Elvis Costello - Punch the Clock (1983)
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Elvis Costello - Punch the Clock
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Side one
1. "Let Them All Talk" 3:06
2. "Everyday I Write the Book" 3:54
3. "The Greatest Thing" 3:04
4. "The Element Within Her" 2:52
5. "Love Went Mad" 3:13
6. "Shipbuilding" 4:53
Side two
1. "T.K.O. (Boxing Day)" 3:28
2. "Charm School" 3:55
3. "The Invisible Man" 3:04
4. "Mouth Almighty" 3:04
5. "King of Thieves" 3:45
6. "Pills and Soap" 3:43
7. "The World and His Wife" 3:32
Elvis Costello Band Members / Musicians
Elvis Costello – vocals; Epiphone, Gretsch and Fender guitars; Synclavier and Casiotone; all sounds and voices on "Pills and Soap"
The Attractions:
Steve Nieve – Bösendorfer piano, Emulator, Fairlight CMI, Vox organ, Hammond organ, Synclavier
Bruce Thomas – Electric Wal bass guitar
Pete Thomas – Gretsch Drums, Sabian cymbals
The TKO Horns
Jim Paterson – trombone
Jeff Blythe – alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, clarinet
Paul Speare – tenor saxophone, flute
Dave Plews – trumpet
Stewart Robson – trumpet & flugelhorn on "The World and His Wife"
Afrodiziak (Caron Wheeler and Claudia Fontaine) – backing vocals
Chet Baker – trumpet solo on "Shipbuilding"
David Bedford – string arrangements
Morris Pert – percussion
Phil Smee - sleeve
Nick Knight - photography
Punch the Clock is the 7th album by Elvis Costello and the Attractions, released in 1983. It was Costello's eighth album, his seventh with the Attractions since 1978. The album featured Costello's first US Top 40 hit, "Everyday I Write the Book." It was produced by Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley, who also produced Costello's following album, Goodbye Cruel World.
It was ranked as the number 1 "Album of the Year" for 1983 by NME thirty years later, the magazine ranked it at number 345 in its list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".
