- jazz, easy listening, ballad, adult contemporary
- 52 min
- 12 tracks
- Island Mercury
Painted from Memory is a collaboration album by Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach, released on 29 September 1998 through Mercury Records, a division of Universal Music Group.
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Character
Character-led, spare, grave and classical in form.
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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- AllMusic4.5/5 ★
- The Baltimore Sun3.5/4 ★
- Encyclopedia of Popular Music3/5 ★
- Entertainment WeeklyB+
- Los Angeles Times3.5/4 ★
- NME8/10
- Pitchfork7/10
- Q4/5 ★
- Rolling Stone4/5 ★
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide4/5 ★
- Spin8/10
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Tracks
- 1In the Darkest Place4:19
- 2Toledo4:34
- 3I Still Have That Other Girl2:46
- 4This House Is Empty Now5:09
- 5Tears at the Birthday Party4:38
- 6Such Unlikely Lovers3:24
- 7My Thief4:20
- 8The Long Division4:14
- 9Painted From Memory4:12
- 10The Sweetest Punch4:09
- 11What’s Her Name Today?4:08
- 12God Give Me Strength6:11
12 tracks, 52 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Elvis Costello, Burt Bacharach
- Label
- Island Mercury
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Digital Media
- Country
- XW
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