Glasgow University Guardian, February 22, 1990: Difference between revisions
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I didn't like ''Spike'', Costello's last proper album (this being a collection of songs from | I didn't like ''Spike'', Costello's last proper album (this being a collection of songs from 1976-86 which was released last year and which, for some bizarre reason, we're only reviewing now). It sounded to me like the work of a man well past his peak artistically but still enough craftsmanship left to write "clever songs." More than anything, it sounded like Costello trying to do something new and so it's much lauded diversity was really a desperate attempt to make the record interesting. | ||
''Girls'' on the other hand, is the documentary of Costello's journey to that state and at least two thirds of it is worth selling your mother for. Some songs, particularly the early ones have dated badly. "Watching the Detectives," for example, or "Girls Talk" are too New Wave, too Pub Rock and "New Amsterdam" sees Elvis as a very annoying wordsmith. "Pump It Up," however, is still brilliant. "Scrawled in an amphetamine and vodka frenzy" he says and who would disagree? | ''Girls'' on the other hand, is the documentary of Costello's journey to that state and at least two thirds of it is worth selling your mother for. Some songs, particularly the early ones have dated badly. "Watching the Detectives," for example, or "Girls Talk" are too New Wave, too Pub Rock and "New Amsterdam" sees Elvis as a very annoying wordsmith. "Pump It Up," however, is still brilliant. "Scrawled in an amphetamine and vodka frenzy" he says and who would disagree? | ||
