Spike (Elvis Costello album)

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Spike
Studio album by Elvis Costello
Released	February 14, 1989
Recorded	1987-1988
Genre	Rock
Length	63:50
Label	Warner Bros. Rhino (August 11, 2001 Reissue)
Producer(s)	Elvis Costello, Kevin Killen & T-Bone Burnett
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Robert Christgau (B) link Rolling Stone link
Elvis Costello chronology
Blood and Chocolate (1986)	Spike (1989)	Mighty Like a Rose (1991)

Spike is an album by the Irish-English musician Elvis Costello released in 1989 on Warner Brothers records, his first album for the label.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Bonus disc (2001 Rhino) 2 Personnel 2.1 Additional personnel 3 Charts 4 External links

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Declan MacManus, except where noted.

1. "...This Town..." – 4:30
2. "Let Him Dangle" – 4:45
3. "Deep Dark Truthful Mirror" – 4:06
4. "Veronica" (MacManus, Paul McCartney) – 3:09
5. "God's Comic" – 5:31
6. "Chewing Gum" – 3:47
7. "Tramp the Dirt Down" – 5:44
8. "Stalin Malone" – 4:09
9. "Satellite" – 5:44
10. "Pads, Paws and Claws" (MacManus, McCartney) – 2:56
11. "Baby Plays Around" (MacManus, Cait O'Riordan) – 2:48
12. "Miss Macbeth" – 4:25
13. "Any King's Shilling" – 6:06
14. "Coal-Train Robberies" – 3:18
15. "Last Boat Leaving" – 3:30

[edit] Bonus disc (2001 Rhino)

1. "Miss Macbeth" (Demo version) – 3:50
2. "...This Town..." (Demo version) – 3:49
3. "Deep Dark Truthful Mirror" (Demo version) – 4:07
4. "Coal Train Robberies" (Demo version) – 2:51
5. "Satellite" (Demo version) – 4:50
6. "Pads, Paws and Claws" (Demo version) (MacManus, McCartney) – 2:07
7. "Let Him Dangle" (Demo version) – 3:39
8. "Veronica" (Demo version) (MacManus, McCartney) – 5:19
9. "Tramp the Dirt Down" (Demo version) – 5:19
10. "Baby Plays Around" (Demo version) (MacManus, O'Riordan) – 2:42
11. "Put Your Big Toe in the Milk of Human Kindness" (Demo version) – 3:16
12. "Last Boat Leaving" (Demo version) – 3:29
13. "The Ugly Things" (Nick Lowe) – 2:55
14. "You're No Good" (Clint Ballard Jr.) – 2;21
15. "Point of No Return" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King) – 2:33
16. "The Room Nobody Lives In" (John Sebastian) – 4:46
17. "Stalin Malone" (Vocal version) – 3:11

[edit] Personnel

• Declan MacManus – acoustic guitar, bass guitar, electric guitar, mandolin, piano, vocals, bells, acoustic bass, organ, melodica
• T-Bone Burnett – acoustic guitar, bass, National Steel guitar
• Ralph Forbes – electric drums, drum programming
• Mitchell Froom – organ, harmonium, electric piano, chamberlin, Indian harmonium

[edit] Additional personnel

• Lionel Batiste – drums (bass)
• Derek Bell – Irish harp, hammered dulcimer
• Michael Blair – glockenspiel, marimba, tambourine, xylophone, bells, timpani, vibraphone, Chinese drums, Oldsmobile hubcap, Parade drum, anvil, whiplash, crash-box, temple bells, snare drum, "magic table", metal pipe, "Martian dog bark"
• Gregory Davis – trumpet
• The Dirty Dozen Brass Band – horn arrangements, string arrangements
• John Donnelly – drum programming
• Frankie Gavin – fiddle
• William Green – drums
• Kevin Harris – tenor saxophone
• Chrissie Hynde – harmony vocals
• Charles Joseph – trombone
• Kirk Joseph – sousaphone
• Jim Keltner – tom-toms, snare drum, Chinese cymbals
• Roger Lewis – baritone saxophone, soprano saxophone
• Donal Lunny – acoustic guitar, bouzouki, electric bouzouki
• Jerry Marotta – drums
• Jenell Marshall – snare drum
• Paul McCartney – Hofner bass guitar, Rickenbacker bass guitar
• Roger McGuinn – Guitar 12 string guitar, Rickenbacker bass guitar
• Christy Moore – bodhran
• Buell Neidlinger – cello, double bass
• Cait O'Riordan – maracas, bells
• Marc Ribot – banjo, electric guitar, Spanish guitar, sounds
• Jerry Scheff – electric bass, double bass, fuzz bass
• Davy Spillane – pipe, uilleann pipes, Low whistle
• Benmont Tench – piano, clavinet, spinet, Vox Continental
• Pete Thomas – drums
• Allen Toussaint – grand piano
• Efrem Towns – trumpet
• Steve Wickham – fiddle
• T-Bone Wolk – accordion, bass

[edit] Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1989	The Billboard 200	32

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1989	"...This Town..."	Billboard Modern Rock Tracks	4
1989	"Veronica"	Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks	10
1989	"Veronica"	Billboard Modern Rock Tracks	1
1989	"Veronica"	The Billboard Hot 100	19

[edit] External links

• "The Beloved Entertainer" – essay by Connor Ratliff

v • d • e 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