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Get Happy | Recorded in the turbulent aftermath of the infamous Columbus brawl which provoked the self-righteous wrath of America's critical establishment, and fuelled by an excess of narcotics and alcohol, ''Get Happy!!'' is a gruelling essay in lacerating self-examination masquerading as a stylistic tribute to Motown and Stax. It was easy to miss the grim ironies of this LP. For all their superficial brashness, the 20 tracks on ''Get Happy!!'' are seething with neurotic urgencies and punch-lines you can ''feel''. The overall sound is manic, unhinged, and the songs are brutal, clipped, vivid as headlines and full of bad news. A ''Blood On The Tracks'' for the desperate Eighties. | ||
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Trust | By the beginning of 1981, Costello was almost totally estranged from the pop mainstream and ''Trust'' was bitter evidence of his marginalization. While the rest of pop was becoming increasingly simplistic, gaudy and escapist, ''Trust'' was angry, complex, a confrontation. A stylistic tour-de-force that demonstrated the full range and diversity of Costello's songwriting, ''Trust'' was much-undervalued at the time, but can now be seen as a fully-fledged assault on the facile machination of Eighties' pop and a poignant anticipation of the bleak years that lay ahead of it. ''Almost Blue'', Costello's anguished excursion into the confessional territories of country music, was an even more renegade gesture. At a time of overwhelming high camp and glossy irrelevance, Costello plunged headlong into an uncompromisingly emotional and highly-charged landscape that cut through the bullshit with a harrowing honesty. Costello and The Attractions wouldn't sound this good again until ''Blood & Chocolate''. | ||
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