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'''Girls, Girls, Girls, Etc.: The most stylistically New Wave cut from ''This Year's Model'', the somewhat dated and overplayed "Pump It Up" serves as an arch between the lyrically-effusive "The Beat" and melodramatic "Little Triggers | '''Girls, Girls, Girls, Etc.: The most stylistically New Wave cut from ''This Year's Model'', the somewhat dated and overplayed "Pump It Up" serves as an arch between the lyrically-effusive "The Beat" and melodramatic "Little Triggers" <!-- a transition that otherwise wouldn't be as fluid.--> | ||
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As mentioned in the previous installment of this feature, "Pump It Up" is one of the most outdated songs on ''This Year's Model''. It's also the biggest hit off the record (in America anyway, due to "(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea"'s indefensible omission from the original US pressings, which we'll get to in a bit), and is the song many casual listeners single-handedly associate with "early (New Wave) Costello" (although, as most hardcore adherents would have them know, there are far better and perhaps more representative songs than "Pump It Up" from this part of Elvis' career). | As mentioned in the previous installment of this feature, "Pump It Up" is one of the most outdated songs on ''This Year's Model''. It's also the biggest hit off the record (in America anyway, due to "(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea"'s indefensible omission from the original US pressings, which we'll get to in a bit), and is the song many casual listeners single-handedly associate with "early (New Wave) Costello" (although, as most hardcore adherents would have them know, there are far better and perhaps more representative songs than "Pump It Up" from this part of Elvis' career). | ||
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[[Morgan Troper]] reviews "[[Pump It Up]]" for his track-by-track | [[Morgan Troper]] reviews "[[Pump It Up]]" for his track-by-track deconstruction of ''[[This Year's Model]]''. | ||
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