G.B.H. is a 1991 soundtrack album

Soundtrack album

A soundtrack album is any album that incorporates music directly recorded from the soundtrack of a particular feature film or television program. In some cases, not all the tracks from the movie are included in the album; however there are rare cases of songs in the trailers that do not appear in...

 by Elvis Costello

Elvis Costello

Elvis Costello , born Declan Patrick MacManus, is an English singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader...

 and Richard Harvey, the first of two collaborations Costello would do with Harvey. G.B.H. (TV series) was a seven-part Channel 4

Channel 4

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 series first aired in the U.K.

United Kingdom

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 in 1991. Despite the participation of Elvis Costello, the music is not rock, which was a surprise to critics at the time it was first released.

Track listing

All compositions written by Elvis Costello

Elvis Costello

Elvis Costello , born Declan Patrick MacManus, is an English singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader...

 and Richard Harvey unless otherwise indicated.

1. "G.B.H. Opening Titles: The Life and Times of Michael Murray" – 4:32
2. "It Wasn't Me" – 2:01
3. "Men of Alloy" – 3:51
4. "Lambs to the Slaughter" – 4:17
5. "Bubbles" – 2:11
6. "The 'Goldilocks' Theme" – 3:06
7. "Perfume - The Odour of Money" – 4:03
8. "Barbara Douglas: Assassin" – 3:09
9. "Pursuit Suite" – 5:06
10. "The Roaring Boy", with The Prufrock Quartet (Costello, The Prufrock Quartet)) – 4:1
11. "'So I Used Five!'" – 1:27
12. "Love from a Cold Land" – 2:28
13. "In a Cemetery Garden" – 1:57
14. "'Smack 'Im'" – 2:15
15. "Woodlands - On Joy!" (Harvey) – 3:45
16. "'It's Cold Up There'" – 2:52
17. "Going Home Service" – 5:06
18. "Grave Music" – 2:29
19. "The Puppet Masters' Work" – 4:10
20. "'He's So Easy'" – 1:58
21. "Another Time, Another Place" – 2:02
22. "Closing Titles" – 2:32