Pitchfork: Elvis Costello to Release Music Video DVD

Elvis Costello to Release Music Video DVD

The man born Declan McManus, better known to all as Elvis Costello, has donned many guises over his 30-year career-- young punk, hard-headed band leader, verbose curmudgeon, despondent romantic, media pain-in-the-ass, and more recently classical arranger, dullard collaborator, and trophy husband to MOR jazz lightweight Diana Krall. While it's the young vitriolic Elvis that everyone (i.e. everyone here) loves the most, it's still a pleasant surprise that his upcoming videos collection The Right Spectacle: The Very Best of Elvis Costello - The Videos is filled to bursting with videos culled mostly from Costello's untouchable "early" period.

Demon Vision will release the DVD on September 5, compiling 27 videos spanning the years 1978 to 1994, plus over 70 minutes of bonus footage from rarely seen UK and European TV appearances. If that's not enough to sway you, perhaps you're one of the fans whom the disc's producers hoped to ensnare with comprehensive liner notes and audio commentary for each video specifically recorded for this collection by Costello himself. As long as he keeps the comments about insolent journalists to himself, we're buying. Video tracklist:

01 (I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea
02 Pump It Up
03 Radio Radio
04 (What So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding
05 Oliver's Army
06 Accidents Will Happen
07 I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down
08 High Fidelity
09 Love for Tender
10 Possession
11 New Amsterdam
12 Clubland
13 New Lace Sleeves
14 Good Year for the Roses
15 Sweet Dreams
16 You Little Fool
17 Everyday I Write the Book
18 Let Them All Talk
19 The Only Flame in Town
20 I Wanna Be Loved
21 Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
22 Veronica
23 This Town
24 The Other Side of Summer
25 So Like Candy
26 Sulky Girl
27 13 Steps Lead Down

Bonus material:
01 "Granada Report"/"So It Goes" (UK TV, 1977) - "Alison (excerpt)", "Lip Service", "No Dancing"
02 "Revolver" (UK TV, 1978) - "This Year's Girl", "Radio Radio"
03 "Countdown" (Dutch live club show, 1979) - "Oliver's Army", "Accidents Will Happen", "Watching the Detectives", "You Belong to Me"
04 Pinkpop (Dutch live outdoor festival, 1979) - "Lipstick Vogue", "Watching the Detectives"
05 "What's In" (UK TV, 1981) - "Shot With His Own Gun"
06 "The Tube" (UK TV, 1983) - "Shipbuilding", "Everyday I Write the Book", "Clowntime Is Over", "TKO (Boxing Day)"
07 "Mandagsboren" (Swedish TV, 1983) - "Big Sister's Clothes", "Peace in Our Time"

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* Elvis Costello: http://www.elviscostello.com

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