Mighty Like a Rose

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Mighty Like a Rose
Mighty Like a Rose cover
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
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. The title is presumably a reference to the pop standard "Mighty Lak' a Rose", although that tune does not appear on the album.

Contents

[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

[edit] Additional personnel

[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


 v • d • e Elvis Costello

My Aim Is True • Spike • King of America • Brutal Youth • Mighty Like a Rose • Kojak Variety • North • Il Sogno

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

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
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