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Goodbye Cruel World, released in 1984, was Elvis Costello's ninth album overall and eighth with The Attractions. It was released by F-Beat in the UK and Columbia in the US.

The album suffers from misguided production (by Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley, who also produced the previous Punch the Clock), and Costello was undergoing personal turmoil at the time. Thus, the record is not regarded among his better works; the liner notes to the 1995 reissue on Rykodisc begin with Costello's now-famous line "Congratulations! You just bought the worst album of my career."

There were two major singles from the album: "I Wanna Be Loved," a cover of an obscure Hi Records single by Teacher's Edition, and "The Only Flame in Town," which featured vocals by Daryl Hall. "I Wanna Be Loved" also had backing vocals by Green Gartside of Scritti Politti, credited only as "Green" on the original album.

It is also worth noting that on the back cover, Costello is shown without glasses. Additionally, keyboardist Steve Nieve is credited as "Maurice Worm."

Contents

Track listing

Note: The Rykodisc version has the original tracks and bonus tracks on one CD. The Rhino version has two CDs with the original tracks on the first CD.

All songs written by Elvis Costello unless otherwise indicated.

  1. "The Only Flame in Town" – 4:01
  2. "Home Truth" – 3:12
  3. "Room with No Number" – 4:13
  4. "Inch By Inch" – 2:29
  5. "Worthless Thing" – 3:04
  6. "Love Field" – 3:26
  7. "I Wanna Be Loved" (Farnell Jenkins) – 4:47
  8. "The Comedians" – 2:36
  9. "Joe Porterhouse" – 3:29
  10. "Sour Milk-Cow Blues" – 2:50
  11. "The Great Unknown" (Costello, Clive Langer) – 3:00
  12. "The Deportees Club" – 2:54
  13. "Peace in Our Time" – 4:06

Bonus tracks (1995 Rykodisc)

  1. "Turning the Town Red" – 3:14
  2. "Baby It's You" (Burt Bacharach, Mack David, Barney Williams) – 3:11
  3. "Get Yourself Another Fool" (Ernest Forrest, Frank Heywood) – 4:01
  4. "I Hope You're Happy Now" – 2:51
  5. "The Only Flame in Town" (Live) – 4:16
  6. "Worthless Thing" (Live) – 3:11
  7. "Motel Matches" (Live) – 2:39
  8. "Sleepless Nights" (Live) (Felice Bryant, Boudleaux Bryant) – 2:39
  9. "Deportee" – 3:22
  10. "Withered and Died" (Richard Thompson) – 3:14

Bonus disc (2004 Rhino)

  1. "The Only Flame in Town (Alternate Version") – 4:05
  2. "Young Boy Blues" (Doc Pomus, Phil Spector) – 3:27
  3. "Turning the Town Red" – 3:14
  4. "I Hope You're Happy Now" – 2:51
  5. "Tomorrow's (Just Another Day)" (Mike Barson, Carl Smyth) – 2:54
  6. "Baby It's You" (Bacharach], David, Williams) – 3:11
  7. "Get Yourself Another Fool" (Forrest, Heywood) – 4:03
  8. "I Wanna Be Loved (Demo Version) – (Jenkins) – 3:22
  9. "The Great Unknown (Demo Version)" (Costello, Langer) – 2:35
  10. "She Loves the Jerk (Demo Version)" (John Hiatt) – 3:10
  11. "Turning the Town Red (Demo Version)" – 3:37
  12. "Peace in Our Time (Demo Version)" – 3:30
  13. "Withered and Died" (Thompson) – 3:14
  14. "The Comedians (Demo Version)" – 2:25
  15. "Mystery Voice (Demo Version)" – 2:23
  16. "Joe Porterhouse (Demo Version)" – 3:19
  17. "The Town Where Time Stood Still (Demo Version)" – 2:15
  18. "Blue Murder on Union Avenue (Demo Version)" – 2:30
  19. "Home Truth (Demo Version)" – 3:05
  20. "The Only Flame in Town" (Live) – 4:12
  21. "Worthless Thing" (Live) – 3:10
  22. "Sleepless Nights" (Live) (F. Bryant, B. Bryant) – 2:39
  23. "What I Like Most About You Is Your Girlfriend" (Live) (Jerry Dammers) – 2:10
  24. "Motel Matches" (Live) – 2:39
  25. "Love Field" (Live) – 3:21

Personnel

Additional personnel

Charts

Album
Year Chart Position
1984 The Billboard 200 35
Single
Year Single Chart Position
1984 "The Only Flame in Town" The Billboard Hot 100 56

External links


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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