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<center><h3> 10 Questions | <center><h3> 10 Questions for Elvis Costello </h3></center> | ||
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<center> David Cavanagh </center> | <center> David Cavanagh </center> | ||
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'''David Cavanagh talks to the acerbic songsmith about Dublin, booze and the soul of Mariah Carey. | |||
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''Q: Your new album, ''When I Was Cruel'', is musically very aggressive with lots of distorted guitar and heavy bass. Were you aiming for the absolute antithesis to ''Painted From Memory'', your 1998 collaboration with Burt Bacharach, and your 1999 hit single, She? | ''Q: Your new album, ''When I Was Cruel'', is musically very aggressive with lots of distorted guitar and heavy bass. Were you aiming for the absolute antithesis to ''Painted From Memory'', your 1998 collaboration with Burt Bacharach, and your 1999 hit single, "She"? | ||
I'd sung a lot of ballads and I was in a mood to make a noise. It probably is the antithesis. It was a lot of fun to do the pop star thing around She, but that song isn't really close to my heart. I was very fond of the record I did with Burt Bacharach, but the concentration of doing those very elaborate compositions only makes the 'free' way of playing seem more attractive. That's why I thrive on the variety of things that I work on. Some people think they're an aside to what I should be doing. That's just people being over-sentimental about the late '70s. | I'd sung a lot of ballads and I was in a mood to make a noise. It probably is the antithesis. It was a lot of fun to do the pop star thing around "She," but that song isn't really close to my heart. I was very fond of the record I did with Burt Bacharach, but the concentration of doing those very elaborate compositions only makes the 'free' way of playing seem more attractive. That's why I thrive on the variety of things that I work on. Some people think they're an aside to what I should be doing. That's just people being over-sentimental about the late '70s. | ||
''Q: In the first song on the album, "45," are you the nine-year-old boy, born in 1954? | ''Q: In the first song on the album, "45," are you the nine-year-old boy, born in 1954? | ||
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<center><h3> When I Was Cruel </h3></center> | <center><h3> When I Was Cruel </h3></center> | ||
<center> | <center>''' Elvis Costello </center> | ||
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<center> Phil Sutcliffe </center> | <center> Phil Sutcliffe </center> | ||
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'''Man of many parts says "And this is me" again, with inspiring results | |||
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Costello's decade of collaborations — McCartney, Brodsky Quartet, Bacharach, Anne Sofie von Otter — produced good diverse stuff, but clearly his solo self was building up a head of steam. ''When I Was Cruel'' is bursting with bile and romance, tricky lyrics and tantalising tunes, and finds him practically trampolining with the thrill of messing about with sounds. He uses loads of quiet — often just voice and a drum loop setting up the song — then piles in with big axeman guitars and dirty brass riffs. And still, at bottom, the oomph comes from his writing's fertile intensity, as exemplified by Alibi — seven-minute freak hit, anyone? Relentlessly circling, the insinuating vocal accuses, "Alibi, alibi" at every hackneyed excuse for every weakness until it twists back to the sweet refrain, "I love you just as much as I hate your guts." Costellar. | Costello's decade of collaborations — McCartney, Brodsky Quartet, Bacharach, Anne Sofie von Otter — produced good diverse stuff, but clearly his solo self was building up a head of steam. ''When I Was Cruel'' is bursting with bile and romance, tricky lyrics and tantalising tunes, and finds him practically trampolining with the thrill of messing about with sounds. He uses loads of quiet — often just voice and a drum loop setting up the song — then piles in with big axeman guitars and dirty brass riffs. And still, at bottom, the oomph comes from his writing's fertile intensity, as exemplified by Alibi — seven-minute freak hit, anyone? Relentlessly circling, the insinuating vocal accuses, ''"Alibi, alibi"'' at every hackneyed excuse for every weakness until it twists back to the sweet refrain, ''"I love you just as much as I hate your guts."'' Costellar. | ||
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