Tracklist Hide Credits

1	The Only Flame In Town Harmony Vocals [Featured Duet Harmony] – Daryl Hall	4:01
2	Home Truth	3:13
3	Room With No Number	4:13
4	Inch By Inch	2:29
5	Worthless Thing	3:03
6	Love Field	3:34
7	I Wanna Be Loved Backing Vocals [Backing Harmony] – Green GartsideWritten-By – Farnell Jenkins	4:47
8	The Comedians	2:35
9	Joe Porterhouse	3:29
10	Sour Milk-Cow Blues	2:50
11	The Great Unknown	3:00
12	The Deportees Club	2:54
13	Peace In Our Time	4:08

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Elvis Costello
• Licensed To – Universal Music Enterprises
• Marketed By – Universal Music LLC
• Distributed By – Universal Music LLC

Credits

• Art Direction – Vartan
• Bass – Bruce Thomas
• Design – Coco Shinomiya
• Drums – Pete Thomas
• Mastered By – Dan Hersch
• Mixed By [Assistant] – Jim Russell
• Percussion – Luis Jardin*
• Performer [Random Racket] – Maurice Worm
• Photography – Bryan Griffin
• Photography By – Brian Griffin
• Producer – Clive Langer And Alan Winstanley*
• Recorded By [Assistant] – Bob Kraushaar
• Reissue Producer [Production] – Michele Horie
• Saxophone, Saxophone [Electric] – Gary Barnacle
• Trombone – Jim Paterson
• Typography – Phil Smee
• Vocals, Guitar – Elvis Costello
• Written-By – Elvis Costello (tracks: 1 to 6, 8 to 13)

Notes

Recorded at Sarm West Studios, London, February 1984.
Mixed at Genetic Studios, March 1984.

Mastered at DigiPrep, Los Angeles, CA.

GOODBYE CRUEL WORLD was first issued as F-Beat ZL 70713 (UK) & Columbia FC 39429 (US), June 1984.

All songs published by BMG Music Publishing (UK), except
I Wanna Be Loved published by Irving Music Inc.

Issued in a jewel case.

Only available for retail sale in Japan from 4th March 2009 to 31st May 2009

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Mastering SID Code: IFPI L244
• Barcode: 4 988005 541956
• Matrix / Runout: UICY-90633 1W V
• Rights Society: JASRAC

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
ZL 70317	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Goodbye Cruel World ‎(LP, Album)	F-Beat	ZL 70317	UK	1984
RPL-8251	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Goodbye Cruel World ‎(LP, Album)	F-Beat	RPL-8251	Japan	1984
ZL 70317	Elvis Costello And The Attractions*	Goodbye Cruel World ‎(LP, Album)	F-Beat	ZL 70317	UK & Europe	1984
VICP-62509	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Goodbye Cruel World ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Victor	VICP-62509	Japan	2003
SFL1 0100	Elvis Costello And The Attractions*	Goodbye Cruel World ‎(LP, Album)	F-Beat, Starcall Records	SFL1 0100	Australia	1984