& The Attractions - Get Happy Album

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Get Happy is a studio album by Elvis Costello and the Attractions. The fourth album by Elvis Costello, his third with the Attractions, it is notable for being a dramatic break in tone from Costello's three previous albums, and for being heavily influenced by R&B, ska and soul music. The cover art was intentionally designed to have a retro feel, to look like the cover of an old LP with ring wear on both front and back. The Get Happy album. 20 Hits: 10 per side Love for tender Opportunity The Imposter Secondary Modern King Horse Possession Man Called Uncle Clowntime Happy Elvis Costello & The Attractions. Rock 1980. He covers Sam & Dave's heart-melter I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down with enough intensity to make it his own. Even when Costello tackles ska on The Imposter , he sounds less like a genre tourist than a man amped up on passion and love for the traditions and histor. Like its predecessor Armed Forces, it was commercially successful, charting at number 11 in the US and number 2 in the UK, where it went gold. It was plac. Get Happy was born as much from sincere love for soul as it was for Elvis Costello's desire to distance himself from an unfortunate verbal faux pas where he insulted Ray Charles in an attempt to get Stephen Stills' goat. Either way, it resulted in a 20-song blue-eyed soul tour de force, where Costello doesn't just want to prove his love, he wants to prove his knowledge. No, thanks. more quotes. Play jigsaw puzzles for free Home. Elvis Costello & The Attractions. Get Happy, 1980. Love For Tender, 01:57. King Horse, 03:01. Get Happy This 1980 release by Elvis Costello & The Attractions is a wonderful new wave album with lots of great songs. Elvis distinctive vocals carry throughout the recordings with the precise enunciation, distinctive phrasing and impassioned emotion that he is known for and which have made his music so very popular. I've never seen Japanese pressing of this album under Columbia label. As far as I know the first Japanese pressing LP that came out 1980s was also under F-Beat label Warner Pioneer. On Get Happy, he loses the race. And when he tries to dig his way out, he merely manages to dig himself in deeper. In 1979, Elvis Costello achieved the authority hed always wanted, only to have it threaten to fall apart in his hands. The Attractions were one of the best backup groups in the world on This Years Model, and since then theyve gotten better. If the first side of Get Happy moves irrevocably toward a lacerating stripping away of the illusions of Riot Act, side two inches its way much more tentatively toward a different, more ambiguous conclusion and this is where the LP becomes suddenly, unexpectedly great. Get Happy is ranked 779th in the overall chart, 118th in the 1980s, and 15th in the year 1980. This album is rated in the top 4 of all albums on . Get Happy by Elvis Costello And The Attractions Year: 1980 Overall rank: 779th. Average Rating: 77100 from 316 votes