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<center><h3> (I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea </h3></center> | <center><h3> (I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea </h3></center> | ||
<center>''' Elvis Costello </center> | |||
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<center> Morgan Troper </center> | <center> Morgan Troper </center> | ||
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'''Girls, Girls, Girls, Etc.: | '''Girls, Girls, Girls, Etc.: It's almost not worth listening to ''Model'' unless it's a version that contains "Chelsea" <!-- as the song's presence is essential to the album's overall impact. --> | ||
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At the beginning of this feature, I briefly mentioned what I described as "(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea"'s (henceforth, simply "Chelsea") "indefensible omission" from the original US pressings of ''This Year's Model''. Columbia's argument that "Chelsea" was "too British" for consumption by American audiences, despite its success as a single in England, was fallacious: certainly the song is no more British than "Less Than Zero" (which references the British fascist Oswald Mosley in its first line) or the majority of cuts off ''Armed Forces'', which are all chiefly English in nature. (Did you know that "Senior Service" is a UK brand of cigarettes, preferred by sailors, or that the "Green Shirts" was an abridged name for the Social Credit Party of Great Britain and Northern Ireland? Neither did the "big boys" at Columbia Records, I'm guessing.) | At the beginning of this feature, I briefly mentioned what I described as "(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea"'s (henceforth, simply "Chelsea") "indefensible omission" from the original US pressings of ''This Year's Model''. Columbia's argument that "Chelsea" was "too British" for consumption by American audiences, despite its success as a single in England, was fallacious: certainly the song is no more British than "Less Than Zero" (which references the British fascist Oswald Mosley in its first line) or the majority of cuts off ''Armed Forces'', which are all chiefly English in nature. (Did you know that "Senior Service" is a UK brand of cigarettes, preferred by sailors, or that the "Green Shirts" was an abridged name for the Social Credit Party of Great Britain and Northern Ireland? Neither did the "big boys" at Columbia Records, I'm guessing.) | ||
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{{tags}}[[(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea]] {{-}} [[This Year's Model]] {{-}} [[Less Than Zero]] {{-}} [[Armed Forces]] {{-}} [[Senior Service]] {{-}} [[Green Shirt]] {{-}} [[Taking Liberties]] {{-}} [[The Attractions]] {{-}} [[The Who]] {{-}} [[Pete Thomas]] {{-}} [[Bruce Thomas]] {{-}} [[This Year's Girl]] {{-}} [[Steve Nieve]] {{-}} [[Little Triggers]] {{-}} [[Everyday I Write The Book]] | |||
{{tags}}[[(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea]] {{-}} [[This Year's Model]] {{-}} [[Less Than Zero]] {{-}} [[Armed Forces]] {{-}} [[Senior Service]] {{-}} [[Green Shirt]] {{-}} [[Taking Liberties]] {{-}} [[The Attractions]] {{-}} [[The Who]] {{-}} [[Pete Thomas]] {{-}} [[Bruce Thomas]] {{-}} [[This Year's Girl]] {{-}} [[Steve Nieve]] {{-}} [[Little Triggers]] {{-}} [[Merseybeat]] {{-}} [[Everyday I Write The Book]] | |||
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[[Morgan Troper]] reviews "[[(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea]]. | [[Morgan Troper]] reviews "[[(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea]]" for his track-by-track deconstruction of ''[[This Year's Model]]''. | ||
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