CC 2004: Elvis Costello
Submitted by lbangs on Fri, 07/16/2004 - 11:17
Tags:
- My Aim Is True (1977) - *****
- This Year's Model (1978) - *****
- Armed Forces (1979) - *****
- Get Happy!! (1980) - *****
- Trust (1981) - **** 1/2
- Almost Blue (1981) - **
- Imperial Bedroom (1982) - *****
- Punch the Clock (1983) - ***
- Goodbye Cruel World (1984) - **
- King of America (1986) - *****
- Blood & Chocolate (1986) - *****
- Spike (1989) - ** 1/2
- Mighty Like a Rose (1991) - ** 1/2
- The Juliet Letters (1993) - ***
- Brutal Youth (1994) - ***
- Kojak Variety (1995) - **
- All This Useless Beauty (1996) - ***
- Painted from Memory (1998) - ****
- The Very Best of Elvis Costello (2001) - *** 1/2
- When I Was Cruel (2002) - *** 1/2
- North (2003) - ** 1/2
This is a new entry in an old series I am slowly bringing up to date. I'm calling it Critical Consensus 2004. Several people have requested updates of the older series, and since critical opinions shift, I am revamping the entire system. I am averaging the opinions of several excellent music critics to produce a list of each artist's albums. Rather than using a number system, which was perhaps a bit clunky, I will now be using a five-star system. I've ditched placing the albums in a recommended purchasing order, instead using a more traditional chronological order.
These are not my opinions, although, since I have chosen the critics used (and I'm using many), my taste will perhaps seep through a bit.
Terribly nerdy, I know, but maybe this will help people only now beginning to dabble into certain artists' bodies of work.
Scale:
***** - Masterpiece
**** 1/2 - Classic
**** - Great
*** 1/2 - Good
*** - Above Average
** 1/2 - Average
** - Below Average
* 1/2 - Bad
* - Terrible
1/2 - One of the worst albums ever