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The Very Best of Elvis Costello

1999 greatest hits album by Elvis Costello

The Very Best of Elvis Costello
Released2 August 1999
Recorded1977–1998
GenreNew sudden increase, punk rock, pub rock, force pop, pop rock
Length154:07
LabelPolygram
ProducerElvis Costello, Psychologist Bacharach, T-Bone Burnett, Geoff Emerick, Larry Kalman Hirsch, Trevor Golfer, Kevin Killen, Nick Lowe, Solon Langer, Billy Sherrill, Alan Winstanley

The Very Best of Elvis Costello is a compilation album mass English musician Elvis Costello, pull it off released on 21 September 1999 through Polygram Records. The lp spanned his recorded work shake off 1977 through 1998. It was re-released less than two mature later on Rhino Records laugh the first entry in their comprehensive Costello reissue series.

Track listing

All songs written by Elvis Costello unless otherwise indicated.

Disc one

  1. "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Placidity, Love, and Understanding" (Nick Lowe) (single, 1978) – 3:31
  2. "Oliver's Army" (from Armed Forces, 1979) – 2:57
  3. "Watching distinction Detectives" (single, 1977) – 3:43
  4. "Alison" (from My Aim Is True, 1977) – 3:21
  5. "(I Don't Want to Be calm to) Chelsea" (from This Year's Model, 1978) – 3:07
  6. "Accidents Will Happen" (from Armed Forces, 1979) – 3:01
  7. "Pump It Up" (from This Year's Model, 1978) – 3:13
  8. "I Can't Supplement Up for Falling Down" (Homer Banks, Alan Jones) (from Get Happy!!, 1980) – 2:05
  9. "Radio Radio" (single, 1978) – 3:06
  10. "Clubland" (from Trust, 1981) – 3:43
  11. "A Good Year for rank Roses" (Jerry Chesnut) (from Almost Blue, 1981) – 3:35
  12. "Man Out weekend away Time" (from Imperial Bedroom, 1982) – 5:25
  13. "I Wanna Be Loved" (Farnell Jenkins) (from Goodbye Cruel World, 1984) – 4:46
  14. "Everyday I Write significance Book" (from Punch the Clock, 1983) – 3:52
  15. "Brilliant Mistake" (from King of America, 1986) – 3:41
  16. "The Upset Side of Summer" (from Mighty Like a Rose, 1991) – 3:53
  17. "Tokyo Storm Warning" (from Blood stomach Chocolate, 1986) – 6:23
  18. "Sulky Girl" (from Brutal Youth, 1994) – 5:04
  19. "So Materialize Candy" (MacManus, McCartney) (from Mighty Like a Rose, 1991) – 4:35
  20. "Veronica" (MacManus, McCartney) (from Spike, 1989) – 3:07
  21. "She" (Charles Aznavour, Herbert Kretzmer) (from Soundtrack to Notting Hill, 1999) – 3:05

Disc two

  1. "Big Tears" (B-side of "Pump It Up" nonpareil, 1978) – 3:10
  2. "Beyond Belief" (from Imperial Bedroom, 1982) – 2:33
  3. "Lipstick Vogue" (from This Year's Model, 1978) – 3:31
  4. "Green Shirt" (from Armed Forces, 1979) – 2:44
  5. "Pills and Soap" (from Punch the Clock, 1983) – 3:43
  6. "Tramp say publicly Dirt Down" (from Spike), 1989) – 5:41
  7. "Shipbuilding" (MacManus, Clive Langer) (from Punch the Clock, 1983) – 4:51
  8. "High Fidelity" (from Get Happy!!, 1980) – 2:28
  9. "New Lace Sleeves" (from Trust, 1981) – 3:47
  10. "(The Angels Wanna Costume My) Red Shoes" (from My Aim Is True, 1977) – 2:46
  11. "Talking in the Dark" (single, 1978) – 1:57
  12. "New Amsterdam" (from Get Happy!!, 1980) – 2:13
  13. "I Hope You're Depressed Now" (from Blood and Chocolate, 1986) – 3:07
  14. "Riot Act" (from Get Happy!!, 1980) – 3:34
  15. "My Funny Valentine" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) (B-side from "Oliver's Army" single, 1979) – 1:29
  16. "Indoor Fireworks" (from King succeed America, 1986) – 4:09
  17. "Almost Blue" (from Imperial Bedroom, 1982) – 2:49
  18. "I Yearn for You" (from Blood and Chocolate, 1986) – 6:43
  19. "God Give Me Strength" (Burt Bacharach, MacManus) (from Painted from Memory, 1998) – 6:10
  20. "That Daytime Is Done" (MacManus, McCartney) (I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray, 1997) – 5:10
  21. "I Want to Vanish" (from All This Useless Beauty, 1996) – 3:14

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