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Costello returns to 'Brutal' roots

Joshua Kosman

After the string quartet, after the Paul McCartney episode, Elvis Costello has returned triumphantly to where he began — the pure, hard strains of straight-ahead rock-and-roll.

Reunited with his longtime collaborators the Attractions, Costello stormed into the Shoreline Amphitheatre on Saturday night for the first of two Bay Area shows, and lost no time in setting a high-voltage tone for the event.

Ripping into the explosive opening lines of "No Action," he went on to race through a flurry of five songs without pausing for breath, including just one ("Pony St.") from his current CD, Brutal Youth. The trick was to pick out the new composition from the mix; the fact that it couldn't be done on stylistic grounds was exactly the point.

Costello's return to his long-ago trademarks — a handful of simple, clangorous guitar chords supporting inventive melodies, a driving but flexible beat and lyrics laden with angst and acerbity — was underlined with relentless energy throughout the evening.

Once or twice Costello stopped to say a few short words to the audience, but the main order of business was to rock hard and keep on going. The band barreled through 29 songs in under two hours, taking most of them a notch or two above tempo as if to show that it could be done.

And it can. Buoyed by The Attractions' vibrant, streamlined musicianship, Costello sounded utterly in his element —




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San Francisco Chronicle, May 9, 1994

Joshua Kosman reviews Elvis Costello & The Attractions and opening act Crash Test Dummies, Saturday, May 7, 1994, Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, California.

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