Favourite Costello Release of 2003
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Favourite Costello Release of 2003
Vote for your personal favourite.
Mine is GH.
Confession: I have not played North since I saw EC+ at the RFH.
Mine is GH.
Confession: I have not played North since I saw EC+ at the RFH.
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This poll is an incredibe (albeit implicit) accolade to the EC.
Compare musical genre's presented in GH and North. They are diametrically oppossed. Now compare PTC and Trust: they each have a very unigue 'feel' about them. Continue this qualitative ANOVA and a true testament of the artist rises above the poll.
It isn't about growth, or maturity, or experience, or corporate operant conditioning. It is about art for arts sake. GH stands alone, as does North. North stands so distant from Trust, although Trust has some parallels with GH. I cannot be fair about PTC, because it was never a favorite, but it, too, stands apart and represents a very different sound and 'level' of offering from EC.
I appreciate this post because it gives me great grist for the discussion mill re: the timelessness of EC's work. All released or rerelelased in 2003. All very different.
This is the esssence of what continues to attract me to his work.
By the way, my vote was cast for GH. It sounds as fresh today as it did 20 years ago.
Compare musical genre's presented in GH and North. They are diametrically oppossed. Now compare PTC and Trust: they each have a very unigue 'feel' about them. Continue this qualitative ANOVA and a true testament of the artist rises above the poll.
It isn't about growth, or maturity, or experience, or corporate operant conditioning. It is about art for arts sake. GH stands alone, as does North. North stands so distant from Trust, although Trust has some parallels with GH. I cannot be fair about PTC, because it was never a favorite, but it, too, stands apart and represents a very different sound and 'level' of offering from EC.
I appreciate this post because it gives me great grist for the discussion mill re: the timelessness of EC's work. All released or rerelelased in 2003. All very different.
This is the esssence of what continues to attract me to his work.
By the way, my vote was cast for GH. It sounds as fresh today as it did 20 years ago.
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Laughing Crow,
It's not that harsh. It just means that I like the PTC reissue a little more than North, and that I like Trust a little more than GH. But that I like Trust and Get Happy a LOT. Wasn't meant to put the bottom two down so much as elevate the top two.
Did that make any sense?
It's not that harsh. It just means that I like the PTC reissue a little more than North, and that I like Trust a little more than GH. But that I like Trust and Get Happy a LOT. Wasn't meant to put the bottom two down so much as elevate the top two.
Did that make any sense?
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Get Happy reissue. I was very pleased with the PTC reissue in that it gave me a quite a renewed appreciation for the album, and because my vinyl copy was beaten up (so was my GH LP incidentally). The Trust reissue and North were also very satisfying. I played North late on new year's night before bed, after leaving it alone for a few weeks, and it sounded better than ever.