New York Daily News, February 9, 1981: Difference between revisions
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<center><h3> Chasing the elusive Elvis </h3></center> | <center><h3> Chasing the elusive Elvis </h3></center> | ||
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<center> Bill Carlton </center> | <center> Bill Carlton </center> | ||
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''' Elvis Costello <br> | |||
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It's tough to get a grip on the real Costello. He has the gall to call himself by the King's name, wear Buddy Holly glasses and skinny '60s suits in the manner of a classic rocker. But it's a put-on. Most of his songs are too bland, cold and strangely abstract for mass audiences. | It's tough to get a grip on the real Costello. He has the gall to call himself by the King's name, wear Buddy Holly glasses and skinny '60s suits in the manner of a classic rocker. But it's a put-on. Most of his songs are too bland, cold and strangely abstract for mass audiences. | ||
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While the pack scurries to create a blockbuster hit with a hook that hits you like a two by four, Costello works patiently as a spider, spinning offbeat yarns about the women he meets — or rather observes — and tying them to melodies that seem banal in the beginning but have a habit of burrowing in your brain. Take the quiet, creepy "Watch Your Step." Upon first hearing you pooh-pooh it and say, "That's insignificant, just a termite song." But then on your way to work you find yourself humming the damn thing. | While the pack scurries to create a blockbuster hit with a hook that hits you like a two by four, Costello works patiently as a spider, spinning offbeat yarns about the women he meets — or rather observes — and tying them to melodies that seem banal in the beginning but have a habit of burrowing in your brain. Take the quiet, creepy "Watch Your Step." Upon first hearing you pooh-pooh it and say, "That's insignificant, just a termite song." But then on your way to work you find yourself humming the damn thing. | ||
It takes talent to do that. Except for the more accessible Big Beat numbers "Strict Time" and " | It takes talent to do that. Except for the more accessible Big Beat numbers "Strict Time" and "Lovers Walk," you must go to his songs. He will not come to you. He'll be as surprised as I will if ''Trust'' goes alla way in the U.S.A. | ||
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