Rank Your Favorite Costello Albums.

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Rank Your Favorite Costello Albums.

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:idea: That's right, you heard me, rank your favorite Costello albums. All of his solo, Imposters and Attractions albums are valid (no co-compositions like For the Stars [Painted from memory is valid as well])
I'll post the reults whenever I have enough posts from you guys.
You can choose only five. Number 1 gets 5 points, number 2 gets 4, etc.
Here are mine:
1.Mighty like a rose
2.King of America
3.All this useless beauty
4.When I Was Cruel
5.Brutal Youth
(As you can see I prefer the Warner years, when Costello cared more about music that money :D )

Well, c'mon now post your stuff!
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1. Imperial Bedroom
2. Armed Forces
3. Juliet Letters
4. Trust
5. This Year's Model tied with Brutal Youth
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1. Get Happy!!
2. Imperial Bedroom
3. The Juliet Letters
4. Brutal Youth

5. Blood & Chocolate
(Trust, King Of America, Spike, Mighty Like A Rose, All This Useless Beauty, Painted From Memory and When I Was Cruel are very close behind. I wish I could give them all one point.)
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1. Trust
2. Brutal Youth
3. The Juliet Letters
4. North
5. Spike
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1. Brutal youth
2. THis Year's Model
3. Imperial Bedroom
4. Trust
5. Blood and Chocolate

(MLAR, The Delivery man, The Juliet letters, Get Happy, and Armed Forces are also big favorites of mine but ones that i don't liste to as much as the five above)
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Today, it's...

Get Happy!!
Imperial Bedroom
King Of America
This Year's Model
Blood & Chocolate
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1. Get Happy
2. Trust
3. Imperial Bedroom
4. Blood & Chocolate
5. King Of America

These are my top five by far; the order changes by the week.
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1.Get Happy
2.This Year´s Model
3.Imperial Bedroom
4.My Aim is True
5.Armed Forces




(6th almost blue - 7th king of america)
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1. King Of America
2. Blood And Chocolate
3. Imperial Bedroom
4. All This Useless Beauty
5. This Year's Model and Get Happy (sorry, couldn't make up my mind)
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Post by chickendinna »

That's like deciding my favorite Beatle albums.Changes with my mood.

1)Imperial Bedroom
2)Get Happy
3)Blood and Chocolate
4)King Of America
5)Tie between:Armed Forces /The Delivery Man
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1) Il Sogno (yes, seriously)
2) My Aime Is True
3) All This Useless Beauty
4) Imperial Bedroom
5) Juliet Letters
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Post by Extreme Honey »

Allrighty guys, thanks for your posts keep 'em coming.
So far:
1.Imperial Bedroom-29 points
2.Get Happy!!-24 points
3.King of America-15 points
4.Trust-13 points
5.(Tie) Blood and Chocolate, Brutal Youth-12 points

(I Think I might be the only Costello fan prefering the Warner years.... :? I mean lyrically, MLAR is just beautiful....just beautiful...Well, c'mon you Warner lovers out there I need some support!!! Post your stuff--from the editor) :D
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thomasso wrote:(I Think I might be the only Costello fan prefering the Warner years.... :? I mean lyrically, MLAR is just beautiful....just beautiful...Well, c'mon you Warner lovers out there I need some support!!! Post your stuff--from the editor) :D
I was considering naming ATUB as number five on my list, but B&C just barely edged it.
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1. Get Happy!!
2. Imperial Bedroom
3. My Aim Is True
4. Blood & Chocolate
5. Trust (just above King of America, tomorrow it might be the other way around)
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1. King of America
2. Blood & Chocolate
3. Get Happy
4. My Aim is True
5. Trust
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Post by LittleFoole »

for the moment, 'twould be -
1 Get Happy
1 This Years Model
3 Trust
4 King o' America
5 Blood and Chocolate
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1. Get Happy
2. Imperial Bedroom
3. This Years Model
4. Il Sogno
5. King of America
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1. Imperial Bedroom
2. Get Happy!!
3. Blood & Chocolate

Those are my clear-cut favourites...
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1. King of America
2. Delivery Man
3. When I Was Cruel
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1. This Year's Model
2. King Of America
3. North
4. Painted From Memory
5. The Delivery Man

I actually like most of his Universal Music recordings (including Il Sogno). The Warner years don't do it for me.
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Post by Unexpected No.4 »

Well the Warner years for me are great & my top 5 are:

1.MIGHTY LIKE A ROSE
2.BRUTAL YOUTH
3.IMPERIAL BEDROOM
4.GET HAPPY!!
5.PUNCH THE CLOCK(followed closely by ALL THIS USELESS BEAUTY)
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Here's an update:
At number one....Get Happy!! (4_8)
2.Imperial Bedroom (45)
3.King Of America (32)
4.Blood and Chocolate (22)
5.This year's model (20)
(number 6 is Trust)

Colombis/Stiff: 189
Warners: 48
can't remeber the bloody name after 3 bloody bio books: 23

Elvis's young years ('77 to '81): 109
Elvis's Intermediate years ('82- ''86): 100
Elvis's older years ('86-99'): 48
Elvis's recent years ('99-): 23


It's truly interesting what we can come up with and what we have to sacrifice when choosing our top 5's. Punch the clock, Spike, Kojak Variety, Armed Forces and Painted from memory all got weak scores. I'm a controversial person so I'll give 'em most of the credit. Keep your posts coming (AND GIMME SUM WARNER SCORES WHOEVER IS OUT THERE!)
--from the editor :shock:
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1. Brutal Youth
2. Blood & Chocolate
3. This Year's Model
4. Imperial Bedroom
5. Delivery Man

MLAR almost made the list.
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1 King of America
2 Imperial bedroom
3 This year's model
4 Blood & chocolate
5 Get happy!
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Get Happy
Imperial Bedroom
King of America
This Year's Model
Trust
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