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On the strength of the oddly unconvincing ''Brutal Youth'' album and an embarrassingly feeble performance at the Albert Hall | On the strength of the oddly unconvincing ''Brutal Youth'' album and an embarrassingly feeble performance at the Albert Hall back in July — I was hailing a cab inside 30 minutes — I'd come tonight prepared to inter Costello and his reconstituted Attractions in the elderly pub rockers' graveyard. The review in my head was an obituary for one of the most brilliant careers in the rock pantheon. | ||
However. One of Costello's most treasurable traits has always been that he's roughly as predictable as a cornered mongoose. The first words we get from him tonight are ''"I want you,"'' introducing a seething version of the song of the same name which induces a feeling much like having your heart removed from your chest with a spoon, and ends with an apoplectic assault on his fretboard. This is much more like it. "No Action" follows, rolling back the years of maverick eclecticism to reveal the bespectacled puff adder who recorded the still-stunning ''This Year's Model''. | However. One of Costello's most treasurable traits has always been that he's roughly as predictable as a cornered mongoose. The first words we get from him tonight are ''"I want you,"'' introducing a seething version of the song of the same name which induces a feeling much like having your heart removed from your chest with a spoon, and ends with an apoplectic assault on his fretboard. This is much more like it. "No Action" follows, rolling back the years of maverick eclecticism to reveal the bespectacled puff adder who recorded the still-stunning ''This Year's Model''. |
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