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''Imperial Bedroom'' is a 1982 album by Elvis Costello and the Attractions. It was the second Costello album, after ''Almost Blue'', not produced by Nick Lowe. Production duties were handled by Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick. "I wanted to try a few things in the studio that I suspected would quickly exhaust Nick's patience," as Costello put it in the liner notes to the 1994 Rykodisc reissue. It was voted as the best album of the year in ''The Village Voice'' Pazz & Jop critics poll. In 1998 readers of ''Q'' magazine named it the 96th greatest album ever. In 1989, it was ranked No. 38 on ''Rolling Stone'' magazine's list of The 100 Greatest Albums of the 80s. In 2003, the album was ranked number 166 on ''Rolling Stone'' magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=(166) Imperial Bedroom )〕 In 2012, ''Slant Magazine'' listed the album at No. 59 on its list of "Best Albums of the 1980s".〔() 〕 The album reached number 6 in the UK charts and number 30 in the USA but the singles were less successful. "You Little Fool" and "Man Out of Time" each briefly appeared in the UK Singles Chart, but neither charted in the USA. ==Background== In addition to being the first album of original material not produced by Lowe, this was the first of Costello's albums to be recorded without any of the songs having already been performed live. The songwriting and arrangements were done during the twelve-week recording session at AIR Studios. It was recorded at the same time as Paul McCartney's ''Tug of War'', on which Emerick simultaneously served as recording engineer. Unlike the previous two albums, there was no intent to have the songs in any particular arrangement or production style. Instead, they covered a variety of styles and included songs that were written at the end of the ''Trust'' (1981) sessions, through Costello's production of Squeeze's ''East Side Story'', and during the "Nashville adventure"〔 of ''Almost Blue''. ''Imperial Bedroom'' continued a direction, starting with ''Trust'', where Costello used a piano to compose songs, which was different from the writing approach he used on his first four albums.〔 As initially recorded, the album sounded very much like ''Trust'', but none of these versions survived to the final recording, except the intro and coda of "Man Out of Time". Instead, the band experimented with different instrumental choices, including a 40-piece orchestra for ".....And in Every Home". Costello also attempted to vary his vocal performances, such as the contrasting vocal tracks in "Pidgin English". Many of these studio embellishments had to be stripped when the songs were played live in concert. Despite some of the lyrical content, Costello had imagined this to be his most optimistic album to date.〔 The album inspired the title of Bret Easton Ellis' novel ''Imperial Bedrooms'', a sequel to Ellis' earlier novel ''Less Than Zero'', whose title was borrowed from Costello's song "Less Than Zero". 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「Imperial Bedroom」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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