Goodbye Cruel World (LP, Album). F-Beat, Starcall Records. Elvis Costello And The Attractions. Goodbye Cruel World (CD, Album). FIEND CD 75. UK. 1987.
Goodbye Cruel World (Elvis Costello album). Goodbye Cruel World was Elvis Costello's ninth album overall and the eighth with his backing band the Attractions.
Elvis Costello And The Attractions – Goodbye Cruel World. Label: Rhino Records (2) – R2 76486. Elvis Costello & The Attractions. The Only Flame In Town. 1-2. –Elvis Costello & The Attractions. 1-3. 1-4. 1-5. 1-6. 1-7. 1-8. 1-9.
Declan Patrick MacManus, OBE (born 25 August 1954), better known by his stage name Elvis Costello, is a British pop musician, singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, author, television presenter, and occasional actor. He began his career as part of London's pub rock scene in the early 1970s and later became associated with the first wave of the British punk and new wave movement that emerged in the mid-to-late 1970s.
Goodbye Cruel World was Elvis Costello's ninth album overall and the eighth with his backing band The Attractions. It was released in 1984 by F-Beat Records in the UK and Columbia in the US. Reception. The album's production (by Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley, who also produced the previous Punch the Clock), was not in line with Costello's other works, relying heavily on electronics and an overall slick, trendy feel.
During the making of Goodbye Cruel World, Elvis Costello was undergoing a multitude of personal problems, including a divorce, that resulted in a number of poor production decisions and ill-conceived, unformed songs. Like Punch the Clock, Goodbye Cruel World was produced by Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley, the top British hitmakers of the '80s. The remainder of Goodbye Cruel World isn't as memorable, primarily because Costello's uninspired vocals and the Attractions' muted performances fail to make the weaker songs musically compelling.
Template:Refimprove Template:EngvarB Template:Use dmy dates. Tensions within the band-notably between Costello and bassist Bruce Thomas-were beginning to tell, and Costello announced his retirement and the break-up of the group shortly before they were to record Goodbye Cruel World
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