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Green Shirt
Elvis Costello
Johnny Waller
Single Of The Week
An obvious choice, but why fight the irresistible? Currently culled from the TV-advertised LP The Best Of Elvis Costello — The Man (but originally from the Nick Lowe-produced Armed Forces album), this is classic Costello ... simple, tense, beguiling — and sublimely arranged with a marvellous drum pattern, a crescendo of string-synth and even a trumpet fanfare on the fade.
The vocal/lyrical interplay is both a treat and a tease — "better cut off all identifying labels / before they put you on the torture table" — in a similar vein to "Oliver's Army." The references to "stool-pigeon" and "Quisling clinic" fuel all the old rumours of Elvis' artistic paranoia.
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Clipping composite.
Cover and page scans.
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