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<center><h3>ELVIS COSTELLO<br>My Aim Is True</h3></center> | |||
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It's better to have loved and lost and written a whole album on the agonising experience, than never to have loved at all and kept schtum about it. Anyway, that's how Elvis Costello prefers to lay in on all your bleedin' hearts out there. Honey this definitely ain't no romance; more like sexual psychoanalysis set to a dozen superb juke joint anthems. ("[[My Aim Is True]]" isn't just the title track of Mr. Costello's auspicious album debut, but is indicative of a quirky line of vision which painfully - often to the point of total humiliation - examines the recurring traumas of love and other related adolescent dilemmas. Keeping a low emotional profile is one thing you can't accuse Costello of feigning. Try this for size. On "[[Pay It Back]]", EC delves into the problem of a first-hand personality crisis "Auntie Annie told me I could be somebody if I didn't let too much get in my way /And I tried so hard just to be myself but I kept fading away". Though Costello engineers his lyrics through a '70s interpretation of '60s rhythm 'n' rock, he doesn't expound the familiar brand of 60 Minute Man Macho, but instead resigns himself to the unflattering role of cuckold. | It's better to have loved and lost and written a whole album on the agonising experience, than never to have loved at all and kept schtum about it. Anyway, that's how Elvis Costello prefers to lay in on all your bleedin' hearts out there. Honey this definitely ain't no romance; more like sexual psychoanalysis set to a dozen superb juke joint anthems. ("[[My Aim Is True]]" isn't just the title track of Mr. Costello's auspicious album debut, but is indicative of a quirky line of vision which painfully - often to the point of total humiliation - examines the recurring traumas of love and other related adolescent dilemmas. Keeping a low emotional profile is one thing you can't accuse Costello of feigning. Try this for size. On "[[Pay It Back]]", EC delves into the problem of a first-hand personality crisis "Auntie Annie told me I could be somebody if I didn't let too much get in my way /And I tried so hard just to be myself but I kept fading away". Though Costello engineers his lyrics through a '70s interpretation of '60s rhythm 'n' rock, he doesn't expound the familiar brand of 60 Minute Man Macho, but instead resigns himself to the unflattering role of cuckold. | ||
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'''New Musical Express, July 23, 1977''' | |||
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Roy Carr reviews ''[[My Aim Is True]]. | |||
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*[http://www.elviscostello.info/articles/n/nme.770723a.html elviscostello.info] | |||
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