Spike
by Elvis Costello
- Type: Album
- Released: 6 February 1989
- Label: Warner Bros.
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 1:04:20
- Community rating: 3.14/5 from 2 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'Spike' marks a highly collaborative and eclectic phase for Elvis Costello, prominently featuring co-writing credits with Paul McCartney. The album's production incorporates a wide array of instrumentation, traversing various genres from pop-rock to New Orleans jazz, reflecting a deliberately fractured and diverse compositional approach.
Genres
Descriptors: folk, instrumental, melodic
Tracklist
- ...This Town... (4:30)
- Let Him Dangle (4:45)
- Deep Dark Truthful Mirror (4:05)
- Veronica (3:09)
- God's Comic (5:31)
- Chewing Gum (3:44)
- Tramp the Dirt Down (5:41)
- Stalin Malone (4:08)
- Satellite (5:44)
- Pads, Paws and Claws (2:54)
- Baby Plays Around (2:46)
- Miss Macbeth (4:23)
- Any King's Shilling (6:06)
- Coal-Train Robberies (3:16)
- Last Boat Leaving (3:31)
Credits
- Elvis Costello - primary artist, design, producer [produced by], vocals, vocals [vocal], electric guitar [electric guitars], vocals, electric bass [hofner bass], vocals, guitar, vocals, electric guitar, piano [bass-piano], vocals [vocal], guitar [sub-aqua], acoustic guitar, electric bass [hofner bass], piano, vocals, vocals [vocal], acoustic guitar [acoustic guitars], electric organ [hammond bass pedals], bells, vocals, mandolin, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, acoustic guitar [acoustic guitars], mandolin, piano, organ, bells [ship's bell], vocals
- Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus - arranged by [horn arrangements by], composed by, arranged by, written-by, electric guitar [rickenbacker 6-string], guitar [gretsch], guitar [spider], acoustic guitar, organ, piano, melodica, tambourine, vocals
- The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - arranged by [horn arrangements by], featuring
- Kathe Duba-Noland - coordinator [editorial]
- Jeri Heiden - design
- John Heiden - design [logo design]
- Edgar Duchrow - direct metal mastering by
- Michael C. Ross - engineer [additional], engineer [assistant, ocean way]
- Lance Phillips - engineer [assistant, air london]
- Stacy Baird - engineer [assistant, ocean way]
- David Farrell - engineer [assistant, southlake]
- John Grimes - engineer [assistant, windmill lane]
- Kevin Killen - engineer, mixed by, producer [produced by]
- Bob Ludwig - mastered by
- Brian Griffin - photography by [photographer]
- T-Bone Burnett - producer [produced by], acoustic guitar, bass [trigger bass]
- Aldus Type Studio - typography [typesetting]
- McCartney/Mac Manus - written by
- O'Riordan/Mac Manus - written by
- Cait O'Riordan - written-by, maracas [lunge], bells [snowbells]
- Paul McCartney - written-by, electric bass [rickenbacker bass], electric bass [hofner bass]
- Jim Keltner - drum [extra snare drum], drum [snare drum], cymbal [chinese cymbal], drums [snare drums], tom tom [tom-tom drums]
- Roger McGuinn - electric guitar [rickenbacker 12-string]
- Ralph Forbes - electronic drums [electric drums]
- Michael Blair - glockenspiel, bells, drum [chinese drum], percussion [oldsmobile hubcap], drum [parade drum], tambourine [tambourines], timpani [tympani], glockenspiel, xylophone, marimba, drum [snare drum], performer [magic table], percussion [metal pipe], tambourine, glockenspiel, vibraphone, marimba, timpani [tympani], glockenspiel, bells, marimba, performer [martian-dog bark], percussion [crash-box], glockenspiel, tambourine, temple bells, drum [snare drum]
- Jerry Scheff - bass, double bass
- Jerry Marotta - drums, drum [snare drum]
- Marc Ribot - electric guitar [all electric guitars], acoustic guitar [spanish guitar], banjo, sounds [distant sound], electric guitar, guitar ["alligator" guitar]
- Benmont Tench - piano, piano, spinet [baldwin spinet], clavinet [hohner clavinet]
- Roger Lewis - baritone saxophone, baritone saxophone, soprano saxophone
- Allen Toussaint - grand piano
- Kirk Joseph - sousaphone
- Kevin Harris - tenor saxophone
- Efrem Towns - trumpet
- Gregory Davis - trumpet
- Mitchell Froom - electric piano [wurlitzer electric piano], electric organ [chamberlain], electric organ [chamberlain], harmonium [indian harmonium], electric organ [chamberlain], organ, organ [distant], electric organ [chamberlain], electric piano [wurlitzer electric piano], organ
- Buell Neidlinger - double bass, cello, double bass [double basses]
- Willie Green - drums
- Donal Lunny - bouzouki, acoustic guitar, bouzouki [electric bouzoukis], bouzouki [acoustic bouzoukis], bodhr谩n [bodhran]
- Pete Thomas - drums
- Steve Wickham - fiddle
- Davy Spillane - low whistle, uilleann pipes [uileann pipes], uilleann pipes [uileann pipes], low whistle
- Lionel Batiste - bass drum
- Jenell Marshall - drum [snare drum]
- Charles Joseph - trombone
- T-Bone Wolk - bass, bass, accordion
- Chrissie Hynde - harmony vocals [harmony vocal]
- Christy Moore - bodhr谩n [bodhran]
- Frankie Gavin - fiddle
- Derek Bell - harp [irish harp], hammered dulcimer [tiompan]