Elvis Costello - Spike (1989)

Elvis Costello - Spike (1989)

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Elvis Costello - Spike

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"...This Town..." – 4:32

"Let Him Dangle" – 4:45

"Deep Dark Truthful Mirror" – 4:07

"Veronica" (Costello, Paul McCartney) – 3:09

"God's Comic" – 5:31

"Chewing Gum" – 3:47

"Tramp the Dirt Down" – 5:41

"Stalin Malone" – 4:09

"Satellite" – 5:45

"Pads, Paws and Claws" (Costello, McCartney) – 2:56

"Baby Plays Around" (Costello, Cait O'Riordan) – 2:47

"Miss Macbeth" – 4:23

"Any King's Shilling" – 6:07

"Coal-Train Robberies" – 3:18

"Last Boat Leaving" – 3:31

Elvis Costello Band Members / Musicians

Elvis Costello – vocals, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, electric guitar, mandolin, piano, bells, acoustic bass guitar, organ, melodica

T Bone Burnett – acoustic guitar, bass, national steel guitar

Cait O'Riordan – maracas, bells

Dublin

Derek Bell – Irish harp, hammered dulcimer

Frankie Gavin – fiddle

Dónal Lunny – acoustic guitar, bouzouki, electric bouzouki

Davy Spillane – pipe, uilleann pipes, Low whistle

Steve Wickham – fiddle

Christy Moore – bodhran

Pete Thomas – drums

New Orleans

Lionel Batiste – bass drum

Gregory Davis – trumpet

Willie Green – drums

Kevin Harris – tenor saxophone

Charles Joseph – trombone

Kirk Joseph – sousaphone

Roger Lewis – baritone saxophone, soprano saxophone

Jenell Marshall – snare drum

Allen Toussaint – grand piano

Efrem Towns – trumpet

Hollywood

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"

Ralph Forbes – electric drums, drum programming

Mitchell Froom – organ, harmonium, electric piano, chamberlin, Indian harmonium

Roger McGuinn – twelve-string guitar, Rickenbacker bass guitar

Jim Keltner – tom-toms, snare drum, Chinese cymbal

Jerry Marotta – drums

Buell Neidlinger – cello, double bass

Marc Ribot – banjo, electric guitar, Spanish guitar, sounds

Jerry Scheff – electric bass, double bass, fuzz bass

Benmont Tench – piano, clavinet, spinet, Vox Continental

Tom "T Bone" Wolk – accordion, bass

London

Chrissie Hynde – harmony vocals

Nick Lowe – bass

Paul McCartney – Hofner bass guitar, Rickenbacker bass guitar

Pete Thomas – drums

Spike is the 12th studio album by the British rock singer and songwriter Elvis Costello, and his first since My Aim Is True without the Attractions, released on compact disc as Warner Brothers 25848. It was his first album for the label and peaked at No. 5 on the UK Albums Chart. It also reached No. 32 on the Billboard 200 thanks to the single and his most notable American hit, "Veronica", which reached No. 19 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No.1 on the US Modern Rock chart. In The Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop critics poll for the year's best albums, Spike finished at #7.