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Elvis Costello could be the best kept secret in pop music. He owns the best album of the last six years, ''This Year's Model''. Following the success of ''Punch The Clock'', which featured Costello's first and only U.S. chart entry, the top twenty "Everyday I Write The Book," is Costello's latest LP, ''Goodbye Cruel World''. | Elvis Costello could be the best kept secret in pop music. He owns the best album of the last six years, ''This Year's Model''. Following the success of ''Punch The Clock'', which featured Costello's first and only U.S. chart entry, the top twenty "Everyday I Write The Book," is Costello's latest LP, ''Goodbye Cruel World''. | ||
While the whole album is well put together and is a competent cohesive collection, there is one song that is a legitimate tour de | While the whole album is well put together and is a competent cohesive collection, there is one song that is a legitimate tour de force — "The Only Flame In Town." "Flame" is a mellow ditty that features Daryl Hall on vocals and demonstrates why Costello is acknowledged as one of, if not the best, contemporary songwriters: ''"Thought I saw your face in the fire, but it's so hard to remember / even an inferno can cool down to an ember / now you're not the only flame / you're not the only flame in town."'' | ||
''Goodbye Cruel World'' is a stretching out of sorts for Costello. Gone is the electrified, frenetic, pulsating style that established Costello as an innovator among the "new wave" artists in the late 1970s. In its place is a more laid back style that shows Costello experimenting with different vocal styles and more complicated arrangements. For instance, the abstract piano work on "Room With No Number" is a break from previous Costello compositions, and sets the theme of the song. | ''Goodbye Cruel World'' is a stretching out of sorts for Costello. Gone is the electrified, frenetic, pulsating style that established Costello as an innovator among the "new wave" artists in the late 1970s. In its place is a more laid back style that shows Costello experimenting with different vocal styles and more complicated arrangements. For instance, the abstract piano work on "Room With No Number" is a break from previous Costello compositions, and sets the theme of the song. | ||
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His band, The Attractions, plays a wide variety of instruments that keep the album from getting boring: a trumpet here, a sax there, keeps one's attention. In the hierarchy of contemporary pop, Costello, via his intelligence and songwriting skills, looms over the scads of noise-makers like Quiet Riot and Def Leppard like Mount Rushmore. Elvis Costello is the thinking man's musician. | His band, The Attractions, plays a wide variety of instruments that keep the album from getting boring: a trumpet here, a sax there, keeps one's attention. In the hierarchy of contemporary pop, Costello, via his intelligence and songwriting skills, looms over the scads of noise-makers like Quiet Riot and Def Leppard like Mount Rushmore. Elvis Costello is the thinking man's musician. | ||
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