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Live at the El Mocambo (Elvis Costello album)

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Length
  
48:59

Artist
  
Elvis Costello

Label
  
CBS Records International

Live at the El Mocambo (1993)
  
Brutal Youth (1994)

Release date
  
1978

Genres
  
New wave, Punk rock

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Released
  
12 October 1993 / 29 September 2009

Recorded
  
6 March 1978, The El Mocambo, Toronto, Canada

Similar
  
Elvis Costello albums, Punk rock albums

Live at the El Mocambo is a 1993 live album by Elvis Costello and the Attractions. Recorded in March 1978 from a live radio broadcast by CHUM-FM, a tape of the broadcast was obtained by the Canadian division of CBS records and released as an exclusive Canadian promotional album in the same year. As the show's fame began to grow, it became heavily bootlegged. It was first legally made available with the release (as Live at El Mocambo) either as disc 4 of the 2½ Years box set or to US purchasers of the first three CDs, in exchange for tokens included in the CD packaging, directly from Rykodisc. The concert was reissued, as a mainstream release, on 29 September 2009 by Hip-O Records, with the same content of the 1978 promotional album.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Elvis Costello.

  1. "Mystery Dance" – 2:19
  2. "Waiting for the End of the World" – 3:52
  3. "Welcome to the Working Week" – 1:19
  4. "Less Than Zero" (Dallas version) – 4:08
  5. "The Beat" – 3:33
  6. "Lip Service" – 2:26
  7. "(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea" – 3:56
  8. "Little Triggers" – 2:47
  9. "Radio Radio" – 2:33
  10. "Lipstick Vogue" – 4:46
  11. "Watching the Detectives" – 5:48
  12. "Miracle Man/Band Introduction" – 4:07
  13. "You Belong to Me" – 2:32
  14. "Pump It Up" – 4:42

Personnel

  • Elvis Costello – guitar, vocals
  • The Attractions
  • Steve Nieve – keyboards
  • Bruce Thomas – bass
  • Pete Thomas – drums
  • with:

  • Martin Belmont - guitar on "Pump It Up"
  • Songs

    1Mystery Dance (Live)2:19
    2Waiting for the End of the World (Live)3:53
    3Welcome to the Working Week (Live)1:19

    References

    Live at the El Mocambo (Elvis Costello album) Wikipedia