(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding

Name: (What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding
Duration: 3 min 32 s

~ Recording by Elvis Costello & The Attractions

Appears on releases

#	Title	Length	Track Artist	Release Title	Release Artist	Release Group Type	Country/Date	Label	Catalog#
Official
1.12	(What’s so Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding	3:30	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Armed Forces	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Album	US1979-01-05	Columbia (Sony Music, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX)	AE7 1171, JC 35709
1.12	(What’s so Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding	3:30	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Armed Forces	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Album	US1979-01-05	Columbia (Sony Music, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX)	JC 35709
1.12	(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding	3:30	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Armed Forces	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Album	CA1979	Columbia (Sony Music, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX)	JC 35709
1.12	(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding	3:30	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Armed Forces	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Album	US1984	Columbia (Sony Music, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX)	PC 35709
1.3	(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding	3:31	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	The Best of Elvis Costello and The Attractions	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Album + Compilation	US1985	Columbia (Sony Music, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX)	CK 40101
1.3	(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding	3:31	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	The Best of Elvis Costello and The Attractions	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Album + Compilation	US1985	Columbia (Sony Music, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX)	CK 40101
1.3	(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding	3:31	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	The Best of Elvis Costello and The Attractions	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Album + Compilation	CA1985	Columbia (Sony Music, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX)	CK-40101
1.3	(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding	3:32	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	The Best of Elvis Costello and The Attractions	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Album + Compilation	CA1985	Columbia (Sony Music, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX)	VCK-40101
1.3	(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding	3:30	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	The Best of Elvis Costello and The Attractions	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Album + Compilation	US1985	Columbia (Sony Music, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX)	FC 40101
1.12	(What’s so Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding	3:35	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Armed Forces	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Album	US1986	Columbia (Sony Music, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX)	CK 35709
1.14	(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding	3:33	Elvis Costello	200 Cigarettes: Music From the Motion Picture	Various Artists	Album + Soundtrack	US1999-02-23	Mercury Records (or just “Mercury.” A UMG imprint, do not use it for ©/℗ credits)	314 538 738-2
1.14	(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding	3:33	Elvis Costello	200 Cigarettes: Music From the Motion Picture	Various Artists	Album + Soundtrack	CA1999	Mercury Records (or just “Mercury.” A UMG imprint, do not use it for ©/℗ credits)	314 538 738-2
1.1	(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding	3:32	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	The Very Best of Elvis Costello	Elvis Costello	Album + Compilation	GB1999	Universal Music TV (UK, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited)	545 103-2 07314MM
1.1	(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding	3:32	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	The Very Best of Elvis Costello	Elvis Costello	Album + Compilation	ZA1999	Universal Music TV (UK, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited)	STARCD 6517
1.1	(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding	3:32	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	The Very Best of Elvis Costello	Elvis Costello	Album + Compilation	XE1999	Universal Music TV (UK, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited)	545 103-2
1.1	(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding	3:32	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	The Very Best of Elvis Costello	Elvis Costello	Album + Compilation	AU1999	Universal Music TV (UK, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited)	545 103-2
1.1	(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding	3:32	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	The Very Best of Elvis Costello	Elvis Costello	Album + Compilation	GB1999	Universal Music TV (UK, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited)	546 490-2
1.1	(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding	3:32	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	The Very Best of Elvis Costello	Elvis Costello	Album + Compilation	US2001-04-17	Rhino (reissue label)	R2 76652
1.13	(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding?	3:32	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Armed Forces	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Album	US2002-11-19	Rhino (reissue label)	R2 78190
1.13	(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding?	3:32	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Armed Forces	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Album	GB2002	Demon Records (80s UK new wave/reissues), Edsel Records	MANUS 103
2.9	(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding	3:33	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	It Came From the Garage	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	CA2004-03-30	Sony Music Canada
1.13	(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding?	3:32	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Armed Forces	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Album	US2007-05-01	Hip‐O Records	[none]
1.13	(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding?	3:32	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Armed Forces	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Album	US2007-05-01	Hip‐O Records	B0008630-02
3.13	(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding	3:33	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	The First Ten Years (Amazon exclusive edition)	Elvis Costello	Album + Compilation	US2007-05-01	Universal Music Group (has logo with just “Universal Music Group”)
1.12	(What’s so Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding	3:30	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Armed Forces	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Album	US2010-07-27	Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab	MFSL 1-331
2.16	(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding	3:32	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	101 Rock Hits	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	AU2013-08-09	Sony Music (global brand, excluding JP, owned by Sony Music Entertainment), Universal Music Group (has logo with just “Universal Music Group”)	8888376732
3.13	(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding	3:33	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	The First Ten Years	Elvis Costello	Album + Compilation	US2015-10-09	[no label] (Special purpose label – white labels, self-published releases and other “no label” releases)	A10303C100000EI2KW
1.13	(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding	3:32	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Armed Forces	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Album	XW2015	Hip‐O Records
1.13	(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding?	3:31	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Armed Forces	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Album	-2020	UMe (imprint of Universal Music Enterprises)	[none]
1.14	Peace, Love and Understanding	3:31	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	200 Cigarettes: Music From the Motion Picture	Various Artists	Album + Soundtrack	US-	Island Def Jam (clean up, see annotation)
Promotion
1.2	(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding	3:30	Elvis Costello	My Funny Valentine / (What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding (red vinyl)	Elvis Costello	Single	US1979-02-14	Columbia (Sony Music, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX)	AE7-1172

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engineer:	Roger Bechirian
producer:	Nick Lowe (UK singer/songwriter/instrumentalist/producer)
bass guitar:	Bruce Thomas
drums (drum set):	Pete Thomas (drummer)
guitar:	Elvis Costello
organ, piano and synthesizer:	Steve Nieve
vocals:	Elvis Costello

part of:	New York Post: 100 Greatest Covers (2007) (number: 65) (order: 64) Rolling Stone Magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (as at 2016-06-10) (number: 284) (order: 283)

recording of:	(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding (cover)

(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding

lyricist and composer:	Nick Lowe (UK singer/songwriter/instrumentalist/producer)

publisher:	Plangent Visions Music, Inc.

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