The Guide to Elvis Costello

Submitted by lbangs on Mon, 05/23/2005 - 04:28
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  • My Aim Is True (1977) - *****
  • This Year's Model (1978) - *****
  • Armed Forces (1979) - *****
  • Get Happy!! (1980) - *****
  • Trust (1981) - *****
  • Almost Blue (1981) - ** 1/2
  • Imperial Bedroom (1982) - **** 1/2
  • Punch the Clock (1983) - *** 1/2
  • Goodbye Cruel World (1984) - **
  • Blood & Chocolate (1986) - **** 1/2
  • King of America (1986) - *****
  • Spike (1989) - ** 1/2
  • Girls Girls Girls (1989) - *** 1/2
  • Mighty Like a Rose (1991) - **
  • The Juliet Letters (1993) - ** 1/2
  • Brutal Youth (1994) - ** 1/2
  • Kojak Variety (1995) - ***
  • All This Useless Beauty (1996) - *** 1/2
  • Painted from Memory (1998) - **** 1/2
  • Very Best of Elvis Costello (2001) - ****
  • When I Was Cruel (2002) - *** 1/2
  • North (2003) - ***
  • The Delivery Man (2004) - *** 1/2
Author Comments: 

This appears just like my CC series, but there is one crucial distinction. This list is the combined opinions of me and the critics in the critical consensus series. My vote counted for one point just like the vote of each critic.

Essentially, this is simply an update of the CC series with my little voice tossed in as a drop in the critical pool.

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