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<center><h3> Costello reclaims some tunes | <center><h3> Costello reclaims some tunes — <br> and his voice is up to the task </h3></center> | ||
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It's about time that Elvis Costello reclaimed some of his more memorable songs for himself. | It's about time that Elvis Costello reclaimed some of his more memorable songs for himself. | ||
Costello hit a long creative dry spell after releasing two albums, ''King of America'' and ''Blood and Chocolate'', in 1986, one that subsided only after 1994's | Costello hit a long creative dry spell after releasing two albums, ''King of America'' and ''Blood and Chocolate'', in 1986, one that subsided only after 1994's ''Brutal Youth''. But he wrote many of his best compositions during that period for other people and with them, including Aimee Mann, Sam Moore and Roger McGuinn.On ''All This Useless Beauty'', his best album since ''King of America'', Costello remakes seven such songs, along with five other originals. And despite the age of some of them, they sound beautiful and altogether not too useless. | ||
Of course, much of that has to do with the fact that Costello (whose real name is Declan Patrick McManus) actually has to sing this time out. And he really seems up to the challenge. | Of course, much of that has to do with the fact that Costello (whose real name is Declan Patrick McManus) actually has to sing this time out. And he really seems up to the challenge. | ||
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[[Jeff Vice]] reviews ''[[All This Useless Beauty]]''. | [[Jeff Vice]] reviews ''[[All This Useless Beauty]]''. | ||
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