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There's a wile and a whimsy about this Pommie poet that'll either get your Fox and Fluevogs tapping or irritate you till your nerve ends hurt.
For me, it's the former. Elvis is prolific (as with last year's Punch the Clock, there are 13 cuts served here on his 10th album in six years). You get value in numbers, and on them.
The Attractions (minus long-serving keyboardist Steve Nieve) slip into rambunctious syncopation on the opener, the single "The Only Flame in Town," while Daryl Hall gets his oats as backing vocalist.
And then, "Is it my shirt or my toothpaste/ That is whiter than white?/ Or is it the lies that I tell you/ Or the lies that I might." That's our Elvis on "Home Truth."
The go round is merry on the carnivale "Room With No Number"; the marvelous Minnie-the-Moocher swing of "Inch By Inch" is a true two feet's worth; and "Worthless Thing" deserves a locked glass case of its own.
The best of Side 2 is the rangy raveup "Sour Milk-Cow Blues," but there's a host more worth hearing — batten down your shoelaces and say Goodbye...
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