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''When I said that I was I lying I might have been lying. | <small> ''When I said that I was I lying I might have been lying.'' —{{nb}}Elvis Costello </small> | ||
The King | <small> ''It's enough to make you think right now But you don't bother.'' —{{nb}}Declan MacManus </small> | ||
The King is dead. Long live the King. | |||
As we feared, November's ''Best of'' collection was indeed Elvis Costello's epitaph. Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus' debut album, ''King of America'' (FC 40173), allays that fear by being better in many ways than anything MacManus ever recorded as Costello,. You can start your Best of '86 lists right here. Better yet, just go buy this record sometime before you die. | As we feared, November's ''Best of'' collection was indeed Elvis Costello's epitaph. Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus' debut album, ''King of America'' (FC 40173), allays that fear by being better in many ways than anything MacManus ever recorded as Costello,. You can start your Best of '86 lists right here. Better yet, just go buy this record sometime before you die. | ||
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The 15 songs on the LP were recorded in single takes, spicy but sparse, immediate but immaculate, loose but lucid. Vocally, they come from the wrenched gut through the life-burned lungs over the tale-tell heart of one of music's few true geniuses. | The 15 songs on the LP were recorded in single takes, spicy but sparse, immediate but immaculate, loose but lucid. Vocally, they come from the wrenched gut through the life-burned lungs over the tale-tell heart of one of music's few true geniuses. | ||
For example, in "Our Little Angel," his barroom-set tale of lust-lackers and turn-backers, MacManus' voice breaks on the heart-breaking delivery of the final line. A mistake like that is easily overdubbed, Had | For example, in "Our Little Angel," his barroom-set tale of lust-lackers and turn-backers, MacManus' voice breaks on the heart-breaking delivery of the final line. A mistake like that is easily overdubbed, Had it been, the song would have been ruined. | ||
While the former Costello's attempts at love songs were always more mental than sentimental, "Indoor Fireworks" is shattered, expired love unmasked in metaphor: ''"Don't think for a moment dear that we'll ever be through / I'll build a bonfire of my dreams / And burn a broken effigy of me and you." '' | While the former Costello's attempts at love songs were always more mental than sentimental, "Indoor Fireworks" is shattered, expired love unmasked in metaphor: ''"Don't think for a moment dear that we'll ever be through / I'll build a bonfire of my dreams / And burn a broken effigy of me and you." '' | ||
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When Elvis Costello first appeared on ''Saturday Night Live'' (subbing for Sex Pistols) In the mid-'70s, all the pop-talkers had trouble with the name (Elvis, for God's sake!) and his nerdy appearance. | When Elvis Costello first appeared on ''Saturday Night Live'' (subbing for Sex Pistols) In the mid-'70s, all the pop-talkers had trouble with the name (Elvis, for God's sake!) and his nerdy appearance. | ||
The cover of the new LP | The cover of the new LP is nothing but a black-and-white portrait of a bearded and crowned Declan MacManus. Presley's former band is essential to the record. It's one of the most important albums you can buy. | ||
A King is born. | A King is born. | ||
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