with Burt Bacharach, Painted from Memory (not too shabby as a heart wrencher itself, come to think of it). Of course, there are plenty of small miracles, and one huge one in the mind-bending "Beyond Belief." Imperial Bedroom is gorgeous more often than not, but in a way, there's more heart in the simple Smokey Robinson and the Miracles cover, "From Head to Toe," that appears as a bonus track on the Rykodisc edition. --Rickey Wright

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Imperial Bedroom

Tracks: 23 (+8 tracks), Disk length: 1h 11m 49s (+20m 52s)

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