Elvis Costello - This Year's Model (35th anniversary)

Today (March 17th) marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of the release of This Year's Model, the second studio album from Elvis Costello.

For my full review of this 1978 album, please click here.

Elvis Costello - This Year's Model

Welcome to another edition of Seventies Saturday.

On March 17th of 1978, Elvis Costello released This Year’s Model, his second studio album. It was also the first he recorded with the Attractions (Steve Nieve on keyboards, Bruce Thomas on bass and Pete Thomas on drums), the start of a long working relationship together. It sold fairly well, going Gold in both the UK and the US. As far as chart positions, it also did respectable (number 4 in the UK, number 15 in Norway, number 10 in Sweden and number 30 in the US).

The record was a critical success and has left its mark decades later. Q magazine ranked it at number 82 on its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. Rolling Stone magazine ranked it number 98 on its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All-Time.