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Writing about 25 years ago, for a summer section in which Age journalists mapped out crucial albums in their vinyl collection, [[Shaun Carney]] described Elvis Costello's fourth album, 1980's ''Get Happy!!'', as being the soundtrack of his life during a stint as a Canberra correspondent; if he was in the vicinity of the record player, it was on. | |||
It's doubtful anyone will have that reaction to ''National Ransom''. It's by no means a bad record, returning to the songwriter's deep taste for American forms, with [[T Bone Burnett]] producing songs that take in sprightly Nashville melancholy ("[[I Lost You]]") and Dixieland laments ("[[Jimmie Standing In The Rain|Jimmie Standing in the Rain]]") but it's hard to compete with a back catalogue too fierce to become mythology. Punk-rock's great outsider never bottomed out like the storied names of the 1960s — he has no Nashville Skyline — and now he's capable and eclectic, striking his strongest notes on "[[One Bell Ringing]]." But time and experience haven't transformed Elvis Costello; he's a stubbornly older version of what he's always been. You can appreciate ''National Ransom'' but it won't become your life. | |||
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