Track Listing
1. Seven Day Weekend - (with Jimmy Cliff)
2. Turning the Town Red
3. Heathen Town
4. People's Limousine - (with The Coward Brothers)
5. So Young - (previously unreleased)
6. Little Goody Two Shoes - (previously unreleased)
7. American Without Tears No 2 - (Twilight Version, with Elvis Costello)
8. Get Yourself Another Fool
9. Walking on Thin Ice - (with The TKO Horns)
10. Withered and Died - (with The Imposter)
11. Blue Chair - (with Elvis Costello)
12. Baby It's You - (with Elvis Costello/Nick Lowe)
13. From Head to Toe
14. Shoes Without Heels - (with Elvis Costello & The Confederates)
15. Baby's Got a Brand New Hairdo
16. Flirting Kind, The
17. Black Sails in the Sunset
18. Town Called Big Nothing, A (Really Big Nothing) - (with The MacManus Gang/Sy Richardson)
19. Big Sister
20. Imperial Bedroom - (with Napeoleon Dynamite & The Royal Guard)
21. Stamping Ground, The - (with The Emotional Toothpaste)
| Details | | Playing Time: | 70 min. | | Contributing Artists: | Jimmy Cliff, Nick Lowe, T-Bone Burnett | | Distributor: | (Independently by Label) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | AAD |
Album Notes
OUT OF OUR IDIOT is a compilation of non-LP singles, B-sides, and previously unreleased material.
Producers include: Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, Clive Langer, Alan Winstanley, Allen Toussaint.
The ever-prolific Costello constantly wrote and recorded tunes at too furious a pace for them all to be included on his regular albums. This collection, ironically packaged as a "various artists" compilations (perhaps due to the revolving cast of backing musicians), collects some of those songs that slipped through the cracks and are unavailable on any other Costello album. Some are collaborations; the Costello/Jimmy Cliff pop masterpiece "Seven Day Weekend," "The People's Limousine" (written under pseudonym by Costello and T-Bone Burnette. Others are faithful but inventive covers (Smokey Robinson's "From Head to Toe," the Burt Bacharach classic "Baby It's You"). There are also radically different version of Costello songs ("Blue Chair" is worlds away from its BLOOD AND CHOCOLATE counterpart). What could have been a scraps collection for a lesser artist adds up to another great Elvis Costello album.
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