Wednesday, May 25, 2011

New York Times Rave: Elvis Costello Was Great All The Way From 1977 To 1979

But the real and gratifying cheat was that there is, in the end, no way to keep Mr. Costello’s songs in any shallow entertainment mode. His torrents of words hold desire, rage, wounds and revenge, from the scathing personal scale of “Alison” to the historical sweep of “Oliver’s Army.”


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