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The fourth album by Elvis Costello, his third with the Attractions, ''Get Happy!!'' is notable for being a dramatic break in tone from Costello's three previous albums, and for being heavily influenced by R&B, ska and soul music. The cover art was intentionally designed to have a "retro" feel, to look like the cover of an old LP with ring wear on both front and back. It was placed at No. 11 on ''Rolling Stone'' magazine's list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s. ==Background== During the American concert tour for ''Armed Forces'' in April 1979, Costello engaged in a drunken argument with Stephen Stills and Bonnie Bramlett in a Columbus, Ohio, Holiday Inn hotel bar, during which he referred to James Brown as a "jive-arsed nigger," then upped the ante by pronouncing Ray Charles a "blind, ignorant nigger." Costello apologised at a New York City press conference a few days later, claiming that he had been drunk and had been attempting to be obnoxious to bring the conversation to a swift conclusion, not anticipating that Bramlett would bring his comments to the press. It has been suggested that the R&B influence on the album was an attempt to atone for his comments,〔 but as Costello writes in the liner notes for the 2002 Rhino version, The band had played some of the songs during the "Armed Funk Tour" and had rehearsed them for the record, but were dissatisfied with the sound, feeling it was too "new wave." (Some of the original versions can be found on disc 2 of the Rhino release.) They then went back and re-arranged many of the songs using an R&B sound. On their US tours, Costello had been able to find a number of R&B records of his favourite artists and having been listening to them during the rehearsals, decided to emulate the feel of those songs.〔 The band recorded the album at Wisseloord Studios in Hilversum, Netherlands, in an attempt to isolate themselves from distractions, but they were still able to keep themselves drunk during the recording sessions.〔 The exception to this was "New Amsterdam," which was recorded solo by Costello in a small studio in Pimlico. With twenty songs on the original album, the vinyl cutting and pressing process had to be precise to fit all of them on the two sides of the record.〔 A commercial for the album, added as a hidden track on the Rhino Records remaster, jokes about the album's length and number of songs. 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「Get Happy!! (Elvis Costello album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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