Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Mustang Daily, February 9, 1979: Difference between revisions
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Elvis Costello is a missile among mortars.<br> | |||
“''Armed Forces'',” his latest triumph, is confidence and chutzpah rising out of the plastic stare constipating the recording industry. The lanky curious-looking bespectacled Costello has clearly had enough of his former image. <br> | |||
The days of cuteness and cuffed dungarees are gone. The Briton is fed up. <br> | |||
Costello is not punk or new wave. He is a powerful rocker-songwriter with a Fender guitar, crisp three-piece band (the Attractions) and the production genius of [[Nick Lowe]].<br> | |||
The AM schtick factories that push the likes of Hot Chocolate and the Bee Gees can ill-afford to ignore Costello for long, even though the man in the corduroy jacket himself could care less.<br> | |||
Moving to the front lines is the Sergeant Pepper of the 80s.<br> | |||
Consider the cuts on the album.<br> | |||
“[[Goon Squad]],” a rock anthem for proletarians.<br> | |||
“[[Busy Bodies]],” an indictment of the synthetic love made to fit human needs. <br> | |||
Costello makes a cynical observation:<br> | |||
So you think that you have seen her.<br> | |||
When you’re lying in between her…<br> | |||
But you don’t care busy bodies getting’ nowhere.<br> | |||
“[[Moods For Moderns|Moods for Moderns]],” an expose of beautiful people. Listen to this number the next time you flip through Cosmopolitan magazine.<br> | |||
“[[Chemistry Class]],” a tender tune about the physical properties of human emotion.<br> | |||
“[[Two Little Hitlers]],” a political study of a menage-a-trois.<br> | |||
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