North (studio album) by Elvis Costello

North by Elvis Costello
Year: 2003
Overall rank: 13,298th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 31 votes)
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Award Top albums of 2003 (248th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (2,415th)
Award Best albums of all time (13,298th)
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Elvis Costello bestography

North is ranked 7th best out of 37 albums by Elvis Costello on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Elvis Costello is This Year's Model which is ranked number 313 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 5,755.

Elvis Costello album bestography « Higher ranked (10,306th) This album (13,298th) Lower ranked (14,805th) »
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From 05/03/2018 23:25
I love this album. I think it's his strongest in a good while. Gorgeously atmospheric, paired with some of the best vocals of his career. A late night album that is sorely underrated in his catalogue.
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From 12/10/2015 21:16
This one of my top 100 albums for which you can check out my comments.
Elvis Costello has issued many good albums and I suppose the best way to get to know him is to listen to "Girls! Girls! Girls!" a 47 song compilation which features a number of my absolutely favorite songs like "I Want You" and "Shipbuilding".
But still I like this album more which Comes in the latter part of his career mainly because I think it is completely underrated. It is a very soft and jazzy album but the songs on it are absolutely gorgeous. The most fantastic ones are "Still" and "Someone Took the Words Away".
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this might just be his greatest piece of work
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