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

~ Recording by Elvis Costello & The Attractions

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack artistRelease titleCountry/Date
Official
1.12(What’s so Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding3:30Elvis Costello & The AttractionsArmed Forces
  • 1979-01-05 US
1.12(What’s so Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding3:30Elvis Costello & The AttractionsArmed Forces
  • 1979-01-05 US
1.12(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding3:30Elvis Costello & The AttractionsArmed Forces
1.12(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding3:30Elvis Costello & The AttractionsArmed Forces
1.3(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding3:32Elvis Costello & The AttractionsThe Best of Elvis Costello and The Attractions
1.3(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding3:31Elvis Costello & The AttractionsThe Best of Elvis Costello and The Attractions
1.3(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding3:30Elvis Costello & The AttractionsThe Best of Elvis Costello and The Attractions
1.3(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding3:31Elvis Costello & The AttractionsThe Best of Elvis Costello and The Attractions
1.12(What’s so Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding3:35Elvis Costello & The AttractionsArmed Forces
1.14(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace Love and Understanding3:34Elvis Costello & The AttractionsTen Bloody Marys & Ten How’s Your Fathers
3.13(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding?3:31Elvis Costello & The Attractions2½ Years
  • 1993-10-12 US
1.13(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding?3:46Elvis Costello & The AttractionsArmed Forces
  • 1993-10-19 US
1.13(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding?3:46Elvis Costello & The AttractionsArmed Forces (club edition)
1.13(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding?3:46Elvis Costello & The AttractionsArmed Forces
1.6(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding3:35Elvis Costello & The AttractionsThe Very Best of Elvis Costello and The Attractions
  • 1994-10-25 US
1.6(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding3:35Elvis Costello & The AttractionsThe Very Best of Elvis Costello and The Attractions
  • 1994-10-25 US
1.6(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding3:35Nick Lowe and His SoundThe Very Best of Elvis Costello and The Attractions 1977–86 (club edition)
  • 1994-10-25 CA
1.6(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding3:35Elvis Costello & The AttractionsThe Very Best of Elvis Costello and The Attractions
1.14(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding3:33Elvis Costello200 Cigarettes: Music From the Motion Picture
  • 1999-02-23 US
1.14What’s So Funny ’Bout Peace Love and Understanding3:34Elvis Costello & The AttractionsTen Bloody Marys & Ten How’s Your Fathers
  • 1999-05-18 JP
1.14(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding3:33Elvis Costello200 Cigarettes: Music From the Motion Picture
1.1(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding3:32Elvis Costello & The AttractionsThe Very Best of Elvis Costello
1.1(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding3:32Elvis Costello & The AttractionsThe Very Best of Elvis Costello
1.1(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding3:32Elvis Costello & The AttractionsThe Very Best of Elvis Costello
1.1(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding3:32Elvis Costello & The AttractionsThe Very Best of Elvis Costello
1.1(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding3:32Elvis Costello & The AttractionsThe Very Best of Elvis Costello
1.1(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding3:32Elvis Costello & The AttractionsThe Very Best of Elvis Costello
  • 2001-04-17 US
1.13(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding?3:32Elvis Costello & The AttractionsArmed Forces
  • 2002-11-19 US
1.13(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding?3:32Elvis Costello & The AttractionsArmed Forces
2.9(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding3:33Elvis Costello & The AttractionsIt Came From the Garage
  • 2004-03-30 CA
1.13(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding?3:32Elvis Costello & The AttractionsArmed Forces
  • 2007-05-01 US
1.13(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding?3:32Elvis Costello & The AttractionsArmed Forces
  • 2007-05-01 US
1.13(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding3:32Elvis CostelloRock and Roll Music
  • 2007-05-01 US
12.13(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding3:32Elvis CostelloThe First Ten Years (Amazon exclusive edition)
  • 2007-05-01 US
3.13(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding3:33Elvis Costello & The AttractionsThe First Ten Years (Amazon exclusive edition)
  • 2007-05-01 US
1.9(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding3:33Elvis Costello & The AttractionsThe Best of Elvis Costello: The First 10 Years
1.9(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding3:33Elvis Costello & The AttractionsThe Best of Elvis Costello: The First 10 Years (made in USA by EDC)
1.16(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding3:32Elvis Costello & The AttractionsThe Second Wave
1.12(What’s so Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding3:30Elvis Costello & The AttractionsArmed Forces
  • 2010-07-27 US
2.16(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding3:32Elvis Costello & The Attractions101 Rock Hits
  • 2013-08-09 AU
3.13(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding3:33Elvis Costello & The AttractionsThe First Ten Years
  • 2015-10-09 US
1.13(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding3:32Elvis Costello & The AttractionsArmed Forces
1.13(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding3:30Elvis Costello & The AttractionsArmed Forces
  • 2020-12-08 XW
1.13(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding?3:31Elvis Costello & The AttractionsArmed Forces
  • 2020 -
1.14Peace, Love and Understanding3:31Elvis Costello & The Attractions200 Cigarettes: Music From the Motion Picture
1.3(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding3:31Elvis Costello & The AttractionsThe Best of Elvis Costello and The Attractions (Columbia House club pressing)
1.3(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding3:31Elvis Costello & The AttractionsThe Best of Elvis Costello and The Attractions (DADC repress)
1.9(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding3:33Elvis Costello & The AttractionsThe Best of Elvis Costello: The First 10 Years (DIDX)
Promotion
1.2(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding3:30Elvis CostelloMy Funny Valentine / (What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding (red vinyl)
  • 1979-02-14 US
(unknown)
1.14What’s So Funny ’Bout Peace Love and Understanding3:34Elvis Costello with The AttractionsTen Bloody Marys & Ten How’s Your Fathers
1.1(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding3:32Elvis Costello & The AttractionsThe Very Best of Elvis Costello
  • 2003-07-23 JP

Relationships

engineer:Roger Bechirian
producer:Nick Lowe
bass guitar:Bruce Thomas
drums (drum set):Pete Thomas
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: 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (number: 284) (order: 283)
recording of:(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding (cover)

Related works

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

lyricist and composer:Nick Lowe
publisher:Plangent Visions Music, Inc.
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