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<center><h3> Oliver's Army </h3></center> | |||
<center>''' Elvis Costello </center> | |||
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Cringing under accusations of being samey, El One-Note has stopped pulling model girls' hair and turned his Napoleonic complex on politicians in this obvious slice of ''[[Armed Forces]]'', saying boo to Churchill's corpse and expecting it to turn over and sob face down into it's pillow. | |||
This is Costello's "Winter of `79" or "English Civil War", with the scare-mongering for pleasure and profit usually found in those pop singers suffering from megalomania and paranoia — much more tuneful and enigmatic here but no less disposable. The unison of acoustic and electric brings to mind mid-period Dylan songs called stuff like "Queen Achilles Revisited" and the voice sounds more like Manfred Mann than ever. The lyrics read like a Holiday 79 brochure, as glib as that free colour pull-out with ''Give 'Em Enough Rope'' but a little more melodic. | |||
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The reference to a "white nigger" is Elvis being typically sensitive and original and will no doubt result in mucho controversial mileage as radio programmers break out in a hot flush — but will, of course, get a rave review in the ("Ain't nothing but a") Socialist Worker's Party rag. | |||
Boring in a small way. | |||
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'''New Musical Express, February 3, 1979 | |||
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[[Julie Duran]] reviews "[[Oliver's Army]]," which is also featured in a full page ad on page 6. | |||
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<br><small>Page 6 ad for Oliver's Army.</small> | |||
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<br><small>Cover.</small> | |||
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==External links== | |||
*[http://www.nme.com/ NME.com] | |||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NME Wikipedia: NME] | |||
*[http://www.elviscostello.info/articles/n/nme.790203a.html elviscostello.info] | |||
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