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- Posted: 08/18/2014 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#1363): Get Happy!!
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Today's album of the day
Get Happy!! by Elvis Costello & The Attractions (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1980.
Country: 
Overall rank: 811
Average rating: 76/100 (from 150 votes).
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Tracks:
1. Love For Tender
2. Opportunity
3. The Imposter
4. Secondary Modern
5. King Horse
6. Possession
7. Men Called Uncle
8. Clowntime Is Over
9. New Amsterdam
10. High Fidelity
11. I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down
12. Black And White World
13. 5ive Gears In Reverse
14. B Movie
15. Motel Matches
16. Human Touch
17. Beaten To The Punch
18. Temptation
19. I Stand Accused
20. Riot Act
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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Kiki
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- Posted: 08/18/2014 20:02
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Outside of Pump It Up there was really much else exciting Coste did. At least not for me. I may have actuall listened to this album and can't remember it 
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Mdemauri
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- Posted: 08/18/2014 20:16
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Great album! I just re-listened to it last week. It was recorded at a time when Costello said some things that got out to the press that were negative regarding Ray Charles and James Brown. A heavy R&B/Soul album. 10 songs per side was one of the more unusual things I remember at the time it was released.
I feel it is right up there with his best work.
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sp4cetiger
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- Posted: 08/18/2014 21:03
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| Mdemauri wrote: | | Great album! I just re-listened to it last week. It was recorded at a time when Costello said some things that got out to the press that were negative regarding Ray Charles and James Brown. |
Yeah, he explained his comments by saying he was just trying to be obnoxious to get Stephen Stills to leave him the fuck alone. 
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meccalecca
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- Posted: 08/18/2014 21:05
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| Kiki wrote: | | Outside of Pump It Up there was really much else exciting Coste did. At least not for me. I may have actuall listened to this album and can't remember it |
Costello did sooooooo much better than Pump It Up. Armed Forces is my personal favorite Costello album but Get Happy!! does a great got as its successor.
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- Posted: 08/18/2014 21:53
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Costello could do no wrong for those first few years. I even quite like Almost Blue. This album is almost like a dry run for my personal favourite, Imperial Bedroom, starting to experiment with slightly more unpredictable structures and melodies. It still leans very heavily on that new wave sound of his first three (superior) records, but it definitely feels a bit more groovy, a little more indebted to soul music, though obviously not to the extent that Dexy's were. It's cool, not my favourite of his by a long way, but a very good album from a very good artist.
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