Elvis Costello And The Attractions / Get Happy !! (US, Columbia, JC 36347) <February 15, 1980>

Elvis Costello And The Attractions / Get Happy !! (US, Columbia, JC 36347) <February 15, 1980>
(SIDE 1) AL 36347-1E
(SIDE 2) BL 36347-1E

この作品は才能と衝動だけで作られたような作品です。初期のコステロの音楽には"Spike"や"The Juliet Letters"あたり以降の深みがありませんが、初期の4枚のアルバムあたりは、どれも素晴らしく楽しいです。
「自己の黒人差別発言ののちに償いの意図をもってR&Bアルバムを作成した」と語られていますが、Wikiを読むと、そうでもないようですね。というか、コステロってバリバリのR&Bフリークですし、酔った時に「調子に乗った若者が心にもないことを発言してみる」なんて珍しくもないですね（言うべきでなかったのは確かですが）。

During the American concert tour for Armed Forces in April 1979, Costello engaged in a drunken argument with Stephen Stills and Bonnie Bramlett in a Columbus, Ohio, Holiday Inn hotel bar, during which he referred to James Brown as a "jive-assed nigger," then upped the ante by pronouncing Ray Charles a "blind, ignorant nigger." Costello apologised at a New York City press conference a few days later, claiming that he had been drunk and had been attempting to be obnoxious to bring the conversation to a swift conclusion, not anticipating that Bramlett would bring his comments to the press.

It has been suggested that the R&B influence on the album was an attempt to atone for his comments, but as Costello writes in the liner notes for the 2003 Rhino version,

“ It might have been tempting to claim that I had some noble motive in basing this record on the music that I had admired and learned from prior to my brush with infamy. But if I was trying to pay respects and make such amends, I doubt if pride would have allowed me to express that thought after I had made my rather contrived explanation ... I simply went back to work and relied on instinct, curiosity, and enduring musical passions.[

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJS-2kacmpU

〇ジャケ
天割れなし、底抜けなし、スパイン抜けなし。
周囲のハゲは少なめ。底に1cm程度・5mm程度のハゲがあります。
コーナーの軽度の潰れあり。
リングウエア・スレ・汚れは軽度です。
まずまずの状態だと思います。
VG(+)以上です。

〇レコ
ヒゲなし、スレ少し、キズほぼなし。
針圧わずか1.5gでも針飛びせず、問題なく再生できます。
VG(++)です。