Brutal Youth (Elvis Costello album)

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Brutal Youth
Studio album by Elvis Costello
Released	March 8, 1994
Recorded	December 7, 1992–February 7, 1994, The Sound Factory, Hollywood, California
Genre	Rock
Length	56:55
Label	Warner Bros. Rhino (August 3, 1994 Reissue)
Producer	Mitchell Froom
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Robert Christgau link Rolling Stone link
Elvis Costello chronology
Live at the El Mocambo (1993) Brutal Youth (1994) The Very Best of Elvis Costello and The Attractions 1977-86 (1994)

Brutal Youth is an album by Elvis Costello. This is the first album Costello recorded with his band the Attractions after Blood and Chocolate (1986). The several albums in between were recorded with session musicians.

It was among the 6 Costello albums on the list of 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Bonus disc (2002 Rhino) 2 Personnel 3 Charts

[edit] Track listing

All songs by Declan MacManus unless otherwise indicated.

1. "Pony St" – 3:25
2. "Kinder Murder" – 3:25
3. "13 Steps Lead Down" – 3:16
4. "This Is Hell" – 4:27
5. "Clown Strike" – 4:05
6. "You Tripped at Every Step" – 4:12
7. "Still Too Soon to Know" – 2:19
8. "20% Amnesia" – 3:26
9. "Sulky Girl" – 5:07
10. "London's Brilliant Parade" (Elvis Costello) – 4:23
11. "My Science Fiction Twin" – 4:10
12. "Rocking Horse Road" – 4:03
13. "Just About Glad" – 3:14
14. "All the Rage" (Costello) – 3:52
15. "Favourite Hour" – 3:31

[edit] Bonus disc (2002 Rhino)

1. "This Is Hell" – 4:10
2. "Idiophone" – 1:58
3. "Abandon Words" – 2:55
4. "Poisoned Letter" – 3:48
5. "A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety" (MacManus, William Butler Yeats) – 1:08
6. "Pony St." (Version) – 3:36
7. "Just About Glad" (Demo version) – 3:41
8. "Clown Strike" (Version) – 4:19
9. "Rocking Horse Road" (Demo version) – 3:18
10. "13 Steps Lead Down" (Demo version) – 2:07
11. "All the Rage" (Demo version) – 3:38
12. "Sulky Girl" (Demo version) – 4:31
13. "You Tripped at Every Step" (Version) – 3:25

[edit] Personnel

• Elvis Costello – guitar, vocals, piano, bass
• Steve Nieve – organ, piano, harmonium
• Bruce Thomas – bass
• Pete Thomas – drums, percussion
• Nick Lowe – bass

[edit] Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1994	The Billboard 200	34

Singles

Year	Song	Chart	Position
1994	"13 Steps Lead Down"	Billboard Modern Rock Tracks	6
1994	"Sulky Girl"	UK Singles Chart	22

v • d • e Elvis Costello discography Albums My Aim Is True · King of America · Spike · Mighty Like a Rose · Brutal Youth · 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 · Momofuku 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 Compilations 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