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〕 | rev2 = Pitchfork Media | rev2Score = (7.5/10)〔()〕 | rev3 = Robert Christgau | rev3Score = 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CG: Elvis Costello and the Attractions )〕 | rev4 = ''Rolling Stone'' | rev4Score = 〔()〕 }} ''All This Useless Beauty'' is the seventeenth studio album by the English singer-songwriter Elvis Costello, released as Warner Brothers 46198. It peaked at number 28 on the UK album chart, and at No. 53 on the ''Billboard'' 200. It is his final album with his long-standing backing band known as 'The Attractions', and the last album he delivered under his contract to the Warner Brothers label, his contract expiring with a further compilation album, ''Extreme Honey''. ==Content== In its original conception, the album was to be a two-disc set of songs written for other artists, entitled ''A Case for Song'', with backing by a diverse array of musicians, influenced by his participation in the 1995 Meltdown Festival.〔Costello, Elvis. ''All This Useless Beauty.'' Rhino Records R2 74284, 2001, liner notes, p. 3.〕 Aspects of this concept survived to the final album, as four songs previously released by others made it to the final track listing: "The Other End Of The Telescope," co-written with Aimee Mann and originally recorded by 'Til Tuesday; "You Bowed Down," recorded by Roger McGuinn; "All This Useless Beauty" and "I Want to Vanish," recorded by June Tabor. The title is a sarcastic reference to what Costello thought would be the fate of the album.〔Costello, p. 7.〕 Instead, Costello hired the Attractions, and recorded the songs at Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin and Westside Studios in London with Geoff Emerick producing & engineered by Jon Jacobs. "Complicated Shadows" had been intended for Johnny Cash, and "Why Can't A Man Stand Alone?" for Sam Moore, but neither singer elected to record them.〔Costello, p. 8.〕 Another of his collaborations with Paul McCartney appears, "Shallow Grave". Unusually, six tracks were released as singles in either the United Kingdom or the USA; "It's Time", "Little Atoms", "The Other End of the Telescope", "Distorted Angel", "All This Useless Beauty" and "You Bowed Down". Only "It's Time" charted, and only in the UK, peaking at #58. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「All This Useless Beauty」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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