Elvis Costello & The Attractions – This Year's Model
Label: |
Radar Records (5) – RAD 3 |
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Format: |
Vinyl
, LP, Album
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Country: |
UK |
Released: |
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Genre: |
Rock |
Style: |
New Wave |
Tracklist
| A1 | No Action | 1:57 | |
| A2 | This Year's Girl | 3:16 | |
| A3 | The Beat | 3:42 | |
| A4 | Pump It Up | 3:12 | |
| A5 | Little Triggers | 2:38 | |
| A6 | You Belong To Me | 2:19 | |
| B1 | Hand In Hand | 2:30 | |
| B2 | (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea | 3:06 | |
| B3 | Lip Service | 2:34 | |
| B4 | Living In Paradise | 3:51 | |
| B5 | Lipstick Vogue | 3:29 | |
| B6 | Night Rally | 2:40 |
Companies, etc.
- Record Company – Cladhurst Ltd.
- Licensed From – Riviera Global Record Productions Ltd.
- Published By – Plangent Visions Music Ltd.
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Cladhurst Ltd.
- Copyright © – Riviera Global Record Productions Ltd.
- Copyright © – Cladhurst Ltd.
- Pressed By – WEA Records Pressing Plant, West Drayton
- Printed By – Gothic Print Finishers Ltd.
Credits
- Mastered By – Porky (5)
- Plated By – E.G.*
- Producer – Nick Lowe
- Written-By – Elvis Costello
Notes
Artist name on sleeve: Elvis Costello
Artist name on labels: Elvis Costello & The Attractions
This version has the sleeve printing offset by about 1 inch so that the spine appears on the back and a printer's colour chart appears on the front. Also comes with a pictured inner sleeve.
This version does not have the sticker on sleeve which reads "Free album with this single" and does not contain a bonus 7".
See here for the version with the sticker and bonus 7" (which was only available with the first 5000 copies of the album).
Information on labels:
Made in UK
℗ 1978 Cladhurst Ltd.
© 1978 Riviera Global Productions Ltd.
Issued under licence from Riviera Global Productions
Plangent Vision Music Ltd.
Cladhurst Ltd., trading as Radar Records, in association with WEA Records Ltd. A Warner Communications Co.
Information on back of sleeve:
Issued under license from Riviera Global Record Productions Ltd
© 1978 Cladhurst Ltd Cladhurst Ltd trading as Radar Records
In association with WEA Records Ltd A Warner Communications Company
Printed in England by Gothic Print Finishers Ltd
Artist name on labels: Elvis Costello & The Attractions
This version has the sleeve printing offset by about 1 inch so that the spine appears on the back and a printer's colour chart appears on the front. Also comes with a pictured inner sleeve.
This version does not have the sticker on sleeve which reads "Free album with this single" and does not contain a bonus 7".
See here for the version with the sticker and bonus 7" (which was only available with the first 5000 copies of the album).
Information on labels:
Made in UK
℗ 1978 Cladhurst Ltd.
© 1978 Riviera Global Productions Ltd.
Issued under licence from Riviera Global Productions
Plangent Vision Music Ltd.
Cladhurst Ltd., trading as Radar Records, in association with WEA Records Ltd. A Warner Communications Co.
Information on back of sleeve:
Issued under license from Riviera Global Record Productions Ltd
© 1978 Cladhurst Ltd Cladhurst Ltd trading as Radar Records
In association with WEA Records Ltd A Warner Communications Company
Printed in England by Gothic Print Finishers Ltd
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Matrix / Runout (A-side runout etching - variant 1): S-5 RAD3 - A3 E.G. A PORKY PRIME CUT
- Matrix / Runout (B-side runout etching - variant 1): S-46 RAD 3-B-1 EG A PORKY PRIME CUT
- Matrix / Runout (A-side runout etching - variant 2): S-8 RAD3 - A3 E.G. A PORKY PRIME CUT
- Matrix / Runout (B-side runout etching - variant 2): S-38 RAD 3-B-1 EG A PORKY PRIME CUT
- Matrix / Runout (A-side runout etching - variant 3 (note the "S" is written backward - looks more like a "2")): S-1 RAD3-A4 E.G. A PORKY PRIME CUT
- Matrix / Runout (B-side runout etching - variant 3): S-4 RAD-3-B2 EG A PORKY PRIME CUT
- Matrix / Runout (A-side runout etched/stamped - variant 4): S-8 RAD3-A3 EG 1 A PORKY PRIME CUT 1
- Matrix / Runout (B-side runout etched/stamped - variant 4): S-38 RAD3-B1 1 EG
- Matrix / Runout (A-side runout etching - variant 5 (note the "S" is written backward - looks more like a "2")): S-26 RAD3-A3 E.G A PORKY PRIME CUT
- Matrix / Runout (B-side runout etching - variant 5): S-60 RAD 3 B-1 E.G A PORKY PRIME CUT
- Matrix / Runout (A-side runout - variant 6): RAD 3 A5 A PORKY PRIME CUT
- Matrix / Runout (B-side runout - variant 6): RAD 3 B3 A PORKY PRIME CUT
- Matrix / Runout (A-side runout etching - variant 7): S-30 RAD3 - A3 E.G. A PORKY PRIME CUT
- Matrix / Runout (B-side runout etching - variant 7): S-63 RAD 3-B-1 EG A PORKY PRIME CUT
- Matrix / Runout (A-side runout etched - variant 8): S-23 RAD3-A3 EG A PORKY PRIME CUT
- Matrix / Runout (B-side runout etched - variant 8): S-57 RAD3-B-1 EG A PORKY PRIME CUT
- Matrix / Runout (A-side runout etched - variant 9): S-34 RAD3 - A3 E.G. A PORKY PRIME CUT
- Matrix / Runout (B-side runout etched - variant 9): S-65 RAD3 – B1 E.G. A PORKY PRIME CUT
- Matrix / Runout (A side variant 10): S-16 RAD3-A3 E.G. A PORKY PRIME CUT
- Matrix / Runout (B side variant 10): S-55 RAD 3-B-1 E.G. A PORKY PRIME CUT
- Matrix / Runout (A-side runout variant 11): S-39 RAD3-A3 EG 1 A PORKY PRIME CUT
- Matrix / Runout (B-side runout variant 11): S-3 RAD-3-B2 EG 1 A PORKY PRIME CUT
- Matrix / Runout (A-side runout etching - variant 12 (note the "S" is written backward - looks more like a "2")): S-38 RAD3-A3 E.G.. A PORKY PRIME CUT
- Matrix / Runout (B-side runout etching - variant 12): S-15 RAD 3-B-1 E.G. A PORKY PRIME CUT
- Matrix / Runout (A-side runout variant 13): S-55 (backwards & upside down) RAD3-A3 E.G. 1(sideways, stamped) A PORKY PRIME CUT
- Matrix / Runout (B-side runout variant 13): S-41 RAD 3-B-1 EG 1(sideways, stamped) A PORKY PRIME CUT
- Matrix / Runout (A-side runout variant 14): S-32 RAD3-A3 EG A PORKY PRIME Cut
- Matrix / Runout (B-side runout variant 14 ( (the '2' could be a backward 'S')): 2-71 RAD3-B-1 EG A PORKY PRIME CUT
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This Year's Model (LP, Album, Stereo, 7", 45 RPM, Limited Edition) | Radar Records (5) | RAD 3 | UK | 1978 | ||
| This Year's Model (LP, Album) | Smash Records (3) | SLEPT 2 | Scandinavia | 1978 | |||
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This Year's Model (LP, Album) | Radar Records (5) | 56 477 | 1978 | |||
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This Year's Model (LP, Album) | Radar Records (5) | 56477 | Belgium | 1978 | ||
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This Year's Model (LP, Album, Stereo) | Columbia | PC 35331, 35331 | Canada | 1978 |
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Reviews
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Mine has an HMV Import sticker with another import licensing sticker under that. On the back cover it has the 7464-35331-1 barcode in the top right corner but at the bottom has in print the encircled C with Riviera Global Productions Limited encircled P 1978 Riviera etc but then has manufactured by with tiny rectangular stickers placed over the rest of the text to blank it out apart from 52nd Street, NY, N.Y then more black stickers blotting out what comes after this. As it came with those stickers when I bought it probably twenty five years ago I feel disinclined to remove them. -
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I've shot this out against the MoFi 2010 and the UMe 2021 reissue (EU) and this (the 1978 Porky Prime Cut) wins out by a fair margin.
The MoFi has a ton of detail and does sound more spacious with improved separation. But it's cut way too quiet and does not make use of that additional headroom for added dynamics. It just sounds neutered.
The 2021 sounds (on my system and to my ears) somewhat compressed and - ultimately - flat, and with little to recommend it over either the MoFi or the '78.
Which brings me to the '78: this is how this record should sound - tight, focused, punchy, spikey even, with a shed load of dynamics. The bottom end on this isn't as defined as the MoFi - but there it is too polite, and here it properly rocks.
The '78 Porky Prime is the recommended way to go, imo. But the jacket on the MoFi is nice (which isn't always the case with MoFis). -
Now here`s something cool, instead of the etching saying `PORKY PRIMY CUT` on side 1 of my copy, it says:
`SPECIAL PRESSING NO. 003 RING 434 32 32 ASK FOR MOIRA FOR YOUR PRIZE :)`
Anyone in the UK feel like trying the number? I bought this used in Australia, I hope the original owner noticed the etching too! :D -
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Edited 14 years agoThe sleeve of my copy looks like the image of this submission.
It looks somewhat misprinted, or is this intended?
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