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When Elvis Costello toured America in spring, playing solo renditions of his songs, it proved that he didn't need the backing of the Attractions to make his work come alive. The decision to perform acoustic shows may have had deeper motives behind it, though, because, judging from ''Goodbye Cruel World'', he may not want to record with the Attractions at all anymore. At least, that's the impression given by an album in which, when Costello and his cohorts aren't repeating themselves, the music is at odds with the songs. | When Elvis Costello toured America in spring, playing solo renditions of his songs, it proved that he didn't need the backing of the Attractions to make his work come alive. The decision to perform acoustic shows may have had deeper motives behind it, though, because, judging from ''Goodbye Cruel World'', he may not want to record with the Attractions at all anymore. At least, that's the impression given by an album in which, when Costello and his cohorts aren't repeating themselves, the music is at odds with the songs. | ||
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{{tags}}[[Goodbye Cruel World]] {{-}} [[:Category:1984 US Solo Tour|1984 US Solo Tour]] {{-}} [[The Attractions]] {{-}} [[Pete Thomas]] {{-}} [[Bruce Thomas]] {{-}} [[Steve Nieve]] {{-}} [[The Only Flame In Town]] {{-}} [[I Wanna Be Loved]] {{-}} [[Home Truth]] {{-}} [[My Aim Is True]] {{-}} [[This Year's Model]] {{-}} [[Armed Forces]] {{-}} [[Imperial Bedroom]] {{-}} [[Get Happy!!]] {{-}} [[Almost Blue]] {{-}} [[Punch The Clock]] {{-}} [[Clive Langer]] {{-}} [[Alan Winstanley]] {{-}} [[The TKO Horns]] {{-}} [[Shipbuilding]] {{-}} [[Pills And Soap]] {{-}} [[Graham Parker]] {{-}} [[The Rumour]] | {{tags}}[[Goodbye Cruel World]] {{-}} [[:Category:1984 US Solo Tour|1984 US Solo Tour]] {{-}} [[The Attractions]] {{-}} [[Pete Thomas]] {{-}} [[Bruce Thomas]] {{-}} [[Steve Nieve]] {{-}} [[The Only Flame In Town]] {{-}} [[I Wanna Be Loved]] {{-}} [[Home Truth]] {{-}} [[My Aim Is True]] {{-}} [[This Year's Model]] {{-}} [[Armed Forces]] {{-}} [[Imperial Bedroom]] {{-}} [[Get Happy!!]] {{-}} [[Almost Blue]] {{-}} [[Punch The Clock]] {{-}} [[Clive Langer]] {{-}} [[Alan Winstanley]] {{-}} [[The TKO Horns]] {{-}} [[Shipbuilding]] {{-}} [[Pills And Soap]] {{-}} [[Graham Parker]] {{-}} [[The Rumour]] {{-}} [[Nick Lowe]] {{-}} [[Bobby Irwin]] {{-}} [[Nick Lowe: Nick Lowe & His Cowboy Outfit|Nick{{nb}}Lowe And His Cowboy Outfit]] {{-}} [[The Sex Pistols]] {{-}} [[Paul McCartney]] | ||
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[[Wayne King]] reviews ''[[Goodbye Cruel World]]''. | [[Wayne King]] reviews ''[[Goodbye Cruel World]]''. | ||
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[[Christopher Hill ]] reviews ''[[Nick Lowe: Nick Lowe & His Cowboy Outfit|Nick Lowe & His Cowboy Outfit]]''. | |||
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<center><h3> Nick Lowe And His Cowboy Outfit </h3></center> | |||
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Well, what do you know? A record with some perspiration. And inspiration. And even conviction. Just when it looked like Nick Lowe was set to carve himself a niche as the wiseguy Paul McCartney of post-Sex Pistols Britain, ''Nick Lowe and His Cowboy Outfit'' sets out deliberately to prove that Lowe can deliver a solid, good-rocking album's worth without collapsing in giggles. And he comes pretty close. | |||
The first sign of this new earnestness is the way that practically every cut wastes no time in rolling out the big guns, making you sit up and take notice from the start. "Break Away" does just what it says, with Lowe coming on breathy, stuttering, eager to jump into each new verse. "Love Like A Glove" announces it presence with a barrage of rich acoustic chords; "(Hey Big Mouth) Stand Up And Say That" surfs in smooth and cocksure. | |||
Moments like these utilize Lowe's pop skills rightly enough, but this time they're placed at the service of an overriding desire to rock out. Lowe and band grab for all the gusto they can in "Half A Boy and Half A Man," a ripping border radio workout. Drummer Bobby Irwin bashes away hard enough to threaten the song's structure, Lowe's bass just keeps pushing faster, and the exuberant singing makes it clear that Lowe is having a hell of a time. The whole thing ends up sounding like a rare night at the Chicken Ranch. Of course, not everything breezes along so easily. Every Nick Lowe album needs some throwaways; here they come in the form of "Maureen" and "God's Gift To Women," two derivative country-rock homages. | |||
''Nick Lowe and His Cowboy Outfit'' is summed up best in the last cut, a beguiling version of Faron Young's "Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young." As always, Lowe stands a little outside the material, allowing himself an ironic, artful distance from the song's both-ends-burning romanticism. And yet there's such an unguarded quality in his singing now that he makes the song's premise sound genial, warm, full of earthy wisdom. Of such contradictions, unreconciled yet joined together, does fine rock 'n' roll come. | |||
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==External links== | ==External links== | ||
*[https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Music-Miscellaneous/Record-1984-09.pdf worldradiohistory.com] | |||
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