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Ahhh | Ahhh, the British. | ||
Where would we all be today without the joys of English musical nihilism? Wasn't the eighth grade just a little easier to take when you listened to Sting and the Police belt out "So Lonely?" Or Morrissey's Smiths singing "Reel Around The Fountain?" Or Robert Smith and the Cure singing just about anything? | Where would we all be today without the joys of English musical nihilism? Wasn't the eighth grade just a little easier to take when you listened to Sting and the Police belt out "So Lonely?" Or Morrissey's Smiths singing "Reel Around The Fountain?" Or Robert Smith and the Cure singing just about anything? | ||
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The first of these two songs is almost certainly the worst on the album. For four-and-a-half minutes, Costello drones on a about a girl who "seems so sweet to me," lulling the most amphetamine-laced mind into a glass-eyed torpor. | The first of these two songs is almost certainly the worst on the album. For four-and-a-half minutes, Costello drones on a about a girl who "seems so sweet to me," lulling the most amphetamine-laced mind into a glass-eyed torpor. | ||
Oh well. So it goes, Elvis. Fortunately, one bad album does not a brilliant career end. Nor should it | Oh well. So it goes, Elvis. Fortunately, one bad album does not a brilliant career end. Nor should it, since when Costello is at his best, he's as good as anybody around. Sure, ''Mighty Like A Rose'' does have its moments, but they're too far apart and stuck between stuff that's just too unpalatable to make the album work. E.C. fans take heart, don't mourn his death just yet. If Jordan can miss the winning shot at the buzzer, Costello can have his bad album. | ||
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