Description:Released to coincide with the American leg of Elvis Costello's 2002 world tour and also to sate the appetites of Stateside obsessives with limited shelf-room, shallow purses and an intolerance to specialist import stores, Cruel Smile is a stop-gap compilation of peripheral recordings dating from the When I Was Cruel album sessions (inReleased to coincide with the American leg of Elvis Costello's 2002 world tour and also to sate the appetites of Stateside obsessives with limited shelf-room, shallow purses and an intolerance to specialist import stores, Cruel Smile is a stop-gap compilation of peripheral recordings dating from the When I Was Cruel album sessions (including sundry remixes of tracks from that very same record), radio slots and live performances, many of which were originally released as B-sides and bonus cuts on recently issued singles from the far flung corners of the globe. British Costello-ites who have already shelled-out for the two-CD reissued version of When I Was Cruel will already own nine of these tracks, including a stroppy, blood-and-guts, live rendition of "Uncomplicated" and--in the wake of his commercial success (a rarity these days) with his version of "She"--two admirable recordings of the old Charlie Chaplin-penned/Nat King Cole-covered movie melody "Smile" (one dripping with show-time strings, jazz sax and theatrical stardust and the other more sombre, piano-adorned and plaintive), which Costello recorded for the Japanese TV drama 100 Million Stars Falling from the Sky and which show Robbie Williams' crooning aspirations the way to go. --Kevin Maidment... (more)(less)
Manufacturer : Island Release date : 13 October 2007 EAN: 0044006338828 UPC: 044006338828
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