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DON'T GET the idea that Costello was angry or sarcastic. During a 90-minute interview, other aspects of his personality emerged as strongly; the same humor, compassion, combativeness that are also woven into his songs. | DON'T GET the idea that Costello was angry or sarcastic. During a 90-minute interview, other aspects of his personality emerged as strongly; the same humor, compassion, combativeness that are also woven into his songs. | ||
For someone whose image has almost overshadowed his music, Costello is unusually unaffected offstage. He showed up for the interview, his face so wet that he looked as if he had just gotten out of the shower. He had just walked in blistering heat the two miles from Tower Records where he stocked up on some cassettes. | |||
In the same vein, Costello was as eager to discuss his favorite record or musicians (the Neville Brothers, Style Council, Aztec Camera, Squeeze were among the ones cited) as his own work. | |||
Costello is pleased that his new single is doing well and that the album is shaping up as his biggest seller since “''Armed Forces'',” which went gold (more than 500,000 copies) in 1979. | |||
THE BESPECTACLED singer said that he set out to make the production and material on “''Punch The Clock''” more accessible than last year’s “''Imperial Bedroom'',” a marvelously ambitious and complex album with sophisticated lyrics and classic melodies that resulted in some critics comparing him to Cole Porter. | |||
(Costello’s reaction to the Porter comparison: “I’m not trying to be Cole Porter. I don’t live in a penthouse and walk around in a dinner jacket, waving a cigarette holder.”) | |||
Costello denied the greater accessibility of “''Punch The Clock''” represented an artistic compromise. He believes that two of the new songs are among the best he has ever written: the stark, painfully ironic “Shipbuilding” (a look at British involvement in the Falklands War) and “Pills and Soap” (a sobering look at Britain’s tarnished ideals). | |||
In fact, Costello is apparently going to break his pattern of recording an album a year – partly as a move to guard against being tempted to parlay the success of “''Punch The Clock''” in counterproductive ways. | |||
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{{tags}}[[Everyday I Write The Book]] {{-}} [[Rolling Stone, September 1, 1983|Rolling Stone]] {{-}} [[Punch The Clock]] {{-}} [[Aaron Neville|The Neville Brothers]] {{-}} [[The Style Council]] {{-}} [[Aztec Camera]] {{-}} [[Squeeze]] {{-}} [[Armed Forces]] {{-}} [[Imperial Bedroom]] {{-}} [[Cole Porter]] {{-}} [[Shipbuilding]] {{-}} [[Pills And Soap]] | |||
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