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Costello's music may be right out of some sixties discotheque-a-go-go, but his lyrics are strictly seventies — late seventies, in fact. They are almost all, as on the first album, angry laments of unrequited love. | Costello's music may be right out of some sixties discotheque-a-go-go, but his lyrics are strictly seventies — late seventies, in fact. They are almost all, as on the first album, angry laments of unrequited love. | ||
"I'm an extraordinarily bitter person," he said in ''Trouser Press'' magazine. And his lyrics show this bitterness, in "Little Triggers" he sings: ''"Little triggers that you pull with your tongue. Little triggers, I don't wanna be hung up, strung up, when you don't call up."'' | "I'm an extraordinarily bitter person," he [[Trouser Press, December 1977|said]] in ''Trouser Press'' magazine. And his lyrics show this bitterness, in "Little Triggers" he sings: ''"Little triggers that you pull with your tongue. Little triggers, I don't wanna be hung up, strung up, when you don't call up."'' | ||
Costello has a unique talent for squeezing unbelievable quantities of words into a measure. And some of his verses are so long that he has no chance to breathe until the end of the verse. This makes his voice break up and gasp towards the end of these verses. A unique sound, it gives his songs that life and death urgency. | Costello has a unique talent for squeezing unbelievable quantities of words into a measure. And some of his verses are so long that he has no chance to breathe until the end of the verse. This makes his voice break up and gasp towards the end of these verses. A unique sound, it gives his songs that life and death urgency. |
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