All This Useless Beauty

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All This Useless Beauty is a 1996 album by Elvis Costello and The Attractions. It was originally to feature Elvis' recording of songs he had written for other artists. ("The Other End Of The Telescope", for example, co-written and originally recorded by Aimee Mann). However, this concept was not carried through.

Contents

1 Track listing

1.1 Bonus disc (2001 Rhino)

2 Personnel
3 Charts

Track listing

All songs written by Elvis Costello unless otherwise indicated.

"The Other End of the Telescope" (Costello, Aimee Mann) – 4:06
"Little Atoms" (MacManus) – 3:58
"All This Useless Beauty" – 4:39
"Complicated Shadows" – 4:43
"Why Can't A Man Stand Alone?" – 3:14
"Distorted Angel" (MacManus) – 4:31
"Shallow Grave" (MacManus, Paul McCartney) – 2:07
"Poor Fractured Atlas" – 4:02
"Starting To Come To Me" (MacManus) – 2:43
"You Bowed Down" – 4:55
"It's Time" – 6:00
"I Want to Vanish" – 3:16

Bonus disc (2001 Rhino)

"Almost Ideal Eyes" – 4:23
"My Dark Life" (with Brian Eno) – 6:25
"That Day Is Done" (with The Fairfield Four) (MacManus, McCartney) – 5:11
"What Do I Do Now?" (Louise Wener) – 4:29
"The Bridge I Burned" – 5:23
"It's Time (Demo)" – 4:00
"Complicated Shadows (Demo)" – 2:27
"You Bowed Down (Demo)" – 4:21
"Mistress and Maid (Demo)" (MacManus, McCartney) – 2:20
"Distorted Angel (Demo)" (MacManus) – 2:33
"World's Greatest Optimist (Demo)" (Costello, Mann) – 2:34
"The Only Flame in Town (Demo)" – 4:14
"The Comedians (Demo)" – 3:09
"The Days Take Care of Everything (Demo)" – 4:00
"Hidden Shame (Demo)" – 3:59
"Why Can't a Man Stand Alone (Demo)" – 3:01
"Distorted Angel (Tricky Remix)" (MacManus) – 5:35

Personnel

Elvis Costello – acoustic guitar, bass, celeste, electric guitar, keyboards, lead vocals, slide guitar
Steve Nieve – piano, keyboards
Pete Thomas – drums, percussion, acoustic guitar
Bruce Thomas – bass
Brodsky Quartet
*Ian Belton – violin
*Paul Cassidy – viola
*Jacqueline Thomas – cello
*Michael Thomas – violin
Ruth Causey – clarinet
Peter Whyman – bass clarinet
Roy Babbington – double bass

Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1996	The Billboard 200	53

Elvis Costello
Albums
My Aim Is True \| Spike \| King of America \| Brutal Youth \| Mighty Like a Rose \| Kojak Variety \| North \| Il Sogno
Elvis Costello and The Attractions
This Year's Model \| Armed Forces \| ''Get Happy > Trust \| Almost Blue \| Imperial Bedroom \| Punch the Clock \| Goodbye Cruel World \| Blood and Chocolate \| All This Useless Beauty''
Elvis Costello and The Imposters
When I Was Cruel \| Cruel Smile \| The Delivery Man
Collaborations
The Juliet Letters with The Brodsky Quartet \| Terror & Magnificence with John Harle \| Painted from Memory with Burt Bacharach \| The Sweetest Punch with Bill Frisell \| For the Stars with Anne-Sofie von Otter \| My Flame Burns Blue with The Metropole Orkest \| Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland \| The River in Reverse with Allen Toussaint
Live Albums
Live at the El Mocambo \| Deep Dead Blue \| Costello & Nieve
Soundtracks
G.B.H. \| Jake's Progress
Collections
Taking Liberties \| Ten Bloody Marys & Ten How's Your Fathers \| The Best of Elvis Costello & The Attractions \| Out of Our Idiot \| Girls+£÷Girls=$&Girls \| 2 ½ Years \| The Very Best of Elvis Costello and The Attractions 1977-86 \| Extreme Honey \| The Very Best of Elvis Costello \| Singles, Vol. 1 \|Singles, Vol. 2 \|Singles, Vol. 3

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