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<center><h3 | <center><h3> All This Useless Beauty </h3></center> | ||
<center>''' Elvis Costello </center> | |||
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<center> Richard C. Walls </center> | <center> Richard C. Walls </center> | ||
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The above rating is for fans. If you tend to cast a jaundiced ear towards Costello's latter-day logorrhea latticework — all that useless verbiage — then make it a 2 or 2½. Somewhere in there. 'Cause the overall clarity of the album (this is one of the rare EC disks that doesn't really need a lyric sheet) is undercut by his still active tendency to creep into various related but only dimly lit lyrical corners and passageways, while the subject at hand — to the extent that it can be determined — languishes in the center of the room. In short, same old El. | The above rating is for fans. If you tend to cast a jaundiced ear towards Costello's latter-day logorrhea latticework — all that useless verbiage — then make it a 2 or 2½. Somewhere in there. 'Cause the overall clarity of the album (this is one of the rare EC disks that doesn't really need a lyric sheet) is undercut by his still active tendency to creep into various related but only dimly lit lyrical corners and passageways, while the subject at hand — to the extent that it can be determined — languishes in the center of the room. In short, same old El. | ||
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[[Richard C. Walls]] reviews ''[[All This Useless Beauty]]''. | [[Richard C. Walls]] reviews ''[[All This Useless Beauty]]''. | ||
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