ZigZag, August 1977

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ZigZag

UK & Ireland magazines

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My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

Danny Baker

I could never see the attraction in classical music, all that hanging about between notes, I mean what do people with great classic collections play when they're gettin' ready to go out? Stiff have given away a thousand MAIT's and they really ought to have gone to all those unfortunate Bartok lovers, then how ya gonna keep her at the opera on yer arm now that she's heard EC?

By now you must know that Elvis looks like a mix of Potsy and Woody Allen and when you are a computer operator an' all your little black book must be full only of cab numbers.

"I said I'm so happy I could die
She said drop dead and left with another guy"

Jackson Browne goes on about the cruelty of lerve but all the time you know he don't have to get up for work in the morning, while Elvis knows a blow out is a blow out full stop but if the lads say 'how dja get on' he'll say 'great' and bite clean through that quivering bottom lip. No long reflective walks or emotive strings or words about new kids in town on Stiff, thank God. What we got is what Elvis' bedroom walls heard for years plus can this bloke write rock songs?

I know a lot of older readers wanna hear about how the songs are structured and who they've heard him before as and all the rest of that snob/ filing cabinet crap to drop in public but albums as good as this don't even want to make me begin to stop dancing and act as clinical as some drones would have you believe rock is. It's as simple as this. I bought the album yesterday, played it ever since, it makes me feel energetic and beats Abba for sticking after one play, (see with Elvis you WANNA remember), and unless your idea of rock is Going for the One I'd recommend you to snap one up. 'Sgot twelve tracks, all and each as good, and the words will only fail to gitcha if you were dropped on your heart as a kid.

So you don't know me from Adam, right? Just listen to it first then, but make sure the shop's booths are licensed for dancing.

Elvis Costello's My Aim is True is a good, good album.

She said git it.


Tags: Stiff RecordsMy Aim Is True(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red ShoesBartókJackson BrowneABBA

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ZigZag, No. 75, August 1977


Danny Baker reviews My Aim Is True


An ad for My Aim Is True runs on page 28.

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