Mr. Average wrote:Lipstick Vogue may very well be my absolute favorite. My least favorite: selections from the Juliet letters.
If I have to think about a "solid" Costellian masterpiece, that time cannot swept away, and that has objective substantial features, then "Lipstick Vogue" is probably the one that I would chose (at least from the early period). It has a unbeatable hysterical neurotic franticness developed in a parossistic way in the "only instruments" section.
Songs I can't stand: I loathe Battered Old Bird, maybe Fish'n'Chip Papers, lots from GCW, Broken, various from WIWC & TDM. I think the God Give Me Strenght version on PFM is too slow, boring, depressing, over-arranged, and the vocals are not so good. The quicker piano-guitar live version is far better.