Costello & Nieve is a limited edition five-disc 1996 live album by Elvis Costello and Steve Nieve recorded in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston and New York City, which was released in the US only.

Costello & Nieve
Live album by
Released3 December 1996
Recorded14–22 May 1996
GenreRock
Length113:26
LabelWarner Bros.
Elvis Costello and Steve Nieve chronology
All This Useless Beauty
(1996)
Costello & Nieve
(1996)
Terror & Magnificence
(1997)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]

Track listing edit

All songs written by Elvis Costello unless otherwise indicated.

Disc 1 (Recorded on May 14, 1996 Live at The Troubadour, Los Angeles) edit

  1. "Temptation" – 3:50
  2. "Poor Fractured Atlas" – 4:58
  3. "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – 3:27
  4. "It's Time" – 5:55
  5. "Man Out of Time" – 4:53
  6. "Shallow Grave" (Costello, Paul McCartney) – 2:54

Disc 2 (Recorded on May 15, 1996 Live at The Fillmore, San Francisco) edit

  1. "Just About Glad" – 3:59
  2. "Why Can't a Man Stand Alone?" – 4:10
  3. "My Dark Life" – 7:13
  4. "All This Useless Beauty" – 5:57
  5. "Ship of Fools" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 6:12

Disc 3 (Recorded on May 18, 1996 Live at The Park West, Chicago) edit

  1. "The Long Honeymoon" – 4:25
  2. "Starting to Come to Me" – 2:47
  3. "The Other End of the Telescope" (Costello, Aimee Mann) – 4:32
  4. "All the Rage" – 4:02
  5. "Watching the Detectives" – 6:09

Disc 4 (Recorded on May 20, 1996 Live at The Paradise, Boston) edit

  1. "You Bowed Down" – 4:56
  2. "The Long Honeymoon" – 4:46
  3. "Distorted Angel" – 4:45
  4. "(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes" – 2:49
  5. "Little Atoms" – 5:37
  6. "My Funny Valentine" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:02

Disc 5 (Recorded on May 22, 1996 Live at The Supper Club, New York) edit

  1. "Black Sails in the Sunset" – 3:17
  2. "You'll Never Be a Man" – 3:16
  3. "Just a Memory" – 3:44
  4. "I Want to Vanish" – 3:22
  5. Medley: – 6:16

Personnel edit

  • Elvis Costello - guitar, vocals
  • Steve Nieve - piano

with:

  • Pete Thomas - drums on "Man Out of Time" and "Shallow Grave"

References edit

  1. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. Costello & Nieve at AllMusic
  2. ^ Larkin, Colin (2011). "Costello, Elvis". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). London: Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8.