Elvis Costello & The Attractions

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The Attractions was the band formed by Elvis Costello in 1977. It comprised Steve Nieve (ne Nason) on keyboards, Pete Thomas on drums and Bruce Thomas (no relation) on bass. He recorded and toured solidly with them until 1984, when he disbanded them to pursue solo projects.

He reconvened the band for one-off albums and tours over the following decade. He has also enlisted its members individually - particularly Nieve - and together for other recordings and performances up until the present day. The one exception to this is Bruce Thomas, with whom Costello had a notoriously stormy relationship, documented in Thomas’s autobiographical novel The Big Wheel in 1990. Pete Thomas and Steve Nieve, along with Bruce Thomas’ replacement Davey Faragher, now form Costello’s current backing band, The Imposters.

Together, Costello and The Attractions recorded 10 albums, most of which are critically regarded as among Costello’s finest. They are: This Year’s Model (1978); Armed Forces (1979); Get Happy (1980); Trust (1981); Almost Blue (1981); Imperial Bedroom (1982); Punch the Clock (1983); Goodbye Cruel World (1984); Blood and Chocolate (1986), and All This Useless Beauty (1996). The full band plays on some, but not all, tracks on the 1994 release Brutal Youth, which is credited to Costello alone. The Attractions also recorded an album without Costello, Mad About the Wrong Boy (1980).
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Add this track to your playlist Oliver's Army full track	2:59	15,343	Buy mp3
Add this track to your playlist Accidents Will Happen full track	3:01	13,491	Buy mp3
Add this track to your playlist ShipBuilding full track	4:52	11,610	Buy mp3
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–	2	Add this track to your playlist Accidents Will Happen full track	314
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–	4	Add this track to your playlist ShipBuilding full track	3,357
–	5	Add this track to your playlist (I Don't Want to Go To) Chelsea	3,326
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–	18	Add this track to your playlist No Action	1,965
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