- Audio CD (Feb 26 2002)
- Number of Discs: 2
- Format: Original recording remastered
- Label: Rhino-Atlantic
- ASIN: B00005Y1Y1
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #80,448 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Pony St. | |||
| 2. Kinder Murder | |||
| 3. 13 Steps Lead Down | |||
| 4. This Is Hell | |||
| 5. Clown Strike | |||
| 6. You Tripped At Every Step | |||
| 7. Still Too Soon To Know | |||
| 8. 20% Amnesia | |||
| 9. Sulky Girl | |||
| 10. London's Brilliant Parade | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Life Shrinks | |||
| 2. Favourite Hour (Alt. Version) | |||
| 3. This Is Hell (Alt. Version) | |||
| 4. Idiophone | |||
| 5. Abandon Words | |||
| 6. Poisoned Letter | |||
| 7. A Drunken Man's Praise Of Sobriety | |||
| 8. Pony St. (Demo) | |||
| 9. Clown Strike (Alt. Version) | |||
| 10. Rocking Horse Road (Demo) | |||
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Product Description
From Amazon.com
Brutal Youth (1994) reunited Costello with the Attractions (and occasional substitute bassist Nick Lowe) in an ambitious attempt to link the experimental impulses of Spike and Mighty Like a Rose to the outfit's controlled careen. While peers such as Sting disappeared further up their own precocity, Costello mined both the fanciful (his jokes are actually funny) and enraged. From the opening shots of "Pony St." and "Kinder Murder," he assuredly moves through the pub R&B of "Clown Strike," the art-song trappings of "Still Too Soon to Know," and the Trust-style classicism of "Sulky Girl" ("Hold your tongue / Although I know you've never been that strong") and "You Tripped at Every Step." Often majestic, the record occasionally feels mannered--an alternate version of the ballad "Favourite Hour" included on this 2002 reissue as a bonus track is much less lumbering than the take that closes the album proper--but remains a casualty of audience indifference. Almost anyone who missed it the first time around will find moments to add to their list of Costello treasures. --Rickey Wright
Album Description
Rhino Records expanded reissue, completely remastered and packaged with a bonus disc of rarities. Bonus disc content - 'Life Shrinks', 'Favourite Hour' (Alt. Version), 'This Is Hell' (Alt. Version), 'Idiophone', 'Abandon Words', 'Poisoned Letter', 'A Drunken Man's Praise Of Sobriety', 'Pony St.' (Demo), 'Clown Strike' (Alt. Version), 'Rocking Horse Road' (Demo), '13 Steps Lead Down' (Demo), 'All The Rage' (Demo), 'Just About Glad' (Alt. Version), 'Sulky Girl' (Demo) & 'You Tripped At Every Step' (Alt. Version). 2002.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A Brilliant Parade,
By Glenn Ogden (Ottawa, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Brutal Youth (2cd) (Audio CD)
Buy this album, it's worth every penny. This is Costello and the Attractions roaring back to rude good health with all the breatless urgency of their younger selves.Tracks like This is Hell and London's Brilliant Parade stand easy comparison with any of Costello's earlier triumphs. Before you know it you get hooked on this album making it easy to forgive the odd mixing or production clanger that you may come across. Good knock about stuff with the usual Costello emotional and sonic manipulation - it was great when it was first released and it's great now.
4.0 out of 5 stars
And he answered "Superbly".....,
By Tim Brough "author and music buff" (Springfield, PA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Brutal Youth (2cd) (Audio CD)
That line is taken from "My Science Fiction Twin" and is the rejoinder to a question asked of how he manages to do so many tasks at once. Which pretty much sums up "Brutal Youth," which was a joyous return to rocking with Nick Lowe and the Attractions. After a testy eight year separation, they came together to make one more album to remind us just how much fun the sound of a slamming snare drum mixed with venom, power and passion could be. Let's face it, after reading Bruce Thomas' uncomplimentary "The Big Wheel" and hearing EC's diatribes on "Mighty Like A Rose" ("How To Be Dumb" in particular), I'd figured a reunion was about as likely as seeing E. Presley at the local Burger King.Yet here it was...with the band roaring right into "Pony Street," a generation gap conversation between a jaded daughter and a mother who still thinks she is on the cutting edge ("I am the genuine thing, but to you it's just history"). By the time your disc player reaches the end of "13 Steps Lead Down" with the cookpot slam of the drums, the precision power bass and fabulous keyboard flourishes, you'll remember (for all the right reasons) why you fell in love with "Armed Forces." Those aforementioned songs, as well as "Sulky Girl," "20% Amnesia" and the surprisingly sentimental "London's Brilliant Parade" are EC Classics. The bonus disc has some interesting pre-album arrangements of the songs and a few drop outs ("Poisoned Letters" eventually morphed into "All The Rage"), but it is still the power and immediacy of the original album that was the beefsteak, and was one of my faves of the year 1994.
4.0 out of 5 stars
One of his best "returns to form",
By A Customer
This review is from: Brutal Youth (2cd) (Audio CD)
"This Year's Model" stands in my mind as EC & The Attractions at their most raw and tuneful. It's my standard for measuring everything else he's done. Upon re-listening to this '94 release, I now think it could have easily been Model's follow-up (instead of the over-produced "Armed Forces").I rate this right up there on EC's second-tier, with "My Aim is True" and "Get Happy." Regarding his other "return to form" releases: I found "Blood and Chocolate" to be almost unlistenable in parts and only like "Doll Revolution" from "When I Was Cruel."
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