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Elvis Costello and The Attractions, Armed Forces, 1979 on Columbia
Costello's third LP and second with The Attractions (but the first to credit them on the cover). My favorites here are "Oliver's Army" and of course "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding" (forgiving the lack of an Oxford comma). Produced by Nick Lowe, who famously wrote the latter. My copy—via Vinyl Vault in Littleton MA—is a Pitman pressing from 1979 with (as expected) the US cover. In the UK, the initial release (on Radar Records) has the painting of the elephants on […]https://goatless.org/2026/05/14/elvis-costello-and-the-attractions-armed-forces-1979-on-columbia
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Elvis Costello and The Attractions, Armed Forces, 1979 on Columbia
Costello's third LP and second with The Attractions (but the first to credit them on the cover). My favorites here are "Oliver's Army" and of course "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding" (forgiving the lack of an Oxford comma). Produced by Nick Lowe, who famously wrote the latter. My copy—via Vinyl Vault in Littleton MA—is a Pitman pressing from 1979 with (as expected) the US cover. In the UK, the initial release (on Radar Records) has the painting of the elephants on […]https://goatless.org/2026/05/14/elvis-costello-and-the-attractions-armed-forces-1979-on-columbia
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Elvis Costello and The Attractions, Armed Forces, 1979 on Columbia
Costello's third LP and second with The Attractions (but the first to credit them on the cover). My favorites here are "Oliver's Army" and of course "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding" (forgiving the lack of an Oxford comma). Produced by Nick Lowe, who famously wrote the latter. My copy—via Vinyl Vault in Littleton MA—is a Pitman pressing from 1979 with (as expected) the US cover. In the UK, the initial release (on Radar Records) has the painting of the elephants on […]https://goatless.org/2026/05/14/elvis-costello-and-the-attractions-armed-forces-1979-on-columbia
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Elvis Costello and The Attractions, Armed Forces, 1979 on Columbia
Costello's third LP and second with The Attractions (but the first to credit them on the cover). My favorites here are "Oliver's Army" and of course "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding" (forgiving the lack of an Oxford comma). Produced by Nick Lowe, who famously wrote the latter. My copy—via Vinyl Vault in Littleton MA—is a Pitman pressing from 1979 with (as expected) the US cover. In the UK, the initial release (on Radar Records) has the painting of the elephants on […]https://goatless.org/2026/05/14/elvis-costello-and-the-attractions-armed-forces-1979-on-columbia
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Elvis Costello and The Attractions, Armed Forces, 1979 on Columbia
Costello's third LP and second with The Attractions (but the first to credit them on the cover). My favorites here are "Oliver's Army" and of course "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding" (forgiving the lack of an Oxford comma). Produced by Nick Lowe, who famously wrote the latter. My copy—via Vinyl Vault in Littleton MA—is a Pitman pressing from 1979 with (as expected) the US cover. In the UK, the initial release (on Radar Records) has the painting of the elephants on […]https://goatless.org/2026/05/14/elvis-costello-and-the-attractions-armed-forces-1979-on-columbia
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Elvis Costello and The Attractions, Blood & Chocolate, 1986 on Columbia
Costello’s 11th studio LP and 9th with The Attractions, as a follow up to King of America, and produced by Nick Lowe.
Didn’t do so well commercially at the time, but now called one of his best. Costello is credited on the rear sleeve as “Napoleon Dynamite” – which is also the name of the cover painting (also by Costello, but attributed to Eamonn Singer – though the director of the same-named film claims it is not referring to Costello.
My copy – from the merch table at an Elvis Costello / Steve Nieve show at The Cabot – is a more recent (post 2015) reissue by UMe.
#1980s #1986 #CabotTheater #Columbia #EamonnSinger #ElvisCostello #ElvisCostelloTheAttractions #NickLowe #TheAttractions #UMe #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds -
"(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding" is a 1974 song written by English singer/songwriter #NickLowe. Initially released by Lowe with his band Brinsley Schwarz on their 1974 album #TheNewFavouritesOfBrinsleySchwarz, the song was released as a single and did not chart. The song was most famously covered by #ElvisCostello and #theAttractions, who recorded a version of the song that was released as a B-side to Lowe's 1978 solo single "American Squirm".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssd3U_zicAI