Brutal Youth (Elvis Costello album)

Infobox Album
Name = Brutal Youth
Type = Studio album
Artist = Elvis Costello


Released = March 8 1994
Recorded = December 7 1992–February 7 1994, The Sound Factory, Hollywood, California
Genre = Rock
Length = 56:55
Label = Warner Bros.
Rhino (August 3 1994 Reissue)
Producer = Mitchell Froom
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|2.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gu4gtq6zbu4o link]
*Robert Christgau Rating-Christgau|hm1 [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=420&name=Elvis+Costello link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/elviscostello/albums/album/152391/rid/5942422/ link] |
Last album = "Live at the El Mocambo" (1993)
This album = "Brutal Youth" (1994)
Next album = "The Very Best of Elvis Costello and The Attractions 1977-86" (1994)

"Brutal Youth" is an album by Elvis Costello. This is the first album Costello recorded with his band the Attractions after "Blood and Chocolate" (1986). The several albums in between were recorded with session musicians.

It was among the 6 Costello albums on the list of "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die".

Track listing

All songs by Declan MacManus unless otherwise indicated.
# "Pony St" – 3:25
# "Kinder Murder" – 3:25
# "13 Steps Lead Down" – 3:16
# "This Is Hell" – 4:27
# "Clown Strike" – 4:05
# "You Tripped at Every Step" – 4:12
# "Still Too Soon to Know" – 2:19
# "20% Amnesia" – 3:26
# "Sulky Girl" – 5:07
# "London's Brilliant Parade" (Elvis Costello) – 4:23
# "My Science Fiction Twin" – 4:10
# "Rocking Horse Road" – 4:03
# "Just About Glad" – 3:14
# "All the Rage" (Costello) – 3:52
# "Favourite Hour" – 3:31

Bonus disc (2002 Rhino)

# "Life Shrinks" – 3:37
# "Favourite Hour" (Church Studios Version) – 3:32
# "This Is Hell" (Church Studios Version) – 4:10
# "Idiophone" – 1:58
# "Abandon Words" – 2:55
# "Poisoned Letter" – 3:48
# "A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety" (MacManus, William Butler Yeats) – 1:08
# "Pony St." (Bonaparte Rooms Version) – 3:36
# "Just About Glad" (Bonaparte Rooms Version) – 3:41
# "Clown Strike" (Bonaparte Rooms Version) – 4:19
# "Rocking Horse Road" (Demo) – 3:18
# "13 Steps Lead Down" (Demo) – 2:07
# "All the Rage" (Demo) – 3:38
# "Sulky Girl" (Demo) – 4:31
# "You Tripped at Every Step" (Church Studios Version) – 3:25

Personnel

*Elvis Costello – guitar, vocals, piano, bass
*Steve Nieve – organ, piano, harmonium
*Bruce Thomas – bass
*Pete Thomas – drums, percussion
*Nick Lowe – bass

Charts

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