Mighty Like a Rose

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Mighty Like a Rose
Studio album by Elvis Costello
Released	May 14, 1991
Recorded	1990-1991
Genre	Rock
Length	54:19
Label	Warner Bros. Rhino (November 19, 2002 Reissue)
Producer(s)	Mitchell Froom, Kevin Killen, Donal Lunny, Paddy Moloney & Rob Wasserman
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Robert Christgau (C+) link Rolling Stone link Dave DiMartino, Yahoo! Music. (Very good) link
Elvis Costello chronology
Spike (1989)	Mighty Like a Rose (1991)	G.B.H. (1991)

Mighty Like a Rose is an album by Irish-English musician Elvis Costello.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Bonus disc (2002 Rhino) 2 Personnel 2.1 Additional personnel 3 Charts 4 External links

[edit] Track listing

All tracks by Declan MacManus unless otherwise indicated.

1. "The Other Side of Summer" – 3:56
2. "Hurry Down Doomsday (The Bugs Are Taking Over)" (Elvis Costello, Jim Keltner) – 4:05
3. "How to Be Dumb" – 5:12
4. "All Grown Up" (Costello) – 4:17
5. "Invasion Hit Parade" – 5:33
6. "Harpies Bizarre" – 3:44
7. "After the Fall" – 4:38
8. "Georgie and Her Rival" – 3:38
9. "So Like Candy" (MacManus, Paul McCartney) – 4:36
10. "Interlude: Couldn't Call It Unexpected No. 2" – 0:22
11. "Playboy to a Man" (MacManus, McCartney) – 3:17
12. "Sweet Pear" – 3:36
13. "Broken" (Cait O'Riordan) – 3:36
14. "Couldn't Call It Unexpected No. 4" – 3:49

[edit] Bonus disc (2002 Rhino)

1. "Just Another Mystery" – 4:15
2. "Sweet Pear" (Home demo) – 3:46
3. "Couldn't Call It Unexpected No. 4" (Live) – 4:18
4. "Mischievous Ghost" (with Mary Coughlan) – 5:47
5. "St. Stephen's Day Murders" (Costello, Paddy Moloney) (with The Chieftains) – 3:24
6. "The Other Side of Summer" (Unplugged version) – 4:06
7. "Deep Dark Truthful Mirror" (Unplugged version) (Costello) – 4:43
8. "Hurry Down Doomsday (The Bugs Are Taking Over)" (Unplugged version) (Costello, Keltner) – 4:13
9. "All Grown Up" (Home demo) (Costello) – 4:35
10. "Georgie and Her Rival" (Home demo) – 3:21
11. "Forgive Her Anything" (Home demo) – 4:01
12. "It Started to Come to Me" (Home demo) – 2:48
13. "I Still Miss Someone/The Last Town I Painted" (Demo) (Johnny Cash, Roy Cash Jr, Buddy Word) – 2:46
14. "Put Your Big Toe in the Milk of Human Kindness" (with Rob Wasserman) – 4:09
15. "Invasion Hit Parade" (Home demo) – 4:21
16. "Just Another Mystery" (Home demo) – 3:42
17. "Broken" (Home demo) (O'Riordan) – 3:22

[edit] Personnel

• Declan MacManus – acoustic guitar, bass guitar, electric guitar, maracas, instrument
• Jim Keltner – drums, percussion
• Larry Knechtel – organ, piano, Hammond organ, clavinet
• Mitchell Froom – organ, celeste, harmonium
• Marc Ribot – guitar, cornet, rhythm guitar, horn

[edit] Additional personnel

• Lionel Batiste – drums
• Nichlas Bucknail – clarinet
• James Burton – acoustic guitar
• Gregory Davis – trumpet
• Andre Findon – flute
• Steve George – backing vocals
• Charles Joseph – trombone
• Kirk Joseph – tuba
• Roger Lewis – baritone saxophone
• Ross MacManus – trumpet
• Jenell Marshall – drums, percussion
• Richard Morgan – oboe
• Steve Nieve – keyboards
• Richard Page – backing vocals
• Simon Rayner – French horn
• Jerry Scheff – electric bass, electric guitar
• Steven Soles – backing vocals
• Benmont Tench – piano
• Pete Thomas – ercussion, castanets, drums, tambourine, bells
• Efrem Towns – trumpet
• Rob Wasserman – electric bass
• T-Bone Wolk – bass

[edit] Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1991	The Billboard 200	55

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1991	"The Other Side of Summer"	Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks	40
1991	"The Other Side of Summer"	Billboard Modern Rock Tracks	1

[edit] External links

• "The Most Underrated Costello Album" - essay by Connor Ratliff

Elvis Costello
Albums
My Aim Is True | Spike | King of America | Brutal Youth | Mighty Like a Rose | Kojak Variety | North | Il Sogno
Elvis Costello and The Attractions
This Year's Model | Armed Forces | Get Happy!! | Trust | Almost Blue | Imperial Bedroom | Punch the Clock | Goodbye Cruel World | Blood and Chocolate | All This Useless Beauty
Elvis Costello and The Imposters
When I Was Cruel | Cruel Smile | The Delivery Man
Collaborations
The Juliet Letters with The Brodsky Quartet | Terror & Magnificence with John Harle | Painted from Memory with Burt Bacharach | The Sweetest Punch with Bill Frisell | For the Stars with Anne-Sofie von Otter | My Flame Burns Blue with The Metropole Orkest | Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland | The River in Reverse with Allen Toussaint
Live albums
Live at the El Mocambo | Deep Dead Blue | Costello & Nieve
Soundtracks
G.B.H. | Jake's Progress
Collections
Taking Liberties | Ten Bloody Marys & Ten How's Your Fathers | The Best of Elvis Costello & The Attractions | Out of Our Idiot | Girls+£÷Girls=$&Girls | 2 ½ Years | The Very Best of Elvis Costello and The Attractions 1977-86 | Extreme Honey | The Very Best of Elvis Costello | Singles, Vol. 1 |Singles, Vol. 2 |Singles, Vol. 3
Categories
Elvis Costello albums | Elvis Costello songs