From the most tightly wound, melodic album ever made. With the possible exception of Television's Marquee Moon, a selection from which is also coming up this month on this series as sure as eggs is eggs. This record meanwhile, (Armed Forces, the album from which this hails), is a rare tuneful, vicious, emotional gem from start to finish. This is but one slice! For my mate Rod from my university days, the biggest Costello fan I've ever known. Now far away on American shores.
Cheers, Bruce. The first, I don't know, eleven? EC albums were pure genius (including, I would venture, Goodbye, Cruel World, even though it's almost universally vilified, even by EC himself). I'm not sure anyone ever had a run like that, or if they ever will again.
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