'All This Useless Beauty' is the seventeenth studio album by English rock singer/songwriter Elvis Costello, originally released in 1996. It is his final album with his long-standing backing band The Attractions. In its original conception, the album was to be a set of songs written for other artists, entitled 'A Case For Song', with backing by a diverse array of musicians. Instead, Costello chose to record the songs himself with The Attractions. For instance, 'Complicated Shadows' had been intended for Johnny Cash, and 'Why Can't A Man Stand Alone?' for Sam Moore, and the B-side opens with his collaboration with Paul McCartney, 'Shallow Grave'. Comes on 180 gram vinyl.