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While Costello's music is certainly provocative, it's anything but temporary. Now, he wouldn't necessarily agree with that but would certainly hope it were true. Pressed in vinyl on two continents doesn't assure immortality, but if Elvis isn't listened to 50 or 100 years from now by some musicologist somewhere we haven't done our chronicling very well. | While Costello's music is certainly provocative, it's anything but temporary. Now, he wouldn't necessarily agree with that but would certainly hope it were true. Pressed in vinyl on two continents doesn't assure immortality, but if Elvis isn't listened to 50 or 100 years from now by some musicologist somewhere we haven't done our chronicling very well. | ||
''"Oh I just don't know where to begin..."'' sings Costello as the opening line of "Accidents Will Happen" and his latest LP, ''Armed Forces'', but it's a lie. The then-married (currently estranged and pulling the arm of ex-Rundgren-fille Bebe Buell) British computer operator named Declan Patrick McManus had to know something to get the attention of England's bull goose loony record | ''"Oh I just don't know where to begin..."'' sings Costello as the opening line of "Accidents Will Happen" and his latest LP, ''Armed Forces'', but it's a lie. The then-married (currently estranged and pulling the arm of ex-Rundgren-fille Bebe Buell) British computer operator named Declan Patrick McManus had to know something to get the attention of England's bull goose loony record man — Jake Riviera. | ||
Once that marriage had taken place (not without some difficulty, but hey, dues is dues), Riviera's Stiff Records ("If it ain't Stiff, it ain't worth a fuck.") released Elvis' first disque, "Less Than Zero/Radio Sweetheart" BUY 11. This was quickly followed by BUY 14 and BUY 15, "Alison/Welcome to the Working Week"' and "Red Shoes/Mystery Dance." All except "Radio Sweetheart" were included on SEEZ 3 — ''My Aim Is True''. | Once that marriage had taken place (not without some difficulty, but hey, dues is dues), Riviera's Stiff Records ("If it ain't Stiff, it ain't worth a fuck.") released Elvis' first disque, "Less Than Zero/Radio Sweetheart" BUY 11. This was quickly followed by BUY 14 and BUY 15, "Alison/Welcome to the Working Week"' and "Red Shoes/Mystery Dance." All except "Radio Sweetheart" were included on SEEZ 3 — ''My Aim Is True''. | ||
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But Elvis wasn't a star. | But Elvis wasn't a star. | ||
The curious but non-concert-going types caught his act on ''Saturday Night Live'' and figured they had it right all | The curious but non-concert-going types caught his act on ''Saturday Night Live'' and figured they had it right all along — this guy's not very good. True, Elvis didn't translate well to telecide, but then he didn't care to. He was building a career — if that's what it is, on his own terms. Anyone who didn't like it — fook 'em. | ||
And what about Nick Lowe? Truly one of the most hysterically sly people to ever hold a control knob, Lowe has produced every song Costello's ever set to vinyl. From album to album the studio tricks increased in number until on ''Armed Forces'', it's hard to tell sometimes who is making the record. | And what about Nick Lowe? Truly one of the most hysterically sly people to ever hold a control knob, Lowe has produced every song Costello's ever set to vinyl. From album to album the studio tricks increased in number until on ''Armed Forces'', it's hard to tell sometimes who is making the record. |
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