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Variations: Elvis Costello And The Attractions.

Aliases: The Costello Show Featuring The Attractions And Confederates, Elvis Costello & The Imposters, Elvis Costello And The Brodsky Quartet.

The best album credited to Elvis Costello is This Year's Model which is ranked number 312 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 5,850.

Elvis Costello is ranked number 111 in the overall artist rankings with a total rank score of 21,105 (this takes into account any aliases or variations).

Elvis Costello official website: http://www.elviscostello.com

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Spike by Elvis Costello (CD, Feb-1989, Warner Bros.)
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This Year's Model by Elvis & the Attractions Costello (CD, 2021)
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Elvis Costello - North CD Signed / Autographed
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Upcoming concerts

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Daryl Hall w/ Elvis Costello
McMenamins Historic Edgefield Manor, Troutdale, United States. United States
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Daryl Hall + Elvis Costello & The Imposters with Charlie Sexton
BECU Live at Northern Quest, Airway Heights, United States. United States
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Jun
06
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17:30
Daryl Hall + Elvis Costello & The Imposters with Charlie Sexton
Remlinger Farms, Carnation, United States. United States
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Elvis Costello best albums

The following albums by Elvis Costello are ranked highest in the greatest album charts:

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1978
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1977
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3,962
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1982
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1980
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2,045
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1979
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1,936
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1986
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726
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1981
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671
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1986
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521
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1983
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427
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1989
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Total albums: 37. Page 1 of 4

This may not be a complete discography for Elvis Costello.This listing only shows those albums by this artist that appear in at least one chart on this site. If an album is 'missing' that you think deserves to be here, you can include it in your own chart from the My Charts page!

Elvis Costello bestography composition

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1930s 0 0%
1940s 0 0%
1950s 0 0%
1960s 0 0%
1970s 4 0%
1980s 14 0%
1990s 7 0%
2000s 6 0%
2010s 3 0%
2020s 3 0%
Compilation? Albums %
No 29 78%
Yes 8 22%
Live? Albums %
No 35 95%
Yes 2 5%

Elvis Costello best tracks

Include tracks from compilations & live albums | Exclude tracks from compilations & live albums The same track can appear on multiple albums, so excluding tracks from compilations and live albums helps to remove duplicates from this list.

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Rating: 89 (121 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Armed Forces)
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Rating: 88 (196 votes)Comments: 3
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(from the album This Year's Model)
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Rating: 88 (91 votes)Comments: 1
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(from the album Imperial Bedroom)
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Rating: 87 (87 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Imperial Bedroom)
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Rating: 87 (52 votes)Comments: 1
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(from the album Punch The Clock)
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Rating: 87 (188 votes)Comments: 2
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(from the album My Aim Is True)
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Rating: 87 (113 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Armed Forces)
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Rating: 86 (54 votes)Comments: 1
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(from the album Blood & Chocolate)
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Rating: 85 (156 votes)Comments: 3
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(from the album This Year's Model)
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Rating: 85 (76 votes)Comments: 1
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(from the album Get Happy!!)
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Rating: 85 (71 votes)Comments: 3
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(from the album Get Happy!!)
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Rating: 85 (55 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Get Happy!!)
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Rating: 85 (147 votes)Comments: 1
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(from the album This Year's Model)
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Rating: 85 (39 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Spike)
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Rating: 85 (73 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Imperial Bedroom)
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Rating: 85 (37 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Trust)
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Rating: 85 (75 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Armed Forces)
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Rating: 85 (136 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album My Aim Is True)
N.B. Tracks must have received at least 3 ratings to appear in the above list.

Elvis Costello ratings

Average Rating: 
81/100 (from 122 votes)
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This artist is rated in the top 3% of all artists on BestEverAlbums.com. This artist has a Bayesian average rating of 80.5/100, a mean average of 79.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.0/100. The standard deviation for this artist is 16.3.

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From 01/18/2022 22:18
My last comment was a bit of an overstatement, but this man and his music still bring me joy beyond almost any other artist. His way with words and with melody perfectly fits my sensibility, and I'm forever grateful to the two different teachers who, when I was 15 and about to leave my five-week boarding school program, gave me a picture of Costello and told me I looked like him. He's still my favourite songwriter. He hasn't really reached the same level consistency as he had at the start of his career, but there's always at least a handful of songs I really like on subsequent projects. And his range is truly breathtaking: he's done classical music, he's done jazz, he's done country, he's done RnB, new wave, post-punk, reggae, bluegrass and folk, he's flirted with electronica, and he's even collaborated with legendary hip-hop group The Roots (though the resultant album was not, exactly, a hip-hop album). I can't even begin to explain how much this guy's work means to me!
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From 05/28/2021 14:02
I admired Costello for a long time due to his consistency in albums, song-writing, production and even blended musical styles.
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From 02/18/2017 05:40
Currently, my favourite songwriter and musician. A huge influence on me since I discovered him. I will say, I've gone through the man's albums at such a feverish pace that I haven't been able to fully take in a lot of them. Somehow that barely diminishes my understanding that he is a genius with a scarily consistent body of work across a 40 year career.
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75/100
From 02/16/2016 03:30
A fine songwriter and performer, with many solid tracks over a period of years.
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From 10/16/2014 00:04
An unbelievable body of work ( masterpieces ) !!
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From 07/30/2014 10:20
I loved the first two or three albums when they came out. He lost me as a fan after that but had a great comeback more than ten years later with Spike / Mighty Like A Rose / Brutal Youth - those are still my favourite E.C. albums.
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From 05/21/2013 04:10
For reasons beyond me I just recently got into Elvis's work. The front end of his career is ridiculously consistent on quality. Have not dredged into the second half of his career yet but I imagine there is some decent stuff there to be had.
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From 12/01/2012 14:15
Great song writer. Very under-rated. Not just on BEA but most everywhere. Give him a chance. You won't regret it!
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From 07/26/2012 15:26
I put Elvis Costello on par with the Talking Heads. Both are creative geniuses. Both reigned in the late 70s and early 80s. Both produces an avalanche of quality work. Both are difficult to rank one album over another. Elvis Costello's first half-dozen albums are pop-music masterpieces.
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