Track Listing DISC 1: LIVE AT THE TROUBADOUR, LOS ANGELES: 1. Temptation 2. Poor Fractured Atlas 3. I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself 4. It's Time 5. Man Out of Time 6. Shallow Grave
DISC 2: LIVE AT THE FILLMORE, SAN FRANCISCO: 1. Just About Glad 2. Why Can't a Man Stand Alone? 3. My Dark Life 4. All This Useless Beauty 5. Ship of Fools
DISC 3: LIVE AT THE PARK WEST, CHICAGO: 1. Long Honeymoon, The 2. Starting to Come to Me 3. Other End of the Telescope, The 4. All the Rage 5. Watching the Detectives
DISC 4: LIVE AT THE PARADISE, BOSTON: 1. You Bowed Down 2. Long Honeymoon, The 3. Distorted Angel 4. Angels Want to Wear My Red Shoes, The 5. Little Atoms 6. My Funny Valentine
DISC 5: LIVE AT THE SUPPER CLUB, NEW YORK: 1. Black Sails in the Sunset 2. You'll Never Be a Man 3. Just a Memory 4. I Want to Vanish 5. Alison / Living A Little, Laughing A Little / Tracks Of My Tears / Tears Of A Clown / No More Tearstained Make-Up / Clowntime Is Over
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Pete Thomas | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Live | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Personnel: Elvis Costello (vocals, guitar); Steve Nieve (piano); Pete Thomas (drums). Recorded live in May 1996. The five short discs in this collectable box set were recorded live during Elvis Costello's acoustic tour of the U.S. in 1996, on which he was accompanied by longtime musical foil Steve Nieve on piano. Each disc was recorded in a different city (with drummer Pete Thomas joining the duo for two songs in Los Angeles). The result is a different kind of Costello retrospective. While previous greatest-"hits" sets have concentrated on his commercial milestones, COSTELLO & NIEVE finds him digging deep into his repertoire, providing a more substantive overview of his rich and eclectic chest of songs. There are small-scale versions of most of the tunes from Costello's '96 album ALL THIS USELESS BEAUTY, canny covers like "My Funny Valentine" and Burt Bacharach's "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself" and enough obscure selections to satisfy the most rabid aficionado. Highlights include the gorgeous, often-overlooked "You'll Never Be A Man" and the radically restructured "Temptation." Over the course of this stylistically varied but always engaging set, Costello leaves us with little doubt that the angels still want to wear his red shoes.
Editorial Reviews 4 (out of 5) - ...The refinement of his performing and singing skills in the intervening 10 years energizes these tracks...Costello now delivers his songs, amplifying their power and raising the emotional stakes... Alternative Press (05/01/1997)
...Covering Bacharach or the Dead or mostly just acting as his own most puckish reinterpreter, EC combines classic pop grace and late-century spite like no other contender, making this two-hour Big McManus attack the best UNPLUGGED never to carry MTV's name. Entertainment Weekly (01/10/1997)
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