THIS YEAR'S MODEL

'''This Year's Model''' (1978) was Elvis Costello's second album, and his first with The Attractions. It was recorded mainly at Eden Studios in West London.
It was voted the best album of the year in ''The Village Voice'' Pazz & Jop critics poll. In 2000, ''Q'' magazine placed ''This Year's Model'' at number 82 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 1987, ''Rolling Stone'' magazine ranked it number 11 on its list of the best albums of the period 1967-1987. .
The track ''(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea'' was sampled by Audio Bullys on their track ''Way Too Long''.
Early issues of the album have an apparently misprinted cover, which cuts the 'E' from 'Elvis' off the front cover and shows a printers' color bar along the right side (see cover right). This was a deliberate mistake (a favourite technique of cover designer Barney Bubbles), as was pressing "Special pressing No. 003. Ring 434 32 32. Ask for Moira for your prize" between the holding spirals on Side A.

Contents

Original LP track listing

Side one

Side two

Bonus Tracks (1993 Rykodisc CD)

Bonus Disc (2002 Rhino CD)

Personnel

Charts

External links

Original LP track listing

All songs written by Elvis Costello unless otherwise indicated.

Side one

# "No Action" – 1:58
# "This Year's Girl" – 3:17
# "The Beat" – 3:45
# "Pump It Up" – 3:14
# "Little Triggers" – 2:40
# "You Belong to Me" – 2:22

Side two

# "Hand in Hand" – 2:33
# "(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea" – 3:07
# "Lip Service" – 2:36
# "Living in Paradise" – 3:52
# "Lipstick Vogue" – 3:29
# "Night Rally" – 2:41

★ ''The US release on Columbia, two months after the original UK release, dropped "(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea" and "Night Rally" (reportedly as being "too English") and added the "Radio Radio" to close Side two.

Bonus Tracks (1993 Rykodisc CD)

# "Radio Radio" – 3:05
# "Big Tears" – 3:09
# "Crawling to the USA" – 2:53
# "Running Out of Angels" – 2:02
# "Green Shirt" – 2:20
# "Big Boys" – 3:00

★ ''Tracklisting notes: The Rykodisc reissue placed "Radio Radio" after a 10-second silence following "Night Rally."''

Bonus Disc (2002 Rhino CD)

# "Big Tears" – 3:12
# "Crawling to the USA" – 2:55
# "Running Out of Angels" (Demo version) – 2:05
# "Greenshirt" (Demo version) – 2:22
# "Big Boys" (Demo version) – 3:00
# "You Belong to Me" (Capital Radio version) – 1:55
# "Radio Radio" (Capital Radio version) – 3:01
# "Neat Neat Neat" {Brian James) (Live) – 3:16
# "Roadette Song" (Ian Dury, Russell Hardy) (Live) – 5:40
# "This Year's Girl" (Alternate Eden Studios version) – 2:09
# "(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea" (Basing Street Studios version) – 3:00
# "Stranger in the House" (BBC version) – 4:15
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.

Personnel

★ Elvis Costello – guitar, vocals

★ Steve Nieve – keyboards

★ Bruce Thomas – bass

★ Pete Thomas – drums

Charts

'Album'

Year	Chart	Position
1978	Billboard Pop Albums	30

External links

★ "Sometimes I Almost Feel Just Like a Human Being" - essay by Connor Ratliff