Track Listing 1. Uncomplicated 2. I Hope You're Happy Now 3. Tokyo Storm Warning 4. Home Is Anywhere You Hang Your Head 5. I Want You 6. Honey, Are You Straight or Are You Blind? 7. Blue Chair 8. Battered Old Bird 9. Crimes of Paris 10. Poor Napoleon 11. Next Time Round
| Details | | Playing Time: | 47 min. | | Producer: | Colin Fairley, Michele Horie (Reissue), Michele Horie, Nick Lowe | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Elvis Costello & the Attractions/Elvis Costello: Napoleon Dynamite (acoustic guitar); Bruce Thomas (bass guitar); Cait O'Riordan (background vocals); Pete Thomas , Nick Lowe, Steve Nieve. Personnel: Napoleon Dynamite (vocals, harmonium, background vocals); Cait O'Riordan (vocals); Nick Lowe (acoustic guitar); Pete Thomas (saxophone); Steve Nieve (piano, harmonium). Recording information: Olympic Studios, London, England (03/1986-05/1986). Photographer: Keith Morris. Unknown Contributor Role: Napoleon Dynamite. Following 1985's KING OF AMERICA, Elvis Costello temporarily reunited with the Attractions and producer Nick Lowe for one last album before their final split. (Though two albums were released with the Attractions in the 1990s, bassist Bruce Thomas--then on the outs with his bandmates due to a dishy tell-all roman à clef novel he'd written in the interim--had a significantly reduced role in those.) It's quite a farewell: BLOOD AND CHOCOLATE may stand as the hardest rocking and most lyrically vituperative album in Costello's oeuvre, even more so than early scorchers like THIS YEAR'S MODEL. Even the ballads, like the stark, ominous "I Want You" and the dizzying "Poor Napoleon," fairly seethe with venomous malice, and rockers like the throbbing opener "Uncomplicated" and the simply brutal kiss-off "I Hope You're Happy Now" are Costello at his most savage.
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