New Musical Express, December 19, 1981

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Paris trips to see Costello


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Elvis Costello & The Attractions have now sold out their London concerts, before and after Christmas — but another show has been added in Paris on January 10, and special arrangements have been made to enable people to attend. There are three options — (1) scheduled air flights on January 8 evening, returning January 11 morning, including three nights in a three-star hotel costing £119; (2) same as first option, except plane leaves January 9 morning, price £109; (3) coach leaves London January 9 morning, returning January 11 evening, including two nights in a four-star hotel costing £75. All prices include concert tickets, transport, insurance and a half-day tour of Paris. Those interested should send a deposit of £50 (air) or £30 (coach) to Hearneweave Ltd., P.O. Box 281, London N15 5LW.



Elvis Costello


NME

Elvis Costello put out the worthy Trust LP, confirming his growing status as Britain's most intelligent songwriter. But the real commercial dividends came after a trip to Nashville to work with C&W producer Billy Sherrill — a brave experiment which yielded the hit single "Good Year For The Roses," from a whole album of country standards, Almost Blue.



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Photo by Andre Csillag.



Pros and Cons


Nick Kent

Nick Kent's Pros and Cons.

PROS: Bruce Springsteen's inspirational performances in Britain during summer '81. The release of Trust, Elvis Costello's most sure-footed and courageous collection of songs to date. "Being With You" making No. 1, thus beautifully highlighting Smokey Robinson's 20 years as singer songwriter non pareil, and re-establishing the tradition of "Great Summer Single." The rediscovery (how ever spuriously "trendified") of John Fogerty, James Brown and Hank Williams. The return to active service of Tom Verlaine and Miles Davis. Squeeze finally receiving due success and credibility via East Side Story. "Waiting On A Friend" as Rolling Stones' most uplifting and humane twilight anthem, especially Sonny Rollins' playing.

CONS. The continuing downward spiral demise of the New Musical Express as a relevant perceptive journal. General absence of "passion" and "reach" in rock music circa '81. Omnipotence of style over content, specious cliches, half-baked posturing, haphazard sloganeering and empty gestures. Preponderance of imperceptive, feckless arch-hack mentality in rock writing, cloth-eared A & R men, semi-literate editors, the crass stupidity of major record label mentality vs. the hypocritical smugness of the "rough trade"/"factory" alternative (sic). The inescapable fact that music has become virtually crippled by "business considerations," mass ignorance re. music's potential for moral rearmament.


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Photo by Andre Csillag.



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New Musical Express, December 19-26, 1981


NME notes travel options for the January 10, 1982 concert in Paris.


Vinyl Finals includes Trust (7), Almost Blue (20) and "Good Year For The Roses" (28).


EC is included in Nick Kent's Pros and Cons of 1981.

Images

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Clipping and page scan.


Vinyl Finals 1981


NME

The NME conference delegates cast their votes...

Singles

  1. Ghost Town — The Specials (Chrysalis)
  2. Adventures On The Wheels Of Steel — Grandmaster Flash (Sugarhill)
  3. Me No Pop I — Coati Mundi (Ze)
  4. (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang — Heaven 17 (BEF)
  5. Love Action — The Human League (Virgin)
  6. Mama Used To Say — Junior Giscombe (Mercury)
  7. Tears Are Not Enough — ABC (Neutron)
  8. Pull Up To The Bumper — Grace Jones (Island)
  9. O Superman — Laurie Anderson (One Ten)
  10. Walking On Thin Ice — Yoko Ono (Geffen)
  11. Burn Rubber On Me — The Gap Band (Phonogram)
  12. Tainted Love — Soft Cell (Some Bizzare)
  13. Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag — Pigbag (Y)
  14. Rapp Payback — James Brown (RCA)
  15. Wordy Rappinghood — Tom Tom Club (Island)
  16. Let's Groove — Earth, Wind & Fire (CBS)
  17. The Razor's Edge — Defunkt (Hannibal)
  18. Being With You — Smokey Robinson (Motown)
  19. Four Movements — Thomas Leer (Cherry Red)
  20. Just Can't Get Enough — Depeche Mode (Mute)
  21. Going Back To My Roots — Odyssey (RCA)
  22. Intuition — Linx (Chrysalis)
  23. Rapture — Blondie (Chrysalis)
  24. Plan B — Dexys Midnight Runners (EMI)
  25. Happy Birthday — Stevie Wonder (Motown)
  26. Chariots Of Fire — Vangelis (Polydor)
  27. Der Mussolini — DAF (Virgin)
  28. Good Year For The Roses — Elvis Costello (F-Beat)
  29. Shoot The Pump — J. Walter Negro & The Loose Jointz (Zoo York)
  30. Doors Of Your Heart — The Beat (Go-Feet)
  31. Kitchen Person — The Associates (Situation 2)
  32. Can You Feel It — The Jacksons (Epic)
  33. Favourite Shirts — Haircut 100 (Arista)
  34. Pocket Calculator — Kraftwerk (EMI)
  35. Another One Bites The Dust — General Saint & Clint Eastwood (Greensleeves)
  36. Launderette — Vivien Goldman (99)
  37. Genius Of Love — Tom Tom Club (Island)
  38. Chant No. 1 (We Don't Need This Pressure On) — Spandau Ballet (Reformation)
  39. Out Come The Freaks — Was (Not Was) (Ze)
  40. W.O.R.K. — Bow Wow Wow (EMI)
  41. Flowers Of Romance — Public Image Ltd (Virgin)
  42. Ceremony — New Order (Factory)
  43. Beggarman Child — Pablo Gad (Form)
  44. The Longest Day — Sound Of The Valleys (Stiff)
  45. The 'Sweetest Girl' — Scritti Politti (Rough Trade)
  46. Pretty In Pink — The Psychedelic Furs (CBS)
  47. The Art Of Parties — Japan (Virgin)
  48. Computer Love — Kraftwerk (EMI)
  49. Too Drunk To Fuck — The Dead Kennedys (Cherry Red)
  50. Show Me — Dexys Midnight Runners (Mercury)


Albums

  1. Nightclubbing — Grace Jones (Island)
  2. Computer World — Kraftwerk (EMI)
  3. Red — Black Uhuru (Island)
  4. Wha'ppen — The Beat (Go-Feet)
  5. Penthouse And Pavement — Heaven 17 (BEF)
  6. Dare — The Human League (Virgin)
  7. Trust — Elvis Costello (F-Beat)
  8. Alles 1st Gut — DAF (Virgin)
  9. Red Mecca — Cabaret Voltaire (Rough Trade)
  10. Fresh Fruit In Foreign Places — Kid Creole & The Coconuts (Ze)
  11. Gold Und Liebe — DAF (Virgin)
  12. Mutant Disco — Various Artists (Ze)
  13. Slates — The Fall (Rough Trade)
  14. Black President — Fela Kuti (Arista)
  15. Flowers Of Romance — Public Image Ltd (Virgin)
  16. Raise! — Earth, Wind & Fire (CBS)
  17. Playing With A Different Sex — Au Pairs (Human)
  18. Rock'n'Groove — Bunny Wailer (Solomonic)
  19. East Side Story — Squeeze (A&M)
  20. Almost Blue — Elvis Costello (F-Beat)
  21. Being With You — Smokey Robinson (Motown)
  22. Heaven Up Here — Echo & The Bunnymen (Korova)
  23. See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy — Bow Wow Wow (RCA)
  24. The Electric Spanking Of War Babies — Funkadelic (Warner Bros)
  25. Odyshape — The Raincoats (Rough Trade)
  26. Gang War — Prince Charles & The City Beat Band (Solid Platinum)
  27. Sings The Wailers — Bunny Wailer (Solomonic)
  28. Positive Touch — The Undertones (Ardeck)
  29. Get Down Attack — General Caine II (Groove Time)
  30. Blythe Spirit — Arthur Blythe (Columbia)
  31. Tin Drum — Japan (Virgin)
  32. 7 — Madness (Stiff)
  33. Defunkt — Defunkt (Hannibal)
  34. Tattoo You — The Rolling Stones (Rolling Stones)
  35. Alan Vega — Alan Vega (PVC)
  36. Intuition — Linx (Chrysalis)
  37. Dreamtime — Tom Verlaine (Warner Bros)
  38. In Our Lifetime — Marvin Gaye (Motown)
  39. New Chapter — Aswad (CBS)
  40. Greatest Hits — Throbbing Gristle (Industrial)
  41. Something Special — Kool & The Gang (De-Lite)
  42. Dolmen Music — Meredith Monk (ECM)
  43. Miracles — Change (Warner Bros)
  44. Wild Gift — X (Slash)
  45. The Man With The Horn — Miles Davis (CBS)
  46. Pleasant Dreams — The Ramones (Sire)
  47. Psychedelic Jungle — The Cramps (IRS)
  48. It Must Be Magic — Teena Marie (Motown)
  49. Sleep No More — The Comsat Angels (Polydor)
  50. The Many Facets Of Roger — Roger (Warner Bros)


Chart compiled by Danny Baker, Chris Bohn, Lloyd Bradley, Julie Burchill, Roy Carr, Richard Cook, Anton Corbijn, Mark Cordery, Caramel Crunch, Paul Du Noyer, Andy Gill, Vivien Goldman, Richard Grabel, Tim Greenhalgh, Lynn Henna, Barney Hoskyns, Graham Lock, Gavin Martin, Phil McNeill, X Moore, Paul Morley, Charles Shaar Murray, Tony Parsons, Ian Penman, Penny Reel, Roz Reines, Cynthia Rose, Monty Smith, Neil Spencer, Joe Stevens, Tony Stewart and Adrian Thrills.


Cover.
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