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<center><h3> Stripped of his affectations, | <center><h3> Stripped of his affectations, Costello far{{nb}}more{{nb}}effective </h3></center> | ||
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His music, however, remains much the same, a mixture of terse, catchy songs, often polemic, short on sentiment and long on frustration, and shamelessly slushy, emotional ballads about love perennially gone awry. Costello's vocal range, like his technical ability as a guitarist, is limited, but the energy and passion he projects makes him nonetheless effective. Similarly, while his debt to the music of the late '50s and early '60s and such artists as Buddy Holly is evident, the urgency of his approach and the heartfelt accompaniment pumped out by his three-piece-band, the Attractions, strikes a note that is both contemporary and timeless. | His music, however, remains much the same, a mixture of terse, catchy songs, often polemic, short on sentiment and long on frustration, and shamelessly slushy, emotional ballads about love perennially gone awry. Costello's vocal range, like his technical ability as a guitarist, is limited, but the energy and passion he projects makes him nonetheless effective. Similarly, while his debt to the music of the late '50s and early '60s and such artists as Buddy Holly is evident, the urgency of his approach and the heartfelt accompaniment pumped out by his three-piece-band, the Attractions, strikes a note that is both contemporary and timeless. | ||
In the past, I have found Costello's performances far less appealing. While he has been admirably adept at distilling the most appealing aspects of vintage rock into an often invigorating and fairly original dose of present-day pop, his snotty and stylized stage persona seemed brittle, chilly and exasperatingly silly. Shorn of affectations, however, Costello comes across as a far more powerful and effective performer. | |||
Also on the bill was Squeeze, a British quintet that turned out a fine set of blues based pop-rock with occasional new wave overtones. Since the band's last appearance here, they've replaced the cigar-chomping electric keyboard player with a less flamboyant one and seem to have taken a turn for the more melodic. While their sound isn't particularly unusual, it's entertaining, and executed well. What puzzles me is why some bands apparently aren't happy unless they can bully folks to their feet, which is what Squeeze's otherwise likeable lead vocalist attempted to do Saturday night. It's gratifying, I'm sure, for a band to get a standing ovation, but it would seem that the victory might ring a trifle hollow when the lead singer has to repeatedly scream "Get up! Get up!" at the audience in order to accomplish{{nb}}it. | |||
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