Punch the Clock by Elvis Costello & The Attractions

Punch the Clock is an album released in 1983 by Elvis Costello and the Attractions. It was Costello's eighth album, his seventh with the Attractions since 1978. The album featured Costello's first US Top 40 hit, "Everyday I Write the Book." It was produced by Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley, who also produced Costello's following album, Goodbye Cruel World. It was ranked as the number 1 "Album of the Year" for 1983 by NME; thirty years later, the magazine ranked it at number 345 in its list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".