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[[Image:PTC_album_cover_large.jpg|thumb|260px|right|Punch The Clock, 1983]]  
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''Excerpt from liner notes'':


"Punch The Clock" was our chance to get reacquainted with the wonderful world of pop music and still maintain a sense of humour. After Nashville and the labyrinth of "Imperial Bedroom" I was ready to find a different production approach.


Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley certainly knew where the charts were but they also made great records. They had produced hits for The Teardrop Explodes, Dexy's Midnight Runners and [[Madness]]. In fact I first met Clive as a fellow producer for Two-Tone Records. By the time I had finished [[The Specials]]' debut album Clive and Alan had moved with [[Madness]] to Stiff Records where the cut some of the best pop singles since the finest days of [[the Kinks|The Kinks]].


Despite making the most "English" music on the planet "Clanger and Winstanley" even managed to get [[Madness]] to No. 1 in America with "Our House". By 1983 they were pretty irresistible and unstoppable. (Clive was also an excellent songwriter. "Clive Langer and the Boxes" opened for us on the "Get Happy" tour of seaside towns and out of the way places. I produced a version of Amen Corner's "If Paradise Is Half As Nice" for his "Splash" album on F-Beat. Alan, the quiet and patient one of the team, also had some pretty mean credits to his name including engineering The Buzzcocks' best records.)
They favoured the "building-block" method of recording: retaining very little from the original "live" take (often only the drums) and tailoring each instrumental overdub to best serve the arrangement. This system naturally precluded the spontaneity of our past "happy accidents" but could yield startling results when the last piece was in place.


==Tracks==
==Tracks==
01. [[Let Them All Talk]] [3:06]<br>
{{tracklist
02. [[Everyday I Write The Book]] [3:52]<br>
| writing_credits = yes
03. [[The Greatest Thing]] [3:02]<br>
| title1    = [[Let Them All Talk]]
04. [[The Element Within Her]] [2:51]<br>
| writer1  = [[Elvis Costello]]
05. [[Love Went Mad]] [3:11]<br>
| length1  = 3:06
06. [[Shipbuilding]] [4:50]<br>
| title2    = [[Everyday I Write The Book]]
07. [[TKO (Boxing Day)]] [3:28]<br>
| writer2  = Elvis Costello
08. [[Charm School]] [3:52]<br>
| length2  = 3:52
09. [[The Invisible Man]] [3:04]<br>
| title3    = [[The Greatest Thing]]
10. [[Mouth Almighty]] [3:02]<br>
| writer3  = Elvis Costello
11. [[King Of Thieves]] [3:44]<br>
| length3  = 3:02
12. [[Pills And Soap]] [3:42]<br>
| title4    = [[The Element Within Her]]
13. [[The World And His Wife]] [3:24]<br>
| writer4  = Elvis Costello
[45:32]<br>
| length4  = 2:51
| title5    = [[Love Went Mad]]
| writer5  = Elvis Costello
| length5  = 3:11
| title6    = [[Shipbuilding]]
| writer6  = Elvis Costello & [[Clive Langer]]
| length6  = 4:50
| title7    = [[TKO (Boxing Day)]]
| writer7  = Elvis Costello
| length7  = 3:28
| title8    = [[Charm School]]
| writer8  = Elvis Costello
| length8  = 3:52
| title9    = [[The Invisible Man]]
| writer9  = Elvis Costello
| length9  = 3:04
| title10  = [[Mouth Almighty]]
| writer10  = Elvis Costello
| length10  = 3:02
| title11  = [[King Of Thieves]]
| writer11  = Elvis Costello
| length11  = 3:44
| title12  = [[Pills And Soap]]
| writer12  = Elvis Costello
| length12  = 3:42
| title13  = [[The World And His Wife]]
| writer13  = Elvis Costello
| length13  = 3:24
| total_length = 45:32
}}


==Credits==
==Credits==

Revision as of 14:25, 30 April 2009

Punch The Clock, 1983



Tracks

TitleWriter(s) Length
1. Let Them All Talk  Elvis Costello 3:06
2. Everyday I Write The Book  Elvis Costello 3:52
3. The Greatest Thing  Elvis Costello 3:02
4. The Element Within Her  Elvis Costello 2:51
5. Love Went Mad  Elvis Costello 3:11
6. Shipbuilding  Elvis Costello & Clive Langer 4:50
7. TKO (Boxing Day)  Elvis Costello 3:28
8. Charm School  Elvis Costello 3:52
9. The Invisible Man  Elvis Costello 3:04
10. Mouth Almighty  Elvis Costello 3:02
11. King Of Thieves  Elvis Costello 3:44
12. Pills And Soap  Elvis Costello 3:42
13. The World And His Wife  Elvis Costello 3:24
45:32

Credits

Elvis Costello - vocals, Epiphone, Gretsch & Fender guitars, 'one-finger' Synclavier, Casiotone
The Attractions:
Steve Nieve - Bosendorfer piano, Emulator, Fairlight CMI, Vox organ, Hammond organ, Synclavier
Bruce Thomas - electric Wal bass guitar
Pete Thomas - Gretsch drums, Sabian cymbals
The TKO Horns:
Jim Paterson - trombone
Jeff Blythe - alto sax, baritone sax, clarinet
Paul Speare - tenor sax, flute
Dave Plews - trumpet
Afrodiziak:
Caron Wheeler - backing vocals
Claudia Fontaine - backing vocals
Stuart Robson - trumpet & flugelhorn on "The World And His Wife"
Chet Baker - trumpet solo on "Shipbuilding"
Morris Pert - percussion
David Bedford - string arrangements

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