From the tin-pot snare attack and talking keyboard to the ferocious vocal verve of Costello, this wonderful track announces with full-face snarl that Elvis & the Attractions are back on the block, rocking like a house on fire. Great fun, with a difficult-to-forget groove, and a fine initiation to Costello's Brutal Youth album. Unreleased bonus track "A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety," a tiny theatre piece for hard-core fans, is W.B. Yeats' wry outburst as interpreted by El.
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