This Year's Model (studio album) by Elvis Costello
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This Year's Model is ranked as the best album by Elvis Costello.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 84 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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65/100  | 02/28/2024 12:21 | TheWongs | | 70/100 |
90/100 | 02/09/2024 21:21 | LittleM1971 | | 81/100 |
85/100 | 02/01/2024 07:48 | 0gan | | 88/100 |
70/100 | 01/30/2024 01:25 | JPin8497 | | 70/100 |
75/100 | 01/26/2024 18:18 | habibi333 | | 73/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 80.8/100, a mean average of 79.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.5.
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Tracks 1-8 - not bad
Brad1770 03/09/2023 01:49
Costello’s second album hot on the heals of ‘My Aim Is True’ is the first album featuring the classic Attractions line up and along with the magician Nick Lowe twiddling the knobs they manage to achieve a truely live sound. And look no further than “Pump It Up” as demonstration of this (before Olivia Rodrigo stole the riff on “brutal”)
As close as you can get to a perfect 100/100 album but let down by the ho-hum “Living In Paradise”, regardless its still Costello’s most complete and accomplished platter
90/100
Another brilliant collection of songs from Costello who picked up from where he left off on his debut release in terms of quality. The song writing is just as strong and the music is just as fun with there being some great performances across the board. The drum work is fantastic and really shines on Lipstick Vogue where it makes a weaker song much more enjoyable than it would have been without it. Costello's voice is stellar as always and he gives us some great guitar work also across the whole release. Overall, there is so much to love on this record and this is on the same level of quality as his debut which means I think it comes down to personal preference which one you think is superior.
Great lyricist
A slight improvement over My Aim Is True, he drifted away a little bit from this Buddy Holly style to find his own and I mostly love it.
My favourite Costello album.
The musicianship, especially the drumming, is superb. The songwriting is crisp, although not mind-blowingly great. Pump It Up is an all-timer of a fun jam.
The problem, at least for me, is that there’s something off putting and obnoxious about Costello’s voice and/or persona. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but I just don’t like the guy.
superb start to finish
planetneutral 11/20/2020 23:40
This is a good collection of energetic songs.
teague 06/25/2020 22:28
Power pop seems to have been in full swing in 1978. I personally prefer The Cars' debut, but this is a good record too. Pump It Up is a great rock song.
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