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This Year's Model

by Elvis Costello

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Overall Rating: 2.6992 This Year's Model is ranked overall as 2.6992 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 3.6000 This Year's Model has an avg. critic score of 3.6000 out of 4 stars

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Rolling Stone

Listening to Elvis Costello is like walking down a dark, empty street and hearing another set of heels. His music doesn't make you dance, it makes you jump. It doesn't matter that he's stalking his obsessions and not you, because nobody ought to bethissure of his obsessions. ...more

Yahoo! Music

The flagship in the second set of Rhino Costello reissues -- indeed, the one that's supposed to set the pace, since all of these are "harsh," "angry rock" -- This Year's Model, like all of Costello's Columbia recordings, already received a deluxe reissue treatment from Rykodisc in the mid-'90s. ...more

Yahoo! Music

Though this may be his most famous early album, and it does indeed contain some of his finest work--including "No Action," "Radio Radio" and "Pump It Up"--there's an inconsistency to some of the material here that simply hasn't held up as much as Costello's less-heralded stuff. ...more

Yahoo! Music

Where My Aim Is True implied punk rock with its lyrics and stripped-down production, This Year's Model sounds like punk. Not that Costello's songwriting has changed -- This Year's Model is comprised largely of leftovers from My Aim Is True and songs written on the road. It's the music that changed. ...more

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Pitch Fork Media

Anyone can whine. But as a seemingly infinite stream of clich�-obsessed singer/songwriters using misery as a thinly veiled ploy to get laid has proven, very few people can do it well. Drawing inspiration from banal personal miseries and ...read the complete review at Pitch Fork Media

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starling.rinet

Track listing: 1) No Action ; 2) This Year's Girl ; 3) The Beat; 4) Pump It Up ; 5) Little Triggers ; 6) You Belong To Me; 7) Hand In Hand; 8) (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea ; 9) Lip Service; 10) Living In Paradise; 11) Lipstick Vogue; 12)...read the complete review at starling.rinet

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