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Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
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Side one
1. "Welcome to the Working Week" 1:22
2. "Miracle Man" 3:31
3. "No Dancing" 2:39
4. "Blame it on Cain" 2:49
5. "Alison" 2:54
6. "Sneaky Feelings" 2:09
Side two
1. "(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes" 2:47
2. "Less Than Zero" 3:15
3. "Mystery Dance" 1:38
4. "Pay it Back" 2:33
5. "I'm Not Angry" 2:57
6. "Waiting for the End of the World" 3:22
Elvis Costello Band Members / Musicians
Elvis Costello – vocals, guitar, piano and drumsticks on "Mystery Dance"
John McFee – lead guitar, pedal steel guitar, backing vocals
Sean Hopper – piano, organ, backing vocals
Johnny Ciambotti – bass, backing vocals
Mickey Shine – drums
Stan Shaw – organ on "Less Than Zero"
Nick Lowe – backing vocals, piano, drumsticks and bass on "Mystery Dance"
Andrew Bodnar – bass on "Watching the Detectives"
Steve Goulding – drums on "Watching the Detectives"
Steve Nieve – organ and piano overdubs on "Watching the Detectives"
Barry "Bazza" Farmer - engineer
Wendy Sherman - art direction, design
My Aim Is True is the debut album by English singer-songwriter Elvis Costello. The album was recorded at Pathway Studios in Highbury, London Borough of Islington in 1976, over the course of six four-hour studio sessions, in a total of approximately twenty-four hours. It was the first of five consecutive Costello albums produced by Nick Lowe and cost £2,000 to record. The backing band was made up of members of Clover, but they were uncredited on the original release due to contractual difficulties; some early publicity for the album identified the backing band as "The Shamrocks".
Declan Patrick Aloysius McManus, OBE (born 25 August 1954), known professionally as Elvis Costello, is an English singer-songwriter. He has won multiple awards in his career, including Grammy Awards in 1999 and 2020, and has twice been nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Male Artist. In 2003, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Costello number 80 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
Costello began his career as part of London's pub rock scene in the early 1970s and later became associated with the first wave of the British punk and new wave movement that emerged in the mid-to-late 1970s. His critically acclaimed debut album My Aim Is True was released in 1977. Shortly after recording it, he formed the Attractions as his backing band. His second album This Year's Model was released in 1978, and was ranked number 11 by Rolling Stone on its list of the best albums from 1967 to 1987. His third album Armed Forces was released in 1979, and features his highest-charting single, "Oliver's Army" (number 2 in the UK). His first three albums all appeared on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
Studio albums (including those with the Attractions, The Costello Show, and the Imposters)
My Aim Is True (1977)
This Year's Model (1978)
Armed Forces (1979)
Get Happy!! (1980)
Trust (1981)
Almost Blue (1981)
Imperial Bedroom (1982)
Punch the Clock (1983)
Goodbye Cruel World (1984)
King of America (1986)
Blood & Chocolate (1986)
Spike (1989)
Mighty Like a Rose (1991)
Brutal Youth (1994)
Kojak Variety (1995)
All This Useless Beauty (1996)
When I Was Cruel (2002)
North (2003)
Il Sogno (2004)
The Delivery Man (2004)
Momofuku (2008)
Secret, Profane & Sugarcane (2009)
National Ransom (2010)
Look Now (2018)
Hey Clockface (2020)
Collaborative Albums
G.B.H. (1991, with Richard Harvey)
The Juliet Letters (1993, with the Brodsky Quartet)
Jake's Progress (1995, with Richard Harvey)
Deep Dead Blue (1995, with Bill Frisell)
Painted from Memory (1998, with Burt Bacharach)
For the Stars (2001, with Anne Sofie von Otter)
Piano Jazz (2005, with Marian McPartland)
My Flame Burns Blue (2006, with Metropol Orkest)
The River in Reverse (2006, with Allen Toussaint)
Wise Up Ghost (2013, with the Roots)
Lost on the River (2014, as a member of The New
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