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Stiffs Live
Dave Marsh
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This proto-new wave collection includes some variations on punk rock themes — Ian Drury & the Blockheads, most pungently — and some of what people are beginning to call "power pop" — most notably, Elvis Costello, who does a wonderful version of Dionne Warwick's "I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself" and Nick Lowe, with two originals. It's a perfect introduction for those who still reject the new sounds coming from England and the East Coast over the past two years as heretical; even the least of these artists (Larry Wallis' Psychedelic Rowdies, to be exact) has more energy than two-thirds of the Top Twenty. The best (Costello) is making a move on genius.
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