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<center><h3> Get unhappy!! </h3></center> | <center><h3> Get unhappy!! </h3></center> | ||
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<center> Glyn Brown </center> | <center> Glyn Brown </center> | ||
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''' Elvis Costello <br> | |||
Mighty Like A Rose <br> | |||
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When a new offering from Elvis Costello is rumoured, the tense punter quivers with anticipatory excitement, flinches with a frisson of fear. As we well know, Costello is acutely aware of the ugliness of the planet; for him, the job is to reveal it. | When a new offering from Elvis Costello is rumoured, the tense punter quivers with anticipatory excitement, flinches with a frisson of fear. As we well know, Costello is acutely aware of the ugliness of the planet; for him, the job is to reveal it. | ||
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"How To Be Dumb" is all-out, almost cherishable for its utter nihilism. The song may be a diatribe against a current government policy of de-education. The lyric doesn't mess: ''"Scratch your own head, stupid / Count up to three / Roll over on your back / Repeat after me / Now you know how to be dumb..."'' | "How To Be Dumb" is all-out, almost cherishable for its utter nihilism. The song may be a diatribe against a current government policy of de-education. The lyric doesn't mess: ''"Scratch your own head, stupid / Count up to three / Roll over on your back / Repeat after me / Now you know how to be dumb..."'' | ||
"All Grown Up" opens simply enough: ''"I'm trouble, she said, spread out on the floor of her father's house" | "All Grown Up" opens simply enough: ''"I'm trouble, she said, spread out on the floor of her father's house."'' | ||
All this invective would somehow seem more worthwhile if at least there were a touch of humour and listenable, dynamic melodies. But the numbers so-far listed sound like identical grey shirts flapping forlornly in a winter breeze. | All this invective would somehow seem more worthwhile if at least there were a touch of humour and listenable, dynamic melodies. But the numbers so-far listed sound like identical grey shirts flapping forlornly in a winter breeze. | ||
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"So Like Candy" is magnificent, the slurred dissection of a violent, shattered love told in a prowling drawl. "Playboy To A Man" is — at last — raucous, strutting and funny, an indictment of the ubiquitous medallion man. | "So Like Candy" is magnificent, the slurred dissection of a violent, shattered love told in a prowling drawl. "Playboy To A Man" is — at last — raucous, strutting and funny, an indictment of the ubiquitous medallion man. | ||
Following this, a pair of songs which stand out. Costello's wife, ex-Pogue Cait O'Riordan, pens the lyric on "Broken," a declaration of love so stark in its misted, devout mysticism, and so open-veined, it is breathtaking. And Costello hits perfection with a sparing, honest rejoinder, "Sweet Pear" | Following this, a pair of songs which stand out. Costello's wife, ex-Pogue Cait O'Riordan, pens the lyric on "Broken," a declaration of love so stark in its misted, devout mysticism, and so open-veined, it is breathtaking. And Costello hits perfection with a sparing, honest rejoinder, "Sweet Pear." Here, the artist's musicality and wordsmithing are to the point and touching. ''"'Til we're burned and scattered in the atmosphere / I am your stupid lover, your wretched groom."'' | ||
We wind up with the idiosyncratic "Couldn't Call It Unexpected," a rag and bone look at life's oddity that's as glowing and unsettling as a Stanley Spencer painting. And once again, stomped upon and at last uplifted, we finish up Costello's willing victims, accepting the pratfalls for the perfection... | We wind up with the idiosyncratic "Couldn't Call It Unexpected," a rag and bone look at life's oddity that's as glowing and unsettling as a Stanley Spencer painting. And once again, stomped upon and at last uplifted, we finish up Costello's willing victims, accepting the pratfalls for the perfection... | ||
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{{tags}}[[Mighty Like A Rose]] {{-}} [[The Other Side Of Summer]] {{-}} [[Invasion Hit Parade]] {{-}} [[How To Be Dumb]] {{-}} [[All Grown Up]] {{-}} [[After The Fall]] {{-}} [[Georgie And Her Rival]] {{-}} [[So Like Candy]] {{-}} [[Playboy To A Man]] {{-}} [[Cait O'Riordan]] {{-}} [[Broken]] {{-}} [[Sweet Pear]] {{-}} [[Couldn't Call It Unexpected No. 4]] | |||
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<br><small>Photo by [[Amelia Stein]].</small> | <br><small>Photo by [[Amelia Stein]].</small> | ||
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Select_(magazine) Wikipedia: Select magazine] | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Select_(magazine) Wikipedia: Select magazine] | ||
*[http://selectmagazinescans.monkeon.co.uk/?cat=678 SelectMagazineScans.Monkeon.co.uk] | *[http://selectmagazinescans.monkeon.co.uk/?cat=678 SelectMagazineScans.Monkeon.co.uk] | ||
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/littletriggers/15870903235/ Flickr | *[http://www.flickr.com/photos/littletriggers/15870903235/ Flickr] [[Stephen McCathie]] | ||
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