Elvis Costello re-releases album shock
I'm quite pleased about this:
U.S. catalog and special markets entity for Universal Music Group, the world's largest music company and market share leader, has reached an agreement to acquire the first 11 original albums (1977-1986) in the catalog of Elvis Costello, one of the most influential, acclaimed and enduring artists of modern rock. With this acquisition added to his musical output of the last 15 years (Decca/Deutsche Grammophon, Lost Highway, Mercury, Island, Verve Forecast), UMe now brings the bulk of Elvis Costello's career under one roof.
There seems to some concerns among fans of "The Man" that this is "selling out". Meh, possibly. But the guy probably wants more dough. None of his albums sell anything any more. What's more, we get another chance to implant Elvis Costello into the youngsters of the new generation. And as Costello himself said:
A Peckinese in a tuxedo could sell My Aim Is True.
I'm most intrigued about the plans to reissue live tracks and unreleased tracks. But this does probably mean that I will have to buy all Elvis's albums again, only a year after I bought them all in six weeks over the sumer. All 27 of them!
As for those who haven't had the pleasure of listening to Elvis Costello, here's your chance. I envy you, all that new Elvis to listen to. I must go now, I'm drooling over my keyboard...
-posted by Roy
