Spike

Spike
Studio album by Elvis Costello
Released	February 14, 1989
Recorded	1987-1988
Genre	Rock
Length	63:50
Label	Warner Bros. Rhino (August 11, 2001 Reissue)
Producer	Elvis Costello, Kevin Killen & T-Bone Burnett
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Elvis Costello chronology
Out of Our Idiot (1987) Spike (1989) Mighty Like a Rose (1991)

Spike is an album by the English musician Elvis Costello released in 1989 on Warner Brothers records, his first album for the label.

Track listing

All songs written by Elvis Costello, except where noted.

1. "This Town" – 4:30
2. "Let Him Dangle" – 4:45
3. "Deep Dark Truthful Mirror" – 4:06
4. "Veronica" (Costello, Paul McCartney) – 3:09
5. "God's Comic" – 5:31
6. "Chewing Gum" – 3:47
7. "Tramp the Dirt Down" – 5:44
8. "Stalin Malone" – 4:09
9. "Satellite" – 5:44
10. "Pads, Paws and Claws" (Costello, McCartney) – 2:56
11. "Baby Plays Around" (Costello, Cait O'Riordan) – 2:48
12. "Miss Macbeth" – 4:25
13. "Any King's Shilling" – 6:06
14. "Coal-Train Robberies" – 3:18
15. "Last Boat Leaving" – 3:30

Bonus disc (2001 Rhino)

1. "Miss Macbeth" (Demo version) – 3:50
2. "...This Town..." (Demo version) – 3:49
3. "Deep Dark Truthful Mirror" (Demo version) – 4:07
4. "Coal Train Robberies" (Demo version) – 2:51
5. "Satellite" (Demo version) – 4:50
6. "Pads, Paws and Claws" (Demo version) (Costello, McCartney) – 2:07
7. "Let Him Dangle" (Demo version) – 3:39
8. "Veronica" (Demo version) (Costello, McCartney) – 5:19
9. "Tramp the Dirt Down" (Demo version) – 5:19
10. "Baby Plays Around" (Demo version) (Costello, O'Riordan) – 2:42
11. "Put Your Big Toe in the Milk of Human Kindness" (Demo version) – 3:16
12. "Last Boat Leaving" (Demo version) – 3:29
13. "The Ugly Things" (Nick Lowe) – 2:55
14. "You're No Good" (Clint Ballard, Jr.) – 2;21
15. "Point of No Return" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King) – 2:33
16. "The Room Nobody Lives In" (John Sebastian) – 4:46
17. "Stalin Malone" (Vocal version) – 3:11

Personnel

• Elvis Costello – acoustic guitar, bass guitar, electric guitar, mandolin, piano, vocals, bells, acoustic bass guitar, organ, melodica
• T-Bone Burnett – acoustic guitar, bass, National Steel guitar
• Ralph Forbes – electric drums, drum programming
• Mitchell Froom – organ, harmonium, electric piano, chamberlin, Indian harmonium

Additional personnel

• Lionel Batiste – drums (bass)
• Derek Bell – Irish harp, hammered dulcimer
• Michael Blair – glockenspiel, marimba, tambourine, xylophone, bells, timpani, vibraphone, Chinese drums, Oldsmobile hubcap, Parade drum, anvil, whiplash, crash-box, temple bells, snare drum, "magic table", metal pipe, "Martian dog bark"
• Gregory Davis – trumpet
• The Dirty Dozen Brass Band – horn arrangements, string arrangements
• John Donnelly – drum programming
• Frankie Gavin – fiddle
• William Green – drums
• Kevin Harris – tenor saxophone
• Chrissie Hynde – harmony vocals
• Charles Joseph – trombone
• Kirk Joseph – sousaphone
• Jim Keltner – tom-toms, snare drum, Chinese cymbals
• Roger Lewis – baritone saxophone, soprano saxophone
• Donal Lunny – acoustic guitar, bouzouki, electric bouzouki
• Jerry Marotta – drums
• Jenell Marshall – snare drum
• Paul McCartney – Hofner bass guitar, Rickenbacker bass guitar
• Roger McGuinn – Guitar 12 string guitar, Rickenbacker bass guitar
• Christy Moore – bodhran
• Buell Neidlinger – cello, double bass
• Cait O'Riordan – maracas, bells
• Marc Ribot – banjo, electric guitar, Spanish guitar, sounds
• Jerry Scheff – electric bass, double bass, fuzz bass
• Davy Spillane – pipe, uilleann pipes, Low whistle
• Benmont Tench – piano, clavinet, spinet, Vox Continental
• Pete Thomas – drums
• Allen Toussaint – grand piano
• Efrem Towns – trumpet
• Steve Wickham – fiddle
• Tom "T-Bone" Wolk – accordion, bass

Charts

Album

Singles