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"All the Rage," the new song from which the lines above are taken, was a consummate performance Saturday at the World. Nobody since Dylan has done bile better than Costello. | "All the Rage," the new song from which the lines above are taken, was a consummate performance Saturday at the World. Nobody since Dylan has done bile better than Costello. | ||
But once Costello and the Attractions were the music. Now they offer a perfect copy of it. A line like ''"I want to bite the hand that feeds me"'' from "Radio Radio" sounded like something an angry young man would say about the record business in 1977. Now it sounds like nostalgia at best, hypocrisy at worst — business can't be all bad when you can charge $40 a ticket, as Costello did Saturday. | But once Costello and the Attractions were the music. Now they offer a perfect copy of it. A line like ''"I want to bite the hand that feeds me"'' from "Radio, Radio" sounded like something an angry young man would say about the record business in 1977. Now it sounds like nostalgia at best, hypocrisy at worst — business can't be all bad when you can charge $40 a ticket, as Costello did Saturday. | ||
Undeniably, there was a certain thrill in watching the quartet shred through two hours of music, after seven sometimes acrimonious years apart. If anything, they're playing better than ever. Off with the crack of Pete Thomas' snare drum, the furious opening combination of "No Action," "High Fidelity" and "The Beat" was followed by a new song, "Pony Street," then a staggering exercise in emotional vertigo, "Beyond Belief." | Undeniably, there was a certain thrill in watching the quartet shred through two hours of music, after seven sometimes acrimonious years apart. If anything, they're playing better than ever. Off with the crack of Pete Thomas' snare drum, the furious opening combination of "No Action," "High Fidelity" and "The Beat" was followed by a new song, "Pony Street," then a staggering exercise in emotional vertigo, "Beyond Belief." | ||
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[[Greg Kot]] reviews Elvis Costello & [[The Attractions]], Saturday, [[Concert 1994-05-28 Tinley Park|May 28, 1994]], World Music Theatre, Tinley Park, | [[Greg Kot]] reviews Elvis Costello & [[The Attractions]], Saturday, [[Concert 1994-05-28 Tinley Park|May 28, 1994]], World Music Theatre, Tinley Park, Illinois. | ||
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