Blood And Chocolate

This is reminiscent of listening to drunks singing karaoke in Korea town at 3am.

Ok

Very monotonous. Didn't like it.

30/100 I just can't get over Elvis Costello's voice on this. Maybe it's better on other albums but this ain't for me

I still don’t understand Elvis Costello, after years of trying

not a fan

1 please I can’t take any more of this man. The music is already bland and then he goes and sings in the most annoying way possible

first tracks were horrible, got slightly better after those

Eugh, go away Elvis Costello. I really can't stand him and this is our 5th album by him

. Awful garbage. A poor songwriter, now past his peak in the gently undulating foothills of his talent (I use the term loosely though I did think Oliver’s army a great song and I don’t want to go to Chelsea is also decent.) How could the producer let him get away with wasting a great band in this junk? Enough with the critical darlings. This list has shown most critics don’t understand ‘quality’ ’rock’, ‘roll’, ‘good’ or ‘music’ Let’s have more albums you must hear. 0 stars. Rounded up because it’s too mediocre for a negative score

got bored of this very quickly

Somebody stop this God music.

I got through this album by the skin of my teeth. I want to like Elvis but I just find this music so obnoxious.

Sometimes I have to just muscle through an album that really shouldn't be on here. Costello is crap. He sucks and his music lacks finesse or merit

boring and un-inspired. droning vocals nothing special in the songs at all. this straight up does not deserve to be on the list and was a complete waste of my time.

Not a fan of Costello

Depressing. Didn't like it at all.

1. uncomplicated - 0 2. i hope - 0 3. tokyo ztorm - 4. home iz anyuuhere - 1 5. i uuant you - 1.5 6. honey - 0 7. blue chair - 0 8. old bird - 1 9. crimez of pariz - 1.5 10. poor napoleon - 0 11. nezt time round - 0

I was looking forward to this one because I was digging the music initially, in the 1st track. But this guy's voice is just...grating. Couldn't make it through 2 complete songs before giving up.

Honestly I wasn't the biggest fan of this album or this band. I think my favorite song on this album was 'I Want You' but in ways I also didn't like it.. I think its the lead singers vocals that I'm just not a giant fan of. I kind of was annoyed listening to this album, even though I see the potential here I just think these vocals are not for me. Overall: 1.3/5

Ni lo pude terminar de la hueva.

Good god. His voice is grating. Especially on the first song.

Not a fan.

#20. This album isn't it. I don't know what it is, but it isn't it. There isn't one song that's even a little bit good. Tokyo Storm Warning is probably the most annoying song I've listened to so far on this list. I can't imagine anyone enjoying this. 1/5: terrible Song added to playlist: Honey Are You Straight Or Are You Blind I've created a playlist on Spotify that consists of the best and/or my favorite song from each of the albums in this book. This list can be found here if you are interested: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7MAXDGLWlwLkFLb8veGfkA?si=FqkQQPgZTFWG0jAUJXLFZA&utm_source=copy-link

can’t stand listening to this guy, not my Elvis

Ugh. Elvis Costello and the Attractions sounds like a middle school band, cant stand this album. 1/5

First album in roughly 200 I couldn't make it all the way through, utterly dismal. horrific music

Uncomplicated Was very uncomplicated as far as lyrics and chords go……..no other comments

Siis eihän tässä muuta vikaa ole kuin että on selittämättömästi rasittavaa. Tai ei oikeastaan selittämättömästi: liian itsetietoista mutta myös hailakkaa

this is lame

boring as hell, every song sounds the same, and its not even a good sound. I want you is a nice song though

por que me hacen esto

Some of these lyrics are really out there. It's not endearing. I'm so glad this is my last album of his

I had two of his albums in a row, and I just really don't like it.

1. I feel like Elvis Costello is cooler than me and I don’t know why. 2. Like a loudspeaker with a sharp tweeter, I get listening fatigue quickly with this album. Like 30 seconds and I’m out. 3. Why why why?

another bad 80's album

The grating and one-level voice had me longing for instrumental breaks. The stale and predictable instrumentals made me long for the vocals. It was like sitting through a family member’s political speech at the Thanksgiving dinner table when you don’t share the same views- I just couldn’t wait to get out of there.

no

A stream of words, have you heard one Costello album you have heard them all

Hrottalega leiðinlegt

The worst of Costello's aggravating voice

Elvis gives me the creeps.

Boring generic 80s garage rock

80s bullshit.

An der Grenze zur Nervigkeit, nicht ganz so schlimm wie die Imperial Bedroom (äh, doch. Das ist scheiße). Beide Alben haben in dieser Liste nichts verloren. Nach dem 5. Song wollte ich nur noch, dass es vorbei ist.

Before I started listening to these "1001 albums", I would have called myself an Elvis Costello fan. Thanks to the nonstop onslaught of Elvis albums on this list, I have gone from fan, to indifferent, to actively despising this man's terrible terrible music. It's like a parody of generic, shitty rock and roll. His voice is more goofy than Randy Newman. His smug self-satisfied lyrics are completely insufferable. This was the longest hour of my entire life. If more EC comes up on this list, I may just have to skip them.

I can’t even do it. His voice makes me want to gouge out my eardrums.

The opening tracks, Uncomplicated, left me wondering what, exactly, is in whose eyes, Mr. Costello? I’m guessing it was a strobe light in the audience’s eyes to distract from the dearth of enjoyable aspects of this album. Sorry, but that’s how I feel. The album isn’t offensive to my ears, but I literally can’t name one aspect I like. The music leaves a lot to be desired. It’s fairly bland and unremarkable. Elvis’s voice isn’t great and it sounds like he adds extra artificial effects that don’t feel genuine (like extra vibrato on I Hope You Are Happy Now for instance and breaking his voice in Battered Old Bird). There are too many occasions where the music is in the background (because it’s generic), featuring his voice…and it’s just not good enough. Prime examples are I Want You and Blue Chair. There are plenty of others. The most interesting part of this album is that Mr. Costello used an alter ego, Napoleon Dynamite, for some of the credits and somehow, it was not the inspiration for the 2000s cult classic movie. That’s the best I can do.

Not my bag

his voice is just too annoying for me, it's almost monotonous?? in some weird way.

The first song is the lyrical version of that guy who challenged Dr Seuss to make a book tht only used 50 words. This album feels.....easy. A money grab. Someone wanted to buy an expensive Rothko (because Rothkos are terrible) and needed to milk daddy Public for all his cashola. Its not bad I just can't get past the thought that it's the soundtrack of an Azerbaijianian Shrek parody. I had to stop listening as it was activating my fight or flight response and my therapist says thats counterproductive to my fatigue.

This is gonna be very hard for me to listen to, there's some weird audio mixing issues going on on the first song and the sound is biased towards my left headphone except an annoying guitar part just in the right. The songs drag on and on oh my god, his voice is just not good enough to carry how bland these songs are either. And it doesn't feel like it fits at all? Theres no variance at all, its the same bits repeated over and over. The lyrics are kinda creepy too? Idk why he'd just repeat I want you over and over. This album sounds like a worse version of father john misty. Look I know father john misty started making music a lot later on than elvy costello and may have been inspired by him but also its hard to enjoy something that sounds similar but is objectively much worse. Props to the attractions, theyve definitely got something going for them, but just ditch elvis next time okay hun?

He notado que esta lista tiene unas inclusiones que claramente sacaron del embrujo de señor moderno de la Rolling Stone gringa. Este disco es malo y no tiene redención a pesar de que tiene dos buenas canciones: Uncomplicated y I Want You. Dos canciones que serían formidables situadas en alguna serie, onda no sé, The Americans o Handmaid's Tale.

As I dragged myself through the album, I learned to ignore his voice and actually the music is alright. It sounds dated even taking into account the 1986 release date. Probably deserves a higher score than Lloyd Cole because at least I've heard of him, but it would be disrespectful to The Boss. 2/10

Survived. Probably not as bad as had been made out by others in the group, but still a major struggle to get through. Onwards and upwards!

Never again

This Elvis Costello album was slightly better than the last but nothing I'd write home about. I don't know why. I like his voice. I like his singing style. He has a Tom Petty vibe who I love but Elvis's songs are boring. Storytelling is great if your stories are good but I can't do anything with this album.

Maybe I was in a bad mood going into this album, but this is one of the few albums on this list that I actively disliked. Costello's voice is grating, the music is discordant, and the title of the song "Honey, Are You Straight or Are You Blind?" in particular rubbed me the wrong way.

Disappointed

i quit