Album Lyrics from Imperial Bedroom by Elvis Costello

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"Masterpiece?" was the word--in Columbia Records' ad campaign, anyway--when Imperial Bedroom appeared in 1982. As the album plays, though, the emphasis occasionally seems better placed on the question mark. This is a very good, sometimes dazzling album, but as a heart-wrencher it holds not a candle to King of America, and as a singular example of elegant pop craft it can't top Costello's 1998 collaboration with Burt Bacharach, Painted from Memory (not too shabby as a heart-wrencher itself, come to think of it). Of course, there are plenty of small miracles, and one huge one in the mind-bending "Beyond Belief." Imperial Bedroom is gorgeous more often than not, but in a way, there's more heart in the simple Smokey Robinson and the Miracles cover, "From Head to Toe," that appeared as a single later that year.

--Rickey Wright

Imperial Bedroom
by Elvis Costello

Song Lyrics

...And in Every Home
Almost Blue
Beyond Belief
Boy With a Problem
From Head To Toe
Human Hands
Imperial Bedroom
I Turn Around
Kid About it
Little Savage
Man Out of Time
Night Time
Pidgin English
Really Mystified
Seconds Of Pleasure
Shabby Doll
Tears Before Bedtime
The Long Honeymoon
The Loved Ones
The Stamping Ground
The World Of Broken Hearts
Town Cryer
You Little Fool


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