COSTELLO, ELVIS / EXTREME HONEY: THE VERY BEST

Extreme Honey is a compilation album by Elvis Costello spanning the years 1989?1997.

There are a number of hits and singles (Veronica, So Like Candy, Sulky Girl, 13 Steps Lead Down, The Other Side of Summer?), and additional album tracks from the same period. There are a number of great moments here, whether it’s the lilting ?The Birds Will Still Be Singing? from the underrated The Juliet Letters or the New Orleans-inflected ?Deep Dark Truthful Mirror.?

Extreme Honey also contains ?My Dark Life,? Costello’s collaboration with Brian Eno (originally featured on The X-Files soundtrack), and the new track ?The Bridge I Burned,? a neo-psychedelic/trip-hop number constructed from backing tapes recorded with his son and Supergrass drummer Danny Goffey.
This double album is a good way to become acquainted with Costello’s Nineties? output.

A1 The Bridge I Burned
A2 Veronica
A3 Sulky Girl
A4 So Like Candy

B1 13 Steps Lead Down
B2 All This Useless Beauty
B3 My Dark Life
B4 The Other Side Of Summer
B5 Kinder Murder

C1 Deep Dark Truthful Mirror
C2 Hurry Down Doomsday
C3 Poor Fractured Atlas
C4 The Birds Will Still Be Singing
C5 London’s Brilliant Parade

D1 Tramp The Dirt Down
D2 Couldn’t Call It Unexpected No. 4
D3 I Want To Vanish
D4 All The Rage